"I wonder what percent of people ever actually encounter a work of art that changes them" with Manohla Dargis | The Movie Racket
"I wonder what percent of people ever actually encounter a work of art that changes them" with Manohla Dargis | The Movie Racket  
Podcast: Filmspotting
Published On: Mon Oct 19 2026
Description: Can a movie change your life? In a 1960s interview, Stanley Kubrick posed a deceptively simple provocation: "I wonder what percent of people ever actually encounter a work of art that changes them."This week, New York Times Chief Film Critic Manohla Dargis joins Michael Phillips to test this proposition against a lifetime of moviegoing. Together, they reflect on films that expanded their sense of what cinema could do — from Jean-Luc Godard's Breathless and Every Man for Himself to Kubrick's own 2001: A Space Odyssey — and discuss the difference between a movie that alters your life and one that offers you a profound experience.Join the conversation by emailing themovieracket@filmspotting.net.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.