Lectures and Q&A Sessions from Film Forum in New York http://www.filmforum.org en-us Fri, 3 May 2013 12:30:00 EDT podcasts@filmforum.org (Richard Hutchins) Copyright 2009, The Moving Image, Inc. http://01f070d.netsolhost.com/FilmForumPodcastLogo.gif http://www.filmforum.org Lectures and Q&A Sessions from Film Forum in New York Film Forum Lectures and Q&A Sessions from Film Forum, New York's leading movie house for independent premieres and repertory programming Film Forum podcasts@filmforum.org no http://www.filmforum.org/audio/VoyagetoItalyMay12013.mp3 Voyage to Italy: Q & A with Isabella Rossellini (Recorded May 1, 2013) Podcasts Fri, 3 May 2013 12:30:00 EDT http://www.filmforum.org/audio/VoyagetoItalyMay12013.mp3 Film Forum Q & A with Isabella Rossellini, recorded May 1, 2013, at Film Forum during a screening of Voyage to Italy. Voyage to Italy: 1954) In Naples to sell Uncle Homer’s villa, London business man George Sanders and wife Ingrid Bergman find that, after eight years of marriage, they have little to say to each other. And as the closing drags on, Bergman remembers a died-too-young poet who loved her, Sanders frets about time away from work, and they split apart — she to stare at the rawness of the statuary in the Museum, the ionization of Vesuvian craters, the skeletons at the cemetery; he to dally with friends on Capri, languidly pursue an estranged wife, and to wave off an attractive prostitute; both to finally view the plaster molds of the dead of Pompeii. Little happens, and yet subtly we see the degeneration of a marriage. Will it take a miracle to save it? Unsuccessful on first release, but over the years steadily climbing the ranks of All-Time Ten Best lists. This podcast is a recording of the Q & A with Isabella Rossellini, recorded May 1, 2013, at Film Forum during a screening of Voyage to Italy 23:48 Voyage to Italy,Isabella Rossellini,Ingrid Bergman,George Sanders, Roberto Rossellini,Film Forum no http://www.filmforum.org/audio/PhilipRothUnmaskedMarch182013.mp3 PHILIP ROTH UNMASKED: Intro by Blake Bailey (Recorded March 18, 2013) Podcasts Wed, 20 Mar 2013 16:00:00 EDT http://www.filmforum.org/audio/PhilipRothUnmaskedMarch182013.mp3 Film Forum Intro to PHILIP ROTH UNMASKED by Blake Bailey, recorded March 18, 2013, at Film Forum during a screening of the film. PHILIP ROTH: UNMASKED: Philip Roth, arguably America’s greatest living novelist, turns 80 on March 19. In 1959, his collection of short stories, Goodbye, Columbus, put him on the map, and 10 years later his hilarious, ribald best-seller, Portnoy’s Complaint, gave rise to the first of many Roth-related controversies in which Judaism, sex, the role of women, and the parent-child relationship would take center stage. In candid interviews, the Pulitzer Prize-winner discusses his distinctly unliterary upbringing in Newark, NJ, his admiration for Saul Bellow and Bernard Malamud, and how Zuckerman may or may not be his alter-ego. Nathan Englander, Mia Farrow, Jonathan Franzen, and Martin Garbus are among those who talk about the man and his writing. Franzen in particular praises Roth for “how brave he must have been to have methodically offended everybody and to have exposed parts of himself no one had ever exposed before.” This podcast is a recording of the introduction to PHILIP ROTH UNMASKED by Blake Bailey, recorded March 18, 2013. 11:14 PHILIP ROTH UNMASKED,Blake Bailey,Film Forum no http://www.filmforum.org/audio/LostWeekendMarch182013.mp3 THE LOST WEEKEND: Intro by Blake Bailey (Recorded March 18, 2013) Podcasts Wed, 20 Mar 2013 15:30:00 EDT http://www.filmforum.org/audio/LostWeekendMarch182013.mp3 Film Forum Intro to THE LOST WEEKEND by Blake Bailey, recorded March 18, 2013, at Film Forum during a screening of the film. THE LOST WEEKEND: “Most men lead lives of quiet desperation.” Failed writer Ray Milland hits the sauce and the bottom in Oscar winner for Best Picture, Screenplay, Director and Actor. Among the famous sequences: the bat and mouse hallucination and the desperate trek for money past actual Third Ave. pawnshops closed for Yom Kippur. Screenplay by Wilder and Charles Brackett, from the novel by Charles Jackson. “New York brutally stripped of all glamour.” – Tom Milne. Introduced by Blake Bailey, author of Farther & Wilder: The Lost Weekends and Literary Dreams of Charles Jackson, published this week by Random House. This podcast is a recording of the introduction to THE LOST WEEKEND by Blake Bailey, recorded March 18, 2013, at Film Forum during a screening of the film. 13:48 THE LOST WEEKEND,Blake Bailey,Billy Wilder,Ray Milland,AA,alcohol,addiction,Film Forum no http://www.filmforum.org/audio/MarryingKindFeb282013.mp3 THE MARRYING KIND: Intro by Jeanine Basinger (Recorded February 28, 2013) Podcasts Fri, 1 Mar 2013 17:15:00 EST http://www.filmforum.org/audio/MarryingKindFeb282013.mp3 Film Forum Intro to THE MARRYING KIND by Jeanine Basinger, recorded February 28, 2013 at Film Forum during a screening of the film. THE MARRYING KIND: (1952, George Cukor) In the chambers of a divorce court judge, Aldo Ray and Judy Holliday look back on their marriage, and the flashbacks begin, with 4th of July Central Park picnic a highlight. Screenplay by Ruth Gordon and Garson Kanin. “One of the more honest portraits of an average marriage... Everything about it — its sets, its costumes, its location shooting in New York City [the couple lives in the recently-opened Stuyvesant Town] — is grounded in reality... Holliday and Ray are a Hepburn and Tracy for the masses.” – Jeanine Basinger. Introduced by Ms. Basinger, Chair of Film Studies at Wesleyan University and author of the new book I Do and I Don’t: A History of Marriage in the Movies, just published by Knopf. Following the screening, she will sign copies of her book, available for sale at Film Forum’s concession. This podcast is a recording of the introduction to THE MARRYING KIND by Jeanine Basinger, recorded February 28, 2013 at Film Forum during a screening of the film. 9:08 THE MARRYING KIND,Jeanine Basinger,George Cukor,New York City,Aldo Ray,Judy Holliday,Film Forum no http://www.filmforum.org/audio/LittleFugitiveJan312013.mp3 LITTLE FUGITIVE: Q & A with Mary Engel & Richie Andrusco (Recorded January 31, 2013) Podcasts Tue, 5 Feb 2013 17:15:00 EST http://www.filmforum.org/audio/LittleFugitiveJan312013.mp3 Film Forum Q & A with Mary Engel, daughter of LITTLE FUGITIVE filmmakers Morris Engel & Ruth Orkin, & LITTLE FUGITIVE star Richie Andrusco, recorded January 31, 2013 LITTLE FUGITIVE: (1953, Morris Engel) Brooklynite Richie Andrusco’s on the run from the cops after the accidental shooting of his big brother — only trouble is, Richie’s only seven, the “shooting” was just a dumb ketchup-splashed gag by his brother and cronies, and Mom won’t be back from Grandma’s till the next day. But with six bucks in his pocket and all of Coney Island for a hide-out, how tough can things be, as Richie rides the merry-go-round, takes a cowboy photo, tries out his swings in the batting cage, scarfs down hot dogs, soda, watermelon, and corn on the cob, and gets hooked on the pony ride — he refinances by scouring under the boardwalk for two-cent deposit soda bottles — and even his frantically searching big brother takes a break to ride The Parachute Jump. With a concealed custom-made 35mm camera (which Godard later asked to borrow), legendary photographer Engel — and crew including future wife Ruth Orkin, herself a photography titan — captured unknowing crowds, a phenomenal performance by pint-sized non-pro Richie, and a perfect time capsule of Coney in the waning years of its heyday. Oscar nomination for Best Screen Story; Silver Lion, Venice Film Festival. Co-written and co-produced by Ray Ashley. This podcast is a recording of the Q & A with Mary Engel, daughter of LITTLE FUGITIVE filmmakers Morris Engel & Ruth Orkin, & LITTLE FUGITIVE star Richie Andrusco, recorded January 31, 2013 at Film Forum. 17:11 Mary Engel,LITTLE FUGITIVE,Morris Engel,Ruth Orkin,Richie Andrusco,Film Forum no http://www.filmforum.org/audio/TrashJan262013.mp3 TRASH: Q & A with director Paul Morrissey (Recorded January 26, 2013) Podcasts Tue, 5 Feb 2013 10:01:00 EST http://www.filmforum.org/audio/TrashJan262013.mp3 Film Forum Q & A with TRASH director Paul Morrissey, recorded January 26, 2013 TRASH: (1970) The story of Joe and his girlfriend Holly, but even busty Geri Miller can’t get a rise out of junkie Joe Dallesandro, whose quest for a fix leads him to bizarrely-accented Jane Forth’s apartment and back to his scavenger roommate Holly Woodlawn. This podcast is a recording of the Q & A with director Paul Morrissey, recorded January 26, 2013 at Film Forum. 21:04 TRASH,Paul Morrissey,Film Forum yes http://www.filmforum.org/audio/DirectCinemaJan282013.mp3 NEW YAWK NEW WAVE/Direct Cinema Shorts Program: Q & A with D.A. PENNEBAKER (Recorded January 28, 2013) Podcasts Tue, 5 Feb 2013 10:00:00 EST http://www.filmforum.org/audio/DirectCinemaJan282013.mp3 Film Forum Q & A with D.A. PENNEBAKER at Direct Cinema Shorts Program; presented during the NEW YAWK NEW WAVE Series on January 28, 2013 “Direct Cinema,” American-style cinéma vérité, was pioneered by Robert Drew, D.A. Pennebaker, and Al and David Maysles, et al. Program includes Jane (1962, Robert Drew, Hope Ryden): Jane Fonda makes her B’way debut in a bona fide disaster; Jingle Bells (1964, Pennebaker): RFK and family and Sammy Davis Jr. go Xmas carolling at NYC public schools; Baby (1954): Pennebaker's first film; and With Love From Truman (1966, Maysles Bros.): Capote, that is. Q & A with D.A. PENNEBAKER at Direct Cinema Shorts Program; presented during the NEW YAWK NEW WAVE Series on January 28, 2013 at Film Forum. 18:56 D.A. PENNEBAKER,Al Maysles,David Maysles,Hope Ryden,Jane Fonda,cinéma vérité,Jane,Robert Drew,Maysles Bros,Direct Cinema Shorts Program,NEW YAWK NEW WAVE,With Love From Truman,Godard,1AM,One American Movie,Film Forum no http://www.filmforum.org/audio/BewareofMrBakerNov282012_1.mp3 BEWARE OF MR. BAKER: Q & A with director JAY BULGER (Recorded November 28, 2012) Podcasts Wed, 28 Nov 2012 20:20:00 EST http://www.filmforum.org/audio/BewareofMrBakerNov282012_1.mp3 Film Forum Q & A with BEWARE OF MR. BAKER director JAY BULGER, recorded November 28, 2012 BEWARE OF MR. BAKER: At home with rock ‘n’ roll monster Ginger Baker, Cream’s legendary scarlet-maned, hell-raising drummer. This no-holds-barred, sad, and hilarious portrait of the man referred to as rock’s first great drummer (and perhaps still its best) lets him tell his own story, intercut with footage of his continent-hopping life, from London to L.A., Nigeria, Italy, South Africa, and (way) beyond. Baker may have broken the mold musically, but his violent, dyspeptic mood swings, fueled by a multi-decade heroin addiction, went a long way to making him persona non grata even among the music greats who still revere his work. Eric Clapton, Johnny Rotten, Charlie Watts, and Lars Ulrich, Baker’s 4 wives, and 3 grown children all have something to say about him: “He’s a force of nature,” “he’s the greatest drummer any of us had ever heard,” “he’s mad,” and “he’s fairly consistently horrible” are just a few of them. This podcast episode is a recording of a Q & A with BEWARE OF MR. BAKER director JAY BULGER, recorded November 28, 2012, at a screening of the film at Film Forum. 19:51 BEWARE OF MR. BAKER,Ginger Baker,JAY BULGER,drummer,drums,percussion,Fela,Africa,heroin,violence,music,Cream,Eric Clapton,musician,Film Forum yes http://www.filmforum.org/audio/TheLawInThesePartsNov142012.mp3 THE LAW IN THESE PARTS: Q & A with filmmaker Ra'anan Alexandrowicz (Recorded November 14, 2012) Podcasts Mon, 19 Nov 2012 15:00:00 EST http://www.filmforum.org/audio/TheLawInThesePartsNov142012.mp3 Film Forum Q & A with THE LAW IN THESE PARTS filmmaker Ra'anan Alexandrowicz, recorded November 14, 2012 THE LAW IN THESE PARTS: What is legal and what is just? The wide gap between the two is explored meticulously by this Israeli investigation (winner of the Best Documentary Award at the Sundance and Jerusalem Film Festivals) of the legal structure created after the 1967 Six Days War, specifically to treat the West Bank and Gaza Strip as occupied territories. Speaking with some of Israel’s most respected lawyers and judges – men who helped to craft and later interpret these laws - filmmaker Ra’anan Alexandrowicz asks tough, pointed questions and gets even tougher answers. He asks his subjects to consider the consequences of their actions in a highly politicized environment. THE LAW IN THESE PARTS takes the position that unjust laws create unjust realities. Laws that everyone admits are not perfect but are the best that can be done under difficult circumstances may result in tragedy for everyone: both the judges and the judged. This podcast episode is a recording of a Q & A with filmmaker Ra'anan Alexandrowicz, recorded November 14, 2012, at a screening of the film at Film Forum. 25:54 THE LAW IN THESE PARTS,Ra'anan Alexandrowicz,Israel,Six Days War,West Bank,Gaza Strip,Palastine,Film Forum no http://www.filmforum.org/audio/GregoryCrewdsonNov82012.mp3 GREGORY CREWDSON: BRIEF ENCOUNTERS: Q & A with filmmaker Ben Shapiro and subject Gregory Crewdson (Recorded November 8, 2012) Podcasts Mon, 19 Nov 2012 14:10:00 EST http://www.filmforum.org/audio/GregoryCrewdsonNov82012.mp3 Film Forum Q & A with GREGORY CREWDSON: BRIEF ENCOUNTERS filmmaker Ben Shapiro and subject Gregory Crewdson, recorded November 8, 2012 GREGORY CREWDSON: BRIEF ENCOUNTERS: Gregory Crewdson’s riveting photographs are elaborately staged, elegant narratives compressed into a single, albeit large-scale image, many of them taken at twilight, set in small towns of Western Massachusetts or meticulously recreated interior spaces, built on the kind of sound stages associated with big-budget movies. Ben Shapiro’s fascinating profile of the acclaimed artist includes stories of his Park Slope childhood (in which he tried to overhear patients of his psychologist father), his summers in the bucolic countryside (which he now imbues with a sense of dread and foreboding), and his encounter with Diane Arbus’s work in 1972 at age 10. Novelists Rick Moody and Russell Banks, and fellow photographer Laurie Simmons, comment on the motivation behind their friend’s haunting images. But Crewdson remains his own best critic: “Every artist has one central story to tell. The struggle is to tell and retell that story over again – and to challenge that story. It’s the defining story of who you are.” This podcast episode is a recording of a Q & A with filmmaker Ben Shapiro and subject Gregory Crewdson, recorded November 8, 2012, at a screening of the film at Film Forum. 29:00 GREGORY CREWDSON: BRIEF ENCOUNTERS,Ben Shapiro,photography,Rick Moody,Russell Banks,artist,photographer,Laurie Simmons,Diane Arbus,Western Massachusetts,Film Forum no http://www.filmforum.org/audio/NOTHINGBUTAMANNov92012.mp3 NOTHING BUT A MAN: Q & A with director MICHAEL ROEMER (Recorded Nov 9, 2012) Podcasts Thu, 15 Nov 2012 16:45:00 EST http://www.filmforum.org/audio/NOTHINGBUTAMANNov92012.mp3 Film Forum Q & A with NOTHING BUT A MAN director MICHAEL ROEMER, recorded Nov 9, 2012 NOTHING BUT A MAN: (1964, Michael Roemer) “Baby, I feel so free inside.” But not in Alabama, not in the 60s. On a night out, while stogey-puffing co-worker Yaphet Kotto (Alien, Blue Collar, Homicide: Life on the Street) memorably plays pinball to the beat of Martha Reeves' "Heat Wave”, railroad man/single dad Ivan Dixon meets preacher’s daughter Abbey Lincoln (the legendary jazz singer in her first acting role) and tries to build a dignified life. But after getting fired from a mill and a filling station by racists, shunning a $2.50 a day job picking cotton, a difficult visit with his embittered, boozing dad Julius Harris, rejecting a reunion with his little son, and a physically painful argument with Lincoln, what’s he gonna do? Made on a shoestring by independent Roemer, with rich b&w photography by his producing partner, Robert M. Young (see also: The Plot Against Harry on Jan. 27), a vintage Motown soundtrack, low-keyed performances by a soon-to-be-eminent cast including Gloria Foster (“Oracle” in The Matrix) and Moses Gunn – and only a year later, Dixon would become nationally famous as co-star of tv’s Hogan’s Heroes -- Man was a sensation at the Venice, London, and New York Film Festivals: at the end of its screening at the second NYFF, the audience of 2,000 broke out into spontaneous applause. This podcast episode is a recording of a Q & A with NOTHING BUT A MAN director MICHAEL ROEMER, recorded Nov 9, 2012, at a screening of the film at Film Forum. 30:22 NOTHING BUT A MAN,Michael Roemer,Film Forum no http://www.filmforum.org/audio/WakeinFrightOct62012_1.mp3 WAKE IN FRIGHT: Q & A with director Ted Kotcheff (Recorded October 6, 2012) Podcasts Fri, 12 Oct 2012 14:00:00 EDT http://www.filmforum.org/audio/WakeinFrightOct62012_1.mp3 Film Forum Q & A with WAKE IN FRIGHT director Ted Kotcheff, recorded October 6, 2012 WAKE IN FRIGHT: Just a one-night stopover in “The Yabba” for Peter O’Toole look-alike Gary Bond, between the (literally) two-house town where he’s stuck teaching, and the flight to Sydney and his girlfriend during the Christmas break. But as local cop Chips Rafferty (the Australian character star in his final role) leads him to the local hardboozing rituals and the delights of gambling on the “two-up,” the nightmare begins, with sex interrupted by vomiting, the ministrations of too-friendly alcoholic doc Donald Pleasence (Halloween, The Great Escape, etc., etc.), and topped by a very graphic kangaroo hunt. Long thought to exist in a single inferior print, the original negative was found after a ten-year search in…Pittsburgh — leading to this eye-popping restoration by The National Film and Sound Archives of Australia. Directed by Canadian transplant Ted Kotcheff (otherwise best known for The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, Stallone’s First Blood, and Weekend at Bernie’s!), with Evan Jones’ screenplay based on a novel by Kenneth Cook. Approx. 114 min. 35mm. This podcast episode is a recording of a Q & A with director Ted Kotcheff, recorded October 6, 2012, at a screening of WAKE IN FRIGHT at Film Forum. 36:05 WAKE IN FRIGHT,Ted Kotcheff,The Yabba,Gary Bond,Sydney,Australia,Film Forum no http://www.filmforum.org/audio/RadioUnnameableSept212012.mp3 RADIO UNNAMEABLE: Q & A with radio personality BOB FASS (Recorded September 21, 2012) Podcasts Wed, 26 Sep 2012 12:25:00 EDT http://www.filmforum.org/audio/RadioUnnameableSept212012.mp3 Film Forum RADIO UNNAMEABLE: Q & A with radio personality BOB FASS, recorded September 21, 2012 RADIO UNNAMEABLE: Bob Fass: midnight to 5 a.m., 5 days a week, his soothing voice was heard over the airwaves on WBAI-FM. Anyone living in NYC in the 1960s and ‘70s and who experienced even one night of insomnia remembers that voice. A pioneer of free-form radio, Fass let the talk and music flow all night long, as some of the city slept and some of it followed him to a “Yip-In” at Grand Central Station, the 1968 Chicago Democratic Convention, and a “human fly-in” at JFK airport. An amazing roster of guests – Arlo Guthrie, Allen Ginsberg, Kinky Friedman, Abbie Hoffman, Bob Dylan, Carly Simon – showed up unannounced and unedited. Long before Twitter or Facebook, before shock-jocks and reality TV, before Occupy Wall Street and flash mobs – Bob Fass helped change the face of media and brought the counterculture face to face with the rest of America. RADIO UNNAMEABLE collages archival footage of NYC from this era with tapes from some of Fass’s most memorable programs – emulating its subject’s own commitment to immediacy, honesty and irreverence. Bob Fass continues to be heard on WBAI Thursdays, from midnight until 3 a.m. This podcast episode is a recording of a Q & A with radio personality BOB FASS, recorded September 21, 2012 at a screening of RADIO UNNAMEABLE at Film Forum. 27:31 FOR ELLEN,Paul Dano,rock musician,Film Forum no http://www.filmforum.org/audio/ForEllenSept152012.mp3 FOR ELLEN: Q & A with actor PAUL DANO (Recorded September 15, 2012) Podcasts Tue, 18 Sep 2012 15:15:00 EDT http://www.filmforum.org/audio/ForEllenSept152012.mp3 Film Forum FOR ELLEN: Q & A with actor PAUL DANO, recorded September 15, 2012, at a screening of the film at Film Forum. FOR ELLEN: Paul Dano gives a tour-de-force performance as a punk rocker caught up in a messy divorce/custody battle in the middle of nowhere. An actor who has previously played nerds and oddballs with tremendous panache, Dano here conveys charm, narcissism, immaturity and compassion in equal parts – all in one very complicated person who refuses to give up the relationship that he has barely begun to have with his young daughter. So Yong Kim, director of TREELESS MOUNTAIN, tells a tough, modern tale with a young man at its center who is as happy dancing alone to heavy metal in a bar, drunk, as he is sharing an ice-cream sundae with the stranger who is his child. Once again the filmmaker demonstrates her extraordinary ability to get a naturalistic performance from a very young child, who almost -- but not quite -- steals the show from the über-talented Dano. This podcast episode is a recording of a Q & A with actor PAUL DANO, recorded September 15, 2012, at a screening of FOR ELLEN at Film Forum. 11:58 FOR ELLEN,Paul Dano,rock musician,Film Forum no http://www.filmforum.org/audio/PremiumRushAug132012.mp3 PREMIUM RUSH: Q&A with David Koepp (Recorded August 13, 2012) Podcasts Tue, 14 Aug 2012 12:00:00 EDT http://www.filmforum.org/audio/PremiumRushAug132012.mp3 Film Forum PREMIUM RUSH: Q&A with David Koepp, recorded August 13, 2012. PREMIUM RUSH: Q&A with David Koepp, recorded August 13, 2012. 26:22 PREMIUM RUSH,David Koepp,Film Forum yes http://www.filmforum.org/audio/PuzzlesAug12012.mp3 PUZZLE OF A DOWNFALL CHILD: Q & A with Jerry Schatzberg (Recorded August 1, 2012) Podcasts Wed, 8 Aug 2012 17:15:00 EDT http://www.filmforum.org/audio/PuzzlesAug12012.mp3 Film Forum Q & A with Jerry Schatzberg, recorded August 1, 2012, at a screening of PUZZLE OF A DOWNFALL CHILD at Film Forum. PUZZLE OF A DOWNFALL CHILD: Holed up in an isolated beach house following a nervous breakdown, supermodel Faye Dunaway flashes back to how she got there. First film by photographer Schatzberg. This podcast is a recording of the Q & A with Jerry Schatzberg, recorded August 1, 2012, at a screening of PUZZLE OF A DOWNFALL CHILD at Film Forum. 29:21 PUZZLE OF A DOWNFALL CHILD,Jerry Schatzberg,Film Forum no http://www.filmforum.org/audio/Artist_isPresentJune282012.mp3 MARINA ABRAMOVIC THE ARTIST IS PRESENT: Q&A with MoMA curator Klaus Biesenbach (Recorded June 28, 2012) Podcasts Wed, 11 Jul 2012 14:44:00 EDT http://www.filmforum.org/audio/Artist_isPresentJune282012.mp3 Film Forum Q&A with MoMA curator Klaus Biesenbach, recorded June 28, 2012 at a screening of MARINA ABRAMOVIC THE ARTIST IS PRESENT at Film Forum. Marina Abramović: seductive, controversial, fearless, outré. Her retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art (March - May 2010) featured an extraordinary performance, experienced by 750,000 people, many of whom waited hours for the chance to sit silently across from her at a small table, where she remained for 7½ hours daily, without eating, drinking, or moving. The intensity of her gaze, the intimacy of the act (paradoxically in a huge, brightly lit room, filled with onlookers) moved some to tears and other acts of extreme emotion. Matthew Akers’s film records the artist as she prepares herself physically and spiritually for the ordeal -- as might be expected -- with tremendous discipline, humor and guile. With comments by MoMA curator Klaus Biesenbach, art critic Arthur Danto, gallerist Sean Kelly, and hundreds of members of the public (including James Franco) who were fortunate enough to attend this landmark event. This podcast is a recording of the Q&A with MoMA curator Klaus Biesenbach, recorded June 28, 2012 at a screening of MARINA ABRAMOVIC THE ARTIST IS PRESENT at Film Forum. 18:14 Marina Abramović,Klaus Biesenbach,performance art,MOMA,Matthew Akers,Museum of Modern Art,James Franco,silence,gaze,Film Forum no http://www.filmforum.org/audio/ArtistIsPresentJune132012.mp3 MARINA ABRAMOVIC THE ARTIST IS PRESENT: Q&A with filmmaker Matthew Akers (Recorded June 13, 2012) Podcasts Fri, 15 Jun 2012 12:00:00 EDT http://www.filmforum.org/audio/ArtistIsPresentJune132012.mp3 Film Forum Q&A with MARINA ABRAMOVIC THE ARTIST IS PRESENT filmmaker Matthew Akers, recorded June 13, 2012 at a screening of the film at Film Forum. Marina Abramović: seductive, controversial, fearless, outré. Her retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art (March - May 2010) featured an extraordinary performance, experienced by 750,000 people, many of whom waited hours for the chance to sit silently across from her at a small table, where she remained for 7½ hours daily, without eating, drinking, or moving. The intensity of her gaze, the intimacy of the act (paradoxically in a huge, brightly lit room, filled with onlookers) moved some to tears and other acts of extreme emotion. Matthew Akers’s film records the artist as she prepares herself physically and spiritually for the ordeal -- as might be expected -- with tremendous discipline, humor and guile. With comments by MoMA curator Klaus Biesenbach, art critic Arthur Danto, gallerist Sean Kelly, and hundreds of members of the public (including James Franco) who were fortunate enough to attend this landmark event. This podcast is a recording of the Q&A with the filmmaker Matthew Akers, recorded June 13, 2012 at a screening of the film at Film Forum. 27:48 Marina Abramović,performance art,MOMA,Matthew Akers,Museum of Modern Art,James Franco,silence,gaze,Film Forum no http://www.filmforum.org/audio/MusanteJune42012.mp3 Q & A with Tony Musante, moderated by Bruce Goldstein, FF director of repertory programming (Recorded June 4, 2012) Podcasts Fri, 8 Jun 2012 17:30:00 EDT http://www.filmforum.org/audio/MusanteJune42012.mp3 Film Forum Q & A with Tony Musante, moderated by Bruce Goldstein, FF director of repertory programming, recorded June 4, 2012, at a screening of THE MERCENARY at Film Forum THE MERCENARY: (1968, Sergio Corbucci) Polish gunslinger Franco Nero moves smoothly from a silver shipment escort job to armaments adviser to revolutionary leader Tony Musante, all leading to bullfight arena showdown with boutonniere-sporting Jack Palance. This podcast is a recording of the Q & A with Tony Musante, moderated by Bruce Goldstein, FF director of repertory programming, recorded June 4, 2012, at a screening of THE MERCENARY at Film Forum 34:23 THE MERCENARY,Polish, gunslinger,Spaghetti Western,Western,Tony Musante,Ennio Morricone,Franco Nero,Film Forum no http://www.filmforum.org/audio/5BrokenCameraJune32012.mp3 5 Broken Cameras: Introduction by Richard Lorber and Q & A with filmmakers Emad Burnat & Guy Davidi (Recorded June 3, 2012) Podcasts Fri, 8 Jun 2012 15:45:00 EDT http://www.filmforum.org/audio/5BrokenCameraJune32012.mp3 Film Forum Introduction to 5 BROKEN CAMERAS by Richard Lorber and Q & A with filmmakers Emad Burnat & Guy David, recorded June 3, 2012 at a screening of the film at Film Forum 5 BROKEN CAMERAS: Emad Burnat is a Palestinian farmer who lives with his wife and four small children in the village of Bil’in in the central West Bank. Teamed with Israeli filmmaker Guy Davidi, the two men document Burnat’s experiences with his neighbors, the Israeli army, and Israeli activists as his village is increasingly drawn into a multi-year conflict over the construction of a barrier that will confiscate much of the village’s cultivated land. His “five broken cameras” are all shot or smashed in the course of nonviolent demonstrations by the villagers: olive trees are burnt; buildings are bulldozed and lives are lost. A prize-winning film at both Sundance and IDFA (Amsterdam’s famed documentary festival), 5 BROKEN CAMERAS takes an international tragedy and reframes it in light of its impact on one family’s life. The film illuminates the warning of Israeli Knesset member Daniel Ben-Simon: “Israel is making a mistake in its unwillingness to recognize a Palestinian state.” This podcast is a recording of the introduction to 5 BROKEN CAMERAS by Richard Lorber and Q & A with filmmakers Emad Burnat & Guy David, recorded June 3, 2012 at a screening of the film at Film Forum. 16:48 5 BROKEN CAMERAS,Palestine,Bil’in,West Bank,Guy Davidi,Israel border fence,Knesset,barrier,Israeli,Palestinian state,Film Forum no http://www.filmforum.org/audio/5BrokenCameraMay302012.mp3 5 BROKEN CAMERAS: Q & A with filmmaker Guy Davidi (Recorded May 30, 2012) Podcasts Thu, 31 May 2012 11:45:00 EDT http://www.filmforum.org/audio/5BrokenCameraMay302012.mp3 Film Forum Q & A with 5 BROKEN CAMERAS filmmaker Guy Davidi, recorded May 30, 2012, at a screening of the film at Film Forum 5 BROKEN CAMERAS: Emad Burnat is a Palestinian farmer who lives with his wife and four small children in the village of Bil’in in the central West Bank. Teamed with Israeli filmmaker Guy Davidi, the two men document Burnat’s experiences with his neighbors, the Israeli army, and Israeli activists as his village is increasingly drawn into a multi-year conflict over the construction of a barrier that will confiscate much of the village’s cultivated land. His “five broken cameras” are all shot or smashed in the course of nonviolent demonstrations by the villagers: olive trees are burnt; buildings are bulldozed and lives are lost. A prize-winning film at both Sundance and IDFA (Amsterdam’s famed documentary festival), 5 BROKEN CAMERAS takes an international tragedy and reframes it in light of its impact on one family’s life. The film illuminates the warning of Israeli Knesset member Daniel Ben-Simon: “Israel is making a mistake in its unwillingness to recognize a Palestinian state.” This podcast is a recording of the Q & A with 5 BROKEN CAMERAS filmmaker Guy Davidi, recorded May 30, 2012 26:54 5 BROKEN CAMERAS,Palestine,Bil’in,West Bank,Guy Davidi,Israel border fence,Knesset,barrier,Israeli,Palestinian state,Film Forum no http://www.filmforum.org/audio/ElenaMay162012.mp3 ELENA: Q & A with Filmmaker Andrey Zvyagintsev (Recorded May 16, 2012) Podcasts Fri, 18 May 2012 17:00:00 EDT http://www.filmforum.org/audio/ElenaMay162012.mp3 Film Forum Q & A with ELENA Filmmaker Andrey Zvyagintsev, recorded May 16, 2012, at a screening of the film at Film Forum ELENA: From the acclaimed director of THE RETURN comes a film noir fueled by class warfare in Putin’s new Russia. Sixtyish spouses Vladimir and Elena share his expensively decorated glass and chrome Moscow apartment. He’s a virile, wealthy businessman; she’s his dowdy former nurse who “married up.” Estranged from his own wild-child daughter, Vladimir openly resents his wife’s ne’er do well son and family. But when a sudden illness threatens Elena’s potential inheritance, she must hatch a desperate plan. This stylish, suspenseful domestic thriller is punctuated by Philip Glass’s entrancing, Hitchcockian music. This podcast is a recording of the Q & A with ELENA Filmmaker Andrey Zvyagintsev, recorded May 16, 2012, at a screening of the film at Film Forum 24:11 Elena,Andrey Zvyagintsev,Russia,Film Forum no http://www.filmforum.org/audio/PaybackApril252012b.mp4 PAYBACK: Q & A with author MARGARET ATWOOD and filmmaker JENNIFER BAICHWAL (Recorded April 25, 2012) Podcasts Tue, 1 May 2012 13:00:00 EDT http://www.filmforum.org/audio/PaybackApril252012b.mp4 Film Forum Q & A with PAYBACK author MARGARET ATWOOD and filmmaker JENNIFER BAICHWAL, recorded April 25, 2012, at a screening of the film at Film Forum PAYBACK: Margaret Atwood’s brilliant 2008 essay, “Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth” is the jumping off point for this fascinating, far-ranging cinematic essay by Jennifer Baichwal, who previously gave us MANUFACTURED LANDSCAPES, a journey into the hellish beauty of Chinese environmental disaster. Here the filmmaker, working from Atwood’s premise, explores the multifaceted notion of debt: financial, economic, moral and spiritual. She visits with both sides in a contemporary Albanian blood feud, involving automatic weaponry; with Conrad Black, the disgraced media mogul, imprisoned for mail fraud; with environmentalists who describe the degree of responsibility BP has taken (not enough) for the Gulf oil spill; and with Florida tomato growers who ultimately reconcile with their workers over improving working conditions. But PAYBACK is no dry academic treatise on conscience. In riveting, literate passages from her writing, Atwood focuses on the urgent issue of the debt we each owe to the larger social good. This podcast is a recording of the Q & A with author MARGARET ATWOOD and filmmaker JENNIFER BAICHWAL, recorded April 25, 2012, 39:06 PAYBACK,Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth,Margaret Atwood,JENNIFER BAICHWAL,Film Forum no http://www.filmforum.org/audio/The_Island_President_March_28_2012.mp3 THE ISLAND PRESIDENT: Q&A with film subject Maldivian President Mohamed Nasheed (Recorded March 28, 2012) Podcasts Thu, 29 Mar 2012 14:15:00 EDT http://www.filmforum.org/audio/The_Island_President_March_28_2012.mp3 Film Forum Q&A with THE ISLAND PRESIDENT subject Maldivian President Mohamed Nasheed, recorded March 28, 2012, at a screening of the film at Film Forum THE ISLAND PRESIDENT: Mohamed Nasheed is the handsome, young, crusading president of the Maldives, a paradise composed of 1200 tiny islands, set jewel-like in the Indian Ocean. In a David v. Goliath scenario, he is battling the climate change that threatens to destroy his nation. His candid, intelligent, often humorous speeches and asides make for a totally refreshing experience in political activism, as he builds a democracy that replaces decades of oppression and corruption that previously held sway. But as he pointedly notes: “It won’t be any good to have a democracy if we don’t have a country.” The Indian Ocean is rising, and if carbon emissions continue at their present levels or if they climb, the Maldives will definitely disappear. Filmmaker Jon Shenk captures this real-life drama and the charismatic man who is leading the charge to save his 3000-year-old nation — and maybe the rest of us too. This podcast is a recording of the Q&A with THE ISLAND PRESIDENT subject Maldivian President Mohamed Nasheed, recorded March 28, 2012, at a screening of the film at Film Forum. 