Elena Lazic on THE TRUMAN SHOW

On this week's Old Movies, Radiance producer, Animus founder and Peter Weir truther Elena Lazic joins Paul to discuss his 1998 masterpiece The Truman Show. We discuss Weir's unique directorial genius, why he's currently having 'a moment', the film's debt to Frank Capra and It's A Wonderful Life, Jim Carrey's dominance of the 1990s and the film's miraculous timelessness despite the rapidly changing media landscape of the following decades.

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