In Tár, Cate Blanchett plays a charismatic orchestra conductor who uses her power to take sexual advantage of young women she's mentoring. "For me, it was never really about classical music," director Todd Field says. "And it was about ... how do you look at power and why does power exist? And it's not a uni-directiona

Todd Field joins us on the pod to talk TAR, opening credit sequences, working with Stanley Kubrick and ice hockey.

Todd Field toyed with many pursuits before he ever directed a film. First there was close-up magic. Then he went to school on a music scholarship. He also hoped to become a baseball player, working as a batboy for a minor league team. He helped invent Big League Chew. Then he became an actor and worked with Stanley Kub

It's been 16 long years since Todd Field directed a feature film but the wait was worth it. Todd joins Josh to talk about TAR, his early successes and struggles with IN THE BEDROOM and LITTLE CHILDREN, how Stanley Kubrick and Tom Cruise changed his career, and his connection with Adam Sandler. To watch episodes of Happ

On this episode of Filmmaker Toolkit, Field talks about how he turned his unusual script about a famous conductor in personal and professional free fall into a riveting character study, with help from star Cate Blanchett, collaborating during the height of the pandemic, thematic ideas like the corrupting nature of powe