Mary Harron (“I Shot Andy Warhol”, “American Psycho”) has directed a new film called “Dalíland” about the famous —and infamous– surrealist painter Salvador Dalí (played by Sir Ben Kingsley). The film focuses on his later years. In 1974 a young gallery assistant is drawn into the wild, never-ending party that is artist Salvador Dalí’s life in New York City. As he helps the aging genius prepare for an important show, he discovers not everything is as it seems. On this episode I speak with director Mary Harron and actor Barbara Sukowa (“Hannah Arendt”, “Rosa Luxemburg”) who portrays Dalí’s wife Gala Dalí. Magnolia Pictures will release the film in theaters on Friday, June 9th.
The documentary filmmaker Jamie Boyle has made an intensely personal film —”Anonymous Sister“— about both her sister & her mother’s addiction to opioids some years back. The film is a combination of Jamie’s home movies (most of which she took as a young obsessive filmmaker) and contemporary interviews. When a young woman turns to the camera for refuge, she ends up with a firsthand account of what will become the deadliest man-made epidemic in United States history. Thirty years in the making, Anonymous Sister is two-time Emmy Award® winning director, Jamie Boyle’s chronicle of her family’s collision with the opioid epidemic. “Anonymous Sister” is currently screening at the IFC Center in NYC, and expanding to other cities around the country.