24:45 THE ISLAND PRESIDENT,Mohamed Nasheed,Maldives,coup,global warming,ocean rise,Film Forum no http://www.filmforum.org/audio/GerhardRichterMarch142012.mp3 GERHARD RICHTER PAINTING: Introduction by ROBERT STORR, author of two books on Richter (Recorded March 14, 2012) Podcasts Thu, 15 Mar 2012 13:15:00 EDT http://www.filmforum.org/audio/GerhardRichterMarch142012.mp3 Film Forum Introduction to GERHARD RICHTER PAINTING by ROBERT STORR, author of two books on Richter, recorded March 14, 2012 at a screening of the film at Film Forum GERHARD RICHTER PAINTING: “It’s pointless to talk about painting.” — Gerhard Richter (1965). Richter, considered one of the world’s greatest living painters and now nearly 80 years old, agreed to talk about his work, as a small film crew documents his creative process. Blunt, provocative, unashamedly curmudgeonly and iconoclastic (but never cynical), the artist says he’s “interested in things he doesn’t understand,” that “painting is a secretive business,” and that “each painting is an assertion that tolerates no company.” “You have to distrust your parents and see through them.” Born in 1932 in Dresden (which became East Germany), he left for the West nearly 30 years later. When his American gallerist Marian Goodman visits, they recall a 1984 show which began their relationship. Extensive contemporary scenes of the artist painting and interviews from the 1960s and ’70s give a sense of his creative development — his colorful abstractions, photorealist portraits, and paintings inspired by politics and history as well as more intimate statements. His final words as he applies and then scrapes off vast globs of paint: “Man, is this fun.” This podcast is a recording of the introduction by ROBERT STORR, author of two books on Richter, recorded March 14, 2012 at a screening of the film at Film Forum. 12:17 GERHARD RICHTER PAINTING,ROBERT STORR,painting,art,painters,paint,Film Forum no http://www.filmforum.org/audio/ColonelBlimpNov192011.mp3 Introduction to COLONEL BLIMP by THELMA SCHOONMAKER, (Recorded November 19, 2011) Podcasts Wed, 15 Feb 2012 16:45:00 EDT http://www.filmforum.org/audio/ColonelBlimpNov192011.mp3 Film Forum Introduction to COLONEL BLIMP by THELMA SCHOONMAKER, recorded November 19, 2011, at Film Forum. This podcast is a recording of the introduction to COLONEL BLIMP by THELMA SCHOONMAKER, recorded November 19, 2011, at Film Forum at a screening of the film. 13:49 THE RED SHOES,COLONEL BLIMP,THELMA SCHOONMAKER,Film Forum no http://www.filmforum.org/audio/TaxiDriverMarch222011.mp3 Rebroadcast: TAXI DRIVER: Introduction by DAVID YASSKY (Recorded March 22, 2011) Podcasts Wed, 8 Feb 2012 13:20:00 EDT http://www.filmforum.org/audio/TaxiDriverMarch222011.mp3 Film Forum A rebroadcast of the recording of the introduction to TAXI DRIVER by DAVID YASSKY, recorded March 22, 2011, at Film Forum TAXI DRIVER: (1976) “You talkin’ to me?” Robert De Niro’s insomniac cabbie Travis Bickle, amid his nocturnal 12-hour shifts, yearns in moody voice-over for a rain that’ll “wash all the scum off the streets”, while he ferries presidential candidate Leonard Harris (then Channel 2 entertainment critic) and Scorsese’s own hopped-up cuckold; tentatively tries for a date with campaign worker Cybill Shepherd; and silently spectates as pimp Harvey Keitel yanks 12-year-old hooker Jodie Foster out of his cab; as Bernard Herrmann’s brooding score — his last — presages the blow-ups to come. Shot during a sweltering NYC summer-cum-garbage strike, Scorsese’s contribution to the Bicentennial was inspired by the diaries of Arthur Bremer (would-be assassin of presidential candidate George Wallace), Dostoyevsky’s Notes from the Underground, and screenwriter Paul Schrader’s own near-nervous breakdown. In one of his legendarily obsessive role preparations, De Niro drove his own shifts on a temporary cabbie's license, lost over 20 pounds, and listened to tapes of Bremer’s diaries, then ad-libbed his memorable soliloquy to a mirror. Today, still one of the screen’s greatest evocations of urban alienation — and a time capsule of a long-gone world of dial phones, Kris Kristofferson LPs, Checker cabs, and 42nd Street grindhouses — all stunningly shot in lurid color by Michael Chapman, though the blood-spattered finale had to be desaturated to get an R rating; Scorsese claims he now finds it more shocking that way. Palme d’Or at Cannes, and four Oscar nominations, including Best Picture; it lost to Rocky. A SONY PICTURES REPERTORY RELEASE. This podcast episode is a rebroadcast of the recording of the introduction to TAXI DRIVER by DAVID YASSKY, recorded March 22, 2011, at Film Forum before the screening of the film. 7:39 TAXI DRIVER,DAVID YASSKY,Robert De Niro,Martin Scorsese,Cybill Shepherd, Arthur Bremer,assassination,Michael Chapmantaxi,Checker cabs,taxi cab,nyc,Film Forum no http://www.filmforum.org/audio/RedShoesFeb192010.mp3 Rebroadcast: THE RED SHOES: Q & A with THELMA SCHOONMAKER (Recorded February 19, 2010) Podcasts Wed, 8 Feb 2012 12:45:00 EDT http://www.filmforum.org/audio/RedShoesFeb192010.mp3 Film Forum Rebroadcast: A Q & A with editor THELMA SCHOONMAKER, recorded February 19, 2010, at Film Forum at a screening of THE RED SHOES. THE RED SHOES: “Why do you want to dance?” “Why do you want to live?” Anton Walbrook’s Lermontov is not interested when red-tressed Moira Shearer desperately wants to join his troupe — but then he sees her dance. And then the Red Shoes ballet, based on Hans Christian Andersen’s tale of shoes that dance the wearer to death, will be her triumph. But when she finds romance with composer Marius Goring, it’s the eternal battle between Life and Art. Perhaps the greatest triumph of triply-credited (producers, writers, directors) “The Archers” — aka Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger — following their successive smashes A Matter of Life and Death and Black Narcissus, Powell agreed to film Pressburger’s decade-old script if they could create an original ballet from scratch and cast an actual ballerina in the lead — and then their discovery, 21-year-old non-actress Shearer, took almost a year to make up her mind. With Léonide Massine (actual Ballets Russes choreographer and Nijinsky’s successor as chief soloist) as the troupe’s maître de ballet, and also dancing the role of The Shoemaker; and Sir-to-be Robert Helpmann choreographing everyone else, the 17-minute ballet is a tour de force, its Oscar-winning score produced in record time by Brian Easdale when a predecessor’s attempt was rejected in toto. Shoes would run 110 straight weeks in New York alone; but in recent years, while relatively decent prints have been in circulation, none have come close to the brilliance of Jack Cardiff’s legendary original Technicolor photography. UCLA’s Robert Gitt and team have gone back to the damaged original nitrate materials, including the still-extant three-strip camera negs; his digital restoration led to a negative used to strike this breathtaking new 35mm print. This podcast is a rebroadcast of the recording of the Q & A with THELMA SCHOONMAKER, recorded February 19, 2010, at Film Forum at a screening of the film. 28:47 THE RED SHOES,THELMA SCHOONMAKER,Film Forum no http://www.filmforum.org/audio/CrazyHorseJan182012.mp3 CRAZY HORSE: Q & A with filmmaker FREDERICK WISEMAN (Recorded January 18, 2012) Podcasts Wed, 25 Jan 2012 12:30:00 EST http://www.filmforum.org/audio/CrazyHorseJan182012.mp3 Film Forum A recording of the CRAZY HORSE Q & A with filmmaker FREDERICK WISEMAN, recorded January 18, 2012, during a screening of the film. CRAZY HORSE: (aka DÈSIR) Inside Paris’s Crazy Horse cabaret – the most famous nude dance show in the world. Acclaimed documentary filmmaker Frederick Wiseman explores one of the most mythic and colorful places dedicated to women, the Crazy Horse – a legendary Parisian cabaret club, founded in 1951 by Alain Bernardin. Over the years it has become the Parisian nightlife ‘must’ for visitors, ranking alongside the Eiffel Tower and the Louvre. Wiseman’s impeccable eye finds the Crazy Horse a uniquely French showcase, with an emphasis on elegance, perfectionism and a grueling schedule (2 shows a night and 3 on Saturdays, 7 days a week). The film shows us the rehearsals for and the unveiling of the brand new show – Désir – created by the renowned French choreographer Philippe Decouffle. This podcast is a recording of the Q & A with filmmaker FREDERICK WISEMAN, recorded January 18, 2012, during a screening of the film. 16:29 CRAZY HORSE,FREDERICK WISEMAN,Desir,burlesque,stripping,nudity no http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/KHODORKOVSKYNov302011.mp3 KHODORKOVSKY: Q & A with filmmaker CYRIL TUSCHI & the film subject's son, PAVEL KHODORKOVSKY. (Recorded November 30, 2011) Podcasts Tue, 06 Dec 2011 09:30:00 EST http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/KHODORKOVSKYNov302011.mp3 Film Forum A recording of the KHODORKOVSKY Q & A with filmmaker CYRIL TUSCHI & the film subject's son, PAVEL KHODORKOVSKY, recorded November 30, 2011, during a screening of the film. KHODORKOVSKY: Mikhail Khodorkovsky was once the richest man in Russia. Today, he’s one of the world’s most famous political prisoners. A story of Shakespearean proportions, The New York Times has reported on Khodorkovsky in both its news and oped pages. Joe Nocera (June 4, 2011) writes: “Over the past six months, I’ve written three columns about Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the former Russian oligarch who has been in prison since 2003, charged, tried, convicted — and recently reconvicted — on transparently bogus tax and embezzlement charges… His real crime, after all, was challenging Vladimir Putin, the Russian strongman. More importantly, Khodorkovsky’s fate stands as a powerful illustration of Russia’s biggest problem: the contempt the country’s corrupt rulers have for the rule of law.” Fascinating interviews with Khodorkovsky (sometimes sitting in a glass box in the courtroom), members of his family, and others portray a country transformed from its moribund Communist past to one in which power-hungry politicians are abetted by a corrupt, drunken and cynical younger generation. Stark black and white animated sequences help tell an amazing back-story that plays like a political thriller. This podcast is recording of the Q & A with filmmaker CYRIL TUSCHI & the film subject's son, PAVEL KHODORKOVSKY, recorded November 30, 2011, during a screening of the film. 13:15 KHODORKOVSKY,CYRIL TUSCHI,Mikhail Khodorkovsky,PAVEL KHODORKOVSKY,Russia,Putin, no http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/ColonelBlimpNov182011.mp3 COLONEL BLIMP: Intro by filmmaker MARTIN SCORSESE and MARGARET BODDE, Executive Director of The Film Foundation (Recorded November 18, 2011) Podcasts Tue, 22 Nov 2011 12:15:00 EST http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/ColonelBlimpNov182011.mp3 Film Forum A recording of the introduction to COLONEL BLIMP by filmmaker MARTIN SCORSESE and MARGARET BODDE, Executive Director of The Film Foundation, recorded November 18, 2011, during a screening of the film COLONEL BLIMP: (1943) “The war starts at midnight!” protests throaty, beefy Roger Livesey’s WWII Home Guard Commander Clive Candy, V.C., but that new lot aren’t playing by the rules. Then from the ensuing Turkish bath battle emerges the back-from-the Boer-War 1902 Candy, soon en route to a saber duel with a total stranger, German lieutenant Anton Walbrook (The Red Shoes’ impresario Lermantov), and on to the Great War and to the present, along the way loving three women, all played by 20-year-old Deborah Kerr. Inspired by a scene cut from the Archers’ One of Our Aircraft is Missing (David Lean suggested it could make a film in itself) and by cartoonist David Low’s eponymous caricature of establishment pomposity, Blimp enraged Churchill, who tried to get it banned. A triumph of sumptuous Technicolor photography by Georges Périnal (with assist from the young Jack Cardiff); production design by the great Alfred Junge; undetectable trick work (memorable highlight: the duel in the seemingly cavernous gym); with Walbrook’s four-minute single-shot speech on why he came to Britain, and Livesey’s “I haven’t changed” valedictory. Drastically cut on U.S. release, this is the full-length version, with its ravishing color brought back with the same care lavished on 2009’s Red Shoes restoration. This podcast is recording of the introduction by filmmaker MARTIN SCORSESE and MARGARET BODDE, Executive Director of The Film Foundation, recorded November 18, 2011, during a screening of the film 20:03 COLONEL BLIMP, MARGARET BODDE,The Film Foundation,MARTIN SCORSESE,war,restoration no http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/TheOtherFWordNov152011.mp3 THE OTHER F WORD: Q & A with one of the subjects of the film, MARK HOPPUS of Blink-182 (Recorded November 15, 2011) Podcasts Wed, 16 Nov 2011 14:44:00 EST http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/TheOtherFWordNov152011.mp3 Film Forum A recording of the Q & A with one of the subjects of THE OTHER F WORD, MARK HOPPUS of Blink-182, recorded November 15, 2011, during a screening of the film THE OTHER F WORD: Punk rock dad: an oxymoron? THE OTHER F WORD, with charm and wit, explores the bizarre transformation of punk rockers (featuring Pennywise’s Jim Lindberg, whose anthem is “F--- Authority”) into soccer dads. The L.A. punk scene’s leading men — among them Flea (Red Hot Chili Peppers), Ron Reyes (Black Flag), Mark Hoppus (Blink 182), Tim McIlrath (Rise Against), and Fat Mike (NOFX) — open up about their troubled childhoods and how, today, they balance profane rage with being conscientious parents. “Raucous, eye-opening…and unexpectedly wise. Watching foul-mouthed, colorfully inked musicians attempt to fit themselves into Ward Cleaver’s smoking jacket provides for some consistently hilarious situational comedy… Resonant with anyone (punk or not) who’s stumbled head-first into family life.” — Andrew Barker, Variety This podcast is a recording of the Q & A with one of the subjects of the film, MARK HOPPUS of Blink-182, recorded November 15, 2011, during a screening of the film 13:55 THE OTHER F WORD,NOFX,fathers,fatherhood,punk,punkrock,punk rock dad,Pennywise,Jim Lindberg,LA,musicians,L.A. punk scene,Flea,Red Hot Chili Peppers,Ron Reyes,Black Flag,Mark Hoppus,family,Blink 182,Tim McIlrath,Rise Against, Fat Mike yes http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/TheLoveWeMakeNov102011.mp3 THE LOVE WE MAKE: Q & A with co-directors ALBERT MAYSLES & BRADLEY KAPLAN (Recorded November 10, 2011) Podcasts Mon, 14 Nov 2011 15:15:00 EST http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/TheLoveWeMakeNov102011.mp3 Film Forum A recording of the Q & A with THE LOVE WE MAKE co-directors ALBERT MAYSLES & BRADLEY KAPLAN, recorded November 10, 2011 during a screening of the film THE LOVE WE MAKE: Directed by cinema verité master Albert Maysles (GIMME SHELTER, GREY GARDENS) and Bradley Kaplan, THE LOVE WE MAKE follows Paul McCartney through the streets of New York City in the immediate aftermath of the 9/11 attacks as he organizes an all-star benefit concert, The Concert for New York City. On the morning of September 11, 2001 McCartney was in a plane on the tarmac, about to leave NYC when the attacks occurred. Grounded, he returned to the city and witnessed first-hand the shock and devastation that overtook New York. Shooting in beautiful black-and-white (as the Maysles brothers did when they filmed the Beatles in 1964 for WHAT’S HAPPENING! THE BEATLES IN THE USA, their seminal portrait of the group’s first American tour) directors Maysles and Kaplan capture McCartney rehearsing with his band for the concert, connecting with New Yorkers on the streets, and behind-the-scenes at interviews with Dan Rather, Howard Stern and others. The film features performances from the concert itself, with unparalleled access backstage to McCartney and such luminaries as David Bowie, Steve Buscemi, Eric Clapton, President Bill Clinton, Sheryl Crow, Leonardo DiCaprio, Harrison Ford, Mick Jagger, Jay Z, Billy Joel, Elton John, Stella McCartney, Governor George Pataki, Keith Richards, James Taylor, Pete Townshend, and many more. This podcast is a recording of the Q & A with THE LOVE WE MAKE co-directors ALBERT MAYSLES & BRADLEY KAPLAN, recorded November 10, 2011 during a screening of the film 19:01 THE LOVE WE MAKE,ALBERT MAYSLES,BRADLEY KAPLAN,911,9/11,Paul McCartney,David Bowie,Steve Buscemi,Eric Clapton,President Bill Clinton,Sheryl Crow,Leonardo DiCaprio,Harrison Ford,Mick Jagger,Billy Joel,Elton John,Keith Richards,James Taylor,Pete Townshend no http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/WecantgohomeagainOct172011.mp3 WE CAN’T GO HOME AGAIN: Q & A with SUSAN RAY and crew members (Recorded October 17, 2011) Podcasts Tue, 18 Oct 2011 12:45:00 EDT http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/WecantgohomeagainOct172011.mp3 Film Forum A recording of the Q & A with SUSAN RAY and WE CAN’T GO HOME AGAIN crew members, recorded October 17, 2011, during the screening of the film WE CAN’T GO HOME AGAIN: “You can only learn filmmaking by making films” and that’s what Nicholas Ray’s students at Harpur College did for two years, rotating technical assignments and improvising a story line with their director/teacher/star. Conceived as a teaching tool by Ray and his wife Susan, this avant garde and “multi-narrative” film utilizes three, four, or five moving images simultaneously. Shelved and virtually unseen for over 30 years, Susan Ray, wife of the director, in collaboration with the Venice Film Festival, has completely edited and restored it as the director intended, in time for Nick’s centennial year. This podcast is a recording of the Q & A with SUSAN RAY and crew members, recorded October 17, 2011, during the screening of the film 29:57 WE CAN’T GO HOME AGAIN,Nick Ray, Susan Ray,filmmaking,Film Forum no http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/YouDontLikeTheTruthSept282011.mp3 YOU DON'T LIKE THE TRUTH: Q & A with filmmakers Luc Côté and Patricio Henriquez (Recorded September 28, 2011) Podcasts Tue, 4 Oct 2011 13:30:00 EDT http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/YouDontLikeTheTruthSept282011.mp3 Film Forum A recording of the Q & A with YOU DON'T LIKE THE TRUTH filmmakers Luc Côté and Patricio Henriquez, recorded September 28, 2011, during a screening of the film YOU DON'T LIKE THE TRUTH: Canadian Omar Khadr was 15 years old, a child soldier, when he was sent by his militant father to work with the Taliban in Afghanistan, assembling mines in an Al Qaeda compound. In 2002, he was captured by U.S. forces during a raid in which he was severely wounded and an American soldier was killed by a hand grenade. Omar was sent to Guantánamo and given the choice of pleading guilty to this murder and accepting an 8-year sentence, or contesting the charge and facing the possibility of life imprisonment. YOU DON’T LIKE THE TRUTH was culled from seven hours of surveillance material, taken of Omar’s questioning, recently declassified by the Canadians. It is the only interrogation footage from inside Gitmo that has ever been released. The legal, political, and psychological implications of this prisoner’s ordeal are manifold. The film forces us to take responsibility for the strange form of justice that is being meted out in the name of homeland security. This podcast is a recording of the Q & A with YOU DON'T LIKE THE TRUTH filmmakers Luc Côté and Patricio Henriquez, recorded September 28, 2011, during a screening of the film 13:41 YOU DON'T LIKE THE TRUTH,Omar Khadr,torture,Guantánamo,Guantanamo,interrogation,homeland security,Gitmo,prisoner,war,Afghanistan,Taliban,soldier,Film Forum no http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/MillandCrossSept142011.mp3 THE MILL & THE CROSS: Q&A with filmmaker LECH MAJEWSKI (Recorded September 14, 2011) Podcasts Fri, 16 Sep 2011 12:30:00 EDT http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/MillandCrossSept142011.mp3 Film Forum A recording of the Q&A with THE MILL & THE CROSS filmmaker LECH MAJEWSKI, recorded September 14, 2011, during a screening of the film THE MILL & THE CROSS: What would it be like to step inside a great work of art, have it come alive around you, and even observe the artist as he sketches the very reality you are experiencing? Lech Majewski brings to life Pieter Bruegel’s masterpiece The Way to Calvary, the story of the crucifixion, setting it in 16th century Flanders under brutal Spanish occupation. Rutger Hauer plays the artist, Michael York his patron, and Charlotte Rampling the Virgin Mary. As epic events unfold, bawdy country living continues unabated: couples entwine, musicians play wind instruments, soldiers torment their enemies mercilessly, and children scurry about. Using sophisticated computer technology, the filmmaker creates a brilliantly complex and fascinating multi-layered dreamscape that melds iconic moments in art, history, and religion with the quotidian lives of ordinary people. This podcast is a recording of the Q&A with filmmaker LECH MAJEWSKI, recorded September 14, 2011, during a screening of the film 25:16 THE MILL & THE CROSS,The Way to Calvary,Pieter Bruegel,LECH MAJEWSKI,Flanders,Michael York,Rutger Hauer,Charlotte Rampling, Virgin Mary,religion,catholic,16th century,spain,Film Forum no http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/LardnerSept112011.mp3 PAY OR DIE!: Introduction by JAMES LARDNER (Recorded September 11, 2011) Podcasts Wed, 14 Sep 2011 13:00:00 EDT http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/LardnerSept112011.mp3 Film Forum A recording of the introduction to PAY OR DIE! by JAMES LARDNER (Recorded September 11, 2011) during the NYPD FESTIVAL at Film Forum PAY OR DIE!: (1960, Richard Wilson) Italian-American detective Ernest Borgnine wages a one-man war against “the Black Hand” (forerunner to the Mafia) — his heroics include saving Enrico Caruso from a bomb! — in thriller based on the career of real-life NYC cop Joe Petrosino. This podcast episode is a recording of the introduction to PAY OR DIE! by JAMES LARDNER (Recorded September 11, 2011) during the NYPD FESTIVAL at Film Forum 5:05 NYPD,PAY OR DIE!,JAMES LARDNER,NYPD FESTIVAL,police,cops,new york,new york's finest,nyc,Film Forum no http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/LardnerSept102011.mp3 SERPICO: Introduction by JAMES LARDNER (Recorded September 10, 2011) Podcasts Tue, 13 Sep 2011 13:15:00 EDT http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/LardnerSept102011.mp3 Film Forum A recording of the introduction to SERPICO by JAMES LARDNER (Recorded September 10, 2011) during the NYPD FESTIVAL at Film Forum SERPICO: (1973, Sidney Lumet) Al Pacino’s Frank Serpico flashes back from his beginnings as a naïve, idealistic police recruit to a bearded, hippie-like undercover detective in a relentless mission against corrupt cops. Al’s powerhouse performance vaulted him to the front rank of American actors. This podcast episode is a recording of the introduction to SERPICO by JAMES LARDNER (Recorded September 10, 2011) during the NYPD FESTIVAL at Film Forum 7:44 NYPD,SERPICO,JAMES LARDNER,NYPD FESTIVAL,police,cops,new york,new york's finest,nyc,Film Forum no http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/BrattonSept62011.mp3 NYPD FESTIVAL: Introduction by former NYPD Commissioner BILL BRATTON (Recorded September 6, 2011) Podcasts Fri, 9 Sep 2011 12:00:00 EDT http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/BrattonSept62011.mp3 Film Forum A recording of the introduction by former NYPD Commissioner BILL BRATTON, recorded September 6, 2011, at a screening of MADIGAN during the NYPD FESTIVAL at Film Forum MADIGAN: (1968, Don Siegel) By-the-book commissioner Henry Fonda gives cops Richard Widmark and Harry Guardino just 72 hours to retrieve the hyper, bespectacled killer they let escape. Based on a book that stirred William Bratton to dream of becoming NYC’s police commish. Print courtesy of the Academy Film Archive. This podcast episode is a recording of the introduction by former NYPD Commissioner BILL BRATTON, recorded September 6, 2011, at a screening of MADIGAN during the NYPD FESTIVAL at Film Forum 6:56 NYPD,police Commissioner, BILL BRATTON,MADIGAN,NYPD FESTIVAL,police,cops,new york,new york's finest,nyc,Film Forum no http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/ElBulliAug52011.mp3 EL BULLI: Q & A with Saveur magazine founder and author of Ferran: The Inside Story of El Bulli and the Man Who Reinvented Food COLMAN ANDREWS (Recorded August 5, 2011) Podcasts Wed, 10 Aug 2011 13:00:00 EDT http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/ElBulliAug52011.mp3 Film Forum A recording of the Q & A with Saveur magazine founder and author of Ferran: The Inside Story of El Bulli and the Man Who Reinvented Food COLMAN ANDREWS, recorded August 5, at a screening of EL BULLI at Film Forum EL BULLI: El Bulli has been called the best restaurant in the world and Ferran Adrià, its creator, deemed a brilliant innovator, the father of molecular gastronomy, or sometimes just a crazy chef. The restaurant, located outside of Barcelona, closes each year for 6 months, as Adrià and staff sequester themselves to concentrate on creating the new culinary wonders that will become their next 30-course menu. (The restaurant accommodates only 50 for dinner, despite two million annual requests for reservations.) This is cooking as avant-garde art: a cocktail composed of hazelnut oil, salt, and water or a dessert of freezedried peppermint and ice shavings. Surrounded by bizarre hi-tech equipment, elaborate containers, chopping blocks and knives, they experiment with making mushroom juice and sweet potato meringue. Gereon Wetzel’s elegant, observational documentary captures the razor-sharp, science-fiction sensibility at work. Adrià exclaims: “The more bewilderment, the better.” This podcast episode is a recording of the Q & A with Saveur magazine founder and author of Ferran: The Inside Story of El Bulli and the Man Who Reinvented Food COLMAN ANDREWS, recorded August 5, at a screening of EL BULLI at Film Forum 15:37 EL BULLI,COLMAN ANDREWS,Saveur,food, restaurant,Ferran: The Inside Story of El Bulli and the Man Who Reinvented Food,Ferran Adrià,foodies,nyc,Film Forum no http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/ElBulliJuly272011.mp3 EL BULLI: Q & A with chef and El Bulli alumnus GEORGE MENDES (Recorded July 27, 2011) Podcasts Fri, 29 Jul 2011 15:30:00 EDT http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/ElBulliJuly272011.mp3 Film Forum A recording of the Q & A with chef and El Bulli alumnus GEORGE MENDES, recorded July 27, 2011, at a screening of EL BULLI at Film Forum EL BULLI: El Bulli has been called the best restaurant in the world and Ferran Adrià, its creator, deemed a brilliant innovator, the father of molecular gastronomy, or sometimes just a crazy chef. The restaurant, located outside of Barcelona, closes each year for 6 months, as Adrià and staff sequester themselves to concentrate on creating the new culinary wonders that will become their next 30-course menu. (The restaurant accommodates only 50 for dinner, despite two million annual requests for reservations.) This is cooking as avant-garde art: a cocktail composed of hazelnut oil, salt, and water or a dessert of freezedried peppermint and ice shavings. Surrounded by bizarre hi-tech equipment, elaborate containers, chopping blocks and knives, they experiment with making mushroom juice and sweet potato meringue. Gereon Wetzel’s elegant, observational documentary captures the razor-sharp, science-fiction sensibility at work. Adrià exclaims: “The more bewilderment, the better.” This podcast episode is a recording of the Q & A with with chef and El Bulli alumnus GEORGE MENDES, recorded July 27, 2011, at a screening of EL BULLI at Film Forum 11:47 EL BULLI,GEORGE MENDES,food, restaurant,Ferran Adrià,foodies,nyc,Film Forum no http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/PassioneJune222011.mp3 PASSIONE: Q & A with filmmaker JOHN TURTURRO (Recorded June 22, 2011) Podcasts Wed, 29 Jun 2011 12:30:00 EDT http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/PassioneJune222011.mp3 Film Forum A recording of the Q & A with PASSIONE filmmaker JOHN TURTURRO, recorded June 22, 2011, at the opening night reception at Film Forum PASSIONE: Little wonder that PASSIONE, John Turturro’s wild, colorful, sexy ode to the music and people of Naples, was “rapturously received” (Variety) and interrupted by “spontaneous outbreaks of applause” (Sight + Sound Magazine) in Italy, where it played for more than four months (its soundtrack on the charts for five). A brilliant actor in film, theater, and television, Turturro is also the director of three features (including the hilarious, irreverent ROMANCE & CIGARETTES which premiered at Film Forum) and a man whose talents are fueled by an unquenchable zest for life. He describes PASSIONE as “a musical adventure that comes directly out of the people and the volcanic land they inhabit. Conjuring ancient stories and myths that still live -- of love, sex, jealousy, and social protest -- each song is a small screenplay, an emotional postcard. I tried to see if I could understand in a small way, a little bit of the soul of the city, while at the same time killing clichés about it. There are places you go and once is enough. Then there’s Napoli.” This podcast episode is a recording of the Q & A with filmmaker JOHN TURTURRO, recorded June 22, 2011, at the opening night reception at Film Forum 16:01 PASSIONE,JOHN TURTURRO,Napoli,Italy,nyc,Film Forum no http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/OneLuckyElephantJune82011.mp3 ONE LUCKY ELEPHANT: Q&A with director Lisa Leeman and producer Cristina Colissimo (Recorded June 8, 2011) Podcasts Fri, 10 Jun 2011 16:15:00 EDT http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/OneLuckyElephantJune82011.mp3 Film Forum A recording of the Q&A with ONE LUCKY ELEPHANT director Lisa Leeman and producer Cristina Colissimo, recorded June 8, 2011, at Film Forum ONE LUCKY ELEPHANT: Where does an elephant go after a life in the circus? Sixteen years have passed since circus producer David Balding adopted Flora, the orphaned baby African elephant. As Flora approaches adulthood, he realizes that she is not happy performing. Ultimately, David must face the difficult truth that the circus is no place for Flora; she needs to be with other elephants. The road to Flora’s retirement, however, is a difficult and emotional journey which tests their bond in unexpected ways. Ten years in the making, ONE LUCKY ELEPHANT eschews easy sentimentality and doesn’t shy away from examining the problems and mysteries posed by keeping wild animals in captivity. This is the denouement of a love story between two individuals — one of them weighing 10,000 pounds — who share feelings of loyalty, sorrow, admiration and joy. Suitable for children, 10 and older. This podcast episode is a recording of the Q&A with ONE LUCKY ELEPHANT director Lisa Leeman and producer Cristina Colissimo, recorded June 8, 2011, at Film Forum, at a screening of the film. 25:11 ONE LUCKY ELEPHANT,Lisa Leeman,Cristina Colissimo,elephant,circus,zoo,elephants,zoo animals,circus animals,nyc,Film Forum no http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/WCFieldApril212011.mp3 IT'S A GIFT (W.C. FIELDS): Intro by Dr. Harriet Fields and Ronald J. Fields, grandchildren of W.C. Fields. (Recorded April 21, 2011) Podcasts Wed, 27 Apr 2011 16:15:00 EDT http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/WCFieldApril212011.mp3 Film Forum A recording of the introduction to IT'S A GIFT (W.C. FIELDS) by Dr. Harriet Fields and Ronald J. Fields, grandchildren of W.C. Fields., recorded April 21, 2011, at Film Forum IT'S A GIFT: (1934, Norman Z. McLeod) W.C. Fields’ Harold Bissonette silently suffers as blind man Mr. Muckle gets loose in the lightbulb bin; Baby LeRoy gets into the molasses; a noisy salesman interrupts his nap; and a crooked real estate deal quashes his California fantasy of gin and fresh-off-the-tree o.j. Selected for the 2011 National Film Registry -- an annual list of important cinema treasures compiled by the Library of Congress. Approx. 