Millie De Chirico
Appearances
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
464 - Dear Movies, I Love You
Um, but then I also think too, stuff like, um, Stanley Kubrick's like the shining that those types of movies that are kind of like horror, but then kind of what they would call maybe like elevated horror now, which drives me crazy. But you know, in a way it's like, here's a horror movie, which is kind of traditionally a genre that brings in a lot of like young people.
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
464 - Dear Movies, I Love You
It's kind of broad audience stuff, but then like, it's a little bit more stylish and is a little bit more open-ended in terms of themes. So maybe something like that, like the shining. And then for a third, I mean, I gotta say, I mean, again, this is sort of like maybe for a little people who are a little bit younger, but like those like early Wes Anderson movies, like Bob Rocket or like,
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
464 - Dear Movies, I Love You
I mean, Rushmore was kind of my favorite out of that stuff. But, you know, even like Royal Tenenbaums, I feel like that kind of stuff would basically set you up in terms of, okay, so here's like an auteurist director who's building a sort of cinema language for his work. You know what I mean? And that's kind of... I don't know.
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
464 - Dear Movies, I Love You
Maybe if you're kind of getting into that kind of stuff, that would be like a good entry point.
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
464 - Dear Movies, I Love You
Yeah. I totally agree because we did that movie for like one of the last episodes of I Saw What You Did. And I had seen it like,
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
464 - Dear Movies, I Love You
maybe twice in the past once when it came out which i was totally with you georgia like was like i don't know what's going on whatever yeah it's a vibe i guess it's a vibe yeah but i don't know anything um and then the second time i watched it i was you know like maybe sort of getting into it a little bit more but then when we we watched it for the episode i had this like revelation
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
464 - Dear Movies, I Love You
And I was like, I know everything about this movie. And I told Danielle, I was like, we're going to have to really watch the clock because I could talk about this movie for like four or five hours.
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
464 - Dear Movies, I Love You
You, Casey, you have, like, in the past have done this very similar thing where you have pulled out, like, this unknown rom-com and have become, like, its number one fan. I think that's lovely about you. Wow. I'm like, oh, this is, like, fucking weird rom-com that no one's seen in, like, 30 years. Casey, five stars on Letterboxd.
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
464 - Dear Movies, I Love You
Now nobody else I know has seen it, and then I'm compelled to go watch it, so.
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
464 - Dear Movies, I Love You
I love it.
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
464 - Dear Movies, I Love You
Why would somebody fake cancer?
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
464 - Dear Movies, I Love You
Yeah, we joked about this. We joked about this in the pilot episode, actually. I don't know if I should say it, but that I was basically like Bradley Cooper in A Star is Born, and I found Casey, the Lady Gaga character, doing a little burlesque in a shitty bar, and I was like... Come in my limo. I'm gonna make a star baby. No, I was like, here's the thing about Casey.
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
464 - Dear Movies, I Love You
Like I have heard him on other podcasts before and he's so charismatic. So funny. Knows a lot about movies. Like has like, you know, when you, when you hear people or you meet people that have cut, like, you know, you have like similar opinions about things and it's like, yes, they get, they would get me. Oh, yeah. Very crucial for me, I just have to say. By personality, I need to be understood.
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
464 - Dear Movies, I Love You
That is, like, my lot in life. And so I was like, oh, here's somebody who I think we align on a lot of similar stuff. And we're not, like, the types to like the same things. That's what I'm saying, which I love. I love that we don't like the same things necessarily. But our reasons for liking and hating things are the same, if that makes sense.
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
464 - Dear Movies, I Love You
Or like the reason why you don't like something is the reason why I wouldn't like something. Right. You know, even though those two things would probably were different, I guess. Totally. Yeah. Yeah. But I would hear him on these other podcasts and yeah, I mean, it was just like, well, I want to do a show with him. Does he want to do a show with me?
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
464 - Dear Movies, I Love You
The popcorn thing is absolute. Like I movie theater popcorn always gives me a stomach ache, but I don't care.
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
464 - Dear Movies, I Love You
It's like the problem. I was just like, I don't care if I'm on the toilet for like three days after this, I have to go. I have to eat it. Like, I don't know what it is.
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
464 - Dear Movies, I Love You
And then I'm with you, Casey. Like what I started, I was always for a very long time. the peanut M&Ms on top of the popcorn.
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
464 - Dear Movies, I Love You
Which I used to call like trail mix. It's like trail mix. This is healthy, right? But then lately I've been, because I, yeah, I don't want to get the soda if you're getting candy. So I switch and now it's either that I get the popcorn in a Coke Icy or Ooh, you know, which is the only time I ever drink full flavor Coke. I usually do not drink. I usually do like diet or Coke Zero or, you know.
