La Playlist Invisible by Paul Lucas - Nicolas Saada

For this second season of La Playlist Invisible, Paul Lucas is pleased to welcome Nicolas Saada. Filmmaker and screenwriter, he is also the creator of the radio show Nova fait son cinéma (1993–2007), a beacon in the night whose signal illuminated the FM band with rare music and film excerpts, often from America, Italy, and Asia. Writing, cinema, and music continually intersect in his life: a journalist for Cahiers du Cinéma between 1988 and 2000, he has also written screenplays for Pierre Salvadori and Arnaud Desplechin, directed several short films, and three features — Espions (2009), Taj Mahal (2015), and Danger (2025). When he’s not making surprise appearances in Wes Anderson films, Nicolas Saada regularly contributes to the show Jazz à Fip. In the 24-track selection he has curated for CRAVAN, we will likely encounter music from Giallo and other genre films he particularly loves, melodies from the Minneapolis Prince, and perhaps, who knows, some young talents with dazzling viral appeal.

There are those we’ve scribbled on scraps of paper full of erasures, those that follow us throughout our lives, crossing eras and countless formats, those crafted by real humans, and all those that machines gleefully concoct, forming an ocean of suggestions impossible to tame.

Today, playlists are everywhere: on our phones, on streaming platforms, on the radio, in bars and cafés, in the subway, in taxis, and even in our beds. Amid this overabundance, a few questions remain: where can we find uniqueness beyond algorithms? How can we create genuine collisions?