68 minutes. This podcast episode is a recording of the introduction to IT'S A GIFT by Dr. Harriet Fields and Ronald J. Fields, grandchildren of W.C. Fields, recorded April 21, 2011, at Film Forum, at a screening of the film during our W.C. FIELDS series. 12:57 IT'S A GIFT,W.C. Fields,Harold Bissonette, Dr. Harriet Fields, Ronald J. Fields,1934, Norman Z. McLeod,nyc,Film Forum no http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/TaxiDriverMarch222011.mp3 TAXI DRIVER: Introduction by DAVID YASSKY (Recorded March 22, 2011) Podcasts Wed, 23 Mar 2011 12:30:00 EDT http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/TaxiDriverMarch222011.mp3 Film Forum A recording of the introduction to TAXI DRIVER by DAVID YASSKY, recorded March 22, 2011, at Film Forum TAXI DRIVER: (1976) “You talkin’ to me?” Robert De Niro’s insomniac cabbie Travis Bickle, amid his nocturnal 12-hour shifts, yearns in moody voice-over for a rain that’ll “wash all the scum off the streets”, while he ferries presidential candidate Leonard Harris (then Channel 2 entertainment critic) and Scorsese’s own hopped-up cuckold; tentatively tries for a date with campaign worker Cybill Shepherd; and silently spectates as pimp Harvey Keitel yanks 12-year-old hooker Jodie Foster out of his cab; as Bernard Herrmann’s brooding score — his last — presages the blow-ups to come. Shot during a sweltering NYC summer-cum-garbage strike, Scorsese’s contribution to the Bicentennial was inspired by the diaries of Arthur Bremer (would-be assassin of presidential candidate George Wallace), Dostoyevsky’s Notes from the Underground, and screenwriter Paul Schrader’s own near-nervous breakdown. In one of his legendarily obsessive role preparations, De Niro drove his own shifts on a temporary cabbie's license, lost over 20 pounds, and listened to tapes of Bremer’s diaries, then ad-libbed his memorable soliloquy to a mirror. Today, still one of the screen’s greatest evocations of urban alienation — and a time capsule of a long-gone world of dial phones, Kris Kristofferson LPs, Checker cabs, and 42nd Street grindhouses — all stunningly shot in lurid color by Michael Chapman, though the blood-spattered finale had to be desaturated to get an R rating; Scorsese claims he now finds it more shocking that way. Palme d’Or at Cannes, and four Oscar nominations, including Best Picture; it lost to Rocky. A SONY PICTURES REPERTORY RELEASE. This podcast episode is a recording of the introduction to TAXI DRIVER by DAVID YASSKY, recorded March 22, 2011, at Film Forum before the screening of the film. 7:39 TAXI DRIVER,DAVID YASSKY,Robert De Niro,Martin Scorsese,Cybill Shepherd, Arthur Bremer,assassination,Michael Chapmantaxi,Checker cabs,taxi cab,nyc,Film Forum no http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/MadameBovaryMarch82011.mp3 MADAME BOVARY: Introduction by translator LYDIA DAVIS (Recorded March 8, 2011) Podcasts Thu, 10 Mar 2011 15:45:00 EDT http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/MadameBovaryMarch82011.mp3 Film Forum A recording of the introduction to MADAME BOVARY by translator LYDIA DAVIS, recorded March 8, 2011, at Film Forum MADAME BOVARY: (1949, Vincente Minnelli) “Truth lives forever, men do not,” states James Mason’s Gustave Flaubert, on trial for writing his “indecent” novel, then proceeds to narrate his story: mid-1800s provincial Jennifer Jones, bored with doctor husband Van Heflin and dreaming of the romance she finds in books, meets Louis Jourdan and... Most successful adaptation of the classic, with Jones keeping Emma likable and understandable (as she must be) and a vintage Minnelli set piece: the waltz at the Marquis' ball, as the camera swirls ecstatically around the room. This podcast episode is a recording of the introduction to MADAME BOVARY by translator LYDIA DAVIS, recorded March 8, 2011, at Film Forum at the screening of the film. 10:13 MADAME BOVARY,LYDIA DAVIS,translation,translator,Vincente Minnelli,Film Forum no http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/PublicSpeakingMarch22011.mp3 PUBLIC SPEAKING: Q & A with writer FRAN LEBOWITZ (Recorded March 2, 2011) Podcasts Tue, 8 Mar 2011 11:45:00 EDT http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/PublicSpeakingMarch22011.mp3 Film Forum A recording of the Q & A with writer FRAN LEBOWITZ, star of PUBLIC SPEAKING, recorded March 2, 2011, at Film Forum PUBLIC SPEAKING: Wise, brilliant and funny, Fran Lebowitz hit the New York literary scene in the early ‘70s when Andy Warhol hired the unknown scribe to write a column for Interview magazine. Today, she’s an acclaimed author with legions of fans who adore her acerbic wit. Directed in the inimitable and energetic style of Scorsese’s early documentaries “Italian American” and “American Boy,” PUBLIC SPEAKING captures the author in conversation at New York’s Waverly Inn, in an onstage discussion with longtime friend and celebrated writer Toni Morrison and on the streets of New York City. Lebowitz offers insights on timely issues such as gender, race and gay rights, as well as her pet peeves, including celebrity culture, smoking bans, tourists and strollers. Of her beloved city, she says, “New York was not better [in the ‘70s] because there was more crime. It was better because it was cheaper.” Running time: 82 min This podcast episode is a recording of the Q & A with writer FRAN LEBOWITZ, star of PUBLIC SPEAKING, recorded March 2, 2011, at Film Forum after a screening of the film. 30:37 FRAN LEBOWITZ,PUBLIC SPEAKING,comedy,politics,,Film Forum no http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/ZeroBridgeFeb162011.mp3 ZERO BRIDGE: Q & A with filmmaker Tariq Tapa, moderated by Farooq Papa of the WKDA (Recorded February 16, 2011) Podcasts Fri, 25 Feb 2011 14:45:00 EDT http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/ZeroBridgeFeb162011.mp3 Film Forum A recording of the Q & A with ZERO BRIDGE filmmaker Tariq Tapa, moderated by Farooq Papa of the WKDA, recorded February 16, 2011, at Film Forum ZERO BRIDGE (1944): In the tradition of hard-hitting neo-realist filmaking comes ZERO BRIDGE, the debut feature of Tariq Tapa, a US-born filmmaker of Kashmiri/Jewish-American descent. Having spent his childhood summers in India-controlled Kashmir with his father’s family, he was committed to making a film of quotidian life, far from Bollywood fantasies and Western news reports of terrorism: Dilawar is a teenage pickpocket whose escape plans are complicated when he develops an uneasy alliance with a woman (herself fleeing an arranged marriage) whose passport he has stolen. ZERO BRIDGE is a story of two young people's struggle to retain their humanity, despite poverty, the traditional culture into which they’ve been born, and the fatalism, sexism and casual cruelty of their families. This podcast episode is a recording of the Q & A with filmmaker Tariq Tapa, moderated by Farooq Papa of the WKDA, recorded February 16, 2011, at Film Forum. 15:06 ZERO BRIDGE,Tariq Tapa,Farooq Papa,WKDA,Kashmir,pickpocket,terrorism,Film Forum no http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/WomanInTheWindow.mp3 WOMAN IN THE WINDOW: Introduction by Film Forum board member SHELLEY WANGER (daughter of actress Joan Bennett and producer Walter Wanger) (Recorded on January 30, 2011) Podcasts Thu, 10 Feb 2011 14:05:00 EDT http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/WomanInTheWindow.mp3 Film Forum A recording of the introduction to a screening of WOMAN IN THE WINDOW by Film Forum board member SHELLEY WANGER (daughter of actress Joan Bennett and producer Walter Wanger), recorded on January 30, 2011, at Film Forum WOMAN IN THE WINDOW (1944): Professor Edward G. Robinson takes up Joan Bennett’s “come up and see my sketches” invitation, then, after blackmail by low-life boyfriend Dan Duryea and the ensuing murder, gets to watch D.A. Raymond Massey “use the law to nail a man. This podcast episode is a recording of the introduction to a screening of WOMAN IN THE WINDOW by Film Forum board member SHELLEY WANGER (daughter of actress Joan Bennett and producer Walter Wanger), recorded on January 30, 2011, at Film Forum. 10:01 WOMAN IN THE WINDOW,SHELLEY WANGER,Joan Bennett,Walter Wanger,Fritz Lang,Film Forum no http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/WhistleJan52011.mp3 IF I WANT TO WHISTLE, I WHISTLE: Q & A with filmmaker FLORIN SERBAN (Recorded January 5, 2011) Podcasts Thu, 13 Jan 2011 13:55:00 EDT http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/WhistleJan52011.mp3 Film Forum A recording of the Q & A with IF I WANT TO WHISTLE, I WHISTLE filmmaker FLORIN SERBAN, recorded January 5, 2011, at Film Forum IF I WANT TO WHISTLE, I WHISTLE: Romania’s official entry into this year’s Oscar competition for Best Foreign Language Film and a prize-winner in Berlin, IF I WANT TO WHISTLE, I WHISTLE, is a taut drama set in a prison for juveniles, where 18-year-old Silviu has only a few days left to his sentence. But when his beloved younger brother and their good-for-nothing mother arrive for a visit, their surprising news sets the stage for his psychic unraveling. IF I WANT TO WHISTLE… uses non-pro, juvenile offenders in many of the roles and features first-time actor George Pistereanu as a young thug whose angry persona is flecked with remarkably vulnerable and charismatic qualities, not unlike those James Dean brought to the screen. An auspicious debut feature by a director who counts Bresson and Almodovar, Bruno Dumont and Ken Loach among his influences. This podcast episode is a recording of the Q & A with filmmaker FLORIN SERBAN, recorded January 5, 2011, at Film Forum. 25:58 EVERY MAN FOR HIMSELF,RICHARD BRODY,Film Forum no http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/EveryManforHimselfNov192010.mp3 EVERY MAN FOR HIMSELF: Introduction by RICHARD BRODY (Recorded November 19, 2010) Podcasts Mon, 22 Nov 2010 15:20:00 EDT http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/EveryManforHimselfNov192010.mp3 Film Forum A recording of the introduction to EVERY MAN FOR HIMSELF by RICHARD BRODY, recorded November 19, 2010, at Film Forum EVERY MAN FOR HIMSELF: (1980) Marguerite Duras is heard, but not seen; people hear split seconds of music no one else can hear; in public, women are slapped, men get their hair pulled; the most disparate activities are interrupted for vital phone calls; Jacques Dutronc’s Paul Godard (!) smokes big cigars, exchanges notes about parental abuse with his pre-pubescent daughter’s soccer coach, and battles with ex-lover Nathalie Baye; who constantly bicycles around town, edits videotapes, tries to unload the apartment she’d shared with Dutronc, and bonds with prostitute Isabelle Huppert; who herself had spent the night with Paul, counseled an aspirant to “being on the game,” and constantly thinks (in a voice-over quoting Charles Bukowski) on other things as she responds in a lackadaisical “why not?” manner to the absurdly bizarre demands of her clients, notably a four-person “rondelay that Rube Goldberg in his most lecherous mood could hardly have invented... an outrageous metaphor for the mating of sex and capitalism: and it’s funny as hell besides” (Richard Corliss, TIME). Godard’s return to mainstream (for him) filmaking, his self-described “second first film,” with technical innovation — freeze frames and slow-mo within continuing uncut shots — and the most startling and arbitrary of conclusions. This podcast episode is a recording of the introduction to EVERY MAN FOR HIMSELF by RICHARD BRODY, recorded November 19, 2010, at Film Forum. 13:59 EVERY MAN FOR HIMSELF,RICHARD BRODY,Film Forum no http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/PsychoOct292010.mp3 PSYCHO: DAVID THOMSON introduces the film (Recorded October 29, 2010) Podcasts Wed, 3 Nov 2010 10:40:00 EDT http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/PsychoOct292010.mp3 Film Forum A recording of the introduction of PSYCHO by DAVID THOMSON, recorded October 29, 2010, at Film Forum PSYCHO: “Mother’s not quite herself today.” After trysting with her married lover, Janet Leigh embezzles 40 grand and heads South of the Border, but stops for a rest at taxidermy buff Anthony Perkins’ Bates Motel, where guests check in, but... Hitchcock’s legendary, blackly comic shocker (author Robert Bloch’s first ambition was to be a comedian) was shot fast and cheap by the regular crew of his TV series, after original releasing studio Paramount — weary of this hot potato — graciously allowed him to finance it himself. In the wake of its path-breaking promotion (no one was allowed in the theater once the picture began and viewers were cautioned not to reveal the ending), Psycho packed theaters with white-faced patrons, vaulted its title into the non-Freudian mainstream, turned comfy shower stalls into places of terror, and sent Hitchcock chortling all the way to the bank. By virtually inventing the modern horror film — aided by Bernard Herrmann’s shrieking all-strings score — the Master more than fulfilled his stated 1947 ambition: “I aim to provide the public with beneficial shocks.” This podcast episode is a recording of the introduction of PSYCHO by DAVID THOMSON, recorded October 29, 2010. 7:57 PSYCHO,DAVID THOMSON,Film Forum no http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/VisionOct282010.mp3 VISION: Q & A with star BARBARA SUKOWA (Recorded October 28, 2010) Podcasts Mon, 25 Oct 2010 11:30:00 EDT http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/VisionOct282010.mp3 Film Forum A recording of the Q & A with star BARBARA SUKOWA, recorded October 28, 2010, at Film Forum VISION: The 12th-century Benedictine nun, Hildegard von Bingen — today a cult figure — is luminously portrayed by Barbara Sukowa in her 5th collaboration with director Margarethe von Trotta. Hildegard, a polymath by any century’s definition, was a composer of Gregorian chants, a playwright, poet, and scientific pioneer in the fields of healing, herbal medicine and botany. As an iconoclastic religious figure who insisted on separate and independent abbies for nuns, she ran up against the church’s authoritarian and patriarchal hierarchy; as a mystic and visionary, she insisted on her right to preach and interpret the Gospels. Sukowa infuses Hildegard with the will of a modern feminist, but one tethered to a medieval universe. Von Trotta makes that world believable and lush, and at times as scary and alluring as a 900-year-old fairy tale. This podcast episode is a recording of the Q & A with VISION star BARBARA SUKOWA, recorded October 28, 2010, at Film Forum during a screening of the film. 17:04 Vision,Barbara Sukowa,MARGARETHE VON TROTTA,nun,catholic church,religious,Gregorian chants,Christian,Christianity,Gospels,bible,church,Jesus Christ,gid,mystic,religion,catholicism,PAUL SCHRADER,Film Forum no http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/VisionOct152010.mp3 VISION: Q & A with filmmaker MARGARETHE VON TROTTA (Recorded October 15, 2010) Podcasts Mon, 25 Oct 2010 11:30:00 EDT http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/VisionOct152010.mp3 Film Forum A recording of the Q & A with filmmaker MARGARETHE VON TROTTA, recorded October 15, 2010, at Film Forum VISION: The 12th-century Benedictine nun, Hildegard von Bingen — today a cult figure — is luminously portrayed by Barbara Sukowa in her 5th collaboration with director Margarethe von Trotta. Hildegard, a polymath by any century’s definition, was a composer of Gregorian chants, a playwright, poet, and scientific pioneer in the fields of healing, herbal medicine and botany. As an iconoclastic religious figure who insisted on separate and independent abbies for nuns, she ran up against the church’s authoritarian and patriarchal hierarchy; as a mystic and visionary, she insisted on her right to preach and interpret the Gospels. Sukowa infuses Hildegard with the will of a modern feminist, but one tethered to a medieval universe. Von Trotta makes that world believable and lush, and at times as scary and alluring as a 900-year-old fairy tale. This podcast episode is a recording of the Q & A with filmmaker MARGARETHE VON TROTTA, recorded October 15, 2010, at Film Forum during a screening of the film. 15:01 Vision,MARGARETHE VON TROTTA,nun,catholic church,religious,Gregorian chants,Christian,Christianity,Gospels,bible,church,Jesus Christ,gid,mystic,religion,catholicism,PAUL SCHRADER,Barbara Sukowa,Film Forum no http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/BlueCollarOct62010.mp3 BLUE COLLAR: Introduction by screenwriter PAUL SCHRADER (Recorded October 6, 2010) Podcasts Tue, 19 Oct 2010 12:15:00 EDT http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/BlueCollarOct62010.mp3 Film Forum A recording of the introduction by screenwriter PAUL SCHRADER, recorded October 6, 2010, at Film Forum BLUE COLLAR: Fed up with management and their own reps, Detroit auto workers Richard Pryor, Harvey Keitel and Yaphet Kotto knock over union headquarters, netting a crummy 600 bucks and a ledger detailing mob linkups that gets them in steadily deeper waters. Color; Approx. 114 minutes. This podcast episode is a recording of the Introduction to BLUE COLLAR by screenwriter PAUL SCHRADER, recorded October 6, 2010, at Film Forum during a screening of the film. 5:31 BLUE COLLAR,PAUL SCHRADER,Detroit,auto workers,Richard Pryor,Harvey Keitel,Yaphet Kotto,union,mob,gangster,organized crime,Film Forum no http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/NaziDoctorsOct62010.mp3 NAZI DOCTORS: Robert Jay Lifton: Q & A with co-producer/director WOLFGANG RICHTER & subject DR. ROBERT JAY LIFTON (Recorded October 6, 2010) Podcasts Mon, 18 Oct 2010 11:15:00 EDT http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/NaziDoctorsOct62010.mp3 Film Forum A recording of the Q & A with NAZI DOCTORS co-producer/director WOLFGANG RICHTER & subject DR. ROBERT JAY LIFTON, recorded October 6, 2010, at Film Forum NAZI DOCTORS: Robert Jay Lifton: renowned psychiatrist, author, founding member of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, expert on Nazi doctors. Lifton’s 1986 groundbreaking book, “The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide,” is at the heart of this visit with one of the world’s leading thinkers on medical ethics. Lifton describes the process by which he researched and interviewed dozens of doctors who served in Auschwitz (“doctors were at the heart of it”), the circumstances under which they were currently living (financially affluent, some still practicing), and their attitude toward him (nervous, “unctuous”). With measured words and carefully calibrated analysis, he leads us through the “acculturation to killing” that the camps fostered, the process of “splitting” or “doubling” which allowed doctors to strike a Faustian bargain, and his belief that “any one of us might find ourselves in service to evil.” This is a fascinating, compelling, profoundly disturbing movie that miraculously leaves one agreeing with Lifton that “there is room for hope.” This podcast episode is a recording of the Q & A with NAZI DOCTORS co-producer/director WOLFGANG RICHTER & subject DR. ROBERT JAY LIFTON, recorded October 6, 2010, at Film Forum during a screening of the film. 25:35 NAZI DOCTORS: Robert Jay Lifton,WOLFGANG RICHTER,DR. ROBERT JAY LIFTON,NAZI,Jews,jewish,holocaust,racism,genocide,concentration camp experiments,Hitler,WWII,WW2, World War 2,World War II,Film Forum no http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/PathsofGlorySept202010.mp3 PATHS OF GLORY: Introduction by writer/producer DAVID SIMON (Recorded September 20, 2010) Podcasts Wed, 22 Sep 2010 13:30:00 EDT http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/PathsofGlorySept202010.mp3 Film Forum A recording of the introduction to PATHS OF GLORY by writer/producer DAVID SIMON, recorded September 20, 2010, at Film Forum PATHS OF GLORY: “There are few things more fundamentally stimulating than watching another man die.” France, 1915. Amid the muddy trenches of World War I’s Western Front, Kirk Douglas’s French Colonel Dax gets the dreaded order: have his poilus take the seemingly impregnable “Anthill.” While behind the lines, icily smiling generals George Macready and Adolphe Menjou, ensconced in their chateau headquarters, play the General Staff office politics twostep, the one to get that promotion, the other to get some nice ink in the papers. But, with the troops trapped in the trenches amid the ensuing bloodbath, Macready vows that heads — but not his — will roll. And ultimately, three men — Joe Turkel, Ralph Meeker (Kiss Me Deadly’s Mike Hammer) and Timothy Carey (the wacko assassin of The Killing and “a precursor of the hipster druggies of the 60s” – Pauline Kael) — become the scapegoats in a game of judicial murder. But as Menjou suavely explains, “One way to maintain discipline is to shoot a man now and then.” Shot in Germany after French authorities nixed the project as defamatory (the film was banned in France until 1975), Paths is one of the most ruthlessly anti-war films ever, with Kubrick’s telephoto-lensed, side-tracking shooting of the assault perhaps the screen’s most authentic treatment of trench warfare. A crew of 60 worked around the clock for weeks to re-create the intricate trench systems and ravaged terrain of a WWI battleground (although the trenches were built two feet wider than the claustrophobic originals to accomodate the riveting backtracking shots of Douglas’s pre-zero hour procession); the set for HQ was a building actually damaged by WWII bombs; and the special effects techies discharged over a ton of explosives in the first week of filming alone. With a screenplay by Kubrick, Calder Willingham and cult pulp novelist Jim Thompson, Paths was named to the National Film Registry in 1992. This podcast episode is a recording of the introduction to PATHS OF GLORY by writer/producer DAVID SIMON, recorded September 20, 2010, at Film Forum during a screening of the film. 14:46 PATHS OF GLORY,DAVID SIMON,Film Forum no http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/KingsOfPastrySept152010.mp3 KINGS OF PASTRY: Q & A with filmmakers CHRIS HEGEDUS and D.A. PENNEBAKER, with film subject JACQUY PFIEFFER and famed pastry chef JACQUES TORRES (Recorded September 15, 2010) Podcasts Tue, 21 Sep 2010 12:15:00 EDT http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/KingsOfPastrySept152010.mp3 Film Forum A recording of the Q & A with KINGS OF PASTRY filmmakers CHRIS HEGEDUS and D.A. PENNEBAKER, with film subject JACQUY PFIEFFER and famed pastry chef JACQUES TORRES, recorded September 15, 2010 at Film Forum KINGS OF PASTRY: From the makers of the documentary classics DONT LOOK BACK and THE WAR ROOM. Pennebaker and Hegedus are simply the best — so when they turn their sights on the competition for the Meilleurs Ouvriers de France (MOF), France’s Nobel Prize for pastry, you’re in for a treat. Sixteen chefs whip up the most gorgeous, delectable, gravity-defying concoctions, and there is edge-of-the seat drama as they deliver their fantastical, spun-sugar desserts to the display table. The inevitable disasters prove both poignant and hilarious. When the film played in the U.K., critics dubbed it “the culinary HURT LOCKER”; “gastro-porn of the highest quality…as thrilling as any Olympic final”; and “quite possibly one of the most delicious films ever committed to celluloid.” Yum. This podcast episode is a recording of the Q & A with KINGS OF PASTRY filmmakers CHRIS HEGEDUS and D.A. PENNEBAKER, with film subject JACQUY PFIEFFER and famed pastry chef JACQUES TORRES, recorded September 15, 2010 at Film Forum during a screening of the film. 13:23 KINGS OF PASTRY,CHRIS HEGEDUS,D.A. PENNEBAKER,JACQUY PFIEFFER,chef,JACQUES TORRES,food,France,French cuisine,French food, french cooking,cooking,cuisine,food competition,collar,Film Forum no http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/MyDogTulipSept12010.mp3 MY DOG TULIP: Q & A with filmmakers PAUL & SANDRA FIERLINGER (Recorded September 1, 2010) Podcasts Mon, 13 Sep 2010 17:00:00 EDT http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/MyDogTulipSept12010.mp3 Film Forum A recording of the Q&A with MY DOG TULIP filmmakers PAUL & SANDRA FIERLINGER, recorded September 1, 2010, at a screening of the film at Film Forum Paul and Sandra Fierlinger’s animated interpretation of J.R. Ackerley’s droll and tender 1956 memoir does justice to the highly personal nature of this man-and-beast love story. Ackerley remains British to the bone, and Tulip never fails both to delight and embarrass him in her choice of mates and in her canine indiscretions. Christopher Plummer gives voice to the unflappable, wry Ackerley and the late, great Lynn Redgrave is the sister who comes to share his flat and vie with him for the dog’s loyalty. Isabella Rossellini is Tulip’s sensitive and sensible veterinarian. The Fierlingers’ animated designs combine naturalism and visual wit, and their profound feelings for both dog and man are unmatched by conventional doggie cartooning. “No one is more observant, more loving toward dogs and at the same time less sentimental about them… An eloquent, carefully structured study in love and adaptation.” — Edward Guthmann, Bark magazine. This podcast episode is a recording of the Q & A with filmmakers PAUL & SANDRA FIERLINGER that was held at Film Forum on September 1, 2010. 31:13 MY DOG TULIP,PAUL & SANDRA FIERLINGER,PAUL FIERLINGER,SANDRA FIERLINGER,J.R. ACKERLEY,dogs, pets,man's best friend,Film Forum no http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/MyDogTulipSep22010.mp3 MY DOG TULIP: Q & A with filmmakers PAUL & SANDRA FIERLINGER, moderated by animator GEORGE GRIFFIN (Recorded September 2, 2010) Podcasts Thu, 9 Sep 2010 15:45:00 EDT http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/MyDogTulipSep22010.mp3 Film Forum A recording of the Q&A with MY DOG TULIP filmmakers PAUL & SANDRA FIERLINGER, moderated by animator GEORGE GRIFFIN, recorded September 2, 2010, at a screening of the film at Film Forum Paul and Sandra Fierlinger’s animated interpretation of J.R. Ackerley’s droll and tender 1956 memoir does justice to the highly personal nature of this man-and-beast love story. Ackerley remains British to the bone, and Tulip never fails both to delight and embarrass him in her choice of mates and in her canine indiscretions. Christopher Plummer gives voice to the unflappable, wry Ackerley and the late, great Lynn Redgrave is the sister who comes to share his flat and vie with him for the dog’s loyalty. Isabella Rossellini is Tulip’s sensitive and sensible veterinarian. The Fierlingers’ animated designs combine naturalism and visual wit, and their profound feelings for both dog and man are unmatched by conventional doggie cartooning. “No one is more observant, more loving toward dogs and at the same time less sentimental about them… An eloquent, carefully structured study in love and adaptation.” — Edward Guthmann, Bark magazine. This podcast episode is a recording of the Q & A with filmmakers PAUL & SANDRA FIERLINGER that was held at Film Forum on September 2, 2010, moderated by animator GEORGE GRIFFIN. 30:29 MY DOG TULIP,PAUL & SANDRA FIERLINGER,PAUL FIERLINGER,SANDRA FIERLINGER,J.R. ACKERLEY,dogs, pets,man's best friend,Film Forum no http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/AFilmUnfinishedAug202010.mp3 A FILM UNFINISHED: Q&A with filmmaker YAEL HERSONSKI (Recorded August 20, 2010) Podcasts Tue, 24 Aug 2010 15:45:00 EDT http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/AFilmUnfinishedAug202010.mp3 Film Forum A recording of the Q&A with A FILM UNFINISHED filmmaker YAEL HERSONSKI, recorded August 20, 2010, at a screening of the film at Film Foru Since the end of WWII, one copy of a 60-minute (unfinished) propaganda film, shot by the Nazis in the Warsaw Ghetto in May 1942, labeled simply “Ghetto,” sat undisturbed in an East German archive. A FILM UNFINISHED presents the entire film, carefully noting fictionalized sequences (e.g. dozens of Jewish patrons at an elegant restaurant; a luxurious funeral cortege). The film’s documentary footage is of an entirely different nature: corpses on sidewalks, beggars pacing the streets, children ravaged by hunger. The film includes a revealing interview with the only cinematographer identified with the production, as well as scenes in which now-elderly former residents of the Warsaw Ghetto review footage and occasionally recognize their neighbors. This is a film of enormous import: it documents some of the worst horrors of our time and the efforts (however imperfect) of the perpetrators to recast those events to suggest an entirely different scenario. This podcast episode is a recording of the Q & A with A FILM UNFINISHED filmmaker YAEL HERSONSKI, recorded August 20, 2010 at Film Forum 15:50 A FILM UNFINISHED,YAEL HERSONSKI,NAZI,Warsaw Ghetto,Jews,jewish,holocaust,racism,genocide,Film Forum no http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/SicilianGirlAug42010.mp3 THE SICILIAN GIRL: Q & A with filmmaker MARCO AMENTA (Recorded August 4, 2010) Podcasts Thu, 5 Aug 2010 15:45:00 EDT http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/SicilianGirlAug42010.mp3 Film Forum A recording of the Q & A with THE SICILIAN GIRL filmmaker MARCO AMENTA, recorded August 4, 2010, at a screening of the film at Film Foru THE SICILIAN GIRL: Based on the true story of Rita Atria and Judge Paolo Borsellino. ONE GIRL AGAINST THE MAFIA, a documentary by Marco Amenta, played in 2002 at Film Forum. THE SICILIAN GIRL is his dramatic retelling of Rita Atria’s story: how a 17-year-old Sicilian whose father and brother were both Mafia members (and victims) breaks the vow of silence that enshrouds that world, and gives evidence to famed anti-Mafia judge Borsellino. Drawing upon Rita’s extensive diaries, the filmmaker tells her story, beginning in Sicily in 1985. A small child experiences her beloved father as a respected member of the community, a man to whom neighbors turn for help when a rapacious landlord orders their eviction. Soon after, he’s shot dead in the sun-drenched village square as his daughter looks on. Six years later, her brother is murdered. In court, Rita’s words are denounced as “the ravings of a fanatical adolescent bent on revenge.” But are they? This podcast episode is a recording of the Q & A with filmmaker MARCO AMENTA, recorded August 4, 2010, at a screening of the film at Film Forum 19:27 THE SICILIAN GIRL,ONE GIRL AGAINST THE MAFIA,mafia,MARCO AMENTA,Rita Atria,Judge Paolo Borsellino,murder,Sicily,italy,organied crime,court,trial,mafia trial,murder trial,Film Forum no http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/SpectorLaLaBrooksJuly202010.mp3 THE AGONY AND ECSTASY OF PHIL SPECTOR: Q & A with original member of The Crystals LALA BROOKS (Recorded July 20, 2010) Podcasts Wed, 21 Jul 2010 17:15:00 EDT http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/SpectorLaLaBrooksJuly202010.mp3 Film Forum A recording of the Q & A with original member of The Crystals LALA BROOKS, recorded July 20, 2010, at a screening on the film THE AGONY AND ECSTASY OF PHIL SPECTOR THE AGONY AND ECSTASY OF PHIL SPECTOR: Legendary pop music genius, record producer Phil Spector created the “wall of sound” behind some of the greatest hits of the ’60s: Be My Baby, He’s a Rebel, Da Doo Ron Ron, You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feeling, to name just a few. Today he is imprisoned serving 19 yearsto- life for the murder of B-movie actress Lana Clarkson. During his first trial (a hung jury), Spector gives a rare freewheeling interview to Vikram Jayanti, filmed at his castle, seated before the white piano which he bought with John Lennon, for Imagine. He lucidly holds forth on his life and work: his father’s suicide when he was a child; the process through which he achieved his distinctive sound; his friendship with Lennon; and his case that (despite Paul McCartney’s position), he salvaged the Beatles’ album, Let It Be. Then there is Spector’s curious enmity toward Tony Bennett and Buddy Holly (“he got a postage stamp even though he was only in rock ’n’ roll three years”), and a grandiosity that has him likening himself to Bach, da Vinci, Michelangelo and Galileo. And, yes, there is an endless parade of hairstyles and flamboyant outfits. This podcast episode is a recording of the Q & A with original member of The Crystals LALA BROOKS, recorded July 20, 2010, before a screening of this film. 16:29 THE AGONY AND ECSTASY OF PHIL SPECTOR,The Crystals,LALA BROOKS,music,producer,wall of sound, 60s music,Film Forum no http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/HollywoodOnTheHudsonJuly132010.mp3 HOLLYWOOD ON THE HUDSON: Introduction by Author/Film Historian RICHARD KOSZARSKI (Recorded July 13, 2010) Podcasts Wed, 14 Jul 2010 15:30:00 EDT http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/HollywoodOnTheHudsonJuly132010.mp3 Film Forum A recording of the introduction by Author/Film Historian RICHARD KOSZARSKI, recorded July 13, 2010 before a screening of THE SCOUNDREL THE SCOUNDREL: (1935, Hecht & MacArthur) Hecht and MacArthur’s second Astoria production stars Noel Coward as a stiletto-tongued New York publisher returning to earth after a fatal shipwreck, with various Algonquinites adding to the authentic literary atmosphere. Academy Award, Best Original Story. Plus short Hollywood on the Hudson (1942). Program Approx. 