Ryan Coogler on “Sinners,” His Epic Film about Race, Music, and the Undead
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This is the New Yorker Radio Hour, a co-production of WNYC Studios and The New Yorker. This is the New Yorker Radio Hour. I'm David Remnick. When the Oscar nominations were announced this year, a record was set. Ryan Kugler's Sinners.
received the most nominations of any film ever, sixteen in all. The fact that Sinners is a vampire movie, sort of, makes that only more remarkable. What y'all doing? Just step aside and let me hone in now. Why you need him to do that?
You being strong enough to push past us? Well that wouldn't be too polite now, would it, Miss Andy? I don't know why I'm talking to you anyway. Smok Don't talk to him. You're talking to me right now.
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