Composing for 'Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse', Jon Hamm and John Slattery, Birder Christian Cooper
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"Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse" has earned rave reviews for building on the inventive visual sensibilities of its predecessor. But a less often mentioned part of the glue holding the film's many styles and multiversal storytelling together is the score from Daniel Pemberton, who returns as composer from the first installment. Pemberton, who has also worked with directors including Ridley Scott, Guy Ritchie, and Danny Boyle, joins us.
"Mad Men" stars Jon Hamm and John Slattery have teamed up for a new film premiering at Tribeca Festival. Directed by Slattery, "Maggie Moore(s)" stars Hamm as a police chief seeking to solve the murders of two women with the same name. Hamm and Slattery join us to discuss.
Self-identified "Black gay activist birder" Christian Cooper has long been a figure in the New York City birding community, but he became known to the larger population after the so-called 2020 "incident" in Central Park in which a white woman threatened to call the police on him. In his new book, Better Living Through Birding, he writes about the experience, but he also shares how he fell in love with birding in the first place and how racial justice fits in with his love of the natural world. He joins us to discuss and also talk about his new series on National Geographic, "Extraordinary Birder with Christian Cooper."