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
464 - Dear Movies, I Love You
I have to. So good. So it's either that. And then I alternate with the M&M, the peanut M&Ms, but always popcorn. So.
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
464 - Dear Movies, I Love You
I can't help myself sometimes.
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
464 - Dear Movies, I Love You
I, a lot of times I do. I don't know if it's to completion, but I, I'm like 75% there. Me too. That's exactly what I was going to say. I'm 75%.
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
464 - Dear Movies, I Love You
It's out of just me being gross and I'm like, I'm starving. Yeah. And then sometimes I do a thing where I will, you know, go to that 75% and then save the 25 and then we'll dip in like an hour into the film. So I'll just like pick it back up again. Oh yeah. Yeah. It's like, I remember I had this, but yeah, I, I, I'm housing that shit. Like I'm like, hell yeah. Okay. That's good to know.
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
464 - Dear Movies, I Love You
Well, you know, I think I'm gonna get deep, perhaps a little deeper than Casey's just revealed. I personally, when I was, I'm kidding. You're not the himbo of the podcast, by the way, you're fine. You're not a film himbo, as I've heard in the past.
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
464 - Dear Movies, I Love You
Danielle and I saw. Somebody that was on Seinfeld, not as a main character, but some recurring... And now I can't remember who it was. Was it like a Patrick Warburton or something like that? Oh, yeah.
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
464 - Dear Movies, I Love You
Yeah, it was definitely some... beloved side character from Seinfeld we saw at the Arclight.
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
464 - Dear Movies, I Love You
I was always so jealous whenever I would hear the stories of Keanu Reeves going to the arc light. Oh, yeah. And I was like, when does he go? And how come I'm not there at the same time?
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
464 - Dear Movies, I Love You
We are. We're a pro Farrell podcast. we know this.
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
464 - Dear Movies, I Love You
Shut up. What happened? It was insane. Did you do it? Oh, no, I wish. No, it was an hour into Furiosa. oh someone all i know is that it was packed it was like the thursday that it came out so it was like no empty seat um and then all of a sudden you would see you saw this like fireball sail through the air jesus landed in like the first like five rows of seats and then everybody just jumped up and
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
464 - Dear Movies, I Love You
I really, I think over the past couple years, especially during COVID, especially during, I don't know, just like living and life and bad news and, you know, things happening in the world, I started really thinking about like my relationship to movies because, you know, as a person who like lives alone and, you know, a lot of
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
464 - Dear Movies, I Love You
Yeah. And every like the whole theater, it was like we were in this like frozen moment of we were like waiting for an explosion or something. It was like really hard. So everybody was like stood up and like kind of moving towards the emergency exits. But nobody was we were kind of like frozen waiting to see like what would happen with the fire. Like either it was going to.
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
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just fizzle out, explode. Somebody was gonna like get burned. We were just waiting for something to happen. And then by the time anything was supposed to happen, the fire alarm got pulled and they were like clearing people out. So we had to leave.
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
464 - Dear Movies, I Love You
And this movie theater, I'm going to call this movie theater out in Atlanta. Chronically, there's always teenage antics at this place. And if you every time, because this is not the first time there's been some malarkey here. And like, this is the problem with the movies is that it's not just teenagers running around you know, scams, but it's like the teenagers run the place.
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
464 - Dear Movies, I Love You
So they're in cahoots. And so nothing gets done. There's no policy that gets enacted because of this. And so every time something has happened in this movie theater, including the fireworks saga, I have asked one of my friends that has kids. I was like, is it a school holiday? Yeah. And they were like, yes.
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
464 - Dear Movies, I Love You
And I'm like, so the messaging is that on a school holiday, the kids go to the movie theater and cause trouble. So now I stay away.
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
464 - Dear Movies, I Love You
Yeah. And it was, we had to get, we got a pass to come back to see the last hour of it. Like an hour into it. It was so annoying, but, um, I don't know, Casey, what about you? Do you have any?
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
464 - Dear Movies, I Love You
and has worked in movies for over 20 years, I started thinking about, do I have an emotional relationship with movies? Of course they're entertaining, of course it's my job, of course it's an intellectual pursuit, I guess. But what's my emotional relationship to it? Do they do things for me? Are they my comfort? Are they my partner, for crying out loud? I mean, honestly.
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
464 - Dear Movies, I Love You
That's so funny you said that because I saw that movie in the theater too. And the opening, the first like five minutes of A Complete Unknown is so dark that I thought I was about to go to the projection booth and be like, could you like, I don't know if the, you know, the movie's playing right or whatever.
