
House of Flying Daggers
Zhang Yimou trades empire for intimacy in this wuxia companion to Hero—two officers fall for the same woman, loyalties collapse, and the visuals are almost too gorgeous to look away from.
For all you proper film enthusiasts who would like to peruse the films of TruStory FM’s entertainment podcasts by release decade. Get ready for a firehose of film history in these here stacks.

Zhang Yimou trades empire for intimacy in this wuxia companion to Hero—two officers fall for the same woman, loyalties collapse, and the visuals are almost too gorgeous to look away from.

Our April member bonus—and Thinking Machines series closer—digs into S1M0NE, Niccol’s 2002 satirical sci-fi about a director who builds a digital actress no one can let go of.

We continue our True Lies series with the story of a young runaway who poses as an airplane pilot, a doctor, and a lawyer, all to get validation from his dad. That’s right, it’s time for Steven Spielberg’s “Catch Me if You Can” as our February member bonus episode.

We unpack Hallström’s The Hoax in our True Lies series, exploring how a literary fraud spun out of control through fake documents, method acting, and institutional complicity.

Filmmaker Miguel Ángel Ferrer joins us to talk about The Sea Inside, The Shadow of the Sun, and how stories about death can teach us how to truly live.

We continue our True Lies series with a look at the story of Stephen Glass’s fraudulent stories he made up for The New Republic as portrayed in Billy Ray’s Shattered Glass. The trouble is, it feels like it’s just the third act of the story.

We unpack Steven Soderbergh’s The Informant! in our True Lies series, exploring unreliable narration, innovative voiceover techniques, and how comedy shifts corporate drama.

From lawyer to Magnolia Pictures co-founder to documentary director—Bill Banowsky discusses the Coen Brothers’ O Brother, Where Art Thou? and his new film A Savage Art.

We kick off a new series looking at three musicals about musicians in John Carney’s Streetwise Musicals series. First up, his independent breakout success, Once, starring Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová.

We are joined by cinematographer Mattias Nyberg to talk about both his work as a cinematographer—particularly his latest project “The Girlfriend” with Robin Wright—and one of his favorite films, David Lynch’s “Mulholland Drive.”