86 minutes. This podcast episode is a recording of the introduction by Author/Film Historian RICHARD KOSZARSKI, recorded July 13, 2010 before a screening of this film. 15:21 HOLLYWOOD ON THE HUDSON,RICHARD KOSZARSKI,Film Forum no http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/StonewallJune172010.mp3 STONEWALL UPRISING: Q & A with filmmakers KATE DAVIS & DAVID HEILBRONER and MARTIN BOYCE & DANNY GARVIN from the film (Recorded June 17, 2010) Podcasts Mon, 21 Jun 2010 10:30:00 EDT http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/StonewallJune172010.mp3 Film Forum A recording of the STONEWALL UPRISING Q & A with filmmakers KATE DAVIS & DAVID HEILBRONER and MARTIN BOYCE & DANNY GARVIN from the film, recorded June 17, 2010 STONEWALL UPRISING: “It was the Rosa Parks moment,” says one man. June 28, 1969: NYC police raid a Greenwich Village Mafia-run gay bar, The Stonewall Inn. For the first time, patrons refuse to be led into paddy wagons, setting off a 3-day riot that launches the Gay Rights Movement. Told by Stonewall patrons, Village Voice reporters and the cop who led the raid, STONEWALL UPRISING compellingly recalls the bad old days when psychoanalysts equated homosexuality with mental illness and advised aversion therapy, and even lobotomies; public service announcements warned youngsters against predatory homosexuals; and police entrapment was rampant. A treasure-trove of archival footage gives life to this all-too-recent reality, a time when Mike Wallace announced on a 1966 CBS Reports: “The average homosexual, if there be such, is promiscuous. He is not interested in, nor capable of, a lasting relationship like that of a heterosexual marriage.” At the height of this oppression, the cops raid Stonewall, triggering nights of pandemonium with tear gas, billy clubs and a small army of tactical police. The rest is history. This podcast episode is a recording of the Q & A with filmmakers KATE DAVIS & DAVID HEILBRONER and MARTIN BOYCE & DANNY GARVIN from the film, recorded June 17, 2010, at a screening of the film 22:58 STONEWALL UPRISIN,stonewall Bar,gay,pride,stonewall riots,homosexuality,lesbian,queer,lgtg,civil rights,protest,gay rights,KATE DAVIS,DAVID HEILBRONER,MARTIN BOYCE,DANNY GARVIN,Greenwich Village,Film Forum yes http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/BeetleQueenMay122010.mp3 BEETLE QUEEN CONQUERS TOKYO: Q & A with filmmaker JESSICA ORECK (Recorded May 12, 2010) Podcasts Tue, 18 May 2010 16:10:00 EDT http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/BeetleQueenMay122010.mp3 Film Forum A recording of the BEETLE QUEEN CONQUERS TOKYO Q & A with filmmaker JESSICA ORECK, recorded May 12, 2010 BEETLE QUEEN CONQUERS TOKYO: What is it about the Japanese and bugs? Inside a Tokyo pet shop, a little boy delights in selecting his new pet, a rainbow beetle (cost: $57). Japanese aesthetics — whether textiles, architecture, gardening, graphics, brush painting or haiku — all reflect a highly refined appreciation for both the diminutive and the transient. BEETLE QUEEN explores the world of Japanese insect-lovers, from the sublime (families who visit the countryside to hear choruses of crickets or experience the yellow-green flashes of light emitted by thousands of fireflies) to the ridiculous (cartoon beetles that infest the zeitgeist). With unabashed humor and tremendous originality, Jessica Oreck looks at the religious, literary, and philosophical underpinnings of a nation’s entomological obsession. Warning: You may look more kindly upon your roaches after viewing. This recording of the iA recording of theQ & A with filmmaker JESSICA ORECK. Recorded May 12, 2010 at a screening of the film 11:38 BEETLE QUEEN CONQUERS TOKYO,insects, JESSICA ORECK,Film Forum no http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/WomanoftheYearMay22010.mp3 WOMAN OF THE YEAR: Introduction by JIM LARDNER, followed by the unused ending of the film performed by THE FILM FORUM PLAYERS (Recorded May 2, 2010) Podcasts Mon, 3 May 2010 14:15:00 EDT http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/WomanoftheYearMay22010.mp3 Film Forum recording of the introduction to WOMAN OF THE YEAR by JIM LARDNER, followed by the unused ending of the film performed by THE FILM FORUM PLAYERS, recorded May 2, 2010, at a screening of the film during our THE NEWSPAPER PICTURE Series. This recording of the introduction to WOMAN OF THE YEAR by JIM LARDNER, followed by the unused ending of the film performed by THE FILM FORUM PLAYERS, recorded May 2, 2010, at a screening of the film during our THE NEWSPAPER PICTURE Series. 21:54 WOMAN OF THE YEAR, JIM LARDNER,,THE FILM FORUM PLAYERS,THE NEWSPAPER PICTURE Series,Film Forum no http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/ForsytheApril152010.mp3 JIM HEALY interviews director BILL FORSYTH (Recorded April 15, 2010) Podcasts Mon, 19 Apr 2010 16:16:00 EDT http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/ForsytheApril152010.mp3 Film Forum An interview with director BILL FORSYTH by JIM HEALY, recorded April 15, 2010, at Film Forum at a screening of the film. This podcast is a recording of JIM HEALY's interview of director BILL FORSYTH, recorded April 15, 2010, at Film Forum. 1:05:56 BILL FORSYTH,JIM HEALY,Film Forum no http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/SunBehindTheCloudsMarch312010.mp3 THE SUN BEHIND THE CLOUDS: Q & A with filmmakers RITU SARIN & TENZING SONAM (Recorded March 31, 2010) Podcasts Thu, 1 Apr 2010 13:30:00 EDT http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/SunBehindTheCloudsMarch312010.mp3 Film Forum A Q & A with THE SUN BEHIND THE CLOUDS filmmakers RITU SARIN & TENZING SONAM, recorded March 31, 2010, at Film Forum at a screening of the film. THE SUN BEHIND THE CLOUDS updates the struggle for Tibetan independence, focusing upon the March 2008 demonstration against Chinese rule, the largest ever since the 1959 take-over of that nation. The Dalai Lama, living in exile in Northern India, is interviewed extensively and given the opportunity to explicate his “middle way,” a compromise position he has to date been unsuccessful in getting the Chinese to accept. Supporters of Tibetan independence who are devoted to the Dalai Lama, but who nonetheless feel “the middle way” is an ineffective solution, appear in the film, detailing their more militant position. This podcast is a recording of the Q & A with THE SUN BEHIND THE CLOUDS filmmakers RITU SARIN & TENZING SONAM, recorded March 31, 2010, at Film Forum at a screening of the film. 23:02 THE SUN BEHIND THE CLOUDS,RITU SARIN,TENZING SONAM,Tibet,China,Dalai Lama,buddism,budhism,buddah,budda,Film Forum no http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/HarlanMarch32010.mp3 HARLAN – IN THE SHADOW OF JEW SÜSS: Q & A with filmmaker FELIX MOELLER and film subject Veit Harlan's granddaughter JESSICA JACOBY (Recorded March 3, 2010) Podcasts Thu, 4 Mar 2010 14:45:00 EDT http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/HarlanMarch32010.mp3 Film Forum A Q & A with HARLAN – IN THE SHADOW OF JEW SÜSS filmmaker FELIX MOELLER and film subject Veit Harlan's granddaughter JESSICA JACOBY, recorded March 3, 2010 at Film Forum at a screening of the film. HARLAN – IN THE SHADOW OF JEW SÜSS: The infamous JEW SÜSS (1940), directed by Veit Harlan, and produced under Joseph Goebbels’s Ministry of Propaganda, was the Nazis’ most vicious anti-Semitic film. A drama set in 18th century Germany, it purports to tell the true story of a Jew who dresses incognito (as a Christian), corrupts a local Duke, restructures the government to bleed the people through punitive taxes, and forces himself upon a beautiful, married Christian woman (played by Kristina Söderbaum, Harlan’s third wife). At the war’s end, the filmmaker was prosecuted for crimes against humanity, but acquitted. Today, his children and grandchildren consider his legacy and the hard questions it continues to pose. Some have changed their name and left Germany. Others claim he was forced to direct the film and deride it as loathsome, crudely-made propaganda. HARLAN is a fascinating exploration into the murky waters of a family’s unique, disturbing relationship to one of history’s worst crimes. This podcast is a recording of the Q & A with filmmaker FELIX MOELLER and film subject Veit Harlan's granddaughter JESSICA JACOBY, recorded March 3, 2010 at Film Forum at a screening of the film. 19:48 HARLAN – IN THE SHADOW OF JEW SÜSS,FELIX MOELLER,Harlan,Nazi,Hitler,WWII,WW2, World War 2,World War II,JESSICA JACOBY,Film Forum no http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/RedShoesFeb192010.mp3 THE RED SHOES: Q & A with THELMA SCHOONMAKER (Recorded February 19, 2010) Podcasts Fri, 26 Feb 2010 14:45:00 EDT http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/RedShoesFeb192010.mp3 Film Forum A Q & A with editor THELMA SCHOONMAKER, recorded February 19, 2010, at Film Forum at a screening of THE RED SHOES. THE RED SHOES: “Why do you want to dance?” “Why do you want to live?” Anton Walbrook’s Lermontov is not interested when red-tressed Moira Shearer desperately wants to join his troupe — but then he sees her dance. And then the Red Shoes ballet, based on Hans Christian Andersen’s tale of shoes that dance the wearer to death, will be her triumph. But when she finds romance with composer Marius Goring, it’s the eternal battle between Life and Art. Perhaps the greatest triumph of triply-credited (producers, writers, directors) “The Archers” — aka Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger — following their successive smashes A Matter of Life and Death and Black Narcissus, Powell agreed to film Pressburger’s decade-old script if they could create an original ballet from scratch and cast an actual ballerina in the lead — and then their discovery, 21-year-old non-actress Shearer, took almost a year to make up her mind. With Léonide Massine (actual Ballets Russes choreographer and Nijinsky’s successor as chief soloist) as the troupe’s maître de ballet, and also dancing the role of The Shoemaker; and Sir-to-be Robert Helpmann choreographing everyone else, the 17-minute ballet is a tour de force, its Oscar-winning score produced in record time by Brian Easdale when a predecessor’s attempt was rejected in toto. Shoes would run 110 straight weeks in New York alone; but in recent years, while relatively decent prints have been in circulation, none have come close to the brilliance of Jack Cardiff’s legendary original Technicolor photography. UCLA’s Robert Gitt and team have gone back to the damaged original nitrate materials, including the still-extant three-strip camera negs; his digital restoration led to a negative used to strike this breathtaking new 35mm print. This podcast is a recording of the Q & A with THELMA SCHOONMAKER, recorded February 19, 2010, at Film Forum at a screening of the film. 28:47 THE RED SHOES,THELMA SCHOONMAKER,Film Forum no http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/TakingOffJan52010.mp3 TAKING OFF: Q & A with director MILOS FORMAN (Recorded January 5, 2010) Podcasts Fri, 26 Feb 2010 14:44:00 EDT http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/TakingOffJan52010.mp3 Film Forum A Q & A with TAKING OFF director MILOS FORMAN, recorded January 5, 2010, at Film Forum at a screening of the film. TAKING OFF: In desperate search for their runaway daughter through East Village hippie enclaves, Buck Henry and Lynn Carlin resort to the ultimate — trying marijuana themselves! Forman’s first American film gives not only the middle class squares, but also those would-be radicals, a comic workout. Color; Approx. 93 minutes. This podcast is a recording of the Q & A with director MILOS FORMAN, recorded January 5, 2010, at Film Forum after a screening of the film. 16:16 TAKING OFF,MILOS FORMAN,Film Forum no http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/SweetgrassJan82010.mp3 SWEETGRASS: Q & A with filmmaker Lucien Castaing-Taylor (Recorded January 8, 2010) Podcasts Mon, 11 Jan 2010 16:44:00 EDT http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/SweetgrassJan82010.mp3 Film Forum A Q & A with SWEETGRASS filmmaker Lucien Castaing-Taylor, recorded January 8, 2010, at Film Forum after a screening of the film. SWEETGRASS: A paean to the Old West: SWEETGRASS captures modern cowboys’ overland journey, wrangling thousands of sheep, as they move across Montana’s Absaroka-Beartooth Mountains, amid sweepingly dramatic vistas and endless skies. Ronnie Scheib in Variety describes the film as “a mad cross between Howard Hawks’s RED RIVER” and an anthropological account of vanishing nomadic traditions, with “a dash of Tex Avery’s DRAG-ALONG DROOPY.” Twenty-first century cowboys call their mothers on cell phones and complain about rainy weather, ornery sheep and exhausted horses. A strikingly beautiful film, SWEETGRASS is at once funny, awe-inspiring and endearing. At first the passive, fuzzy sheep seem utterly adorable; over time we come to understand the exasperated cowboy who screams profanities at this sea of stubborn, bleating beasts over which he struggles to reign. This podcast is a recording of the Q & A with SWEETGRASS filmmaker Lucien Castaing-Taylor, recorded January 8, 2010, at Film Forum after a screening of the film. 20:07 SWEETGRASS,Lucien Castaing-Taylor,sheep,Film Forum no http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/TownCalledPanicDec172009.mp3 A TOWN CALLED PANIC: Q & A with filmmakers Stéphane Aubier & Vincent Patar (Recorded December 17, 2009) Podcasts Wed, 6 Jan 2010 11:15:00 EDT http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/TownCalledPanicDec172009.mp3 Film Forum A Q & A with A TOWN CALLED PANIC filmmakers Stéphane Aubier & Vincent Patar, recorded December 17, 2009, at Film Forum after a screening of the film. A TOWN CALLED PANIC: Horse, Cowboy and Indian have a strange and wonderful ménage à trois. Animating generic plastic toys, these Belgian directors fashion an absurdist world that has plenty of room for friendship and love, birthday presents, online shopping, music lessons, and home improvements. Their francophone universe — recognizable to anyone who has ever been intimidated by a Parisian waiter — is filled with equal parts hilarity and anxiety. Horse is the most “mature” of the three and Cowboy and Indian are intent on winning his favor. Meanwhile, Horse — barely aware of their efforts — concentrates on wooing Madame Longray, the village’s sexy equine music teacher. This is animation for both adults and kids, in fact for anyone who has ever enjoyed the company of a plastic figurine on a rainy day. A TOWN CALLED PANIC is the only stop-motion animated feature to have been shown in the official selection of the Cannes Film Festival. This podcast is a recording of the Q & A with filmmakers Stéphane Aubier & Vincent Patar, recorded December 17, 2009, at Film Forum after a screening of the film. 22:34 A with A TOWN CALLED PANIC,Stéphane Aubier, Vincent Patar,animation,cartoon,claymation,france,french,Film Forum no http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/BeforeTomorrowDec22009.mp3 BEFORE TOMORROW: Q & A with co-director MARIE-HÉLÈNE COUSINEAU (Recorded December 2, 2009) Podcasts Fri, 4 Dec 2009 14:45:00 EDT http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/BeforeTomorrowDec22009.mp3 Film Forum A Q & A with BEFORE TOMORROW co-director MARIE-HÉLÈNE COUSINEAU. Recorded December 2, 2009, at Film Forum after a screening of the film. BEFORE TOMORROW: The lilting ballads of Kate and Anna McGarrigle set the tone for this tender, affecting tale of a small boy and his beloved grandmother, mid-19th century Inuits, living amid the harsh Arctic wilderness. “A profound, elemental and hauntingly beautiful period drama that makes an intimate story of endurance into a metaphor for an entire culture… The deceptively simple script…brilliantly reflects the cultural and spiritual values of the Inuits. In particular, the traditional stories Ningiuq tells her grandson take on a heart-rending resonance. Graced by unadorned performances from Madeline Ivalu (a featured player in THE FAST RUNNER and THE JOURNALS OF KNUD RASMUSSEN), her real-life grandson and the supporting cast… (The acting) feels appropriately timeless yet emotionally precise… Superior craft contributions emphasize tradition and authenticity, from the well-worn caribou and seal-skin clothing and intricate facial tattoos to elaborate period props.” — Alissa Simon, Variety. This podcast is a recording of the Q & A with co-director MARIE-HÉLÈNE COUSINEAU, recorded December 2, 2009, at Film Forum after a screening of the film. 16:15 LA DANSE: THE PARIS OPERA BALLET,dance,FREDERICK WISEMAN,ballet,france,frnch,Film Forum no http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/LaDanseNov42009.mp3 LA DANSE: THE PARIS OPERA BALLET: Q & A with director FREDERICK WISEMAN (Recorded November 4, 2009) Podcasts Thu, 5 Nov 2009 16:00:00 EDT http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/LaDanseNov42009.mp3 Film Forum A Q & A with LA DANSE: THE PARIS OPERA BALLET director FREDERICK WISEMAN. Recorded November 4, 2009 at Film Forum after a screening of the film. LA DANSE: THE PARIS OPERA BALLET: Documentary master Frederick Wiseman’s 38th film in a career that has spanned more than that number of years, turns his attention to one of the world’s greatest ballet companies, the Paris Opera Ballet. John Davey’s camera roams the vast Palais Garnier, an opulent 19th century pile of a building: from its crystal chandelier-laden corridors to its labyrinthine underground chambers, from its light-filled rehearsal studios to its luxurious theater replete with 2,200 scarlet velvet seats and Marc Chagall ceiling. LA DANSE devotes most of its time to watching impossibly beautiful young men and women — among them Nicolas Le Riche, Marie-Agnès Gillot, and Agnès Letestu — rehearsing the choreography of Mats Ek, Wayne McGregor, Rudolf Nureyev and Pina Bausch. For balletomanes and the curious alike, LA DANSE serves up a scrumptious meal of delectable moments, one more glorious than the next, made even more precious by their ephemeral nature. This podcast is a recording of the Q & A with director FREDERICK WISEMAN, recorded November 4, 2009 at Film Forum after a screening of the film. 20:31 LA DANSE: THE PARIS OPERA BALLET,dance,FREDERICK WISEMAN,ballet,france,frnch,Film Forum no http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/WildRiverOct232009.mp3 WILD RIVER: Introduction by FRANCES KAZAN (Recorded October 23, 2009) Podcasts Tue, 27 Oct 2009 17:45:00 EDT http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/WildRiverOct232009.mp3 Film Forum An introduction to WILD RIVER, by FRANCES KAZAN, wife of the late director. Recorded October 23, 2009 at Film Forum before a screening of the film. WILD RIVER: In the wake of disastrous Depression era floods, the TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority) is instituted, and Montgomery Clift flies in from D.C. to tie up one last loose end: get 80-year-old matriarch Jo Van Fleet to vacate her island homestead before the dams flood it. But she isn’t going, and as they argue Clift comes to appreciate her deep love for the land, and to find a bond growing with her widowed granddaughter, Lee Remick. A project Kazan nursed for 25 years, after his first visits to the region in the 30s, and the most atmospheric of his works, from its long, slow, almost Ozu-like opening scenes, through Ellsworth Fredericks’ crisply autumnal CinemaScope photography, Kenyon Hopkins’ haunting score — complemented by overheard snatches of hymns and spirituals, most memorably when a seeming no-neck begins a heartbreaking “In the pines” at a funeral on a cemetery-sized islet in the swollen river. And keyed by three powerful performances: Clift, never so sharp and subtle, a tentative smile, a flick of the eye, a nod conveying the shy city intellectual with an awakening heart and a hidden vein of iron; Van Fleet, only 37 at the time — her makeup took four hours — even stronger and more dominating than in her East of Eden Oscar-winner; and Remick, moving through loneliness, yearning, passion, and rage to create the most complete and developed among all of Kazan’s characters. Poorly distributed on first release, and long unavailable, this now can be seen as one of the greatest works of one of America’s greatest directors. This podcast is a recording of an introduction to WILD RIVER, by FRANCES KAZAN, wife of the late director. Recorded October 23, 2009 at Film Forum before a screening of the film. 7:03 WILD RIVER,FRANCES KAZAN,Elia KAZAN,Jo Van Fleet,Ellsworth Fredericks,TVA,Tennessee Valley Authority,Film Forum no http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/YesMenOct132009.mp3 THE YES MEN FIX THE WORLD: Q&A with ANDY BICHLBAUM & MIKE BONANNO (Recorded October 13, 2009) Podcasts Fri, 16 Oct 2009 12:45:00 EDT http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/YesMenOct132009.mp3 Film Forum A Q&A with ANDY BICHLBAUM & MIKE BONANNO, 2 of the YES MEN and directors of the film THE YES MEN FIX THE WORLD. It was recorded October 13, 2009, at Film Forum in New York City after a screening of the film there. THE YES MEN FIX THE WORLD: The Yes Men are anti-corporate troublemakers who get themselves invited to high-level corporate conferences and onto television, where they hilariously unmask global injustice. They are the 21st century’s answer to Abbie Hoffman, and like him they care less abut changing consciousness than changing policy. Announcing, as faux spokespeople for Dow Chemical, that the company will at last take full financial responsibility for the victims of the Bhopal disaster, they create a media sensation. Outfitted in their wacky “Survivaball” getups, they address a room full of straight-laced suits who don’t think there’s anything funny about going to insane lengths to assure one’s personal safety in the event of any and all climate calamities. The Yes Men collaborated on the entirely fake issue of The New York Times, originally printed last fall, to the great amusement of many. They don’t exactly speak truth to power — but their lies are just as powerful and very, very funny. This podcast is a recording of the Q&A with ANDY BICHLBAUM & MIKE BONANNO at Film Forum after a screening of the film, on October 13, 2009. 30:08 THE YES MEN FIX THE WORLD,ANDY BICHLBAUM,Bhopal,MIKE BONANNO,Survivaball,politics,anti-corporate troublemakers,Dow Chemical,comedy,Film Forum no http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/OntheWaterfrontOct102009.mp3 ON THE WATERFRONT: Introduction by BENN SCHULBERG, son of screenwriter BUDD SCHULBERG (Recorded October 10, 2009) Podcasts Wed, 14 Oct 2009 15:30:00 EDT http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/OntheWaterfrontOct102009.mp3 Film Forum Introduction to a screening of ON THE WATERFRONT by BENN SCHULBERG, son of screenwriter BUDD SCHULBERG, live at Film Forum. Hosted by Bruce Goldstein. ON THE WATERFRONT: “I coulda been a contender,” agonizes Marlon Brando’s pigeon-raising ex-pug Terry Malloy, as he gets mixed up in corruption and murder in a Hoboken longshoremen’s union, thanks to brother/mob mouthpiece Rod Steiger, then must face victim’s sister Eva Marie Saint. Winner of 8 Oscars, including Best Picture, Director, Actor, Supporting Actress, Screenplay (Budd Schulberg) and Cinematography (Boris Kaufman). This podcast is a recording of an in person appearance by BENN SCHULBERG, son of screenwriter BUDD SCHULBERG, at Film Forum on October 10, 2009. In person event was hosted by Bruce Goldstein. 10:38 ON THE WATERFRONT,BENN SCHULBERG,BUDD SCHULBERG,Marlon Brando,dock workers,mafia,organized crime,screenwriting,screenwriter,Rod Steiger,Eva Marie Saint,Boris Kaufman,Terry Malloy,Hoboken,film,longshoremen,longshoremen’s union,union,mob,Film Forum no http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/FatCitySept162009.mp3 FAT CITY: Introduction by PETE HAMILL & GEORGE KIMBALL (Recorded September 18, 2009) Podcasts Tue, 22 Sep 2009 11:30:00 EDT http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/FatCitySept162009.mp3 Film Forum Introduction to FAT CITY by PETE HAMILL & GEORGE KIMBALL, recorded September 18, 2009, live at Film Form in New York City FAT CITY: Two fighters spar in an empty gym; one on the way up: 18-year-old “natural” Jeff Bridges, ticketed for the pros via an intro to manager Nicholas Colasanto (later “Coach” on Cheers); and one on the way down: pushing-30 ex-pro Stacy Keach, mortified by pulling a muscle in his first workout after a two-year layoff. But there are detours along the way, for Bridges his knocked-up girlfriend Candy Clark (in her debut), and for Keach his involvement with (Oscar-nominated) Susan Tyrrell, tearing it up as the Barfly to end all Barflies (“boozed, blowsy, and so good, so out of her mind with hope and depression, so used, so soiled, so lifelike…” – David Thomson). Maybe just one more win for Keach and he could get it all back. But what changes if you actually win? All location-shot by the great Conrad Hall (“with lovely shabby color that looks like paper used to wrap a burger” –Thomson) in Stockton, California at its dustiest, these are perhaps the Losing-est in Huston’s gallery of Beautiful Losers, with terrific if decidedly unglamorous boxing scenes and a cast seeded with actual fighters, most notably former welterweight champ Curtis Cokes in his only acting role, letter-perfect as Tyrrell’s sometime boyfriend “Earl.” This podcast is a recording of the Introduction by PETE HAMILL & GEORGE KIMBALL, recorded September 18, 2009, at Film Forum, when they appeared opening night. 14:28 FAT CITY,boxing,fightin,PETE HAMILL,GEORGE KIMBALL,film,Nicholas Colasanto,Film Forum no http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/TheMostDangerousManSept162009.mp3 THE MOST DANGEROUS MAN IN AMERICA: Q&A with filmmakers JUDITH EHRLICH & RICH GOLDSMITH and subjects DANIEL & PATRICIA ELLSBERG (Recorded September 16, 2009) Podcasts Fri, 18 Sep 2009 11:00:00 EDT http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/TheMostDangerousManSept162009.mp3 Film Forum Q&A with filmmakers JUDITH EHRLICH & RICH GOLDSMITH and subjects DANIEL & PATRICIA ELLSBERG recorded live at Film Form in new York City THE MOST DANGEROUS MAN IN AMERICA: "Earnest, smart, informative. The filmmakers do an astounding job relating how Ellsberg brought the Pentagon Papers (which laid out in plain language how the Pentagon and White House had been lying through their teeth to the public about the war) to light. It’s a thrilling, journalistic drama, easily the equal of Deep Throat." – Chris Barsanti, The Hollywood Reporter. This podcast is a recording of the Q&A with filmmakers JUDITH EHRLICH & RICH GOLDSMITH and subjects DANIEL & PATRICIA ELLSBERG, recorded September 16, 2009, at Film Forum, when they appeared opening night. 22:30 THE MOST DANGEROUS MAN IN AMERICA,JUDITH EHRLICH,RICH GOLDSMITH,DANIEL ELLSBERG,PATRICIA ELLSBERG,Pentagon papers,nixon,Vietnam,Pentagon,film,Film Forum no http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/BeeswaxAug72009.mp3 BEESWAX: Q & A with filmmaker ANDREW BUJALSKI (Recorded August 7, 2009) Podcasts Wed, 12 Aug 2009 14:16:00 EDT http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/BeeswaxAug72009.mp3 Film Forum BEESWAX: Q & A with filmmaker ANDREW BUJALSKI (Recorded August 7, 2009) BEESWAX: “Mr. Bujalski’s intimate and unassuming film is, among other things, a reminder that the most specific visions are often the most universal.” – Dennis Lim, The New York Times. “Another memorably natural character piece evoking the spirit of Rohmer, Cassavetes and Woody Allen in a uniquely young American style. Smart, sweet and deeply involving.” – Mike Goodridge, Screen International. “Bujalski’s best film to date…feels both spontaneous and carefully guided.” – Robert Davies, Paste Magazine. This podcast is a recording of the Q & A with filmmaker ANDREW BUJALSKI, recorded August 7, 2009, at Film Forum. 17:54 Beewax,ANDREW BUJALSKI,film,Film Forum no http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/SusanRayJuly172009.mp3 IN A LONELY PLACE: Introduction by Susan Ray (Recorded July 17, 2009) Podcasts Mon, 20 Jul 2009 13:05:00 EDT http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/SusanRayJuly172009.mp3 Film Forum IN A LONELY PLACE: Introduction by Susan Ray (Recorded July 17, 2009) IN A LONELY PLACE: Humphrey Bogart a vicious killer? Okay, he’s a hard-drinking, log-sized-chip-on-his-shoulder screenwriter with a sardonic cynicism so deep he enlists a hatcheck girl as overnight novel summarizer so he doesn’t actually have to read the trashy book he’s agreed to adapt, stopping to take a poke at an asking-for-it producer’s son-in-law along the way. Even when she winds up dead, and he’s being grilled by old army buddy Frank Lovejoy, it turns into an occasion for girl-across-the-courtyard (an exact reproduction of Ray’s first Hollywood pad) Gloria Grahame to give Bogie an alibi — and to get to know better an “interesting” face. But as their love affair progresses, Bogie breaks his fussbudget longtime agent’s glasses, creeps out Lovejoy and wife Jeff Donnell with his too-real “imaginative” reenactment of the murder, and is barely prevented from braining a motorist he’d already sideswiped and beaten senseless. An agonizingly inevitable — but still surprising — resolution looms. Ray boasted “I took the gun out of Bogie’s hands” in altering his screen image (“a radical demystification of the classic Bogart hero” – Robert Sklar); while his own marriage with Grahame ended during the filming — they kept it a secret, fearing Ray would be kicked off the production. "Bogart's performance shares most of the characteristics of his classic performances except that the tie between the killer and the lover is laid bare, without the romanticism, the genre conventions, or the political ideology which underlay it in previous films.... There are no moments for audiences to cheer as he pumps lead into a noxious villain - surely not when he extols the wonderful feeling of crushing a throat, or with his hands around one. The role of Dixon Steele is among the most interesting examples of a performer's critical reevaluation of his screen persona, and surely belongs on the list of Bogart's great performances." – Robert Sklar. This podcast is a recording of the Introduction by Susan Ray, recorded July 17, 2009, at Film Forum. 9:29 IN A LONELY PLACE,Susan Ray,Nick Ray,Humphrey Bogart,film,Film Forum no http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/ByeByeBirdieJuly62009.mp3 BYE BYE BIRDIE: Introduction by Tony-winning composer CHARLES STROUSE (Recorded July 6, 2009) Podcasts Tue, 7 Jul 2009 13:25:00 EDT http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/ByeByeBirdieJuly62009.mp3 Film Forum BYE BYE BIRDIE: Introduction by Tony-winning composer CHARLES STROUSE (Recorded July 6, 2009) BYE BYE BIRDIE: (1963) Heartthrob rocker Conrad Birdie has been drafted! Bad enough news for his shrieking teenybopper fans, but as the singer’s income power-dives from rock star to Army private, it’s the finish for Birdie’s songwriter-wannabe agent Dick Van Dyke. But then, thanks to fiancée and ever-faithful secretary Janet Leigh, Birdie’s slated to give his “One Last Kiss” to lucky fan Kim McAfee (Ann-Margret) on — what else? — The Ed Sullivan Show! Adapted from the 1960 Tony-winning Broadway smash (inspired by Elvis’ cataclysmic 1958 induction), with a Charles Strouse/Lee Adams score that includes eventual standards “Put on a Happy Face” and “A Lot of Living to Do,” plus future Hollywood Squares legend Paul Lynde’s hymn to “Ed Sullivan,” the frenetic “Telephone Hour,” Janet Leigh’s hair-raisingly acrobatic romp with red-fezzed lodge members, Ann-Margret’s pink toreador-pantsed dance number — and her sizzling rendition of a title tune not in the original. Director Sidney, months after editing had ended, commissioned the title track from the original composers for the near-abstract opening and closing sequences, then fronted the $60,000 expense himself, resulting in Ann-Margret’s star-making tour de force. Released in 1963, but set at the end of the 50s, Bye Bye Birdie evokes a now-nostalgic era when show tunes topped the hit parades, variety shows ruled the airwaves, and youth rebellion meant calling your parents by their first names — a year later, Sullivan imported The Beatles. This podcast is a recording of the introduction by Tony-winning composer CHARLES STROUSE, recorded July 6, 2009, at Film Forum. 