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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