‘Wild Horse Nine’ filmmaker Martin McDonagh
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‘Wild Horse Nine’ filmmaker Martin McDonagh

B2Upper-intermediateNovember 9, 202645 min
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  • Arts & culture

Filmmaker and playwright Martin McDonagh talks about his new movie, Wild Horse Nine. It’s a dark comedy about two CIA agents (Sam Rockwell, John Malkovitch) who travel to Easter Island before the 1973 coup d’etat in Chile. McDonagh also wrote and directed The Banshees of Inisherin, In Bruges, and Three Billboards Outside of Ebbing, Missouri. He spoke with Terry Gross about the themes across his work – male friendship, guilt, regret, redemption, and mortality. Maureen Corrigan reviews new books about Edgar Allen Poe and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Subscribe to our free weekly newsletter Follow us on Insta...

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This message comes from How to Fail with Elizabeth Day. Each week, someone extraordinary describes unplanned moments and how these failures shaped them. From Kate Winslet on body image

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to Salman Rushdie on survival. Listen on your preferred podcast platform. This is Fresh Air, I'm Terry Gross. The films In Bruges, The Banshees of Innisheeran

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and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri were written and directed by my guest, Martin McDonough. Now he has a new film he's written and directed called Wild Horse Nine. It's a comedy drama that continues some of the themes at the center of En Bruges and

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