Founder and Artistic Director of the Berkshires International Film Festival, Kelley Vickery makes her 3rd appearance on the podcast. The 19th festival runs May 29th through June 3rd in Great Barrington, MA and Lenox, MA.
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Rob King returns to the podcast. He is a professor of film and media studies at Columbia University’s School of the Arts. He is the author of “Hokum! The Early Sound Slapstick Short and Depression-Era Mass Culture” (2017) and “The Fun Factory: The Keystone Film Company and the Emergence of Mass Culture” (2009). And now Rob has a new book “Man of Taste: The Erotic...
After 10 years, the filmmaker and author Alex R. Johnson returns to the podcast. Alex R. Johnson is a writer and filmmaker who lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. His feature film “Two Step” premiered to critical acclaim at SXSW in 2014 and went on to become a New York Times Critic’s Pick. His screenplay “Northeast Kingdom” was selected for the 2016 Black List, and his...
“Chinatown” is inarguably one of the greatest films ever made in the United States. While Roman Polanski is often credited for that certitude, the film’s editor Sam O’Steen is also largely responsible for the film’s place in film history. And the Metrograph Cinema in NYC is once again recognizing Sam’s place in the editing pantheon by screening...
Based on a true story, “The Luckiest Man in America” is set in May 1984, when an unemployed ice cream truck driver from Ohio (Paul Walter Hauser) steps onto the game show “Press Your Luck” harboring a big secret: the key to endless amounts of money. His winning streak is threatened when the bewildered executives in the control room start to uncover his real motivations. My...
The filmmaker Geremy Jasper (“Patti Cake$”) returns for her second visit to the podcast with his new film, “O’Dessa”. Set in a post-apocalyptic future, O’Dessa is an original rock opera about a farm girl on an epic quest to recover a cherished family heirloom. Her journey leads her to a strange and dangerous city where she meets her one true love – but in order to...
The documentary filmmaker Jeremy Workman (“The World Before Your Feet”, “Lily Topples the World” )returns for his 7th visit to the podcast with his latest work, “Secret Mall Apartment“. In 2003, eight young Rhode Islanders created a secret apartment in a hidden space inside the Providence Place Mall and lived in it for four years, filming everything along the...
During demonstrations in apartheid-era South Africa, the police arrest Panic (Thomas Mogotlane), a mapantsula or petty gangster, while rounding up activists. His interrogation reveals the motivation for his involvement in the township riots. Once only concerned with partying, alcohol and his own interests, Panic finds himself being irreversibly pulled into the fray. Now, he is forced to choose...
Follow the intellectual and emotional journey of a group of medical students at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx in the new PBS documentary “The Calling: A Medical School Journey”. Captured through verité scenes and personal video diaries, the film offers an inside look at America’s healthcare system through the eyes of these aspiring practitioners as they learn what...
Filmmaker Atom Egoyan (“Exotica”, “The Sweet Hereafter”) returns after 9 years for his third appearance on the podcast. He has a new movie that is currently in theaters called “Seven Veils” starring Academy Award® nominee Amanda Seyfried (“Mean Girls”, “Mama Mia”). The film follows theater director Jeanine (Seyfried) who, after years...
Senior Curator of Film at the Museum of the Moving Image, Eric Hynes, is my guest in the first segment. Eric and I discuss the Museum’s upcoming First Look festival to take place Wednesday, March 12th through Sunday, March 16th. First Look, MoMI’s annual festival showcasing adventurous new cinema, returns for its 14th edition, offering a diverse slate of major New York premieres, work-in...
The film author and teacher William J. Mann makes his first appearance on the podcast. Mann is a New York Times-bestselling author of many books on Hollywood and the American film industry, including his most recent “The Contender: The Story of Marlon Brando”, for which he was granted access to Brando’s private estate archive, as well as “Kate: The Woman Who Was...
On this episode, I welcome the filmmaker Noah Pritzker (“Quitters”) with his latest film “Ex-Husbands” which opens theatrically in NYC today, Friday, February 21st. The film will continue its national theatrical roll out over the course of the next few weeks. Appearing here with Noah are cast members Griffin Dunne —for his 6th appearance on Filmwax Radio— and the great...
Returning for his third visit to the podcast, bestselling Hollywood biographer and film historian Scott Eyman tells the story of Charlie Chaplin’s fall from grace. in his latest “Charlie Chaplin vs. America“. In the aftermath of World War II, Chaplin was criticized for being politically liberal and internationalist in outlook. He had never become a US citizen, something that would be...
Ryan Lee Crosby blends echoes of Mississippi, Mali, and India into songs that speak from—and to—the heart. Produced by Fat Possum’s Bruce Watson, Crosby’s latest “Winter Hill Blues” evokes the essence of Mississippi, refracted by influences of Indian slide guitar. The sound is forged from his life as a traveling musician and studies with Jimmy “Duck” Holmes and...