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
464 - Dear Movies, I Love You
And I, cause I, there were people just like you who were like fumbling, stumbling because it was so, I was like, why is this gonna be so dark? I don't understand where we're at. Yeah. It's crazy.
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
464 - Dear Movies, I Love You
Um, gosh, I don't know. You know, this is, we were talking about, you know, kind of what we're going to do for this podcast, like how we're going to set it up and what are these like questions that we want to ask our guests. Right. Um, and one of the things that came to mind, I mean, again, like this, this podcast that we're doing is also about like movie culture.
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
464 - Dear Movies, I Love You
And I started thinking about it in that way where I was like, I don't know, I think they are. It's the one thing that has consistently stayed in my life that has been my refuge from all the bullshit, right? And there's some kind of, I don't know, I have this like,
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
464 - Dear Movies, I Love You
So, you know, we're talking about not just like movie theater going, but like, like video stores and, you know, just stuff that if you're into movies or there's like these little rituals, these little things that we do. And one of the questions that we like to ask is imagine that you're in a video store
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
464 - Dear Movies, I Love You
And so if you're, you know, going through the video store, what's like the first VHS or DVD cover that comes to mind when you enter into the store? Do you have yours? I do. Oh, good, good.
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
464 - Dear Movies, I Love You
you know, deep feeling of appreciation for like what the art form, I guess, if you want to call it that has done for my life in that emotional kind of way. And so that's why I think when we were like, how, what's the vibe? You know, I was like, I don't know. We just love movies. We're like in love with movies. We, we, we like have crushes on movies.
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
464 - Dear Movies, I Love You
Well, I mean, I was such a video store loser as a kid. I mean, I was there constantly. And it was just like, you know, well, first of all, my parents never let us go to the movie theater. They were too cheap to let us go to first run movies. So we were at the video store constantly. Constantly. And all of my good memories from video stores come from the horror movie section.
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
464 - Dear Movies, I Love You
It's just what clicked in my brain. And so I think for me, the first one that comes to mind is the cover for a movie called Happy Birthday to Me. And it's basically a shish kebab skewer going through a guy's mouth into the back of his head.
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
464 - Dear Movies, I Love You
Like, what's happening over there? There was another one that is in that era, I think, or around that era. The movie was, I think the movie is called Phenomena by Dario Argento, the, you know, Italian horror director. But it was called Creepers.
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
464 - Dear Movies, I Love You
And it was basically, the cover was like an illustration of Jennifer Connelly, the actress Jennifer Connelly, with half of her face being ripped off by like insects.
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
464 - Dear Movies, I Love You
And this is just on a shelf at my height, which at the time I was probably like, what, three feet tall or something. I mean, I was like, and I'm going, yeah, this is like totally ruining my life. Like all of these little boxes, they were so evocative, so freaky. And it just, you know, those are the things that I kind of gravitated towards, I think.
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
464 - Dear Movies, I Love You
And Casey like immediately was like, of course, like I get it, you know? And so I don't know. I think that that's, Sort of, I think what the podcast is also about is it's about sort of like being in love with this wacky world that we're in and, you know, just sort of, I don't know, like being very earnest and sincere about it, so.
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
464 - Dear Movies, I Love You
That is so, such a weird concept now that I think about it. Because, like, my local video store had that section as well, curtained off. So you're predictably like in the family video store with like other people in your community. So you're seeing like neighbors.
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
464 - Dear Movies, I Love You
So it's like, then all of a sudden it's like your friend's dad like disappears behind the curtain. And I'm like, that would never, like, that is such a weird concept. I don't know if that would happen these days. Like, nobody wants to be in the X-rated video section while people are running twins, right? It's like a different vibe.
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
464 - Dear Movies, I Love You
Yeah. They don't want that for themselves. No.
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
464 - Dear Movies, I Love You
They did.
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
464 - Dear Movies, I Love You
I mean, Keanu Reeves. I say that every film podcast that we do. I always say Keanu Reeves. Could happen. Love for that to happen.
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
464 - Dear Movies, I Love You
Listen, I'll appeal to him as a fellow Italian-American and I will start talking about, you know, cannolis and other Italian things and hopefully he'll come.
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
464 - Dear Movies, I Love You
Yeah. No, he would be awesome.
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
464 - Dear Movies, I Love You
No, we just really are so thankful for you both. Yes. For, you know, respecting the vision and helping us get it going. And we're just so happy to be back doing film podcasts with Exactly Right. I mean, I had such a great experience the first time. And, like, when we were talking about ending, you know, I saw what you did. I was like... No, I want to stay. Don't pull me out of my dream.
