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Sep 22, 2026
Amy PoehlerHOST
For The Ringer, production by Jack Wilson, Cat Spillane, Kaya McMullin, Alea Zanares, Bridget Geerlings, Paige Garbarini, Belle Roman, and Drew Van Steenburgen.
Amy PoehlerHOST
For Paper Kite, production by Sam Green, Joel Lovell, and Jenna Weiss-Berman.
Amy PoehlerHOST
Original music by Amy Miles.
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All I ever wanted was a really good hang.
John RidleyHOST
This film that we're talking about this week could not be more different.
John RidleyHOST
The director that we're speaking of is Sam Green.
John RidleyHOST
The film, the documentary film that we are talking about is the oldest person in the world.
Matt CareyHOST
Yes, and it is a definite Oscar contender, premiered at Sundance.
Matt CareyHOST
So again, has a long runway, which generally is very, very helpful.
Matt CareyHOST
It's got a very powerful team behind it in terms of getting it out there in front of Oscar voters, so that's going to help.
Matt CareyHOST
But Sam Green is really a unique talent.
Matt CareyHOST
I think those who saw 32 Sounds... yeah it's very hard to you know explain what the film is about other than it's about the sort of sound landscapes and he's choosing individual sounds that was a truly amazing film i don't think anyone has seen it or heard it we'll forget about it and i i just love that he takes A story looking at the oldest people or oldest individual at any given time and really delving into so much more than that.
Glen WeldonHOST
Yeah.
Aisha HarrisHOST
Um, this is directed by Sam Green, and essentially he set out to meet the oldest person in the world at any given time.
Aisha HarrisHOST
You know, like a lot of these projects, I'm sure, this took several years to, to document.
Aisha HarrisHOST
We follow him as he's going through over several years trying to meet the oldest person in the world.
Celia HattonHOST
We end with a new documentary called The Oldest Person in the World, which explores aging, longevity, and mortality.
Celia HattonHOST
It follows the journey of Sam Green, a New York-based filmmaker, and his decade-long journey as he meets various people bestowed with the oldest living person title.
Celia HattonHOST
The BBC's Tom Brook went to meet him.
Sam GreenSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
[gentle music] I know this might sound weird, but I've been obsessed with the oldest person in the world for years.
Tom BrookCORRESPONDENT
Meet adventurous Brooklyn-based Oscar-nominated filmmaker Sam Green.
Tom BrookCORRESPONDENT
Since 2015, he's been traveling the world chronicling the forever-changing holders of the title of oldest person in the world.
Tom BrookCORRESPONDENT
His survey has included Kane Tanaka in Japan, who held the title for four years.
Tom BrookCORRESPONDENT
And then there's the oldest person ever, France's Jeanne Calment, who when she died in 1997, was 122 years old.
James MenendezHOST
She turned 117 last month.
James MenendezHOST
Well, the world's most senior citizens are the subject of a new documentary by a New York-based filmmaker, Sam Green.
James MenendezHOST
Tom Brook has been to meet him.
Sam GreenSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
[pensive music] I know this might sound weird, but I've been obsessed with the oldest person in the world for years.
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[laughs]
Tom BrookCORRESPONDENT
Meet adventurous Brooklyn-based Oscar-nominated filmmaker Sam Green.
Tom BrookCORRESPONDENT
Since 2015, he's been traveling the world chronicling the forever-changing holders of the title of oldest person in the world.
Leif-Erik HolmSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Kane Tanaka is the oldest person-
James MenendezHOST
Now, what's it like to live at the very extremes of human longevity, to live to 110, 115 years old, or to be Ethel Caterham from England, who's currently the oldest person in the world? She was born in 1909 in the Edwardian era, five years before the First World War, and she turned 117 last month.
James MenendezHOST
Well, the world's most senior citizens are the subject of a new documentary by a New York-based filmmaker, Sam Green.
James MenendezHOST
Tom Brook has meant to meet, been to meet him.
Sam GreenSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
[gentle music] I know this might sound weird, but I've been obsessed with the oldest person in the world for years.
Sam GreenSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
[Ethel laughs]
Tom BrookCORRESPONDENT
Meet adventurous Brooklyn-based Oscar-nominated filmmaker Sam Green.