8:59 BYE BYE BIRDIE,Ann-Margret,CHARLES STROUSE,Conrad Birdie,Dick Van Dyke,The Ed Sullivan Show,Lee Adams,Janet Leigh,1963,film,Film Forum no http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/TheWindmillMovieJune172009.mp3 THE WINDMILL MOVIE: Q & A with producer SUSAN MEISELAS & filmmaker ALEXANDER OLCH (Recorded, June 17, 2009) Podcasts Thu, 25 Jun 2009 11:45:00 EDT http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/TheWindmillMovieJune172009.mp3 Film Forum THE WINDMILL MOVIE: Q & A with producer SUSAN MEISELAS & filmmaker ALEXANDER OLCH (Recorded, June 17, 2009) THE WINDMILL MOVIE: Richard P. Rogers (1943-2001) was a NYC baby boomer, born to privilege: a Harvard-educated WASP who became a first-rate independent filmmaker (QUARRY and ELEPHANTS both opened at Film Forum in the ’70s) and a gifted film teacher. But he was also a tortured, neurotic soul who freely admitted to being jealous of Steven Spielberg and simultaneously ashamed of the impulse. Torn between narrow class loyalties and broader professional goals and political values, Rogers found the time to juggle multiple relationships with the skill of a world-class Lothario, but was unable to complete an autobiographical film he had worked on for 25 years. His former student Alexander Olch collages a trove of material, including extraordinary scenes of Rogers’s mink-coated Gorgon-mom, and fictional sequences with Wallace Shawn as Dick. THE WINDMILL MOVIE is a heady, fascinating brew that brings together one man’s parentage, culture, education, and ambition — letting the chips fall where they may. This podcast is a recording of the Q & A with producer SUSAN MEISELAS & filmmaker ALEXANDER OLCH, recorded, June 17, 2009, at Film Forum. 21:25 THE WINDMILL MOVIE,Richard P. Rogers,QUARRY,ELEPHANTS,SUSAN MEISELAS,ALEXANDER OLCH,film,,Film Forum no http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/FoodIncJune122009.mp3 FOOD, INC.: Q & A with filmmaker ROBERT KENNER (Recorded June 12, 2009) Podcasts Tue, 16 Jun 2009 15:45:00 EDT http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/FoodIncJune122009.mp3 Film Forum FOOD, INC.: Q & A with filmmaker ROBERT KENNER (Recorded June 12, 2009) FOOD, INC.: How much do we really know about the food we buy at our local supermarkets and serve to our families? In FOOD, INC., producer-director Robert Kenner and investigative authors Eric Schlosser (Fast Food Nation) and Michael Pollan (The Omnivore’s Dilemma) lift the veil off of the food industry – an industry that has often put profit ahead of consumer health, the livelihoods of American farmers, the safety of workers and our own environment. The filmmakers expose the highly mechanized underbelly that’s been deliberately hidden from the American consumer. They illustrate the dangers of a food system controlled by powerful corporations that don’t want you to see, think about or criticize how our food is made. FOOD, INC. also reminds us that despite what appears to be at times a hopeless situation, each of us still has the ability to vote on this issue every day – at breakfast, lunch and dinner. This podcast is a recording of the Q & A with filmmaker ROBERT KENNER, recorded June 12, 2009, at Film Forum. 22:33 FOOD, INC.,farm,organic,ROBERT KENNER,eating,supermarket,food industry,corporations,omnivore's dilemma,Omnivore’s Dilemma,Film Forum no http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/UnmistakenChildJune32009.mp3 UNMISTAKEN CHILD: Q & A with filmmaker NATI BARATZ (Recorded June 3, 2009) Podcasts Thu, 4 Jun 2009 12:30:00 EDT http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/UnmistakenChildJune32009.mp3 Film Forum UNMISTAKEN CHILD: Q & A with filmmaker NATI BARATZ (Recorded June 3, 2009) UNMISTAKEN CHILD: The Buddhist concept of reincarnation, while both mysterious and enchanting, is hard for most Westerners to grasp. UNMISTAKEN CHILD follows the 4-year-search for the reincarnation of Lama Konchog, a world-renowned Tibetan master who passed away in 2001 at age 84. The Dalai Lama charges the deceased monk’s devoted disciple, Tenzin Zopa (who had been in his service since the age of seven), to search for his master’s reincarnation, a child who may be anywhere in the world. Tenzin sets off on foot, mule and even helicopter, through breathtaking landscapes and remote traditional Tibetan villages. He listens to stories about children with special characteristics, performs rituals and rarely-seen tests designed to determine the likelihood of reincarnation, and eventually presents his chosen one to the Dalai Lama, who will make the final decision. Stunningly shot, UNMISTAKEN CHILD is a beguiling, surprising, touching and even humorous experience. This podcast is a recording of the Q & A with filmmaker NATI BARATZ, recorded June 3, 2009, at Film Forum. 18:01 UNMISTAKEN CHILD,NATI BARATZ,reincarnation,Tenzin Zopa,Lama Konchog,monk,buddhism,bhuddism,buddist,Myanmar,Film Forum no http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/BurmaMay222009.mp3 BURMA VJ: Q & A with the Venerable U Gawsita, Venerable U Agga Nyana &Venerable U Pyinyar Zawta (Recorded May 22, 2009) Podcasts Wed, 27 May 2009 12:45:00 EDT http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/BurmaMay222009.mp3 Film Forum BURMA VJ: Q & A with the Venerable U Gawsita, Venerable U Agga Nyana &Venerable U Pyinyar Zawta (Recorded May 22, 2009) BURMA VJ: Burma, September 2007: after weeks of protests by students and activists against the country’s cruel dictatorship, thousands of Buddhist monks take to the streets. While 100,000 people protest a repressive regime that has held the country hostage for over 40 years, foreign news crews are banned and the Internet is shut down. Burma is closed to the outside world. The Democratic Voice of Burma, a collective of 30 underground video journalists (VJs) record these dramatic events on handycams and smuggle the footage out of the country, broadcasting it worldwide via satellite. Risking torture and life imprisonment, the VJs vividly document the brutal clashes with the military and undercover police — and then they themselves become the targets of the authorities. This podcast is a recording of the Q & A with the Venerable U Gawsita, Venerable U Agga Nyana & Venerable U Pyinyar Zawta, recorded May 22, 2009, at Film Forum. 22:37 BURMA VJ,Burma,Venerable U Gawsita,Venerable U Agga Nyana,Venerable U Pyinyar Zawta,monk,buddhism,bhuddism,buddist,Myanmar,Film Forum no http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/SingSingMay132009.mp3 20,000 YEARS IN SING SING: Q & A with DAWSON BROWN, acting Superintendent of Sing Sing Correctional Facility (Recorded May 13, 2009) Podcasts Thu, 14 May 2009 16:15:00 EDT http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/SingSingMay132009.mp3 Film Forum 20,000 YEARS IN SING SING: Q & A with DAWSON BROWN, acting Superintendent of Sing Sing Correctional Facility (Recorded May 13, 2009) 20,000 YEARS IN SING SING: Taken from Warden Lawes’ memoir, Curtiz’s semi-doc treatment coupled prison reform pleas with the melodrama goods: Spencer Tracy (replacing Cagney, in the throes of a salary fight) takes the rap for moll Bette Davis’ self-defense killing. This podcast is a recording of the Q & A with DAWSON BROWN, acting Superintendent of Sing Sing Correctional Facility, recorded May 13, 2009, at Film Forum. 32:14 20,000 YEARS IN SING SING,prison,Film Forum no http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/TreelessMountainApril2209.mp3 TREELESS MOUNTAIN: Q & A with writer/director SO YONG KIM (Recorded April 22, 2009) Podcasts Thu, 23 Apr 2009 15:30:00 EDT http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/TreelessMountainApril2209.mp3 Film Forum TREELESS MOUNTAIN: Q & A with writer/director SO YONG KIM (Recorded April 22, 2009) TREELESS MOUNTAIN: FROM THE DIRECTOR OF THE ACCLAIMED FEATURE, IN BETWEEN DAYS, comes this gentle and restrained semi-autobiographical account of two little girls. At age 6, Jin is the elder, and when mom leaves the girls to their diffident aunt in order to seek out her missing husband, Jin is forced to discover the emotional resources needed to survive. The story is told from a child’s perspective, its twists and turns made profoundly believable by the extraordinarily subtle per formances of the two young leads. A portrait of childhood as a time of delicate growth, unforeseen sadness and charming surprises. This podcast is a recording of the Q & A with writer/director SO YONG KIM, recorded April 22, 2009, at Film Forum. 23:48 TREELESS MOUNTAIN,SO YONG KIM,korea,Film Forum no http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/ValentinoMarch192009.mp3 VALENTINO: THE LAST EMPEROR: Q & A with filmmaker MATT TYRNAUER & VOGUE Editor at Large ANDRE LEON TALLEY (Recorded, March 19, 2009) Podcasts Tue, 24 Mar 2009 11:45:00 EDT http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/ValentinoMarch192009.mp3 Film Forum VALENTINO: THE LAST EMPEROR: Q & A with filmmaker MATT TYRNAUER & VOGUE Editor at Large ANDRE LEON TALLEY (Recorded, March 19, 2009) VALENTINO: THE LAST EMPEROR: MATT TYRNAUER, LONGTIME VANITY FAIR EDITOR AND WRITER, TAKES ON HAUTE COUTURE ICON VALENTINO, a man whose fabulous gowns have graced the bodies of the world’s most glamorous women for nearly five decades. The film was shot over two years — in Paris, Rome, London, NY, Gstaad, and aboard Valentino’s yacht — during a period when rumors of the designer’s retirement were swirling about him and partner Giancarlo Giammetti. The filmmaker had extraordinary access to these men, partners in both business and life, whose arguments over the need for more ruffles or the appropriateness of sand dunes for a runway show are inevitably reduced to the intimacy and warmth that are the bedrock of their relationship. This podcast is a recording of the Q & A with filmmaker MATT TYRNAUER & VOGUE Editor at Large ANDRE LEON TALLEY, recorded, March 19, 2009, at Film Forum. 23:21 VALENTINO: THE LAST EMPEROR,MATT TYRNAUER,fashion,VOGUE,ANDRE LEON TALLEY,haut couture,fashion designer,Film Forum no http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/ZMarch82009.mp3 COSTA-GAVRAS’ Z: Q & A with director COSTA-GAVRAS (Recorded March 8, 2009) Podcasts Mon, 9 Mar 2009 15:00:00 EDT http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/ZMarch82009.mp3 Film Forum COSTA-GAVRAS’ Z: Q & A with director COSTA-GAVRAS (Recorded March 8, 2009) COSTA-GAVRAS’ Z: Police general Pierre Dux (later head of the Comédie Française) lectures sunglassed-indoors cohorts on ideological mildew — “isms” — now “infecting” society; then, as Mikis Theodorakis’ music throbs, Dux’s helmeted and truncheoned police studiously look elsewhere as a raging, chanting mob fills the city square awaiting the emergence of charismatic deputy Yves Montand from his SRO ban-the-bomb address — but what are those two punks doing careening in on that three-wheeled kamikaze? “Just an accident” exhales legal honcho François Périer as he leaves it to tinted-eyeglassed magistrate Jean-Louis Trintignant (Best Actor, Cannes) to wrap things up nicely. But the crowds are painting big white Z’s in the street... Too much of a hot potato for French producers, Greek expat Costa-Gavras’s adaptation of Vassili Vassilikos’s novel of the real-life Lambrakis case was skillfully filmed on a shoestring in Algeria (doubling for Greece), and utilizing a pulsating score pieced together from previous Theodorakis works (with the composer’s blessing: he was under house arrest in Greece) and an incredible cast including Renato Salvatori (Rocco and his Brothers) and Marcel Bozzuffi (soon to be the shot-in-the-back poster boy for The French Connection) as the two punks; and the iconic Irene Papas, the only actual Greek in the cast, who’s told “He’s gone” by New Wave camera legend Raoul Coutard, cameoing in a break from his breakneck documentary-style shooting. All of which, combined with Costa-Gavras’ bullet-quick editing, gave Z an immediacy, authenticity, and excitement, that, along with perfect timing — premiering so soon after the right-wing colonels’ takeover in Greece — made it a worldwide smash and the winner of both the Cannes Jury Prize (awarded unanimously) and the Best Foreign Film Oscar (it was the official entry from Algeria). This podcast is a recording of the Q & A with director COSTA-GAVRAS, recorded March 8, 2009, at Film Forum. 31:17 COSTA-GAVRAS,Z,Lambrakis,assassination,political,Yves Montand,SRO,Renato Salvatori,Marcel Bozzuffi,Jean-Louis Trintignant,Mikis Theodorakis,greece,Film Forum no http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/KatynFeb182009.mp3 KATYN: Introduction by Polish Cultural Institute Director MONIKA FABIJANSKA (Recorded February 18, 2009) Podcasts Thu, 19 Feb 2009 12:45:00 EDT http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/KatynFeb182009.mp3 Film Forum KATYN: Introduction by Polish Cultural Institute Director MONIKA FABIJANSKA (Recorded February 18, 2009) KATYN: FROM POLAND’S GREATEST LIVING DIRECTOR, ANDRZEJ WAJDA, comes the story he has waited a lifetime to tell: Katyn is the name of the forest where the Soviets secretly murdered 15,000 Polish officers, intellectuals and professionals over a 3-day period in 1940 (Wajda’s father among them). Stalin’s purpose was to destroy those elements of the population who would be most resistant to Soviet control following WWII. For decades the truth was obfuscated, with the Nazis often blamed for the atrocity. Half a century later, in 1990, Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev admitted his nation’s responsibility. In this elegant production, Wajda recreates war-torn Poland and the stories of both the perpetrators and their victims. An Oscar nominee for Best Foreign Language Film in 2008. This podcast is a recording of the Introduction by Polish Cultural Institute Director MONIKA FABIJANSKA, recorded February 18, 2009, at Film Forum. 7:28 KATYN,MONIKA FABIJANSKA,Polish Cultural Institute,1940,Stalin,WWII, World War 2, World War II,Nazi,genocide,murder,mass graves,atrocity,poland,Soviet,killings,Film Forum no http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/OurCityDreamsFeb122009.mp3 OUR CITY DREAMS: Q & A with director CHIARA CLEMENTE & artist MARINA ABRAMOVIC (Recorded February 12, 2009) Podcasts Tue, 17 Feb 2009 17:15:00 EDT http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/OurCityDreamsFeb122009.mp3 Film Forum OUR CITY DREAMS: Q & A with director CHIARA CLEMENTE & artist MARINA ABRAMOVIC (Recorded February 12, 2009) OUR CITY DREAMS: CHIARA CLEMENTE’S AFFECTING LOVE LETTER TO THE CITY STRINGS TOGETHER THE SELF-TOLD NARRATIVES OF FIVE WOMEN ARTISTS (ages 30 – 80), each of whom has a passion for making art inseparable from her devotion to New York. Swoon, the youngest, exhibits cut-outs directly on city walls and subways, and exudes idealism and energy while carrying a two by four the way some women would a briefcase. Cairoborn Ghada Amer mixes media — embroidering with painting — to confront sexual taboos that cross cultural boundaries. After experiencing The New York Dolls in San Francisco, Kiki Smith realized she needed the energy of the big city to create her wildly influential paintings and sculptures; Marina Abramovic, originally of Belgrade, is a performance art pioneer who often uses her own body as a canvas. And Nancy Spero returned from Paris with artist-husband Leon Golub in 1964, to meld art and activism during the Vietnam War and become, in her own words, "a woman warrior.” Ronnie Scheib in Variety writes that the film is “exquisitely crafted” and “ranks as a work of art itself." This podcast is a recording of the Q & A with director CHIARA CLEMENTE & artist MARINA ABRAMOVIC, recorded February 12, 2009, at Film Forum. 13:49 OUR CITY DREAMS,CHIARA CLEMENTE,SWOON,GHADA AMER,Marina Abramovic,Leon Golub,Kiki Smith,Nancy Spero,art,artists,female artist,women artists,Film Forum no http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/OurCityDreamsFeb42009.mp3 OUR CITY DREAMS: Q & A with director CHIARA CLEMENTE and artists SWOON & GHADA AMER (Recorded February 4, 2009) Podcasts Mon, 9 Feb 2009 13:30:00 EDT http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/OurCityDreamsFeb42009.mp3 Film Forum OUR CITY DREAMS: Q & A with director CHIARA CLEMENTE and artists SWOON & GHADA AMER (Recorded February 4, 2009) OUR CITY DREAMS: CHIARA CLEMENTE’S AFFECTING LOVE LETTER TO THE CITY STRINGS TOGETHER THE SELF-TOLD NARRATIVES OF FIVE WOMEN ARTISTS (ages 30 – 80), each of whom has a passion for making art inseparable from her devotion to New York. Swoon, the youngest, exhibits cut-outs directly on city walls and subways, and exudes idealism and energy while carrying a two by four the way some women would a briefcase. Cairoborn Ghada Amer mixes media — embroidering with painting — to confront sexual taboos that cross cultural boundaries. After experiencing The New York Dolls in San Francisco, Kiki Smith realized she needed the energy of the big city to create her wildly influential paintings and sculptures; Marina Abramovic, originally of Belgrade, is a performance art pioneer who often uses her own body as a canvas. And Nancy Spero returned from Paris with artist-husband Leon Golub in 1964, to meld art and activism during the Vietnam War and become, in her own words, "a woman warrior.” Ronnie Scheib in Variety writes that the film is “exquisitely crafted” and “ranks as a work of art itself." This podcast is a recording of the Q & A with director CHIARA CLEMENTE and artists SWOON & GHADA AMER, recorded February 4, 2009, at Film Forum. 15:21 OUR CITY DREAMS,CHIARA CLEMENTE,SWOON,GHADA AMER,Marina Abramovic,Leon Golub,Kiki Smith,Nancy Spero,art,artists,female artist,women artists,Film Forum no http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/PanicInNeedleParkJan302009.mp3 PANIC IN NEEDLE PARK: Q & A with JERRY SCHATZBERG, KITTY WINN & JOAN DIDION (Recorded January 30, 2009) Podcasts Wed, 4 Feb 2009 12:15:00 EDT http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/PanicInNeedleParkJan302009.mp3 Film Forum PANIC IN NEEDLE PARK: Q & A with JERRY SCHATZBERG, KITTY WINN & JOAN DIDION (Recorded January 30, 2009) PANIC IN NEEDLE PARK: That’s the little triangle at the intersection of Broadway and 72nd St. (aka Sherman Square, adjacent to Verdi Square) and Shootup Central for West Side drug addicts, and where decent Midwesterner Kitty Winn is headed from the moment she spies artist boyfriend Raul Julia making a connection with small-time crook and pusher Al Pacino. Scintillating star debut for Pacino (Paramount execs green-lighted him for The Godfather only after Coppola screened Panic for them) as the Boyfriend from Hell — and an equally smashing debut for Winn, granddaughter of General George C. Marshall: she won the Best Actress award at Cannes for her performance. Stark, music-less, near-documentary treatment of drug life — and an offbeat love story — with scenes shot (by Polish DP Adam Holender) on Gotham streets (B’way & 69th doubled for the real Needle Park), and with Pacino often improvising from the solid basis of Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne’s screenplay (based on the book by James Mills). Only the second film from photographer Schatzberg (already renowned for his fashion work and Bob Dylan images, including the iconic Blonde on Blonde cover), Panic established him as a distinctive stylist. With Richard Bright as Pacino’s thief brother, the unsung Alan Vint as the narc (setting new records for low-key delivery) and Paul Sorvino cameoing as a john. This podcast is a recording of the Q & A with JERRY SCHATZBERG, KITTY WINN & JOAN DIDION, recorded January 30, 2009, at Film Forum. 31:13 PANIC IN NEEDLE PARK,JERRY SCHATZBERG,KITTY WINN,JOAN DIDION,Al Pacino,Paul Sorvino,Kitty Winn,Raul Julia,drugs,heroin,Film Forum yes http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/MadeInUSAJan92009.mp3 MADE IN USA: Q & A with co-star LASZLO SZABO (Recorded January 9, 2008) Podcasts Wed, 21 Jan 2009 13:00:00 EDT http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/MadeInUSAJan92009.mp3 Film Forum MADE IN USA: Q & A with co-star LASZLO SZABO (Recorded January 9, 2008) MADE IN USA: “Walt Disney with blood.” Trench-coated Anna Karina arrives in Atlantic City (apparently a provincial French town) to track down boyfriend Richard P… (phone, plane or car noise constantly blots out the last name), only to find... And then the bodies start dropping, amid encounters with the mysterious, height-challenged M. Typhus, his nephew David Goodis (a character, not the Shoot the Piano Player author), Goodis’s singing Japanese girlfriend Doris Mizoguchi, characters named “Richard Nixon” and “Robert McNamara,” while being shadowed by Jean-Pierre Léaud and László Szabó’s “Paul Widmark,” with a break for a Hegelian bull session in a bar, punctuated with the real Marianne Faithfull warbling “As Tears Go By.” Made as a favor to his cash-strapped producer Georges de Beauregard, and filmed simultaneously with Two or Three Things I Know About Her, this ostensible adaptation of a story by American crime writer Donald Westlake was Godard’s farewell to his muse/ex-wife Karina, never filmed more glamorously, as she changes from one colorfully Mod ensemble to another, posed against starkly colored backgrounds and shot (by New Wave legend Raoul Coutard) in a succession of giant, haunting close-ups. But it’s simultaneously an extremely metaphorical and narratively disjunctive treatment of the notorious disappearance/murder — still unsolved — of exiled Moroccan leftist Mehdi Ben Barka and Godard’s own way of suggesting a vast Cold War conspiracy. Dedicated to “Nick [Ray] and Samuel [Fuller], who taught me about image and sound” and virtually unseen in this country due to rights issues, this is Made in U.S.A.’s very first U.S. release in 35mm. “The many shots of Anna Karina, with their wide variety of mood — each a different pose, angle, expression — serve as a catalogue of remembrances. The close-ups are the most expressive ones in color that Godard has made to date.” – Richard Brody. This podcast is a recording of a Q & A with co-star LASZLO SZABO, recorded January 9, 2008 at Film Forum. 13:26 MADE IN USA,Godard,Donald Westlake,LASZLO SZABO,Anna Karina,Georges de Beauregard,Atlantic City,Mehdi Ben Barka,Jean-Pierre Léaud,MADE IN U.S.A.,Marianne Faithfull,Film Forum no http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/BabyDollDec222008.mp3 BABY DOLL: Author FOSTER HIRSCH will host a reunion with actors CARROLL BAKER & ELI WALLACH (Recorded December 22, 2008) Podcasts Fri, 09 Jan 2009 15:15:00 EDT http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/BabyDollDec222008.mp3 Film Forum BABY DOLL: Author FOSTER HIRSCH will host a reunion with actors CARROLL BAKER & ELI WALLACH (Recorded December 22, 2008) BABY DOLL: “Possibly the dirtiest American-made motion picture that has been legally exhibited,” tsked Time, while the ads bragged, “Condemned by Cardinal Spellman!” Sicilian interloper Eli Wallach, steamed when his new cotton gin goes up in smoke, decides to revenge himself on suspect Karl Malden by seducing his thumb-sucking child bride Carroll Baker—who’s “not ready for marriage.” Incandescently directed and acted black comedy, expanded from two of his own one-act plays by Tennessee Williams. Following the screening, legendary co-stars CARROLL BAKER and ELI WALLACH joined author/historian Foster Hirsch for an onstage conversation. This podcast is a recording of that event, recorded December 22, 2008, at Film Forum. 41:04 BABY DOLL,Tennessee Williams,CARROLL BAKER,ELI WALLACH,FOSTER HIRSCH,Film Forum no http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/TheaterOfWarDec272008.mp3 THEATER OF WAR: Q & A with filmmaker JOHN WALTER (Recorded December 27, 2008) Podcasts Tue, 06 Jan 2009 14:45:00 EDT http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/TheaterOfWarDec272008.mp3 Film Forum THEATER OF WAR: Q & A with filmmaker JOHN WALTER (Recorded December 27, 2008) THEATER OF WAR: MERYL STREEP IS AN UNFORGETTABLE MOTHER COURAGE in Tony Kushner’s adaptation of the Brecht masterpiece, presented by The Public Theater/NY Shakespeare Festival in Central Park during summer 2006. filmmaker John Walter’s earlier documentary, HOW TO DRAW A BUNNY, explored the psychological ramifications of the life and art of Ray Johnson. His new movie could easily have been a star vehicle for Streep and Kevin Kline. Instead he digs deeply into Brecht’s motives and politics, unearthing the playwright’s famed (and famously clever) testimony before the House Un-American Activities Committee (the day after which he quit the United States). THEATER OF WAR is about theater and war, capitalism and Marxism, the postwar anti-Communist hysteria of the 1950s, and one literary genius’s ability to make art from them all. This podcast is the Q & A with filmmaker JOHN WALTER, recorded December 27, 2008, during his appearance at Film Forum. 22:55 THEATER OF WAR,JOHN WALTER,MERYL STREEP,Tony Kushner,Film Forum no http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/HarvardBeatsYaleNov192008.mp3 HARVARD BEATS YALE 29-29: Q & A with director KEVIN RAFFETY, 1968 Harvard player RAY HORNBLOWER and 1968 Yale player MICK KLEBER (Recorded November 19, 2008) Podcasts Wed, 26 Nov 2008 09:45:00 EDT http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/HarvardBeatsYaleNov192008.mp3 Film Forum HARVARD BEATS YALE 29-29: Q & A with director KEVIN RAFFETY, 1968 Harvard player RAY HORNBLOWER and 1968 Yale player MICK KLEBER (Recorded November 19, 2008) HARVARD BEATS YALE 29-29: HARVARD STADIUM, NOVEMBER 23, 1968: for the first time since 1909, the football teams of Harvard and Yale are undefeated as they meet for their final game. Yale is heavily favored, with Brian Dowling, its captain and quarterback, satirized in classmate Garry Trudeau’s Doonesbury strip. Harvard’s lineman is Tommy Lee Jones — Al Gore’s roommate. Kevin Rafferty (ATOMIC CAFÉ) intercuts original footage with the hilarious, suspenseful recollections of the 50 men who played in what has become one of college football’s most famous games. This podcast is the Q & A with director KEVIN RAFFETY, 1968 Harvard player RAY HORNBLOWER and 1968 Yale player MICK KLEBER, recorded November 19, 2008, during their appearance opening night of the film at Film Forum. 25:36 HARVARD BEATS YALE 29-29,KEVIN RAFFETY,Harvard,RAY HORNBLOWER,Yale,MICK KLEBER,football,college football,Film Forum no http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/LesBlankNov142008845pm.mp3 GARLIC IS AS GOOD AS TEN MOTHERS: Introduction by director LES BLANK (Recorded November 14, 2008) Podcasts Tue, 25 Nov 2008 10:15:00 EDT http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/LesBlankNov142008845pm.mp3 Film Forum GARLIC IS AS GOOD AS TEN MOTHERS: Introduction by director LES BLANK (Recorded November 14, 2008) GARLIC IS AS GOOD AS TEN MOTHERS: Hymn to the Stinking Rose — in Aromaround! — complete with guide to cultivation, savory dishes, and massive consumption. “Better than any dry martini as an aperitif.” – Time Out (London). This podcast is the introduction by director LES BLANK, recorded November 14, 2008, during his appearance at a screening of the film at Film Forum. 8:07 GARLIC IS AS GOOD AS TEN MOTHERS,LES BLANK,Film Forum no http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/LesBlankNov1420087pm.mp3 ALL IN THIS TEA: Introduction by director LES BLANK (Recorded November 14, 2008) Podcasts Mon, 24 Nov 2008 10:15:00 EDT http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/LesBlankNov1420087pm.mp3 Film Forum ALL IN THIS TEA: Introduction by director LES BLANK (Recorded November 14, 2008) ALL IN THIS TEA: “I imagine things like walking through a forest. There are leaves on the ground. It just has rained. The rain has stopped. It’s damp, and you walk… and somehow that’s all in this tea.” – Werner Herzog. From plant to package, tea importer David Lee Hoffman scours China, battling mass-production-crazed bureaucracy along the way, in search of the real stuff. Co-directed by Gina Leibrecht. This podcast is the introduction by director LES BLANK, recorded November 14, 2008, during his appearance at a screening of the film at Film Forum. 4:26 ALL IN THIS TEA,LES BLANK,Film Forum no http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/WildStyleNov152008.mp3 WILD STYLE: Q & A with director CHARLIE AHEARN and guests (Recorded November 15, 2008) Podcasts Thu, 20 Nov 2008 14:44:00 EDT http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/WildStyleNov152008.mp3 Film Forum WILD STYLE: Q & A with director CHARLIE AHEARN and guests (Recorded November 15, 2008) WILD STYLE: Elusive graffitist Zoro (legendary artist Lee Quinones) has the South Bronx and the whole NYC subway system for a canvas, but fame threatens to blow his cover. Indie filmmaker Charlie Ahearn captured the very early days of hip hop in near-documentary style, casting real (and now-pioneer) DJs, MCs, graffiti artists, breakdancers, and rappers. With appearances by Fab Five Freddy, Grandmaster Flash, Grand Wizard Theodore, Busy Bee, Cold Crush, and Rock Steady Crew, climaxing in a raucous impromptu East River Park concert (filmed without permits!). Plus Ahearn’s short Bongo Barbershop (2005): a Tanzanian finds authentic hip hop in a Bronx tonsorial parlor. This podcast is the Q & A with director CHARLIE AHEARN and guests, recorded November 15, 2008, during their appearance at a screening of the film at Film Forum. 21:50 WILD STYLE,Zoro,Lee Quinones,graffiti,hip hop,rap,Charlie Ahearn,DJs,MCs,graffiti artists,breakdancers,rappers,Fab Five Freddy,Grandmaster Flash,Grand Wizard Theodore,Busy Bee,Cold Crush,Rock Steady Crew,Bronx,East River Park concert,Film Forum yes http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/WildStyleNov142008.mp3 WILD STYLE: Q & A with director CHARLIE AHEARN and guests (Recorded November 14, 2008) Podcasts Tue, 18 Nov 2008 12:45:00 EDT http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/WildStyleNov142008.mp3 Film Forum WILD STYLE: Q & A with director CHARLIE AHEARN and guests (Recorded November 14, 2008) WILD STYLE: Elusive graffitist Zoro (legendary artist Lee Quinones) has the South Bronx and the whole NYC subway system for a canvas, but fame threatens to blow his cover. Indie filmmaker Charlie Ahearn captured the very early days of hip hop in near-documentary style, casting real (and now-pioneer) DJs, MCs, graffiti artists, breakdancers, and rappers. With appearances by Fab Five Freddy, Grandmaster Flash, Grand Wizard Theodore, Busy Bee, Cold Crush, and Rock Steady Crew, climaxing in a raucous impromptu East River Park concert (filmed without permits!). Plus Ahearn’s short Bongo Barbershop (2005): a Tanzanian finds authentic hip hop in a Bronx tonsorial parlor. This podcast is the Q & A with director CHARLIE AHEARN and guests, recorded November 14, 2008, during their appearance at a screening of the film at Film Forum. 24:03 WILD STYLE,Zoro,Lee Quinones,graffiti,hip hop,rap,Charlie Ahearn,DJs,MCs,graffiti artists,breakdancers,rappers,Fab Five Freddy,Grandmaster Flash,Grand Wizard Theodore,Busy Bee,Cold Crush,Rock Steady Crew,Bronx,East River Park concert,Film Forum yes http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/StrandedOct232008.mp3 STRANDED: Q & A with director GONZALO ARIJON and plane crash survivor/film subject ADOLFO "FITO" STRAUCH (Recorded October 23, 2008) Podcasts Thu, 30 Oct 2008 11:30:00 EDT http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/StrandedOct232008.mp3 Film Forum STRANDED: Q & A with director GONZALO ARIJON and plane crash survivor/film subject ADOLFO "FITO" STRAUCH (Recorded October 23, 2008) STRANDED: In 1972, a plane filled with cheerful, well-to-do young men, leaving Uruguay for a rugby game in Chile, crashed in a remote part of the Andes. STRANDED recreates the extraordinary experience of the 29 who initially survived the crash, followed by two months of cold, hunger and despair. Now, decades later, the men who found their way out of this frozen hell tell their story to documentarian (and childhood friend) Gonzalo Arijon in a film that eschews both sensationalism and sentimentality. These events were the subject of the 1973 worldwide best-seller, Alive, as well as a feature film, but STRANDED is the definitive, haunting version of this profoundly moving drama. Winner of the Grand Prize at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA). This podcast is the Q & A with director GONZALO ARIJON and plane crash survivor/film subject ADOLFO "FITO" STRAUCH, recorded October 23, 2008 during their appearance at a screening of the film at Film Forum. 