Everybody Digs Bill Evans

And Jan.

I meant to be, uh, going to see Everybody Digs Bill Evans, but I've sadly missed the last screening, so I can't speak about this.

Um, uh, instead I'm gonna recommend Injury Time by David Goldblatt.

I finally managed to get my hands on that and read a little bit.

And on TV in prestige shows The Sinner, The Burrers and Torchwood.

His latest film is a biopic called Everybody Digs Bill Evans, in which he plays the father of the titular jazz pianist.

The film dramatises the legendary village vanguard recording sessions by Bill Evans and his band in 1961, something Bill Pullman cited as one of the reasons he was drawn to the project, as he told the BBC's Nimone.

I don't know who figures it out, but apparently I've been told that for people that understand live recording, they say it's the best live recording ever made, some of them.

How interesting given the characters you were playing who were bonding on screen.

I did want to ask you actually about a Bill Evans track because obviously he was prolific.

Was there one particular one that struck you while you were making Everybody Digs Bill Evans?

Well, you know, since my character really didn't know much about him, that I really loved creating that moment of hearing that Sunday at the Vanguard album for the first time as they get it.

It's got a great score by, and it actually says score by, not music by, score by Roger Goula.

I hope I'm saying this right, Goula, G-O-U-L-A, who is a London-based composer who worked on Everybody Digs Bill Evans, which we talked about recently, and that Oscar-nominated documentary, All That Breathes, and I thought the score was great.

I thought the score really got under the skin of it.

It, it again, sort of c- you know, quite passionate, quite, uh, quite physically resonant.

You're listening to Screenplayers Club, a podcast about the stories and secrets behind some of our best-loved movies.

I'm Charlotte Bogard-McLeod, and today I'm welcoming award-winning director Grant Gee, here to talk about his latest movie, Everybody Digs Bill Evans.

You'll know Grant Gee for his extraordinary documentaries, most notably his groundbreaking film about Radiohead called Meeting People Is Easy, whose goal was to dispel myths about the glamour of being in a rock band.

Grant's Joy Division documentary, imaginatively titled Joy Division, is totally compelling and immersive.

Everybody Digs Bill Evans is Grant's first fiction feature film and won him the prestigious Silver Bear of Best Director at the 2026 Berlinale Film Festival.

Based on the lyrical novel Intermission by Owen Martell, The film unfolds over a languid New York summer when legendary jazz pianist loses his musical soulmate and so his ability to play music.

Anders Danielson Lee gives an astonishingly brilliant performance as Bill Evans, a man consumed by grief, immersing us completely in his emotional devastation.

It's brilliant.

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So I just read this fascinating piece about a new biopic on Bill Evans called Everybody Digs Bill Evans.

It's causing quite the stir.

Oh, really? What's the story there? Wasn't he an incredible jazz pianist?

I'm now joined in studio by culture journalist Zara Hegerman and film editor with the RT Guide, Michael Daugherty, because it is time, of course, to preview the best entertainment on the big and small screen.

Uh, this week it is The Watch List.

Zara, anything that comes back for a sixth season must be doing pretty good, but, uh, the spy drama, Slow Horses.

It's like-

Yeah

... you know, the, the Linklater film, Boyhood, where it-

Mm

... kind of follows different years.

We are going to be talking about the much talked about Oasis documentary, the new... practical magic movie yes there's a second one out uh splendid and there i've said it i've given it away irish related movie called everyone digs bill evans and also a big totem release with andrew scott all about world war ii and meteorologists yes there's a lot to come thankfully brian lloyd is here to help me with the heavy lifting brian hello how are you

Good, it's everybody digs Bill Evans, not everyone digs Bill Evans.

Just to correct you on that.

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did I say?

You said everyone digs Bill Evans and it's everybody digs Bill Evans.

I should have...

Listen, you know what? Damn, I went all that trouble.