Hiro Murai

Director/Producer Hiro Murai whose new show is Apple TV’s “Widow’s Bay,” joins host Ben Mankiewicz. They discuss why he and Donald Glover collaborate so well and how their initial approach to making “Atlanta” was unsustainable. Murai and Ben debate the value of surrealism in art and Murai reveals that he once pitched himself to direct a Beyonce video but completely understands why he didn’t get the gig. His answers to the Super 8 span Japanese films like Miyazaki’s “My Neighbor Totoro” and Takeshi Kitano’s “Sonatine” to the Albert Brooks comedy “Modern Romance” and Kubrick’s “The Shining.”

Films Mentioned:

• Rosemary’s Baby
• Eraserhead
• Cool Runnings
• The Shining
• Terminator 2: Judgement Day AKA T2
• Elevator To The Gallows
• Boogie Nights
• No Country For Old Men
• Jurassic Park
• Modern Romance
• La Chimera
• 2001: A Space Odyssey
• Ran
• My Neighbor Totoro
• Tampopo
• The Sound of Music
• Reds

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