22:32 STRANDED,GONZALO ARIJON,plane crash survivor,ADOLFO "FITO" STRAUCH,Film Forum http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/FrontrunnersOct172008.mp3 FRONTRUNNERS: Q & A with NYC Councilwoman/Stuyvesant alum JESSICA LAPIN and film subject GEORGE ZISIADIS (Recorded October 17, 2008) Podcasts Tue, 21 Oct 2008 12:00:00 EDT http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/FrontrunnersOct172008.mp3 Film Forum FRONTRUNNERS: Q & A with NYC Councilwoman/Stuyvesant alum JESSICA LAPIN and film subject GEORGE ZISIADIS (Recorded October 17, 2008) FRONTRUNNERS: WHAT DO TIM ROBBINS, THELONIOUS MONK, DREW NIEPORENT, Jerry Nadler, and Lucy Liu all have in common? They all graduated from Stuyvesant, the jewel in the crown of NYC’s high schools for gifted students. Not surprisingly, some of the nation’s smartest, most media-savvy teenagers run an election for class president with primaries, televised debates, newspaper endorsements and considerable schmoozing in the halls. Stuyvesant accepts 3% of the 25,000 kids who apply, and when just one is going to be class president, you can bet that tensions run high. This podcast is the Q & A with NYC Councilwoman/Stuyvesant alum JESSICA LAPIN and film subject GEORGE ZISIADIS, recorded October 17, 2008 during their appearance at a screening of the film at Film Forum. 24:53 FRONTRUNNERS,Stuyvesant,high school politics,JESSICA LAPIN,GEORGE ZISIADIS,Film Forum http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/FrontrunnersOct152008.mp3 FRONTRUNNERS: Q & A with director CAROLINE SUH and producer ERIKA FRANKEL (Recorded October 15, 2008) Podcasts Fri, 17 Oct 2008 11:35:00 EDT http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/FrontrunnersOct152008.mp3 Film Forum FRONTRUNNERS: Q & A with director CAROLINE SUH and producer ERIKA FRANKEL (Recorded October 15, 2008) FRONTRUNNERS: WHAT DO TIM ROBBINS, THELONIOUS MONK, DREW NIEPORENT, Jerry Nadler, and Lucy Liu all have in common? They all graduated from Stuyvesant, the jewel in the crown of NYC’s high schools for gifted students. Not surprisingly, some of the nation’s smartest, most media-savvy teenagers run an election for class president with primaries, televised debates, newspaper endorsements and considerable schmoozing in the halls. Stuyvesant accepts 3% of the 25,000 kids who apply, and when just one is going to be class president, you can bet that tensions run high. This podcast is 2 Q & As with director CAROLINE SUH and producer ERIKA FRANKEL, recorded October 15, 2008 during appearances at screenings of the film at Film Forum. 29:52 FRONTRUNNERS,CAROLINE SUH,ERIKA FRANKEL,Film Forum http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/BallastOct12008.mp3 BALLAST: Q & A with director LANCE HAMMER and cinematographer LOL CRAWLEY (Recorded October 1, 2008) Podcasts Thu, 2 Oct 2008 14:25:00 EDT http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/BallastOct12008.mp3 Film Forum BALLAST: Q & A with director LANCE HAMMER and cinematographer LOL CRAWLEY (Recorded October 1, 2008) BALLAST: WINNER, BEST DIRECTOR AWARD, 2008 SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL. A young boy drifts through the spare flatlands of a wintry Mississippi township and a middle-aged man sits in his rural home, frozen in grief after his brother’s suicide. These striking images set in motion a riveting story of three people trying to reposition their lives after experiencing a traumatic loss. Lance Hammer has been compared to the Dardenne Brothers, for the assured hand with which he tells a delicate, quietly unfolding story using understated means and non-professionals from the Mississippi Delta. "The one indisputably great film at Sundance '08… (This) poetic and profound movie transcends categories and announces the arrival of a major new filmmaker." — Peter Travers, Rolling Stone. This podcast is the Q & A with director LANCE HAMMER and cinematographer LOL CRAWLEY (Recorded October 1, 2008) during their appearance opening night of the film at Film Forum. 19:50 BALLAST,LANCE HAMMER,Lol Crawley,Film Forum http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/JFKSept172008.mp3 VIRTUAL JFK: Q & A with director KOJI MASUTANI, producer/historian JAMES G. BLIGHT and JFK advisor/speechwriter THEODORE SORENSEN (Recorded September 17, 2008) Podcasts Tue, 23 Sep 2008 10:15:00 EDT http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/JFKSept172008.mp3 Film Forum THEVIRTUAL JFK: Q & A with director KOJI MASUTANI, producer/historian JAMES G. BLIGHT and JFK advisor/speechwriter THEODORE SORENSEN (Recorded September 17, 2008) VIRTUAL JFK: SCOTTISH HISTORIAN NIALL FERGUSON CALLS IT VIRTUAL HISTORY: the great what if’s, the plausibility of counterfactuals. First-time filmmaker Koji Masutani and Brown University professor James G. Blight ask: “Can a president make a decisive difference in matters of war and peace… or, are the forces that drive a nation into war a lot more impersonal, out of the control of any single human being, even a president?” In 1963 the US had 16,000 military advisors in Vietnam. In 1968, Johnson had 500,000 troops there. VIRTUAL JFK rethinks the legendary 1,000-day presidency, selecting from more than 250 hours of archival material some of the brightest, funniest moments from the Kennedy press conferences as well as some of the scariest ones, when the Cold War threatens to turn hot. The 800-pound gorilla in the room is, of course, George W. Bush and his war in Iraq. This podcast is the Q & A with director KOJI MASUTANI, producer/historian JAMES G. BLIGHT and JFK advisor/speechwriter THEODORE SORENSEN (Recorded September 17, 2008) during their appearance opening night of the film at Film Forum. 35:23 VIRTUAL JFK,KOJI MASUTANI,JAMES G. BLIGHT,JFK,THEODORE SORENSEN,President,Vietnam War,assassination,John F. Kennedy,Kennedy,Film Forum http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/ThePoolSept52008.mp3 THE POOL: Q & A with director CHRIS SMITH (Recorded September 5, 2008) Podcasts Tue, 9 Sep 2008 10:15:00 EDT http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/ThePoolSept52008.mp3 Film Forum THE POOL: Q & A with director CHRIS SMITH (Recorded September 5, 2008) THE POOL: IN THIS CHARMING, ELEGANTLY SHOT FABLE SET IN NEIGHBORHOODS OF POVERTY AND PRIVILEGE IN GOA, India, 18-year-old Venkatesh ekes out a living working in a hotel and pounding the pavement selling plastic baggies. It’s a far cry from his fantasy — to dive into the glimmering David Hockney-esque swimming pool of an upper-class family. Remarkably, this neorealist tale, reminiscent of the great Satyajit Ray, is written and directed by an American, Chris Smith, acclaimed director of AMERICAN MOVIE and THE YES MEN. “A truly independent gem of a feature. A delight on every level. Uplifting without a drop of sap.” — Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter. This podcast is the Q & A with director CHRIS SMITH, recorded September 5, 2008, during his appearance opening night of the film at Film Forum. 20:05 THE POOL,CHRIS SMITH,Satyajit Ray,India,Film Forum http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/SerraIntroSept22008.mp3 RICHARD SERRA: THINKING ON YOUR FEET: Introduction by MoMA’s JANE PANETTA (Recorded September 2, 2008) Podcasts Wed, 3 Sep 2008 13:30:00 EDT http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/SerraIntroSept22008.mp3 Film Forum RICHARD SERRA: THINKING ON YOUR FEET: Introduction by MoMA’s JANE PANETTA (Recorded September 2, 2008) RICHARD SERRA: THINKING ON YOUR FEET: RICHARD SERRA’S MONUMENTAL STEEL SCULPTURES are among the defining works of art of our time. Serra is wonder fully articulate, whether talking about his early paintings, Brancusi’s influence upon him, the historical context in which his work developed, or the public controversies and even hostility his art has engendered. He elucidates how “matter imposes form on form,” the unique qualities of steel, and how a space may move simultaneously in two directions — with a lexicon that includes gravitational vectors, open and closed volume, tectonics, conical sections and torquing elipses. An installation of several immensely heavy steel plates (40 tons each) at the Bilbao Museum highlights this elegant portrait of the art world’s man of steel. This podcast is the introduction by MoMA’s JANE PANETTA, recorded September 2, 2008, during her appearance closing night of the film at Film Forum. 6:41 RICHARD SERRA: THINKING ON YOUR FEET,MoMA,JANE PANETTA,Sculpture,art,artist,metal,Film Forum http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/SerraIntroAug202008.mp3 RICHARD SERRA: THINKING ON YOUR FEET: Introduction by DIA Foundation’s LYNNE COOK (Recorded August 20, 2008) Podcasts Thu, 21 Aug 2008 13:00:00 EDT http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/SerraIntroAug202008.mp3 Film Forum RICHARD SERRA: THINKING ON YOUR FEET: Introduction by DIA Foundation’s LYNNE COOK (Recorded August 20, 2008) RICHARD SERRA: THINKING ON YOUR FEET: RICHARD SERRA’S MONUMENTAL STEEL SCULPTURES are among the defining works of art of our time. Serra is wonder fully articulate, whether talking about his early paintings, Brancusi’s influence upon him, the historical context in which his work developed, or the public controversies and even hostility his art has engendered. He elucidates how “matter imposes form on form,” the unique qualities of steel, and how a space may move simultaneously in two directions — with a lexicon that includes gravitational vectors, open and closed volume, tectonics, conical sections and torquing elipses. An installation of several immensely heavy steel plates (40 tons each) at the Bilbao Museum highlights this elegant portrait of the art world’s man of steel. This podcast is the introduction by DIA Foundation’s LYNNE COOK, recorded August 20, 2008, during her appearance at a screening of the film at Film Forum. 10:55 RICHARD SERRA: THINKING ON YOUR FEET,DIA,LYNNE COOK,Film Forum http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/PattiSmithSingsAug192008.mp3 PATTI SMITH: DREAM OF LIFE: Introduction and live performance of two songs by PATTI SMITH (Recorded August 19, 2008) Podcasts Wed, 20 Aug 2008 17:00:00 EDT http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/PattiSmithSingsAug192008.mp3 Film Forum PATTI SMITH: DREAM OF LIFE: Introduction and live performance of two songs by PATTI SMITH (Recorded August 19, 2008) PATTI SMITH: DREAM OF LIFE: WHEN PEOPLE ASK HER “HOW DOES IT FEEL TO BE A ROCK ICON?” Patti Smith says she “always thinks of Mount Rushmore.” Steven Sebring’s directorial debut takes a lyrical, stream-of-consciousness approach that is exactly right in his affecting portrait of the “rock ’n’ roll Joan of Arc” (Stephen Holden, The NY Times) who can bring a crowd of devotees to their feet chanting “Glor-i-a!” as effectively as she can share her pain over the early death of her husband, Fred (Sonic) Smith and her brother, and the loss of her close friend Robert Mapplethorpe and of other artists she admires (Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, William S. Burroughs). Everyone knows that Patti Smith’s music, poetry and politics are fearless, funny, raw and original. But this film also captures her physical presence – her gamine beauty – and a charming, self-effacing style that will take you by surprise and leave you deeply moved. This podcast is a film introduction and live performance of two songs by PATTI SMITH, recorded August 19, 2008, during her appearance at Film Forum. 14:09 PATTI SMITH,Film Forum http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/PattiSmithPodcast2Aug2008.mp3 PATTI SMITH: DREAM OF LIFE: selections from Q & A’s with PATTI SMITH & director STEVEN SEBRING (Recorded August 8, 10, 12, 13 & 14, 2008) Podcasts Tue, 19 Aug 2008 16:44:00 EDT http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/PattiSmithPodcast2Aug2008.mp3 Film Forum PATTI SMITH: DREAM OF LIFE: selections from Q & A’s with PATTI SMITH & director STEVEN SEBRING (Recorded August 8, 10, 12, 13 & 14, 2008) PATTI SMITH: DREAM OF LIFE: WHEN PEOPLE ASK HER “HOW DOES IT FEEL TO BE A ROCK ICON?” Patti Smith says she “always thinks of Mount Rushmore.” Steven Sebring’s directorial debut takes a lyrical, stream-of-consciousness approach that is exactly right in his affecting portrait of the “rock ’n’ roll Joan of Arc” (Stephen Holden, The NY Times) who can bring a crowd of devotees to their feet chanting “Glor-i-a!” as effectively as she can share her pain over the early death of her husband, Fred (Sonic) Smith and her brother, and the loss of her close friend Robert Mapplethorpe and of other artists she admires (Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, William S. Burroughs). Everyone knows that Patti Smith’s music, poetry and politics are fearless, funny, raw and original. But this film also captures her physical presence – her gamine beauty – and a charming, self-effacing style that will take you by surprise and leave you deeply moved. This podcast is made of selections from Q & A’s with PATTI SMITH & director STEVEN SEBRING, recorded August 8, 10, 12, 13 & 14, 2008, during their in person appearances at Film Forum. 22:15 PATTI SMITH,STEVEN SEBRING,Film Forum http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/PattiSmithAug620082.mp3 PATTI SMITH: CORRRECTED MP3 FILE: DREAM OF LIFE: Q & A with PATTI SMITH and director STEVEN SEBRING (Recorded August 6, 2008) Podcasts Mon, 11 Aug 2008 11:00:00 EDT http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/PattiSmithAug620082.mp3 Film Forum PATTI SMITH: DREAM OF LIFE: Q & A with PATTI SMITH and director STEVEN SEBRING (Recorded August 6, 2008) PATTI SMITH: DREAM OF LIFE: Correction to MP3 file. WHEN PEOPLE ASK HER “HOW DOES IT FEEL TO BE A ROCK ICON?” Patti Smith says she “always thinks of Mount Rushmore.” Steven Sebring’s directorial debut takes a lyrical, stream-of-consciousness approach that is exactly right in his affecting portrait of the “rock ’n’ roll Joan of Arc” (Stephen Holden, The NY Times) who can bring a crowd of devotees to their feet chanting “Glor-i-a!” as effectively as she can share her pain over the early death of her husband, Fred (Sonic) Smith and her brother, and the loss of her close friend Robert Mapplethorpe and of other artists she admires (Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, William S. Burroughs). Everyone knows that Patti Smith’s music, poetry and politics are fearless, funny, raw and original. But this film also captures her physical presence – her gamine beauty – and a charming, self-effacing style that will take you by surprise and leave you deeply moved. This podcast is a Q & A with PATTI SMITH and director STEVEN SEBRING, recorded August 6, 2008, during his in person appearance at Film Forum on opening night of the film. 20:21 PATTI SMITH,STEVEN SEBRING,Film Forum http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/BerlinJuly282008.mp3 LOU REED BERLIN: Q & A with LOU REED (Recorded July 28, 2008) Podcasts Fri, 1 Aug 2008 12:00:00 EDT http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/BerlinJuly282008.mp3 Film Forum LOU REED BERLIN: Q & A with LOU REED (Recorded July 28, 2008) LOU REED BERLIN: directed by Julian Schnabel, captures the first-ever performance of Reed's legendary rock opera, filmed at Brooklyn’s St. Ann’s Warehouse. A Brechtian tale of junkies in love, Berlin was a commercial failure when it was first released in 1973; Reed did not perform it again for 33 years. Here he is backed up by a 35-piece ensemble that includes guitarist Steve Hunter, who performed on the original album, and vocalist Antony, front man for Antony and the Johnsons, who sings a sublime version of “Candy Says,” one of three non-Berlin songs in the film. This podcast is a Q & A with LOU REED, recorded July 28, 2008 during his in person appearance at Film Forum on opening night of the film. 18:28 LOU REED BERLIN,Lou Reed,Berlin,Velvet Underground,rock,band,Film Forum http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/FullBattleRattleJuly102008.mp3 FULL BATTLE RATTLE: Q & A with co-directors Tony Gerber and Jesse Moss (Recorded July 10, 2008) Podcasts Wed, 16 Jul 2008 11:15:00 EDT http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/FullBattleRattleJuly102008.mp3 Film Forum FULL BATTLE RATTLE: Q & A with co-directors Tony Gerber and Jesse Moss (Recorded July 10, 2008) FULL BATTLE RATTLE: THE US MILITARY HAS BUILT A BILLION-DOLLAR MIDDLE EAST VILLAGE IN THE MOJAVE DESERT: A SIMULATED IRAQ, complete with hundreds of Iraqis employed to play civilians and insurgents, terrorist suspects, grieving mothers and innocent shopkeepers. The filmmakers take a smart fly-on-the-wall approach to much of the action, as in-training Army recruits enter “Medina Wasl,” trying to quell uprisings and cajole locales. FULL BATTLE RATTLE observes Army officers explaining local customs to a confused force, under orders to bring “peace and stability” to a place they know nothing about — and one that appears to be disintegrating before their eyes. The movie could be read as a surreal, hilarious goof on the military if the play-acting failures of the troops didn’t look so realistic and if thousands of real lives weren’t on the line halfway around the world. This podcast is a Q & A with co-directors Tony Gerber and Jesse Moss, recorded July 10, 2008 during their in person appearance at Film Forum 14:38 FULL BATTLE RATTLE,Tony Gerber,Jesse Moss,Iraq,war,Film Forum http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/FullBattleRattleJuly92008.mp3 FULL BATTLE RATTLE: Q & A with co-directors Tony Gerber and Jesse Moss (Recorded July 9, 2008) Podcasts Tue, 15 Jul 2008 16:15:00 EDT http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/FullBattleRattleJuly92008.mp3 Film Forum FULL BATTLE RATTLE: Q & A with co-directors Tony Gerber and Jesse Moss (Recorded July 9, 2008) FULL BATTLE RATTLE: THE US MILITARY HAS BUILT A BILLION-DOLLAR MIDDLE EAST VILLAGE IN THE MOJAVE DESERT: A SIMULATED IRAQ, complete with hundreds of Iraqis employed to play civilians and insurgents, terrorist suspects, grieving mothers and innocent shopkeepers. The filmmakers take a smart fly-on-the-wall approach to much of the action, as in-training Army recruits enter “Medina Wasl,” trying to quell uprisings and cajole locales. FULL BATTLE RATTLE observes Army officers explaining local customs to a confused force, under orders to bring “peace and stability” to a place they know nothing about — and one that appears to be disintegrating before their eyes. The movie could be read as a surreal, hilarious goof on the military if the play-acting failures of the troops didn’t look so realistic and if thousands of real lives weren’t on the line halfway around the world. This podcast is a Q & A with co-directors Tony Gerber and Jesse Moss, recorded July 9, 2008 during their in person appearance at Film Forum opening day 23:06 FULL BATTLE RATTLE,Tony Gerber,Jesse Moss,Iraq,war,Film Forum http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/LouiseBourgeoisIntroJuly22008.mp3 LOUISE BOURGEOIS: THE SPIDER, THE MISTRESS AND THE TANGERINE: Introduction by MoMA curator DEBORAH WYE (Recorded July 2, 2008) Podcasts Mon, 7 Jul 2008 10:00:00 EDT http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/LouiseBourgeoisIntroJuly22008.mp3 Film Forum LOUISE BOURGEOIS: THE SPIDER, THE MISTRESS AND THE TANGERINE: Introduction by MoMA curator DEBORAH WYE (Recorded July 2, 2008) LOUISE BOURGEOIS: THE SPIDER, THE MISTRESS AND THE TANGERINE: Introduction by MoMA curator DEBORAH WYE (Recorded July 2, 2008) 9:21 LOUISE BOURGEOIS: THE SPIDER, THE MISTRESS AND THE TANGERINE,DEBORAH WYE,Film Forum http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/LouiseBourgeoisJune302008.mp3 LOUISE BOURGEOIS: THE SPIDER, THE MISTRESS AND THE TANGERINE: Introduction and Q & A with co-director AMEI WALLACH (Recorded June 30, 2008) Podcasts Tue, 1 Jul 2008 13:30:00 EDT http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/LouiseBourgeoisJune302008.mp3 Film Forum LOUISE BOURGEOIS: THE SPIDER, THE MISTRESS AND THE TANGERINE: This podcast is the introduction and Q & A with co-director AMEI WALLACH (Recorded June 30, 2008) LOUISE BOURGEOIS: THE SPIDER, THE MISTRESS AND THE TANGERINE: This podcast is the introduction and Q & A with co-director AMEI WALLACH (Recorded June 30, 2008) 15:30 LOUISE BOURGEOIS: THE SPIDER, THE MISTRESS AND THE TANGERINE,AMEI WALLACH,Film Forum http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/LouiseBourgeoisIntroJune272008.mp3 LOUISE BOURGEOIS: THE SPIDER, THE MISTRESS AND THE TANGERINE: Introduction by co-director AMEI WALLACH (Recorded June 27, 2008) Podcasts Mon, 30 Jun 2008 17:30:00 EDT http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/LouiseBourgeoisIntroJune272008.mp3 Film Forum LOUISE BOURGEOIS: THE SPIDER, THE MISTRESS AND THE TANGERINE: This podcast is the Introduction by co-director AMEI WALLACH (Recorded June 27, 2008) LOUISE BOURGEOIS: THE SPIDER, THE MISTRESS AND THE TANGERINE: This podcast is Introduction by co-director AMEI WALLACH, recorded June 27, 2008 8:26 LOUISE BOURGEOIS: THE SPIDER, THE MISTRESS AND THE TANGERINE,AMEI WALLACH,Film Forum http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/Yojimbo.mp3 TATSUYA NAKADAI DISCUSSING YOJIMBO (in onstage interview at Film Forum, 6/24/08; moderator: Michael Jeck; interpreter: Catherine Cadou) Podcasts Mon, 30 Jun 2008 14:00:00 EDT http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/Yojimbo.mp3 Film Forum TATSUYA NAKADAI DISCUSSING YOJIMBO (in onstage interview at Film Forum, 6/24/08; moderator: Michael Jeck; interpreter: Catherine Cadou) YOJIMBO: (1961, AKIRA KUROSAWA) Met in a seemingly deserted village by a stray mutt sauntering past with a severed hand in its jaws, unemployed Toshiro Mifune realizes a skilled yojimbo (bodyguard) could sure rake in the ryo in this town. And after checking out the saké merchant’s thugs squaring off against the silk merchant’s goon squad, twice as much, if he hires out to both sides — but then he nearly meets his match in Nakadai’s pistol-waving killer (their confrontations are “like a face-off between John Wayne and Elvis Presley” – Stuart Gailbraith). This podcast is a clip from an onstage interview with TATSUYA NAKADAI at Film Forum, 6/24/08; moderator: Michael Jeck; interpreter: Catherine Cadou 3:24 YOJIMBO,Michael Jeck,Catherine Cadou,TATSUYA NAKADAI,samurai,Japanese,Film Forum http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/HarakiriJune202008.mp3 HARAKIRI: Q & A with star TATSUYA NAKADAI and his interpreter Ms. Cadou (Recorded June 20, 2008) Podcasts Mon, 23 Jun 2008 14:30:00 EDT http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/HarakiriJune202008.mp3 Film Forum HARAKIRI: Q & A with star TATSUYA NAKADAI and his interpreter Ms. Cadou (Recorded June 20, 2008) HARAKIRI: (1962, MASAKI KOBAYASHI) At an Edo clan mansion, ronin Nakadai, so penniless that ritual suicide is the only honorable way out, asks for a haven to commit seppuku, and three named samurai as his seconds. But as retainer Rentaro Mikuni relates the horrific outcome of a similar recent request, each of the seconds call in “sick” — and Nakadai begins to tell his story, leading to a climactic battle that’s “as exciting as any action-movie addict could wish” (Terrence Rafferty, New York Times). Winner, Cannes Jury Prize. This podcast is the Q & A with star TATSUYA NAKADAI and his interpreter Ms. Cadou, when they appeared live at a screening of the film at Film Forum on June 20, 2008. 47:52 HARAKIRI,RICHARD BRODY,TATSUYA NAKADAI,samurai,Japanese,Film Forum http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/MasculinFeminineMay252008.mp3 MASCULINE FEMININE: Introduction by author RICHARD BRODY (Recorded May 25, 2008) Podcasts Tue, 27 May 2008 12:45:00 EDT http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/MasculinFeminineMay252008.mp3 Film Forum MASCULINE FEMININE: Introduction by author RICHARD BRODY (Recorded May 25, 2008) MASCULINE FEMININE: (1966) “This film could be called ‘the children of Marx and Coca-Cola.’” Literary lion-wannabe Jean-Pierre Léaud chases budding yé yé star Chantal Goya, then gets a job as an unlikely opinion pollster. A portrait of youth and sex, with the story repeatedly interrupted: a woman blows away her husband; a scene in the Métro paraphrased from LeRoi Jones’ Dutchman; Brigitte Bardot rehearsing in a bistro; a Swedish artfilm-cum-sexfilm-within-a-film, etc., topped by Léaud’s probing off-camera questioning of “Miss Nineteen.” This podcast is the live introduction by author RICHARD BRODY, when he appeared live at a screening of the film at Film Forum on May 25, 2008. 12:57 MASCULINE FEMININE,RICHARD BRODY,Jean-Pierre Léaud,Godard,Godard’s 60s Series,Film Forum http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/LaChinoiseMay142008.mp3 LA CHINOISE: Introduction by author RICHARD BRODY (Recorded May 14, 2008) Podcasts Thu, 15 May 2008 12:15:00 EST http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/LaChinoiseMay142008.mp3 Film Forum LA CHINOISE: Introduction by author RICHARD BRODY (Recorded May 14, 2008) LA CHINOISE: (1967) Philosophy student Anne Wiazemsky (Au Hasard Balthazar, later Mme. Godard), actor Jean-Pierre Léaud, and friends, crashing at an apartment lent to them for the summer, form a Maoist cell; and then... Godard’s tour de force of idealism, naïveté, and flat affect includes red accents in nearly every shot; self-referential, Brechtian alienation; slogans, quotes, aphorisms on walls, posters, book jackets, and screen-filling title cards; and bizarre digressions. This podcast is Introduction by author RICHARD BRODY, when he appeared live at a screening of the film at Film Forum on May 14, 2008. 20:02 LA CHINOISE,RICHARD BRODY,Jean-Pierre Léaud,Godard,Mao,Anne Wiazemsky,Au Hasard Balthazar,Godard’s 60s Series,Film Forum http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/BattleforHadithaMay72008.mp3 BATTLE FOR HADITHA: Q & A with filmmaker Nick Broomfield and actor Elliot Ruiz (Recorded May 7, 2008) Podcasts Thu, 8 May 2008 14:00:00 EST http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/BattleforHadithaMay72008.mp3 Film Forum BATTLE FOR HADITHA: Q & A with filmmaker Nick Broomfield and actor Elliot Ruiz (Recorded May 7, 2008) BATTLE FOR HADITHA (2007) Veteran British documentarian Nick Broomfield strides into narrative filmaking with this gripping dramatization of the events leading to the November 2005 massacre of 24 Iraqi civilians at the hands of U.S. Marines. Using ex-Marines as actors and basing the chain of events on eyewitness testimonies from both Iraqis and Marines, Broomfield tackles his controversial subject in the verité tradition of BATTLE OF ALGIERS, plunging us headfirst into the action as he cuts among the stories of the American soldiers, a group of insurgents, and the Haditha villagers. Many of the actors had seen combat in Iraq, including Elliot Ruiz, a former U.S. Marine Corporal who was badly injured during an insurgent attack in Tikrit, and Eric Mehalacoupoulos, who did two tours of duty. BATTLE FOR HADITHA considers the humanity of the full spectrum of war’s victims: civilians caught in a maelstrom not of their making and young soldiers, themselves traumatized by the chaotic violence synonymous with this seemingly endless conflict. This podcast is Q & A with filmmaker Nick Broomfield and actor Elliot Ruiz, when they appeared live at a screening of the film at Film Forum on May 7, 2008. 24:52 BATTLE FOR HADITHA,Iraq,marines,war,Nick Broomfield,Elliot Ruiz,Film Forum http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/BreathlessMay22008.mp3 BREATHLESS: Introduction by agnès b (Recorded May 2, 2008) Podcasts Mon, 5 May 2008 11:00:00 EST http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/BreathlessMay22008.mp3 Film Forum BREATHLESS: Introduction by agnès b (Recorded May 2, 2008) BREATHLESS(1959) Lip-stroking pug Jean-Paul Belmondo on the run, shooting cops and stealing cars — and cash from the handbag of Herald Tribune-hawking girlfriend Jean Seberg; with the couple engaging in boudoir philosophy, staring contests, sous blanket tussles and plenty of le smoking. The start of JLG’s decade of supreme hipness and seemingly compulsive, often outrageous innovation. This podcast is the Introduction by agnès b, when she appeared live at a screening of the film at Film Forum on May 2, 2008. 3:27 BREATHLESS,agnès b,Jean-Paul Belmondo,Film Forum http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/LongGoodbyeApril302008.mp3 LONG GOODBYE: Introduction by JIM BOUTON (Recorded April 30, 2008) Podcasts Thu, 1 May 2008 15:15:00 EST http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/LongGoodbyeApril302008.mp3 Film Forum LONG GOODBYE: Introduction by JIM BOUTON (Recorded April 30, 2008) LONG GOODBYE: (1973, Robert Altman) Raymond Chandler Altman style, as Elliott Gould’s Philip Marlowe—in 70s L.A., but still driving a ’48 Lincoln—encounters Sterling Hayden’s boozy novelist, mysterious Nina Van Pallandt and director Mark Rydell’s Coke-bottle-wielding hood, while searching for pal (ex-Yankee pitching ace and Ball Four author) Jim Bouton. This podcast is the introduction byJIM BOUTON, recorded April 30, 2008, when he appeared live at a screening of the film at Film Forum. 8:05 LONG GOODBYE,JIM BOUTON,United Artists,Film Forum http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/ComingHomeApril222008.mp3 COMING HOME: Introduction by producer JEROME HELLMAN (Recorded April 22, 2008) Podcasts Wed, 23 Apr 2008 13:15:00 EST http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/ComingHomeApril222008.mp3 Film Forum COMING HOME: Introduction by producer JEROME HELLMAN (Recorded April 22, 2008) COMING HOME: (1978, Hal Ashby) Square army wife Jane Fonda, volunteering at a local veterans’ hospital while hubby Bruce Dern goes on active duty, meeting bitter paraplegic Jon Voight—and her first orgasm (in the most talked about scene)—in one of Hollywood’s first treatments of returning Vietnam vets. Oscar-winner for Best Actor (Voight), Actress (Fonda) and Original Screenplay (Waldo Salt, Robert C. Jones, Nancy Dowd). This podcast is the introduction by producer JEROME HELLMAN, recorded April 22, 2008, when he appeared live at a screening of the film at Film Forum. 9:28 COMING HOME,JEROME HELLMAN,Jane Fonda,Bruce Dern,Jon Voight,Waldo Salt,Robert C. Jones,Nancy Dowd,United Artists,Film Forum http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/StalagsApril92008.mp3 STALAGS: Q & A with director ARI LIBSKER (Recorded April 9, 2008) Podcasts Tue, 15 Apr 2008 12:00:00 EST http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/StalagsApril92008.mp3 Film Forum STALAGS: Q & A with director ARI LIBSKER (Recorded April 9, 2008) STALAGS: It was one of Israel’s dirty little secrets. In the early 1960s, as Israelis were being exposed for the first time to the shocking testimonies of Holocaust survivors at the trial of Adolf Eichmann, a series of pornographic pocket books called Stalags, based on Nazi themes, became best sellers throughout the land... The books told perverse tales of captured American or British pilots being abused by sadistic female SS officers outfitted with whips and boots. The plot usually ended with the male protagonists taking revenge, by raping and killing their tormentors... The Stalags, a peculiar Hebrew concoction of Nazism, sex and violence, are re-emerging in the public eye. – Isabel Kershner, The New York Times (Sept. 6, 07). Ari Libsker, a grandson of Holocaust survivors, explores this phenomenon by interviewing the men who wrote the Stalags, as well as Israeli survivors and cultural critics who consider how fantasy may seep into public consciousness and become indiscernible from the historical record. This podcast is of the live Q & A with STALAGS director ARI LIBSKER, recorded April 9, 2008 when he appeared live at a screening of the film at Film Forum. 22:23 STALAGS,ARI LIBSKER,Nazi,porn,Israel,Israeli porn,pornography,pulp,Adolf Eichmann,Nazism,sex,violence,Film Forum http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/BlindMountainMarch142008.mp3 BLIND MOUNTAIN: Q & A with director Li Yang translated by William Phuan (Recorded March 12, 2008) Podcasts Fri, 14 Mar 2008 11:30:00 EST http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/BlindMountainMarch142008.mp3 Film Forum BLIND MOUNTAIN: Q & A with director Li Yang translated by William Phuan (Recorded March 12, 2008) BLIND MOUNTAIN: Modern-day slavery in China: an attractive, urbane young woman travels to a remote village in mountainous Shaanxi province for a job she has been promised. Instead she is kidnapped, drugged, and sold into marriage. Huang Lu gives a stirring performance as the unwitting bride whose increasingly desperate and ingenious attempts to escape pit her against a corrupt community and its government enablers. Controversial Chinese filmmaker Li Yang (who exposed criminal scams in the Chinese mining industry in BLIND SHAFT) was inspired by the horrific reality of human trafficking for this riveting thriller. Real-life kidnapped brides were cast in several roles. This podcast is the live Q & A with director Li Yang translated by William Phuan, recorded March 12, 2008. 