The great film and stage critic Carol Cling tells you her greatest wisdoms from life and the movies. What movies made her laugh and cry more than any other? What movie does she hope you watch in your lifetime? Listen and find out, plus get her take on Woody Allen, Mel Brooks, and the difference between trusting the artist and the art. 

1. Intro

2. (1:00 minute in): As a child, Carol rearranged alarm clocks, like Dr. Manhattan in the Watchmen.

3. (7:00): What makes you so special to be a film critic? And the pitfalls of turning a hobby into a career.

4. (12:00): She won on Jeopardy! 

5. (15:45): What's her favorite movie? 

6. (18:30): Dueling Robert Redford stories. (I asked Robert Redford if he was making provisions for his death.)

7. (21:45): Who is the worst interview you ever had? Michael Flatley. 

8. (24:30): Worst movie ever? (Plus: She's not a Tarantino fan) 

9. (29:30): I'm the man who gave Bruce Springsteen an A-. We talk grades. 

10. (31:00): My fear of AC/DC fans. Hate mail. 

11. (35:00): Gene Kelly vs. Fred Astaire. And is "Truffaut vs Goddard" the most pretentious film topic in the world? (And westerns.)

12. (41:00): Why I hate the Godfather movies. But Apocalypse Now and All That Jazz are terrific, unless you were me in 1979.

13. (45:30): How Pauline Kael accidentally ruined the movies. 

14. (47:00): Why the Wizard of Oz has made Carol cry more than any other movie. But there's also Dumbo, and the Wild Bunch. We are sentimental, but not sentimentalists.

15. (50:00): Screwball comedies.

16. (54:00): Christopher Nolan saves film but made sucky Batmans. Margo at the Wedding. Delores Claiborne. 

17. (59:45): What movie made you laugh harder than any other the first time you saw it? And Woody Allen vs Mel Brooks. Woody vs Mel Gibson? 

18. (64:00): Conformity in the ages of Nixon, Reagan, Clinton, Bush and Obama. "You nonchalantly glide along with grace and charm."

19. (69:45): Is there one movie you wish the whole world would watch? Local Hero. 

20. (73:00): Favorite Vegas movie? Viva vs Oceans vs Casino vs Cooler vs Hangover.

21. (78:00): Favorite movie quotes. Diana Keaton, Bill Murray, Chinatown, 

22. (80:00): She made Albert Brooks laugh. I made Larry David laugh. 

23: (82:30): We get sociological about the state of people's minds. "What do you think we climbed out of the slime for?" Irony vs Ernestness. 

24: (89:00): What's your greatest wisdom? 

25: (94:30): Clint Eastwood again. "Trust the art, not the artist." More Woody Allen. Kapra. Hawkes. Bergman. Kurosawa.