Someone Else's Movie

Josephine Decker on Babe

Episode Summary

With her new film The Sky Is Everywhere now streaming on Apple TV+, director Josephine Decker is here to celebrate Chris Noonan's Babe, the Oscar-winning fable about a little pig who learns to herd sheep. Your genial host Norm Wilner thinks James Cromwell was robbed, by the way.

Episode Notes

This week, Josephine Decker -- director of Madeleine’s Madeleine, Shirley and the brand-new Apple TV+ drama The Sky Is Everywhere -- drops in to celebrate Babe, director Chris Noonan and producer George Miller’s 1995 live-action adaptation of Dick King-Smith’s children’s book The Sheep-Pig  and one of the sweetest, most deeply human films ever made about animals. Your genial host Norm Wilner thinks James Cromwell was robbed, by the way.