20:50 BLIND MOUNTAIN,Li Yang,William Phuan,Film Forum http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/FaceIntheCrowdMarch52008.mp3 A FACE IN THE CROWD: Author FOSTER HIRSCH discusses the film with BUDD SCHULBERG and PATRICIA NEAL (Recorded March 5, 2008) Podcasts Thu, 6 Mar 2008 16:30:00 EST http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/FaceIntheCrowdMarch52008.mp3 Film Forum A FACE IN THE CROWD: Author FOSTER HIRSCH discusses the film with BUDD SCHULBERG and PATRICIA NEAL (Recorded March 5, 2008) A FACE IN THE CROWD (1957, ELIA KAZAN) Guitar-plucking hobo Andy Griffith’s Lonesome Rhodes rockets from an Arkansas jail to TV stardom, thanks to Patricia Neal’s coaching, but then . . . Biting satire on advertising, the boob tube, and the marketing of politicians, from the On the Waterfront team of Kazan and Budd Schulberg, with a pre-grumpy Walter Matthau as a nice-guy writer and a baton-twirling Lee Remick, in her debut. Following the screening, film historian Foster Hirsch will interview legendary screenwriter/novelist Budd Schulberg and actress Patricia Neal on this and other high points of their long careers. This podcast is the live event with FOSTER HIRSCH discussing the film with BUDD SCHULBERG and PATRICIA NEAL, recorded March 5, 2008. 42:57 A FACE IN THE CROWD,FOSTER HIRSCH,BUDD SCHULBERG,PATRICIA NEAL,Film Forum http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/ChopShopFeb272008.mp3 CHOP SHOP: Q & A with director Ramin Bahrani & the film’s star, Alejandro Polanco (Recorded February 27, 2008) Podcasts Thu, 28 Feb 2008 16:50:00 EST http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/ChopShopFeb272008.mp3 Film Forum CHOP SHOP: Q & A with director Ramin Bahrani & the film’s star, Alejandro Polanco (Recorded February 27, 2008) CHOP SHOP: Ramin Bahrani, after his auspicious debut (MAN PUSH CART), sets his story of a 12-year-old Latino boy and his older sister in the no-man’s-land that is Willet’s Point, Queens, a 20-block stretch of junkyards and chop shops (where stolen cars are dismantled for parts), overshadowed by Shea Stadium’s giant billboard: “Make Dreams Happen.” Perhaps it is because Bahrani and co-author Bahareh Azimi are both of Iranian descent that they are able to conjure up an outsider’s reality with such palpable compassion and realism. Without a smidgeon of sentimentality, CHOP SHOP suggests that for many New York City is closer to a third world country than the glittering jewel in the crown of a land of infinite opportunity. This podcast is a Q & A with director Ramin Bahrani & the film’s star, Alejandro Polanco, recorded February 27, 2008, when they appeared at a screening of the film. 25:44 CHOP SHOP,Ramin Bahrani,Alejandro Polanco,Film Forum http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/OrientExpressFeb192008.mp3 MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS: Introduction by production designer TONY WALTON (Recorded February 19, 2008) Podcasts Wed, 20 Feb 2008 12:45:00 EST http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/OrientExpressFeb192008.mp3 Film Forum MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS: Introduction by production designer TONY WALTON recorded February 19, 2008, when he appeared at a screening of the film. MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS (1974) The supremely luxurious Orient Express is ignominiously trapped in a snowdrift, and even worse, one of the passengers has turned up dead — but not to worry: master detective Hercule Poirot is on board. Agatha Christie’s mystery classic proves a triumph of style, with Albert Finney’s Poirot topping an incredible all-star cast: Lauren Bacall, Sean Connery, Vanessa Redgrave, et al.*, with Ingrid Bergman Oscaring amid five other nominations (Cinematography, Costume Design, Original Score, Adapted Screenplay, and a Best Actor nod for Finney). This podcast is an introduction by production designer TONY WALTON, recorded February 19, 2008, when he appeared at a screening of the film. 21:04 MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS,production designer,TONY WALTON,LUMET,Film Forum http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/DontLookBackFeb42008.mp3 DONT LOOK BACK: Q & A with filmmaker D.A. PENNEBAKER (Recorded February 4, 2008) Podcasts Fri, 8 Feb 2008 16:00:00 EST http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/DontLookBackFeb42008.mp3 Film Forum DONT LOOK BACK: Q & A with filmmaker D.A. PENNEBAKER, recorded February 4, 2008, when he appeared at a screening of the film. DONT LOOK BACK: (1967) Bob Dylan, on tour in England in 1965, takes time out in hotel rooms to casually compose at a piano; keeps on typing as Joan Baez sings and plays beyond his right shoulder; subtly disses acolyte Donovan; argues with a buttoned-down Time correspondent — among the endless stream of reporters trailing in his wake — over “truth” and “facts”; mercilessly puts on a cleancut science student/ college journalist; and more than meets his match in a so-veddy-proper “high sheriff’s lady.” This podcast is a Q & A with filmmaker D.A. PENNEBAKER, recorded February 4, 2008, when he appeared at a screening of the film. 31:13 DONT LOOK BACK,Bob Dylan,D.A. PENNEBAKER,1965,Film Forum http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/DocJan232008.mp3 DOC: Q & A with filmmaker IMMY HUMES (Recorded January 23, 2008) Podcasts Thu, 24 Jan 2008 14:00:00 EST http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/DocJan232008.mp3 Film Forum DOC: Q & A with filmmaker IMMY HUMES, recorded January 23, 2008, when she appeared at a screening of her film. DOC: Harold L. Humes (aka Doc Humes) was brilliant and precocious (he went to MIT at 16), a literary phenomenon (the author of two acclaimed novels, The Underground City, Men Die, who never wrote again), who was instrumental in founding The Paris Review. He was also a deeply paranoid, peripatetic “talking machine” (so dubbed by George Plimpton), who charmed, confounded and infuriated his distinguished friends and far-flung family. Plimpton, Norman Mailer, Paul Auster, Peter Matthiessen, William Styron and Timothy Leary recall an extraordinary man, a Zelig-like figure who led a protest in Washington Square Park (“3000 Beatniks Riot in Village” – NY Daily Mirror headline), championed the use of medical marijuana, and managed Mailer’s 1961 run for Mayor of New York. His daughter Immy Humes, in Doc’s own words, “puts a frame around the wreckage” in her affectionate, yet profoundly disquieting portrait. This podcast is a Q & A with filmmaker IMMY HUMES, recorded January 23, 2008, when she appeared at a screening of this film. 14:22 DOC,Harold L. Humes,Doc Humes,IMMY HUMES,The Underground City,Men Die,beatniks,hippy,hippies,Plimpton,Norman Mailer,Paul Auster,Peter Matthiessen,William Styron,Timothy Leary,Film Forum http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/PremingerJan162008.mp3 OTTO PREMINGER: Author FOSTER HIRSCH introduces THE CARDINAL (Recorded January 16, 2008) Podcasts Tue, 22 Jan 2008 15:15:00 EST http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/PremingerJan162008.mp3 Film Forum OTTO PREMINGER: Author FOSTER HIRSCH introduces THE CARDINAL, recorded January 16, 2008, at Film Forum in New York City, when he appeared at a screening of the film. OTTO PREMINGER: Author FOSTER HIRSCH introduces THE CARDINAL, recorded January 16, 2008, at Film Forum in New York City, when he appeared at a screening of the film. 10:54 OTTO PREMINGER,THE CARDINAL,FOSTER HIRSCH,Film Forum http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/PremingerJan152008.mp3 OTTO PREMINGER: Author FOSTER HIRSCH introduces THE FAN (Recorded January 15, 2008) Podcasts Fri, 18 Jan 2008 10:15:00 EST http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/PremingerJan152008.mp3 Film Forum OTTO PREMINGER: Author FOSTER HIRSCH introduces THE FAN, recorded January 15, 2008, at Film Forum in New York City, when he appeared at a screening of the film. OTTO PREMINGER: Author FOSTER HIRSCH introduces THE FAN, recorded January 15, 2008, at Film Forum in New York City, when he appeared at a screening of the film. 11:22 OTTO PREMINGER,THE FAN,FOSTER HIRSCH,Film Forum http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/PremingerJan102008.mp3 OTTO PREMINGER: Author FOSTER HIRSCH introduces BUNNY LAKE IS MISSING and then does a Q & A with actor KEIR DULLEA (Recorded January 10, 2008) Podcasts Thu, 17 Jan 2008 12:00:00 EST http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/PremingerJan102008.mp3 Film Forum OTTO PREMINGER: Author FOSTER HIRSCH introduces BUNNY LAKE IS MISSING and then does a Q & A with actor KEIR DULLEA, recorded January 10, 2008, at Film Forum in New York City, when he appeared at a screening of the film. OTTO PREMINGER: Author FOSTER HIRSCH introduces BUNNY LAKE IS MISSING and then does a Q & A with actor KEIR DULLEA, recorded January 10, 2008, at Film Forum in New York City, when he appeared at a screening of the film. 28:53 OTTO PREMINGER,BUNNY LAKE IS MISSING,KEIR DULLEA,FOSTER HIRSCH,Film Forum http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/PremingerJan92008.mp3 OTTO PREMINGER: Author FOSTER HIRSCH and casting director LIONEL LARNER introduce SAINT JOAN (Recorded January 9, 2008) Podcasts Tue, 15 Jan 2008 14:15:00 EST http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/PremingerJan92008.mp3 Film Forum OTTO PREMINGER: Author FOSTER HIRSCH and casting director LIONEL LARNER introduce SAINT JOAN, recorded January 9, 2008 at Film Forum in New York City, when they appeared at a screening of the film. OTTO PREMINGER: Author FOSTER HIRSCH and casting director LIONEL LARNER introduce SAINT JOAN, recorded January 9, 2008 at Film Forum in New York City, when they appeared at a screening of the film. 12:03 OTTO PREMINGER,SAINT JOAN,FOSTER HIRSCH,LIONEL LARNER,Film Forum http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/PremingerJan82008.mp3 OTTO PREMINGER: Author FOSTER HIRSCH introduces IN HARM’S WAY (Recorded January 8, 2008) Podcasts Thu, 10 Jan 2008 13:15:00 EST http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/PremingerJan82008.mp3 Film Forum OTTO PREMINGER: Author FOSTER HIRSCH introduces IN HARM’S WAY, recorded January 8, 2008 at Film Forum in New York City, when he appeared at a screening of the film. OTTO PREMINGER: Author FOSTER HIRSCH introduces IN HARM’S WAY, recorded January 8, 2008 at Film Forum in New York City, when he appeared at a screening of the film. 12:49 OTTO PREMINGER,FOSTER HIRSCH,IN HARM’S WAY,Film Forum http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/PremingerJan72008.mp3 OTTO PREMINGER: Author FOSTER HIRSCH comments on THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN ARM and THE MOON IS BLUE (Recorded January 7, 2008) Podcasts Tue, 8 Jan 2008 14:15:00 EST http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/PremingerJan72008.mp3 Film Forum OTTO PREMINGER: Author FOSTER HIRSCH comments on THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN ARM and THE MOON IS BLUE, recorded January 7, 2008 at Film Forum in New York City, when he appeared at a screening of the films. OTTO PREMINGER: Author FOSTER HIRSCH comments on THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN ARM and THE MOON IS BLUE, recorded January 7, 2008 at Film Forum in New York City, when he appeared at a screening of the films. 14:09 OTTO PREMINGER,FOSTER HIRSCH,THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN ARM,THE MOON IS BLUE,Film Forum http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/HannahAndHerSistersDec142007.mp3 HANNAH AND HER SISTERS: Introduction by author ERIC LAX. (Recorded December 14, 2007) Podcasts Fri, 21 Dec 2007 10:15:00 EST http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/HannahAndHerSistersDec142007.mp3 Film Forum HANNAH AND HER SISTERS: Introduction by author ERIC LAX, recorded December 14, 2007 at Film Forum in New York City, when he appeared at a screening of the film. HANNAH AND HER SISTERS: WOODY ALLEN'S OSCAR-WINNING COMEDY, STARRING MIA FARROW AND MICHAEL CAINE, CONTINUES THROUGH THIS MONDAY, DECEMBER 24 IN A NEW 35mm PRINT. FINAL WEEK! 5:44 HANNAH AND HER SISTERS,ERIC LAX,Woody Allen,Film Forum http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/ViolinDec52007.mp3 THE VIOLIN: Q & A with filmmaker FRANCISCO VARGAS Q & translator REBECA CONGET (Recorded December 5, 2007) in Spanish & English Podcasts Thu, 6 Dec 2007 15:15:00 EST http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/ViolinDec52007.mp3 Film Forum THE VIOLIN: Q & A with filmmaker FRANCISCO VARGAS Q & translator REBECA CONGET, recorded December 5, 2007 at Film Forum in New York City, when they appeared at a screening of the film. THE VIOLIN: THE HIGHLY ACCLAIMED POLITICAL DRAMA FROM MEXICO, THROUGH TUESDAY, DECEMBER 11 ONLY 29:57 THE VIOLIN,FRANCISCO VARGAS,REBECA CONGET,Film Forum http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/LagerfeldConfidentialOct242007.mp3 LAGERFELD CONFIDENTIAL: Q & A with filmmaker RODOLPHE MARCONI (Recorded October 24, 2007) Podcasts Fri, 2 Nov 2007 16:15:00 EST http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/LagerfeldConfidentialOct242007.mp3 Film Forum LAGERFELD CONFIDENTIAL: Q & A with filmmaker RODOLPHE MARCONI, recorded October 24, 2007 at Film Forum in New York City, when he appeared at a screening of the film. LAGERFELD CONFIDENTIAL: INSIDE THE ULTRA-GLAM UNIVERSE OF A FASHION ICON; NEW DOCUMENTARY NOW PLAYING THROUGH TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 6. 14:39 LAGERFELD CONFIDENTIAL,RODOLPHE MARCONI,fashion,Film Forum http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/ControlOct242007.mp3 CONTROL: Q & A with actor SAM RILEY (Recorded October 24, 2007) Podcasts Wed, 31 Oct 2007 12:00:00 EST http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/ControlOct242007.mp3 Film Forum CONTROL: Q & A with actor SAM RILEY, recorded October 24, 2007 at Film Forum in New York City, when he appeared at a screening of the film. CONTROL: RIVETING PORTRAIT OF ENIGMATIC JOY DIVISION SINGER IAN CURTIS, MUST END THIS THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 1! 20:23 CONTROL,JOY DIVISION,IAN CURTIS,SAM RILEY,Film Forum http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/WarAndPeaceOct192007.mp3 WAR AND PEACE: Introduction by translators Richard Pevear & Larissa Volokhonsky (Recorded October 19, 2007) Podcasts Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:00:00 EST http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/WarAndPeaceOct192007.mp3 Film Forum WAR AND PEACE: Introduction by translators Richard Pevear & Larissa Volokhonsky, recorded October 19, 2007 at Film Forum in New York City, when he appeared at a screening of the film' opening day. WAR AND PEACE - FRI, OCT 19-THURS, NOV 1 TWO WEEKS-FIRST THEATRICAL SCREENINGS IN 40 YEARS! SUPER-EPIC ADAPTATION OF TOLSTOY’S CLASSIC, OSCAR-WINNER FOR BEST FOREIGN FILM, OPENS THIS FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19! TWO WEEKS ONLY! WAR AND PEACE WILL BE PRESENTED IN TWO PARTS. EACH PART CAN BE SEEN ON SEPARATE DAYS OR IN A SINGLE DAY ON WEDNESDAYS, SATURDAYS AND SUNDAYS. 15:05 WAR AND PEACE,Richard Pevear,Larissa Volokhonsky,Sergei Bondarchuk,Leo Tolstoy,Film Forum http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/BanishedSeptember262007.mp3 BANISHED: Q & A with director MARCO WILLIAMS (Recorded September 26, 2007) Podcasts Fri, 28 Sep 2007 11:15:00 EST http://www.filmforumnewyork.org/mp3/BanishedSeptember262007.mp3 Film Forum BANISHED: This podcast is Q&A with director MARCO WILLIAMS, recorded September 26, 2007 at Film Forum in New York City, when he appeared at a screening of the film' opening day. BANISHED: BETWEEN THE CIVIL WAR AND THE GREAT DEPRESSION, DOZENS OF SOUTHERN COUNTIES (AND NOT SO SOUTHERN ONES) BANISHED THRIVING AFRICAN-AMERICAN COMMUNITIES. This little-known phenomenon typically began with a criminal accusation of a black man and his lynching, followed by the violent eviction of all the black families living in the county — and the appropriation of their land. Today, these counties remain virtually all white and their victims’ descendants remain uncompensated. African-American filmmaker Marco Williams interviews both groups, traveling to Forsyth County (Georgia), Pierce City (Missouri) and Harrison (Arkansas). Handsome, soft-spoken, articulate and unfailingly polite, he is the perfect foil for drawing out KKK members and guilty liberals alike. He takes an incendiary subject and through force of personality weaves a thoughtful investigation of racism, responsibility and real estate. Showtimes: 1:00, 2:45, 4:30, 6:15, 8:00, 10:00 daily. 27:55 BANISHED,MARCO WILLIAMS,slavery,Film Forum http://01f070d.netsolhost.com/mp3/RomanceAndCigarettesSept72007.mp3 ROMANCE & CIGARETTES: Q&A with filmmaker JOHN TURTURRO (Recorded September 7, 2007) Podcasts Tue, 11 Sep 2007 10:45:00 EST http://01f070d.netsolhost.com/mp3/RomanceAndCigarettesSept72007.mp3 Film Forum ROMANCE & CIGARETTES: This podcast is Q&A with filmmaker JOHN TURTURRO, recorded September 7, 2007 at Film Forum in New York City, when he appeared at a screening of the film' opening day. ROMANCE & CIGARETTES: Missing James Gandolfini? In this long-awaited, down and dirty musical love story, he stars as Nick Murder, a Queens construction worker and family man who lusts after the local hottie (Kate Winslet) as his seething wife (Susan Sarandon) goes on the warpath, enlisting aid from her Elvis-wannabe cousin (Christopher Walken). Getting Neanderthal marital advice from his best friend (Steve Buscemi) won’t save Nick’s skin! With Bobby Cannavale, Mandy Moore, Mary-Louise Parker, Aida Turturro, Barbara Sukowa, Elaine Stritch, Eddie Izzard, Amy Sedaris. Showtimes: 1:00, 3:15, 5:30, 7:45, 10:00 daily. 20:07 ROMANCE & CIGARETTE,JOHN TURTURRO,Film Forum http://01f070d.netsolhost.com/mp3/MonasteryAug292007.mp3 THE MONASTERY: MR. VIG and THE NUN: Q&A with filmmaker Pernille Rose Grønkjær (Recorded August 29, 2007) Podcasts Fri, 31 Aug 2007 15:30:00 EST http://01f070d.netsolhost.com/mp3/MonasteryAug292007.mp3 Film Forum THE MONASTERY: MR. VIG and THE NUN. This podcast is Q&A with filmmaker Pernille Rose Grønkjæ, recorded August 29, 2007 at Film Forum in New York City. THE MONASTERY: MR. VIG and THE NUN: Mr. Vig is an elderly, deeply eccentric, never-married Dane, living alone in a ramshackle castle; he dreams of donating his homestead to the Russian Orthodox Church to become a monastery. In a long black overcoat, with a shock of unruly white hair, and glasses perched on the tip of his nose, he looks like a character straight out of Dickens. Enter Sister Ambrosija, a remarkably attractive young Russian nun, who arrives with a small entourage and plans to whip the place into shape. A whirlwind of activity (days begin at 5:30 am), she insists upon extensive repairs; Mr. Vig wants Band-Aids where she suggests surgery. Their contest of wills plays out in humorous, offbeat encounters that take unexpected turns as two unlikely people find companionship and common ground. Hauntingly shot, THE MONASTERY is a modern fairytale with timeless roots. 20:50 THE MONASTERY: MR. VIG and THE NUN,Pernille Rose Grønkjæ,Film Forum http://01f070d.netsolhost.com/mp3/PhantomLadyAug152007.mp3 PHANTOM LADY: Introduction by author JAMES ELLROY (Recorded August 15, 2007) Podcasts Wed, 29 Aug 2007 12:45:00 EST http://01f070d.netsolhost.com/mp3/PhantomLadyAug152007.mp3 Film Forum PHANTOM LADY: screened as part of our NYC NOIR series currently running at Film Forum. This podcast is an introduction by author JAMES ELLROY, recorded August 15, 2007 at Film Forum in New York City. PHANTOM LADY (1944, ROBERT SIODMAK) Ella Raines and Franchot Tone desperately search for a condemned man’s only hope to beat a wife-murder rap—the nameless woman he met in a bar. With orgasmic Elisha Cook Jr. drum solo. From a Cornell Woolrich novel, with “the essential ingredients of Woolrich’s world, the desperate innocent at loose at night in New York City, a city of hot sweltering streets...” (Robert Porfiro). 6:53 PHANTOM LADY,ROBERT SIODMAK,JAMES ELLROY,Film Forum yes http://01f070d.netsolhost.com/mp3/TattooedStrangerAug92007.mp3 THE TATTOOED STRANGER: Introduction by Film Historian BRUCE EDER (Recorded August 9, 2007) Podcasts Fri, 24 Aug 2007 11:45:00 EST http://01f070d.netsolhost.com/mp3/TattooedStrangerAug92007.mp3 Film Forum THE TATTOOED STRANGER: screened as part of our NYC NOIR series currently running at Film Forum. This podcast is an introduction by Film Historian BRUCE EDER, recorded August 9, 2007, when he appeared at Film Forum in New York City. THE TATTOOED STRANGER: (1950, EDWARD J. MONTAGNE) When a brutally-murdered tattooed woman is found near the pre-jogging, pre-Onassis Central Park reservoir, an NYPD Homicide rookie trails a serial killer from Brooklyn to the Bronx. 9:50 THE TATTOOED STRANGER,EDWARD J. MONTAGNE,BRUCE EDER,Film Forum http://01f070d.netsolhost.com/mp3/LoveForSaleAug172007.mp3 LOVE FOR SALE: Q&A with screenwriter MAURICIO ZACHARIAS (Recorded August 17, 2007) Podcasts Mon, 20 Aug 2007 14:59 EST http://01f070d.netsolhost.com/mp3/LoveForSaleAug172007.mp3 Film Forum LOVE FOR SALE - AN AFFECTING BRAZILIAN DRAMA FROM KARIM AINOUZ currently screening at Film Forum. This podcast is a Q&A with screenwriter MAURICIO ZACHARIAS, recorded August 17, 2007, when he appeared at Film Forum in New York City. LOVE FOR SALE - AN AFFECTING BRAZILIAN DRAMA FROM KARIM AINOUZ currently screening at Film Forum. This podcast is a Q&A with screenwriter MAURICIO ZACHARIAS, recorded August 17, 2007, when he appeared at Film Forum in New York City for a screening of the film. 14:20 LOVE FOR SALE,KARIM AINOUZ,MAURICIO ZACHARIAS,BRAZIL,prostitution,prostitute,Film Forum http://01f070d.netsolhost.com/mp3/NoEndInSightJuly282007.mp3 NO END IN SIGHT - Q&A with director CHARLES FERGUSON (Recorded July 28, 2007) Podcasts Fri, 27 Jul 2007 20:00 EST http://01f070d.netsolhost.com/mp3/NoEndInSightJuly282007.mp3 Film Forum NO END IN SIGHT - A NO HOLDS BARRED LOOK AT THE ORIGINS OF THE IRAQ WAR currently screening at Film Forum. This podcast is a Q&A with director CHARLES FERGUSON, recorded July 28, 2007, when he appeared at Film Forum in New York City on opening day. NO END IN SIGHT - A NO HOLDS BARRED LOOK AT THE ORIGINS OF THE IRAQ WAR currently screening at Film Forum. This podcast is a Q&A with director CHARLES FERGUSON, recorded July 28, 2007, when he appeared at Film Forum in New York City on opening day. 11:10 NO END IN SIGHT,Iraq,war,Iraq War,CHARLES FERGUSON,George Bush,Film Forum http://01f070d.netsolhost.com/mp3/LiveInMaidJuly182007.mp3 Q&A with LIVE IN MAID director Jorge Gaggero (recorded July 18, 2007) Podcasts Wed, 18 Jul 2007 20:10 EST http://01f070d.netsolhost.com/mp3/LiveInMaidJuly182007.mp3 Film Forum Q&A with LIVE IN MAID director Jorge Gaggero (recorded July 18, 2007) Q&A with LIVE IN MAID director Jorge Gaggero, recorded July 18, 2007, when he appeared at Film Forum in New York City at the screening. 19:32 LIVE IN MAID,Jorge Gaggero,Argentina,Film Forum http://www.filmforum.org/audio/FlyingJuly52007.mp3 Q&A with FLYING director Jennifer Fox (Recorded July 5, 2007) Podcasts Thu, 5 Jul 2007 20:15 EST http://www.filmforum.org/audio/FlyingJuly52007.mp3 Film Forum Q&A with FLYING director Jennifer Fox (Recorded July 5, 2007) Q&A with FLYING director Jennifer Fox, recorded July 5, 2007, when she appeared at Film Forum in New York City at the screening. 30:35 FLYING: Confessions of a Free Woman,Jennifer Fox,Film Forum http://www.filmforum.org/audio/ManufacturedJune202007.mp3 Q&A with MANUFACTURED LANDSCAPES filmmaker Jennifer Baichwal & photographer Edward Burtynsky (Recorded June 20, 2007) Podcasts Wed, 20 Jun 2007 20:10 EST http://www.filmforum.org/audio/ManufacturedJune202007.mp3 Film Forum Q&A with MANUFACTURED LANDSCAPES filmmaker Jennifer Baichwal & photographer Edward Burtynsky (Recorded June 20, 2007) Q&A with MANUFACTURED LANDSCAPES filmmaker Jennifer Baichwal & photographer Edward Burtynsky, recorded June 20, 2007, when they appeared at Film Forum in New York City at the screening. 27:26 MANUFACTURED LANDSCAPES,Jennifer Baichwal,Edward Burtynsky,Film Forum http://www.filmforum.org/audio/HerzogMay212007.mp3 Werner Herzog introduces SANS SOLEIL and LES MAÎTRES FOUS, followed by Q&A (Recorded May 21, 2007) Podcasts Fri, 1 Jun 2007 14:44 EST http://www.filmforum.org/audio/HerzogMay212007.mp3 Film Forum Werner Herzog introduces SANS SOLEIL and LES MAÎTRES FOUS, followed by Q&A (Recorded May 21, 2007) Werner Herzog introduces SANS SOLEIL and LES MAÎTRES FOUS, followed by Q&A, recorded May 21, 2007, when he appeared at Film Forum in New York City at the screening. 26:24 SANS SOLEIL,LES MAÎTRES FOUS,Werner Herzog,Film Forum http://www.filmforum.org/audio/HerzogINTROMay202007.mp3 Werner Herzog introduces THE GREAT ECSTASY OF WOODCARVER STEINER (Recorded May 20, 2007) Podcasts Sun, 20 May 2007 20:20:00 EST http://www.filmforum.org/audio/HerzogINTROMay202007.mp3 Film Forum Werner Herzog introduces THE GREAT ECSTASY OF WOODCARVER STEINER (Recorded May 20, 2007) Werner Herzog introduces THE GREAT ECSTASY OF WOODCARVER STEINER, recorded May 20, 2007, when he appeared at Film Forum in New York City at the screening of THE GREAT ECSTASY OF WOODCARVER STEINER. 8:34 THE GREAT ECSTASY OF WOODCARVER STEINER,Werner Herzog,Film Forum http://www.filmforum.org/audio/HerzogMay202007.mp3 THE WHITE DIAMOND Q&A with director Werner Herzog (Recorded May 20, 2007) Podcasts Sun, 20 May 2007 20:20:00 EST http://www.filmforum.org/audio/HerzogMay202007.mp3 Film Forum THE WHITE DIAMOND Q&A with director Werner Herzog (Recorded May 20, 2007) THE WHITE DIAMOND Q&A with director Werner Herzog, recorded May 20, 2007, when he appeared at Film Forum in New York City at the screening of THE WHITE DIAMOND. 23:12 THE WHITE DIAMOND,Werner Herzog,Film Forum http://www.filmforum.org/audio/HerzogMay192007.mp3 LITTLE DIETER NEEDS TO FLY Q&A with director Werner Herzog (Recorded May 19, 2007) Podcasts Sat, 19 May 2007 19:00:00 EST http://www.filmforum.org/audio/HerzogMay192007.mp3 Film Forum LITTLE DIETER NEEDS TO FLY Q&A with director Werner Herzog (Recorded May 19, 2007) LITTLE DIETER NEEDS TO FLY Q&A with director Werner Herzog, recorded May 19, 2007, when he appeared at Film Forum in New York City at the 7:00 screening of LITTLE DIETER NEEDS TO FLY. 26:35 LITTLE DIETER NEEDS TO FLY,Werner Herzog,Film Forum http://www.filmforum.org/audio/OurManFlintMay32007.mp3 Lee Pfeiffer and Eddy Friedfeld of Cinema Retro magazine introduce OUR MAN FLINT (Recorded May 3, 2007) Podcasts Thu, 3 May 2007 19:30:00 EST http://www.filmforum.org/audio/OurManFlintMay32007.mp3 Film Forum Lee Pfeiffer and Eddy Friedfeld of Cinema Retro magazine introduce OUR MAN FLINT (Recorded May 3, 2007) Lee Pfeiffer and Eddy Friedfeld of Cinema Retro magazine introduce OUR MAN FLINT, recorded May 3, 2007, when they appeared at Film Forum in New York City at the 7:30 screening of OUR MAN FLINT. 10:48 OUR MAN FLINT,Lee Pfeiffer,Eddy Friedfeld,Cinema Retro magazine,Film Forum http://www.filmforum.org/audio/JoanofOzarkApril92007.mp3 Q&A with Broadway and television star Diana Canova, daughter of Judy Canova (Recorded April 9, 2007) Podcasts Mon, 9 Apr 2007 20:00:00 EST http://www.filmforum.org/audio/JoanofOzarkApril92007.mp3 Film Forum Q&A with Broadway and television star Diana Canova, daughter of Judy Canova (Recorded April 9, 2007) Q&A with Broadway and television star Diana Canova, daughter of Judy Canova, recorded April 9, 2007, when she appeared at Film Forum in New York City at the film's screening. 11:57 Diana Canova,Judy Canova,JOAN OF OZARK,SIS HOPKINS,HIT THE HAY,B Musicals,Film Forum http://www.filmforum.org/audio/BuckPrivatesApril82007.mp3 Film historian Bruce Eder introduces BUCK PRIVATES (Recorded April 8, 2007) Podcasts Sun, 8 Apr 2007 20:30:00 EST http://www.filmforum.org/audio/BuckPrivatesApril82007.mp3 Film Forum Film historian Bruce Eder introduces BUCK PRIVATES (Recorded April 8, 2007) Film historian Bruce Eder introduces BUCK PRIVATES, recorded April 8, 2007, when he appeared at Film Forum in New York City at the film's screening. 14:57 Bruce Eder,BUCK PRIVATES,B Musicals,Film Forum http://www.filmforum.org/audio/MargeChampionApril72007.mp3 EVERYTHING I HAVE IS YOURS Q&A with legendary musical star Marge Champion (Recorded April 7, 2007) Podcasts Sat, 7 Apr 2007 19:40:00 EST http://www.filmforum.org/audio/MargeChampionApril72007.mp3 Film Forum EVERYTHING I HAVE IS YOURS Q&A with legendary musical star Marge Champion (Recorded April 7, 2007) EVERYTHING I HAVE IS YOURS Q&A with legendary musical star Marge Champion, recorded April 7, 2007, when she appeared at Film Forum in New York City at the film's screening. 23:49 EVERYTHING I HAVE IS YOURS,Marge Champion,B Musicals,Film Forum http://www.filmforum.org/audio/IntoGreatSilenceMarch102007.mp3 INTO GREAT SILENCE Q&A with Father Michael Holleran (Recorded March 10, 2007) Podcasts Sat, 10 Mar 2007 13:16:00 EST http://www.filmforum.org/audio/IntoGreatSilenceMarch102007.mp3 Film Forum INTO GREAT SILENCE Q&A with Father Michael Holleran (Recorded March 10, 2007) INTO GREAT SILENCE Q&A with Father Michael Holleran, Recorded March 10, 2007, when he appeared at Film Forum in New York City at the film's screening. 32:28 INTO GREAT SILENCE,Father Michael Holleran,monk,silence,order,catholic,catholicism,Christian,Carthusian,Philip Gröning,Christianity,church,Film Forum http://www.filmforum.org/audio/JamesCromwellFeb232007.mp3 Actor James Cromwell introduces DOUBLE HARNESS (Recorded February 23, 2007) Podcasts Fri, 23 Feb 2007 19:00:00 EST http://www.filmforum.org/audio/JamesCromwellFeb232007.mp3 Film Forum Actor James Cromwell introduces DOUBLE HARNESS (Recorded February 23, 2007) Actor James Cromwell introduces DOUBLE HARNESS, Recorded February 23, 2007, when he appeared at Film Forum in New York City at the film's screening. 8:01 James Cromwell,DOUBLE HARNESS,RKO,Film Forum http://www.filmforum.org/audio/GrbavicaFeb162007b.mp3 Q&A with GRBAVICA filmmaker Jasmila Zbanic (Recorded February 16, 2007) - CORRECTED FILE Podcasts Thu, 22 Feb 2007 13:50:00 EST http://www.filmforum.org/audio/GrbavicaFeb162007b.mp3 Film Forum Q&A with GRBAVICA filmmaker Jasmila Zbanic (Recorded February 16, 2007) Q&A with GRBAVICA filmmaker Jasmila Zbanic, Recorded February 16, 2007, when she appeared at Film Forum in New York City at the film's screening. [This is replacement of original that had corrupted mp3 file] 16:57 GRBAVICA,Jasmila Zbanic,Film Forum http://www.filmforum.org/audio/BamakoFeb142007.mp3 Q&A discussing BAMAKO with Danny Glover (Recorded February 14, 2007) Podcasts Wed, 14 Feb 2007 19:20:00 EST http://www.filmforum.org/audio/BamakoFeb142007.mp3 Film Forum Q&A discussing BAMAKO with Danny Glover (Recorded February 14, 2007) Q&A discussing BAMAKO with Danny Glover. Recorded on February 14, 2007, when he appeared at Film Forum in New York City at the film's screening. 27:50 BAMAKO,Danny Glover,Film Forum http://www.filmforum.org/audio/2or3ThingsIKnowAboutHim.mp3 Q&A with 2 OR 3 THINGS I KNOW ABOUT HIM director Malte Ludin and producer Iva Scarcova (Recorded January 24, 2007) Podcasts Wed, 24 Jan 2007 19:45:00 EST http://www.filmforum.org/audio/2or3ThingsIKnowAboutHim.mp3 Film Forum Q&A with 2 OR 3 THINGS I KNOW ABOUT HIM director Malte Ludin and producer Iva Scarcova (Recorded on January 24, 2007) Q&A with 2 OR 3 THINGS I KNOW ABOUT HIM director Malte Ludin and producer Iva Scarcova. Recorded on January 24, 2007, when they appeared at Film Forum in New York City at the film's screening. 24:30 2 OR 3 THINGS I KNOW ABOUT HIM,Malte Ludin,Iva Scarcova,Nazi,WWII,Film Forum http://www.filmforum.org/audio/AgnesMartinJan122007.mp3 Q&A with AGNES MARTIN: WITH MY BACK TO THE WORLD director Mary Lance (Recorded January 12, 2007) Podcasts Fri, 12 Jan 2007 20:00:00 EST http://www.filmforum.org/audio/AgnesMartinJan122007.mp3 Film Forum Q&A with AGNES MARTIN: WITH MY BACK TO THE WORLD director Mary Lance (Recorded January 12, 2007) Q&A with AGNES MARTIN: WITH MY BACK TO THE WORLD director Mary Lance, recorded January 12, 2007, when she appeared at Film Forum in New York City at the film's screening. 