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
464 - Dear Movies, I Love You
So I was, you know, like, really, really excited that we kind of kept it in the fam, you know, with Casey. And I don't know. I'm just really, really excited about what we can do. And we hope that everybody enjoys it and takes a listen. Yeah.
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
464 - Dear Movies, I Love You
I'm Millie DiCerico. I'm a film programmer, historian, and writer.
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
464 - Dear Movies, I Love You
It's so cute.
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
464 - Dear Movies, I Love You
And now we're teaming up on a brand new podcast called Dear Movies, I Love You.
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
464 - Dear Movies, I Love You
Yeah. There's also like an episode that we have coming up that I really love because it, we're talking about a movie that Casey is extremely passionate about. And it was like a movie, like basically that his, the movie that radicalized him, that made him a film person, quote unquote, And it was a movie that I had a very different opinion on.
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
464 - Dear Movies, I Love You
And we talk all that out in a way that I think is really cool. Just because there was something that he loves and connects with that didn't really...
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
464 - Dear Movies, I Love You
get me in the same way i was so like interested in just hearing him talk about it and hearing his relationship with it and sort of like what he liked about it and i don't know i mean i feel like that is something that that our podcast is doing and will do really well is just having that mutual respect for each other's taste i mean honestly like and that's something that i think i
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
464 - Dear Movies, I Love You
Each week, Casey and I will have heated debates, give flawless recommendations, and talk about what's going on in cinema. Dear Movies, I Love You on Exactly Right is available right now. Listen every Tuesday wherever you get your podcasts.
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
464 - Dear Movies, I Love You
is a thing that makes film people so annoying or intimidating is that you have, like I said, the wrong taste. You have bad taste. You don't like the right things. And I don't really see it that way ever. I don't ever see people having that. I would rather listen and be fascinated by your passion for something than... just shitting on you for liking a movie I don't like. Do you know what I mean?
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
464 - Dear Movies, I Love You
Yeah, I love that.
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
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Oh God, I got to pull out my phone. Letterboxd.
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
464 - Dear Movies, I Love You
I got to be legit.
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
464 - Dear Movies, I Love You
I watched a movie last night in the past. So it's been the past 24 hours. I watched this movie called Better Man. Have you heard of this movie?
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
464 - Dear Movies, I Love You
It is the Robbie Williams animatronic monkey. Where he's a monkey? Yes. What? Actually, it's not animatronic. It's like weird CGI, right? Yeah. Yeah. That movie to me was so much better than it had any right to be. I don't know why. I was like expecting to go with it being like, this is going to be one of the most genuinely bizarre, like weird outsider art things of our generation.
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
464 - Dear Movies, I Love You
And I was like, it's actually kind of good, like legit good.
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
464 - Dear Movies, I Love You
Well, that's what I think is so fascinating about it, to be honest, because I'm like, okay, they let this movie happen, like now, where it's like, here's a star who was essentially not as famous here in America as he was, you know, in Europe, who hasn't really been around for like 20 years, and he's a monkey, right? And it's his life story.
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
464 - Dear Movies, I Love You
I was like, wow, I can't believe that they let that happen. I was actually really impressed that that happened. So anyway.
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
464 - Dear Movies, I Love You
We are cringe, but we are free. We say that all the time.
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
464 - Dear Movies, I Love You
Yeah, I'm thinking on it. Well... this might be actually interesting exercise because Casey and I are, uh, I'm a little older than Casey and I feel like this might be like, this is going to be showing our generational roots perhaps. Do you know what I'm saying? Uh, because I think about like what kind of got me into cinephilia, if you will.
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
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Like what was the movie that was the, the bridge between like, I don't know, 16 candles and, I don't know, three colors red or something. I'm trying to think of something. I mean, I think for me... She's speaking in kind of film gibberish language right now.
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
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Well, I mean... to me, I think when I first kind of was like in high school and in college and I was kind of making that jump, I mean, honestly, I think it was a lot of the American independence stuff from the nineties. So like, I'm thinking of things like, you know, Jim Jarmusch, uh, stranger than paradise or down by law or, um,
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
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you know, Alison Anders, um, gas food lodging, you know, this kind of stuff that was sort of like in the kind of indie cinema stuff in the nineties. That's what I was kind of like, Oh yeah, there was like, you know, SNL comedies and then there's this. Right. And so that's kind of how I started kind of getting into like more of a kind of cinema world. Right.