Tom BrookCORRESPONDENT
Since 2015, he's been traveling the world chronicling the forever-changing holders of the title of oldest person in the world.
Artur DronGUEST
Kane Tanaka is the oldest person-
Larry MantleHOST
The documentary The Oldest Person in the World successively tracks people who are the oldest living person.
Larry MantleHOST
Sam Green is the director and the chronicler of these individuals.
Larry MantleHOST
Katie, please start us on this.
Katie WalshPANELIST
I really like a documentary that is more about the filmmaker than it is about the subject.
Katie WalshPANELIST
And it's sort of like.
Katie WalshPANELIST
what's going on she's lasting a long time so it's just also this thing of like the unpredictability of aging and death and some people are like oh yeah I lead this really healthy lifestyle and other people are like I smoked until the end of my life and so it's I think what he finds is that there are no answers and that we have to really embrace like the joy and beauty of the present moment and yeah it's a lovely sort of film in that kind of poetic lyrical way
Larry MantleHOST
We're talking about the documentary The Oldest Person in the World from Sam Green.
Larry MantleHOST
Tim?
Alexis MadrigalHOST
Who knew? And so it's with a lot of humility that I now approach aging.
Alexis MadrigalHOST
What do I know of what it will be to reach 60 or 80 or perhaps the universe willing 100 years old? And so I watched Sam Green's new documentary, The Oldest Person in the World, with whatever the opposite of morbid curiosity is, like wholesome, healthy curiosity.
Alexis MadrigalHOST
What was it like to be a human born in one century who lived into another? What matters after 115 years? It is a great documentary.
Alexis MadrigalHOST
Our whole family was riveted to the end.
Alexis MadrigalHOST
And Sam Green joins us here this morning.
Alexis MadrigalHOST
Welcome back to Forum, Sam.
Alexis MadrigalHOST
Oh, thanks for
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And I love everyone.
Chip ConleyHOST
And this, and then we had about 50 attendees and, So what's amazing as a film festival is you're like hanging out in the hot tub, going for hikes, doing yoga, eating meals with these filmmakers and actors and actresses, lots of them Academy Award nominees and winners.
Chip ConleyHOST
So today on this episode, I am interviewing Sam Green.
Chip ConleyHOST
A well-known documentary filmmaker who had an Academy Award-nominated film 20 years ago and has a new film that's perfectly suited for the Emmy audience called The Oldest Person in the World, in which he spends 10 years chronicling whoever was the oldest person in the world, interviewing them, because that's a revolving door.
Chip ConleyHOST
People don't live very long once they become the oldest person in the world.
Chip ConleyHOST
So let's dive in.
Chip ConleyHOST
And at the end, I'll tell you my three key lessons from this episode.
Chip ConleyHOST
Sam Green, welcome to The Midlife Chrysalis.
Chip ConleyHOST
Great to be here, Chip.
Bruce PurkeyHOST
Okay.
Bruce PurkeyHOST
First up oldest person in the world directed by Sam Green is a documentary now.
Bruce PurkeyHOST
I have two documentaries this week, and they both are in a similar category, not in subject matter, but in the style, in that these are the documentaries where the filmmaker narrates.
Bruce PurkeyHOST
There's a lot of insertion of the filmmaking process and the life of the filmmaker into the subject matter of the documentary so if that's something you don't like if that's the style of documentary you don't want to experience then just take heed that this is one of those types of documentaries now Some people like a documentary just to be anonymous, unseen, omniscient.
Bruce PurkeyHOST
This is not one of those movies.
Bruce PurkeyHOST
Neither is the other one I'm going to mention in a few minutes here.
Bruce PurkeyHOST
So what is the oldest person in the world? Well, Sam Green in 2015, July 7, 2015, For whatever reason, as part of his documenting the world, he had heard about the oldest person in the world having a birthday party in Brooklyn.
Bruce PurkeyHOST
And he'd always been, I guess, interested in that, and he'd always had an interest in, you know, Guinness Book of World Records, and, you know, the idea of the oldest person in the world he'd see in there as one of the ongoing records that was always in the book.
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