The executive director of Film at Lincoln Center, Lesli Klainberg, discusses the venerable film institution's recent name change; experimental filmmaker Jessica Oreck discusses her recent work, her first work of fiction, called "One Man Dies a Million Times". We caught up with the film and with Jessica recently at the Montclair Film Festival.
A jam-packed episode with a call-in by comedian Jim Gaffigan discussing his new film "Being Frank" opening in NYC & LA on Friday, 6/14. Also, the film critic A.S. Hamrah with his new book "The Earth Dies Streaming" (n+1, 2018). And, lastly, the filmmaker Hilary Brougher returns with her film "South Mountain" in time for her BAMcinemaFest screening on Saturday, 6/15.
Gina Duncan leads up the film department at BAM. We discuss BAMcinemaFest which runs from June 12th through the 23rd. Also a conversation with documentary filmmaker Rick Rowley about his new film, "16 Shots", about the 2014 Chicago police shooting of Laquan McDonald and the subsequent cover-up. The Showtime broadcast premieres 6/14.
The second in a series of interviews with graduates of the Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA Film Program. This one is with the filmmaker Amy Hesketh ("Olalla", "Beardbath") who is a recent graduate, an adjunct film teacher at Olympic College in Washington, and one of the filmmakers at Pachamama Films.
Another episode with Dispatches from Tribeca Film Festival 2019: filmmaker and actor Mark Webber returns with his fifth feature, "A Place With No Words"; and the filmmaking team behind the new archive documentary about musician Shannon Hoon: Danny Clinch, Taryn Gould & Colleen Hennessy.
Robert Longstreet returns to the podcast to discuss his career as a working actor, his current work on the Netflix original series "The Haunting of Hill House" and the upcoming "Shining" series, "Doctor Sleep" which was written by Stephen King.
First of the Dispatches From the Tribeca Film Festival 2019: returning to the podcast filmmaker Davy Rothbart ("Medora") with a new documentary, 20 years in the making, called "17 Blocks", and an also returning Marshall Curry (""Street Fight") with his first narrative film, a short, called "The Neighbor's Window". Both films premiered at the Tribeca.
As part of a special partnership with the Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA Film Program, Filmwax Radio is proud to introduce a number of alums to the show. The first up in this series if the filmmaker George Nicholas who, in addition to his film work, teaches cinematography and film production at Hofstra University in Long Island, NY.
Actor/director Sir Kenneth Branagh with his take on Shakespeare's final years in "All is True". And actor/artist Paul Lazar returns for his 3rd visit.
The author of a new book on the classic Sam Peckinpah western, called "The Wild Bunch: Sam Peckinpah, a Revolution in Hollywood, and the Making of a Legendary Film" (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2018); the co-hosts of the film podcast Oeuvre Busters, Liam Billingham & George Fragopoulos.
Documentary filmmaker Sam Green remembers his friend Bill Siegel and discusses his upcoming live documentary event, "A Thousand Thoughts"; and filmmaker Doug Block returns for his third visit to discuss his film "Home Page" which is having its 20th anniversary and is available for streaming for the first time as well as on DVD.
Giancarlo Esposito {"Breaking Bad", "Better Call Saul") is in a movie musical called "Stuck" about a diverse group of people stuck in a NYC subway car together. The film opens nationwide on Friday, 4/19. Then the filmmaker Marilyn Ness stops by to discuss "Charm City" her documentary about Baltimore which has its broadcast premiere on Independent Lens on Monday, 4/22.
(April 11, 2019) The veteran actor Stuart Margolin ("The Rockford Files", "The Discoverers") is the sole guest. Stuart is in a new indie film, a romantic comedy called "The Second Time Around" in which he co-stars with actor Linda Thorson, which is available for streaming on Amazon. The film was directed by recent guest filmmaker Leon Marr.
I've been wanting Mike Leigh ("Naked", "Secrets & Lies") on the show since I began. He has a new film, a dramatic period epic, called "Peterloo" about a massacre that took place in Manchester in 1819 by the hands of the British government. The film opens on Friday, April 5th in New York City.
On this episode of the podcast we have the documentary filmmaking team of "The Brink", Alison Klayman ("Ai Wei Wei: Never Sorry") & Marie Therese Guirgis. Also, Kent Jones returns for his 4th visit to discuss directing his first feature, "Diane" which stars Mary Kay Place. Both films open Friday, March 28th.