This film or show by Giuseppe Tornatore has come up 2 times across 2 different shows: Lex Fridman, Tim Ferriss. 2 of those mentions were genuine on-air recommendations, not just passing references. The people who brought it up: Cal Fussman, Kieran Kunhya. The earliest mention we indexed is from 2024-06-04 and the most recent from 2026-05-06. Every occurrence below links to the episode page and to the exact second it was said on YouTube.
Every time it came up
FFmpeg: The Incredible Technology Behind Video on the Internet | Lex Fridman Podcast #496
“One of my favorite films, Cinema Paradiso, I know the engineer who created the Blu-ray, and he showed me the comparisons of x264 versus others”— Kieran Kunhya
The guest here is Jean-Baptiste Kempf and Kieran Kunhya: Jean-Baptiste Kempf is president of VideoLAN and a key figure behind VLC and FFmpeg, and has founded several open-source companies including his new ultra-low-latency startup Kyber. Kieran Kunhya is a longtime codec engineer, FFmpeg contributor, founder of Open Broadcast Systems, and runs the well-known FFmpeg account on Twitter/X. FFmpeg and VLC core developers explain the invisible open-source machinery behind nearly all internet video, codecs, assembly, and the people who maintain it.
Dr. Jane Goodall and Cal Fussman — The Tim Ferriss Show
“there's a Movie Cinema Paradiso you love that movie great film okay I would mention that”— Cal Fussman
The guest here is Dr. Jane Goodall and Cal Fussman: Dr. Jane Goodall is the English primatologist and anthropologist considered the world's foremost expert on chimpanzees and founder of the Jane Goodall Institute and the Roots & Shoots program. Cal Fussman is a New York Times bestselling author, writer-at-large at Esquire (the 'What I've Learned' column), international speaker, and host of the Big Questions with Cal Fussman podcast. A 10th-anniversary super-combo: Jane Goodall on chimpanzees and hope, plus Cal Fussman on a lifetime mastering the art of the interview.
