Rico Gagliano
Podcast host Rico Gagliano (The Wall Street Journal, The Dinner Party Download) has been an audio creator for two decades. A graduate of the American Film Institute, he reported around the world for the popular public radio business program “Marketplace,” before co-creating, co-hosting, and co-producing American Public Media’s “The Dinner Party Download“—an arts-and-culture podcast and radio show that was broadcast on nearly 200 public radio stations and downloaded over 30 million times. His award-winning interviews for the show included conversations with legendary filmmakers from D.A. Pennebaker to Jordan Peele.
He went on to host, produce, write and story edit hit podcasts for Wondery, Pushkin Industries, Crooked Media, and Focus Features. Rico has written about travel, music, movies and food for The Wall Street Journal, the Daily Beast, Los Angeles magazine and most recently the New York Times’ T Magazine. He’s currently Head of Audio at MUBI.
The MUBI Podcast is an audio documentary series about great cinema — how it happens and how it brings people together. Each season, host Rico Gagliano dives deep into a different facet of the film world, from history-making theaters to legendary needle drops. You can listen to all five seasons here, which includes a two part special dedicated to the timeless vision of Sofia Coppola.
Guest Appearances
April 10, 2024
This week, Paul is gone, but Amy is joined by fellow film critic and podcast host, Rico Gagliano (MUBI Podcast). The two break down the 2003 Sofia Coppola classic, Lost in Translation, starring Scarlett Johansson and Bill Murray.
August 1, 2019
Negin chats with Rico Gagliano and Rob Kutner about the recent New Yorker piece on Al Franken, outgoing intelligence chief Dan Coats, and what they’re reading and listening to this summer.
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