11:27 AGNES MARTIN: WITH MY BACK TO THE WORLD,Mary Lance,AGNES MARTIN,artist,art,Film Forum http://www.filmforum.org/audio/KikiSmithJan102007.mp3 QandA with Kiki Smith and KIKI SMITH: SQUATTING THE PALACE directors Vivien Bittencourt and Vincent Katz (Recorded January 10, 2007) Podcasts Wed, 10 Jan 2007 20:00:00 EST http://www.filmforum.org/audio/KikiSmithJan102007.mp3 Film Forum QandA with Kiki Smith and KIKI SMITH: SQUATTING THE PALACE directors Vivien Bittencourt and Vincent Katz (Recorded January 10, 2007) QandA with Kiki Smith and KIKI SMITH: SQUATTING THE PALACE directors Vivien Bittencourt and Vincent Katz. Recorded January 10, 2007, when they appeared at Film Forum in New York City at the film's screening. 19:40 Vivien Bittencourt,Vincent Katz,KIKI SMITH,KIKI SMITH: SQUATTING THE PALACE,Film Forum http://www.filmforum.org/audio/ArmyOfShadowsJan102007.mp3 Director of Photography Pierre Lhomme introduces ARMY OF SHADOWS (Recorded January 10, 2007) Podcasts Wed, 10 Jan 2007 18:45:00 EST http://www.filmforum.org/audio/ArmyOfShadowsJan102007.mp3 Film Forum Director of Photography Pierre Lhomme introduces ARMY OF SHADOWS Pierre Lhomme, Director of Photography for ARMY OF SHADOWS, introducing ARMY OF SHADOWS. Recorded January 10, 2007, when he appeared at Film Forum in New York City at the film's screening. 6:54 Pierre Lhomme,ARMY OF SHADOWS,Director of Photography,Film Forum http://www.filmforum.org/audio/InteriorsJan92007.mp3 Actress Mary Beth Hurt introduces Woody Allen’s INTERIORS (Recorded January 9, 2007) Podcasts Tue, 9 Jan 2007 20:00:00 EST http://www.filmforum.org/audio/InteriorsJan92007.mp3 Film Forum Actress Mary Beth Hurt introduces Woody Allen’s INTERIORS (Recorded January 9, 2007) WOODY ALLEN FESTIVAL at Film Forum. Actress Mary Beth Hurt introduces Woody Allen’s INTERIORS. Recorded January 9, 2007, when she appeared at Film Forum in New York City at the film's screening. 5:52 Mary Beth Hurt,Woody Allen,INTERIORS,essentially woody http://www.filmforum.org/audio/EllenBrunoJan032007.mp3 Q&A with SACRIFICE / LEPER / SKY BURIAL director Ellen Bruno (Recorded January 3, 2007) Podcasts Wed, 3 Jan 2007 13:00:00 EST http://www.filmforum.org/audio/EllenBrunoJan032007.mp3 Film Forum Q&A with SACRIFICE / LEPER / SKY BURIAL director Ellen Bruno (Recorded January 3, 2007) PROGRAM OF ELLEN BRUNO'S PROFOUNDLY REVELATORY, DEEPLY POETIC DOCUMENTARIES FROM THE FAR EAST OPENS PLAYS THROUGH TUESDAY, JANUARY 9. This Q&A with director Ellen Bruno was recorded live on January 3, 2007 when she appeared at Film Forum in New York City 27:22 SACRIFICE,LEPER,SKY BURIAL,Ellen Bruno http://www.filmforum.org/audio/SweetAndLowdownJan22007.mp3 Jazz legend Vince Giordano introduces SWEET AND LOWDOWN (recorded January 2, 2007) Podcasts Tue, 2 Jan 2007 13:00:00 EST http://www.filmforum.org/audio/SweetAndLowdownJan22007.mp3 Film Forum Jazz legend Vince Giordano introduces SWEET AND LOWDOWN (recorded January 2, 2007) Jazz legend Vince Giordano introduces SWEET AND LOWDOWN, which played as part of our ESSENTIALLY WOODY Film Series (recorded on January 2, 2007 at Film Forum in New York City) 7:29 SWEET AND LOWDOWN,Vince Giordano,Woody Allen http://www.filmforum.org/audio/WildManBluesJan22007.mp3 filmmaker Barbara Kopple introduces WILD MAN BLUES (recorded January 2, 2007) Podcasts Tue, 2 Jan 2007 13:01:00 EST http://www.filmforum.org/audio/WildManBluesJan22007.mp3 Film Forum filmmaker Barbara Kopple introduces WILD MAN BLUES (recorded January 2, 2007) filmmaker Barbara Kopple introduces WILD MAN BLUES, which played as part of our ESSENTIALLY WOODY Film Series (recorded on January 2, 2007 at Film Forum in New York City) 12:22 WILD MAN BLUES,Barbara Kopple,Woody Allen http://www.filmforum.org/audio/MyDadIs100YearsOldDec72006.mp3 MY DAD IS 100 YEARS OLD Q&A with Isabella Rossellini (recorded December 7, 2006) Podcasts Fri, 8 Dec 2006 13:00:00 EST http://www.filmforum.org/audio/MyDadIs100YearsOldDec72006.mp3 Film Forum MY DAD IS 100 YEARS OLD Q&A with Isabella Rossellini MY DAD IS 100 YEARS OLD Q&A with Isabella Rossellini (recorded December 7, 2006 at Film Forum in New York City) 22:02 MY DAD IS 100 YEARS OLD,Isabella Rossellini,Ingred Bergman http://www.filmforum.org/audio/BergmanIslandDec62006.mp3 Q&A with BERGMAN ISLAND director Marie Nyreröd (recorded December 6, 2006) Podcasts Thu, 7 Dec 2006 15:12:00 EST http://www.filmforum.org/audio/BergmanIslandDec62006.mp3 Film Forum Q&A with BERGMAN ISLAND director Marie Nyreröd Q&A with BERGMAN ISLAND director Marie Nyreröd (recorded December 6, 2006) 17:47 BERGMAN ISLAND,Marie Nyreröd,Ingmar Bergman http://www.filmforum.org/audio/iraq_q_and_a.mp3 Q&A with IRAQ IN FRAGMENTS filmmaker James Longley (recorded November 8, 2006) Podcasts Thu, 9 Nov 2006 15:12:00 EST http://www.filmforum.org/audio/iraq_q_and_a.mp3 Film Forum IRAQ IN FRAGMENTS Q&A Q&A with IRAQ IN FRAGMENTS filmmaker James Longley 24:07 IRAQ IN FRAGMENTS,James Longley,Iraq,war http://www.filmforum.org/audio/ExitNov22006.mp3 EXIT: Q&A with Barbara Combs Lee, David Leven and Judith Schwartz (recorded November 2, 2006) Podcasts Fri, 3 Nov 2006 16:30:00 EST http://www.filmforum.org/audio/ExitNov22006.mp3 Film Forum EXIT EXIT: Q&A with Barbara Combs Lee (Compassion and Choices President), David Leven (Executive Director NY branch), Judith Schwartz (Patient Support Coordinator) 18:01 EXIT,Barbara Combs Lee,David Leven,Judith Schwartz,euthanasia,right to die,suicide http://www.filmforum.org/audio/WrestlingWithAngelsMP3.mp3 Q&A with Tony Kushner and WRESTLING WITH ANGELS filmmaker Freida Lee Mock! (recorded October 4 & 6, 2006) Podcasts Wed, 11 Oct 2006 13:00:00 EST http://www.filmforum.org/audio/WrestlingWithAngelsMP3.mp3 Film Forum WRESTLING WITH ANGELS Q&A with Tony Kushner and WRESTLING WITH ANGELS filmmaker Freida Lee Mock! (recorded October 4 & 6, 2006) 30:19 WRESTLING WITH ANGELS,Freida Lee Mock,Tony Kushner http://www.filmforum.org/audio/TimeBandits10032006.mp3 QandA with TIME BANDITS director Terry Gilliam (Oct 3, 2006) Podcasts Fri, 6 Oct 2006 16:44:00 EST http://www.filmforum.org/audio/TimeBandits10032006.mp3 Film Forum PYTHONALOT Terry Gilliam appearing in person at 7:30 show of TIME BANDITS on Oct 3, 2006 at Film Forum! 31:08 Terry Gilliam,MONY PYTHON,TIME BANDITS,JABBERWOCKY yes http://www.filmforum.org/audio/OldJoySept222006MP3.mp3 Q&A with YO LA TENGO and OLD JOY director KELLY REICHARDT (Recorded Sept 22, 2006) Podcasts Mon, 25 Sep 2006 17:30:00 EST http://www.filmforum.org/audio/OldJoySept222006MP3.mp3 Film Forum Old Joy Two friends in their 30s, played by alt-country singer/songwriter Will Oldham and Daniel London, embark on a camping trip in the majestic Cascade Mountains near Portland, Oregon. One is on the verge of fatherhood, the other, more mysterious, has no strings attached. The trajectory of their relationship, surrounded by gorgeous wilderness, makes for a minimalist yet powerful tale of friendship and alienation in Bush-era America. With original music by Yo La Tengo. 24:25 Old Joy,YO LA TENGO,KELLY REICHARDT yes http://www.filmforum.org/audio/PaperDolls09072006.mp3 Q&A with PAPER DOLLS filmmaker TOMER HEYMANN (Recorded September 7, 2006) Podcasts Wed, 13 Sep 2006 14:30:00 EST http://www.filmforum.org/audio/PaperDolls09072006.mp3 Film Forum Q&A with PAPER DOLLS filmmaker TOMER HEYMANN (Recorded September 7, 2006) Throughout the world, struggling people cross borders illegally to find work and make a better life for themselves: Mexicans in the US, Turks in Germany and North Africans in France. But only Israel has a population of illegal Filipinos of indeterminate gender who care for the elderly Orthodox – and for whom they often become substitute children. PAPER DOLLS follows five such men, refugees from families that reject them, who've made a home in Tel Aviv, Israel's most swinging city. Fast friends, they spend their free time on stage, as the drag queen ensemble, Paper Dolls. A multiple-prize winner at the most recent Berlin Film Festival, the film takes a thoughtful, variously humorous and poignant look at people whose very lives redefine conventional notions of gender, family and love. 15:28 Paper Dolls,TOMER HEYMANN http://www.filmforum.org/audio/13TzametiJuly282006.mp3 Q&A session with 13 TZAMETI Director Gela Babluani Podcasts Tue, 1 Aug 2006 15:00:00 EST http://www.filmforum.org/audio/13TzametiJuly282006.mp3 Film Forum Q&A session with 13 TZAMETI Director Gela Babluani (Recorded July 28, 2006) Twenty-two-year-old Sebastien (Georges Babluani) leads an impoverished life with his immigrant family constantly struggling to support them. While repairing the roof of a neighbor's house, he overhears a conversation about an expected package which promises to make the household rich. Sensing the opportunity of a lifetime, Sebastien intercepts the package which contains a series of specific instructions. Following the clues, he assumes a false identity and manages to slip through the grasp of the enclosing police as he ventures deeper and deeper into the countryside. The closer he gets to his destination and the more people he meets along the way, the less he understands about what he is looking for. Ultimately, he comes face to face with a ring of clandestine gamblers placing bets on the outcome of a multi-player, high stakes tournament of Russian roulette. Directed by newcomer Gela Babluani, 13 TZAMETI is a winner-take-all thriller, where an unfortunate young man is transformed into Contestant #13 with no way out save his luck. 20:36 13 TZAMETI,Gela Babluani http://www.filmforum.org/audio/ExcellentCadaversJuly122006.mp3 Q&A session with EXCELLENT CADAVERS author Alexander Stille Podcasts Thu, 13 Jul 2006 12:00:00 EST http://www.filmforum.org/audio/ExcellentCadaversJuly122006.mp3 Film Forum Q&A session with EXCELLENT CADAVERS author Alexander Stille (Recorded July 12, 2006) EXCELLENT CADAVERS: A powerful, mind-boggling documentary, based on the eponymous book by Alexander Stille about the Sicialian Mafia and the heroic prosecutors Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino - who brought hundreds of criminals to trial beginning in the 1980s (in '82 there was a Mafia killing in Palermo every 3 days), until they themselves were murdered in 1992. Their work galvanized public outrage as Mafia foot soldiers testified in court that they threw bodies into vats of acid to liquefy them. The violence they described was embodied by the no-holds-barred photographs of death in the streets, made by Letizia Battaglia, who appears in the film. The Mafia's pervasive hold on Italy is documented here, as well as the entrenched corruption of the nation's politicians, dating back to the end of World War II, when Mafia figures were installed in positions of power to counteract the growth of the Italian Communist Party. 24:50 EXCELLENT CADAVERS,Alexander Stille http://www.filmforum.org/audio/TheMotelQandAJun282006.mp3 Q&A session with filmmaker Michael Kang and the cast of THE MOTEL Podcasts Thu, 29 Jun 2006 12:00:00 EST http://www.filmforum.org/audio/TheMotelQandAJun282006.mp3 Film Forum Q&A session with filmmaker Michael Kang and the cast of THE MOTEL (Recorded June 28, 2006) THE MOTEL: Michael Kang's debut feature, in the words of Variety, "signals the arrival of a singularly promising filmmaker." With extraordinary subtlety of feeling, THE MOTEL tells a coming-of-age tale of chubby, 13-year-old Ernest (Jeffrey Chyau), a second generation Chinese-American, who helps run his mother's sleazy rent-by-the-hour motel. His relationship with teenage Christine (Samantha Futerman, who played the young lead in MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA), who works at her family's Chinese restaurant, is soon overshadowed by a charismatic stranger (Sung Kang, from BETTER LUCK TOMORROW), a sexy Korean-American ne'er-do-well inhabiting the motel for trysts with prostitutes. Kang uses the specific realities of these Asian-American lives to create a believable, nuanced universe not defined by ethnicity - a world recognizable to anyone who has survived adolescence. 21:57 Michael Kang,THE MOTEL http://www.filmforum.org/audio/TheMotel3Jun222006.mp3 filmmaker Michael Kang and actor Jeffrey Chyau discuss THE MOTEL Podcasts Fri, 23 Jun 2006 12:00:00 EST http://www.filmforum.org/audio/TheMotel3Jun222006.mp3 Film Forum filmmaker Michael Kang and actor Jeffrey Chyau discuss THE MOTEL THE MOTEL: Michael Kang's debut feature, in the words of Variety, "signals the arrival of a singularly promising filmmaker." With extraordinary subtlety of feeling, THE MOTEL tells a coming-of-age tale of chubby, 13-year-old Ernest (Jeffrey Chyau), a second generation Chinese-American, who helps run his mother's sleazy rent-by-the-hour motel. His relationship with teenage Christine (Samantha Futerman, who played the young lead in MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA), who works at her family's Chinese restaurant, is soon overshadowed by a charismatic stranger (Sung Kang, from BETTER LUCK TOMORROW), a sexy Korean-American ne'er-do-well inhabiting the motel for trysts with prostitutes. Kang uses the specific realities of these Asian-American lives to create a believable, nuanced universe not defined by ethnicity - a world recognizable to anyone who has survived adolescence. 14:26 Jeffrey Chyau,THE MOTEL http://www.filmforum.org/audio/LeonardCohenJun212006.mp3 Q&A session with LEONARD COHEN: I'M YOUR MAN filmmaker Lian Lunson Podcasts Thu, 22 Jun 2006 12:00:00 EST http://www.filmforum.org/audio/LeonardCohenJun212006.mp3 Film Forum Q&A session with filmmaker Lian Lunson (Recorded June 21, 2006) LEONARD COHEN - I'M YOUR MAN: The enigmatic, dapper poet-musician reveals the inspiration for the haunting romanticism with which he infused the lives of the '60s & '70s generation. Tour-de-force performances by: U2, Nick Cave, Kate & Anna McGarrigle, Rufus Wainwright, Martha Wainwright, Antony, Linda Thompson, The Handsome Family, Beth Orton, Teddy Thompson, Jarvis Cocker, Leonard Cohen and others. 11:57 LEONARD COHEN: I'M YOUR MAN,Lian Lunson http://www.filmforum.org/audio/TheMotel2Jun212006.mp3 filmmaker Michael Kang and actor Sung Kang discuss THE MOTEL Podcasts Wed, 21 Jun 2006 12:00:00 EST http://www.filmforum.org/audio/TheMotel2Jun212006.mp3 Film Forum filmmaker Michael Kang and actor Sung Kang discuss THE MOTEL THE MOTEL: Michael Kang's debut feature, in the words of Variety, "signals the arrival of a singularly promising filmmaker." With extraordinary subtlety of feeling, THE MOTEL tells a coming-of-age tale of chubby, 13-year-old Ernest (Jeffrey Chyau), a second generation Chinese-American, who helps run his mother's sleazy rent-by-the-hour motel. His relationship with teenage Christine (Samantha Futerman, who played the young lead in MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA), who works at her family's Chinese restaurant, is soon overshadowed by a charismatic stranger (Sung Kang, from BETTER LUCK TOMORROW), a sexy Korean-American ne'er-do-well inhabiting the motel for trysts with prostitutes. Kang uses the specific realities of these Asian-American lives to create a believable, nuanced universe not defined by ethnicity - a world recognizable to anyone who has survived adolescence. 17:00 http://www.filmforum.org/audio/SlightlyScarletJun152006.mp3 Q&A session with actress Arlene Dahl Podcasts Mon, 19 Jun 2006 12:00:00 EST http://www.filmforum.org/audio/SlightlyScarletJun152006.mp3 Film Forum Q&A session with actress Arlene Dahl (Recorded June 15, 2006) SLIGHTLY SCARLET: "With Brains, Bullets and Women, He Fought His Way to the Bottom!" Underrated under-player John Payne's good/bad operator strives for wiggle room between political boss and reform candidate, while contending with Titian-hued sister act Rhonda Fleming and Arlene Dahl. 15:46 http://www.filmforum.org/audio/AKATommyChongJun142006.mp3 Q&A session with filmmaker Josh Gilbert Podcasts Thu, 15 Jun 2006 12:00:00 EST http://www.filmforum.org/audio/AKATommyChongJun142006.mp3 Film Forum Q&A session with filmmaker Josh Gilbert (Recorded June 14, 2006) a/k/a TOMMY CHONG: The US Government versus Thoms B. Kin Chong, a/k/a Tommy Chong, the bandana-clad half of stoner comedy duo Cheech & Chong. In 2003 Chong was charged with selling bongs over the internet and sentenced to nine months in federal prison. As part of the government's $12 million drug paraphernalia sting operation, "Operation Pipe Dreams," Chong, a vocal opponent of Bush's handling of the War on Terror, was singled out among 55 defendants to serve time. Josh Gilbert captures the avuncular Chong as he turns his arrest-by-SWAT-team into hilarious stand-up material. But the laughs are seasoned by recognition of our government's questionable priorities and its shameless use of the judicial system to scapegoat a counterculture icon. 21:44 yes http://www.filmforum.org/audio/TheMotelJun82006.mp3 filmmaker Michael Kang and producer Miguel Arteta discuss THE MOTEL Podcasts Fri, 9 Jun 2006 12:00:00 EST http://www.filmforum.org/audio/TheMotelJun82006.mp3 Film Forum filmmaker Michael Kang and producer Miguel Arteta discuss THE MOTEL THE MOTEL: Michael Kang's debut feature, in the words of Variety, "signals the arrival of a singularly promising filmmaker." With extraordinary subtlety of feeling, THE MOTEL tells a coming-of-age tale of chubby, 13-year-old Ernest (Jeffrey Chyau), a second generation Chinese-American, who helps run his mother's sleazy rent-by-the-hour motel. His relationship with teenage Christine (Samantha Futerman, who played the young lead in MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA), who works at her family's Chinese restaurant, is soon overshadowed by a charismatic stranger (Sung Kang, from BETTER LUCK TOMORROW), a sexy Korean-American ne'er-do-well inhabiting the motel for trysts with prostitutes. Kang uses the specific realities of these Asian-American lives to create a believable, nuanced universe not defined by ethnicity - a world recognizable to anyone who has survived adolescence. 15:31 http://www.filmforum.org/audio/BNoirMay252006.mp3 Q&A session with Donald Buka, who plays the bad guy in BETWEEN MIDNIGHT AND DAWN Podcasts Fri, 26 May 2006 13:00:00 EST http://www.filmforum.org/audio/BNoirMay252006.mp3 Film Forum Q&A session with Donald Buka, who plays the bad guy in BETWEEN MIDNIGHT AND DAWN (Recorded on May 26, 2006) BETWEEN MIDNIGHT AND DAWN: Prowl car cop Edmond O’Brien starts off wired and embittered, but when Donald Buka’s one-man crime wave hits, it’s time to turn the dial to obsessive. 15:00 Film Forum,B-Noir,Donald Buca http://www.filmforum.org/audio/CartoonsMay102006.mp3 Q&A session with animators Lisa Crafts, George Griffin, Andy & Carolyn London, Suzan Pitt and Debra Solomon Podcasts Fri, 12 May 2006 12:00:00 EST http://www.filmforum.org/audio/CartoonsMay102006.mp3 Film Forum Q&A session with animators Lisa Crafts, George Griffin, Andy & Carolyn London, Suzan Pitt and Debra Solomon (Recorded on May 12, 2006) CARTOONS - NO LAUGHING MATTER?: Long before South Park and anime, independent animators exploring their darker recesses reinvented the cartoon. These 8 new short films range from Suzan Pitt's spectacularly beautiful and bizarre geriatric Mexican fantasy to Lisa Craft's elegant, baroque nightmare of childhood fears. George Griffin develops a simple premise - a man and a woman reminiscing - into a cacophony of vulgarity, guilt, vengeance and redemption. And JJ Villard riffs on a Charles Bukowski story of raw teenage gang violence. While exploring the traumas of death, disability and betrayal, these animations keep their funny bone intact and their brain cells working overtime. THE FLOODED PLAYGROUND by Lisa Crafts, IT PAINS ME TO SAY THIS by George Griffin, THE BACK BRACE by Andy and Carolyn London, EL DOCTOR by Suzan Pitt, WHO I AM AND WHAT I WANT by Chris Shepherd and David Shrigley, EVERYBODY'S PREGNANT by Debra Solomon, DOG by Suzie Templeton, SON OF SATAN by JJ Villard 19:56 Film Forum,animation,cartoon http://www.filmforum.org/audio/ArmyOfShadowsApr282006.mp3 Original cinematographer Pierre LHomme introduces ARMY OF SHADOWS Podcasts Wed, 3 May 2006 12:00:00 EST http://www.filmforum.org/audio/ArmyOfShadowsApr282006.mp3 Film Forum Original cinematographer Pierre LHomme introduces ARMY OF SHADOWS (Recorded on April 28, 2006) ARMY OF SHADOWS: France, The Renaisance: an escape from the Gestapo, so sudden and hairsbreadth as to leave the toughest of tough guys gasping with the icy sweat of terror and relief; two brothers remain unaware, to the end, of each other's clandestine activities; patriots who, in relentless pursuit of traitors, must steel themselves to the most brutal of face-to-face violence. Gallic icon Lino Ventura, aided by compatriots including maitresse of disguise Simone Signoret, goes underground in face of the German Occupation - but heroism can come at a truly high price. French gangster movie legend Jean-Pierre Melville realized the dream of a quarter century when he adapted "the book of the Renaissance," written in 1943 by Joseph Kessel. Melville turned the detached, unblinking gaze of his film noir classics on these memories of his youth - he himself served for years underground - adding a finale so stoically uncompromising as to reduce Kessel himself to sobs. But ARMY OF SHADOWS shared in the general U.S. indifference to Melville's now-acclaimed oeuvre - until now. 7:32 Film Forum,cinema,Pierre LHomme,ARMY OF SHADOWS http://www.filmforum.org/audio/SistersInLawApr122006.mp3 Q&A session with filmmaker Kim Longinotto and Debra Zimmerman of Women Make Movies Podcasts Mon, 17 Apr 2006 17:00:00 EST http://www.filmforum.org/audio/SistersInLawApr122006.mp3 Film Forum Q&A session with filmmaker Kim Longinotto and Debra Zimmerman of Women Make Movies (Recorded on April 13, 2006) SISTERS IN LAW: Judge Judy transplanted to Cameroon, West Africa. Kim Longinotto (DIVORCE IRANIAN STYLE) and co-director Florence Ayisi capture a Cameroon courtroom where a female judge and prosecutor dispense justice with equal parts wit, wisdom and wisecracks. Extraordinary stories unfold before our eyes as defendants admit their guilt under cross-examination. The movie reveals African mores at a pivotal moment, when brutal traditions collide with 21st-century justice. 13:45 Film Forum,cinema,Kim Longinotto,Debra Zimmerman,Cameroon,West Africa http://www.filmforum.org/audio/YangBanXiMar292006.mp3 Q&A session with filmmaker Yan-Ting Yuen Podcasts Fri, 31 Mar 2006 12:00:00 EST http://www.filmforum.org/audio/YangBanXiMar292006.mp3 Film Forum Q&A session with filmmaker Yan-Ting Yuen (Recorded on March 29, 2006) YANG BAN XI - THE 8 MODEL WORKS: During China's Cultural Revolution (1966-1976), the ballets "Red Detachment of Women" and "The White-Haired Girl" featured ballerinas pirouetting with rifles held aloft and male dancers executing venal landlords. On screen and stage these fiercely propagandistic stories, in which songs praising Mao always seemed to coincide with a glorious sunrise, were termed yang ban xi, and they were the only form of art allowed. Today young Chinese who crowd Starbucks cafes and modern discoteques know little about a world that disappeared decades ago. This Dutch production blends archival footage of the bad old days with interviews with Chinese baby boomers who sometimes wax nostalgic for what was, after all, their version of the '60s. 17:29 Film Forum,cinema,Yang Ban Xi,Yan-Ting Yuen,China,Cultural Revolution http://www.filmforum.org/audio/BlueVelvetMar62006.mp3 Q&A session with Isabella Rossellini Podcasts Tue, 14 Mar 2006 12:00:00 EST http://www.filmforum.org/audio/BlueVelvetMar62006.mp3 Film Forum Q&A session with Isabella Rossellini (Recorded on March 6, 2006) BLUE VELVET: (1986) Aaah! An azure sky; glistening red tulips along a white picket fence; a stalwart fireman, his Dalmatian beside him, waves from a firetruck moving in slo-mo; a crossing guard directs school kids; a woman sips tea in front of the TV, while her husband waters their manicured lawn — all in gorgeous color and Scope, accompanied by the oh-so-soothing voice of Bobby Vinton singing the title tune. But wait. Now the hose is caught — is the man having a stroke?! And why are we power-diving into the earth and seeing those disgusting bugs, in ultraclose-up?! Oh, wait a minute, this is a David Lynch film. So, here’s a tip for all-American square Kyle MacLachlan: Don’t check out the rotting, ant-infested severed ear in the grass. And, even though you’ve got this thing for mysterious "Blue Lady" Isabella Rossellini, Don’t hide in her bedroom closet in hopes of sneaking a peak. But this is a Lynch movie, so its depiction of idyllic "Lumberton, U.S.A." shows its dark underside of sexual violence, kidnapping, murder, and karaoke, and, in Dennis Hopper’s amyl-nitrite-snorting Frank Booth, one of the most dangerous, repellent, and magnetic psychopaths ever to haunt the screen, while Laura Dern, in her first major role, incarnates the girl next door as extremely as Hopper does in essaying pure slime. Controversial from its premiere — Telluride audiences laughed consistently (but, as many viewers realized later after comparing notes, for completely different reasons) — Velvet polarized critics like no other movie, with a thumbsdowning from normal champion of the offbeat Roger Ebert, but with Boston, L.A., and National Film Critics awarding it, the Academy nominating Lynch for Best Director, and an anointing by Pauline Kael, who hailed its "charged erotic atmosphere" and "aural-visual humor and poetry." 28:19 Film Forum,cinema,Blue Velvet,Isabella Rossellini,David Lynch, Dennis Hopper,Kyle MacLachlan http://www.filmforum.org/audio/OurBrandIsCrisisMar12006.mp3 Q&A session with OUR BRAND IS CRISIS director and producer Rachel Boynton Podcasts Fri, 3 Mar 2006 12:00:00 EST http://www.filmforum.org/audio/OurBrandIsCrisisMar12006.mp3 Film Forum Q&A session with OUR BRAND IS CRISIS director and producer Rachel Boynton (Recorded on March 1, 2006) OUR BRAND IS CRISIS: A crack team of democratic political consultants led by James Carville strategize for a struggling presidential candidate...in Bolivia. Rachel Boynton's OUR BRAND IS CRISIS is a fascinating, fly-on-the-wall account of the machinations behind the turbulent re-election campaign of Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada ("Goni"). In a country facing a calamitous economic crisis, Goni -- a wealthy businessman who was president in the mid-'90s and who speaks Spanish with an American accent -- may not be the fresh face the country seeks. Yet Carville & Co. devise a U.S.-style campaign marked by savvy media techniques and negative ads, emphasizing a single, strong message -- reintroducing Goni as an appealing brand. The film questions whether democracy is well served anywhere by such campaign tactics. 17:32 Film Forum,cinema,Our brand Is Crisis,Rachel Boynton,Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada,Bolivia http://www.filmforum.org/audio/FallenIdolFeb212006.mp3 Q&A session with Robert Henrey, who as 8-year-old Bobby Henrey played the pivotal role of Phil in Carol Reed's 1948 THE FALLEN IDOL Podcasts Thu, 23 Feb 2006 12:00:00 GMT http://www.filmforum.org/audio/FallenIdolFeb212006.mp3 Film Forum Q&A session with Robert Henrey, who as 8-year-old Bobby Henrey played the pivotal role of Phil in Carol Reed's 1948 THE FALLEN IDOL (Recorded on February 21, 2006) THE FALLEN IDOL: Looks like eight-year-old Phil (Bobby Henrey) will have his cavernous Belgravia Square embassy to himself for the weekend. Dad the ambassador is off to retrieve Mom from a long hospital stay, so his only companions will be his beloved pet, McGregor the snake; his idol, Baines the butler (Ralph Richardson); and his dreaded nemesis, the snake-hating Mrs. Baines (Sonia Dresdel). And when Phil trails Baines to a tea room tryst with embassy staffer Julie (Gallic legend Michele Morgan) -- Baines claims she's his "niece" -- he becomes the solemn bearer of a Secret. But when an idyllic afternoon at the zoo is topped by a nighttime tragedy, and those soft-spoken police arrive to ask all those polite questions, Phil enters a world of lies that protect, lies that implicate, and eventually, truth that no one listens to. The first collaboration of writer Graham Greene and director Carol Reed (their next: THE THIRD MAN) was based on Greene's story "The Basement Room." Pivotal to the screen adaptation was the casting of the boy: blessed with an engagingly indeterminate accent, the French-born, London-reared Henrey perfectly conveys the earnest, compulsively chatty attention-demanding behavior of a typical child (Reed, who had a knack for handling kids -- his musical OLIVER! nabbed the Best Picture Oscar two decades later -- changed his original concept to allow the boy to pretty much play himself). Just hearing how Richardson pronounces Phil's name indicates the chemistry they achieved, but then Sir Ralph was at the peak of his film career, evoking affection, anguish, guilt and fear without ever raising his voice. The impeccable casting extends to the smallest parts, from detectives Jack Hawkins (later Brit superstar and Lawrence of Arabia's General Allenby) and Bernard Lee (James Bond's original "M" and THIRD MAN sewer bullet-recipient) to famed comedienne Dora Bryan as the tart who can't comfort Phil without resorting to her usual come-ons. Honored in its time (Reed was named Best Director by the New York Film Critics Circle and was Oscar-nominated, as was Greene), FALLEN IDOL has tended to get lost as the middle child of Reed's greatest period (between ODD MAN OUT and THIRD MAN). Seen again, it effortlessly combines a sensitive child's-eye-view of the world with a poignant love story and suspense that rivals Hitchcock -- just follow the flight of the fateful telegram/paper airplane. 20:44 Film Forum,cinema,The Fallen Idol,Bobby Henrey,Carol Reed,Graham Greene http://www.filmforum.org/audio/DesertWindFeb152006.mp3 Alexis Burger appears in a Q&A session with 3 participants from the film DESERT WIND Podcasts Tue, 21 Feb 2006 12:00:00 GMT http://www.filmforum.org/audio/DesertWindFeb152006.mp3 Film Forum Q&A session with Dr. Alexis Burger and 3 participants from the film DESERT WIND (Recorded on February 15, 2006) DESERT WIND: Women talk about relationships; men talk about computers. What does it take to get a dozen regular guys, ages 32-70, from various backgrounds (a doctor, engineer, human resources consultant, probation officer, cook) to reveal their emotions? DESERT WIND takes them on a 12-day trek in the Tunisian desert, where a psychologist encourages them to talk about everything from what they like and don't like about their bodies to their recollections of childhood and marriage traumas. Against the dramatic, ascetic beauty of golden sand dunes and brilliant skies, these men reveal secrets even they didn't know they had. It's funny and sad, surprisingly moving, and guaranteed to be a lot more interesting than comparing laptops. 26:44 Film Forum,cinema,Alexis Burger,Desert Wind,Francois Kohler http://www.filmforum.org/audio/TargetsIntroFeb092006.mp3 Peter Bogdanovich introduces TARGETS at Film Forum's week-long festival celebrating the career of horror film icon Boris Karloff Podcasts Mon, 13 Feb 2006 12:00:00 GMT http://www.filmforum.org/audio/TargetsIntroFeb092006.mp3 Film Forum Peter Bogdanovich introduces TARGETS at Film Forum's week-long festival celebrating the career of horror film icon Boris Karloff (Recorded on February 9, 2006) TARGETS: Karloff's veteran horror star Byron Orlock is ready for the old actor's home, but not before one last personal appearance at a drive-in, where sniper Tim O'Reilly plans to show off his own brand of terror. Bogdanovich's official debut, written to a fulfill a picture Karloff owed producer Roger Corman. "Old and new are fused in a magnificent coup de theatre to touch a genuinely raw, modern nerve." - Phil Hardy 33:16 yes Film Forum,cinema,Peter Bogdanovich,Targets,Boris Karloff http://www.filmforum.org/audio/HauntedStranglerIntroFeb092006-01.mp3 Producer Richard Gordon introduces THE HAUNTED STRANGLER at Film Forum's week-long festival celebrating the career of horror film icon Boris Karloff Podcasts Mon, 13 Feb 2006 12:00:00 GMT http://www.filmforum.org/audio/HauntedStranglerIntroFeb092006-01.mp3 Film Forum Producer Richard Gordon introduces THE HAUNTED STRANGLER at Film Forum's week-long festival celebrating the career of horror film icon Boris Karloff (Recorded on February 9, 2006) THE HAUNTED STRANGLER: In Victorian England, novelist Karloff, investigating the case of the Haymarket Strangler - sent to the gallows twenty years prior for a series of gruesome murders - discovers that the Strangler was actually ... 10:36 Film Forum,cinema,Richard Gordon,The Haunted Strangler,Boris Karloff http://www.filmforum.org/audio/WhoGetstoCallitArtFeb012006-01.mp3 Q&A with Peter Rosen, James Rosenquist and Larry Poons on WHO GETS TO CALL IT ART? Podcasts Thu, 2 Feb 2006 12:00:00 GMT http://www.filmforum.org/audio/WhoGetstoCallitArtFeb012006-01.mp3 Film Forum Q&A with Peter Rosen, James Rosenquist and Larry Poons (Recorded on February 1, 2006) WHO GETS TO CALL IT ART?: A wild ride through the NYC art scene of the 1960s, through the eyes of Henry Geldzahler, the first curator of contemporary art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Geldzahler's ground-breaking show, "New York Painting and Sculpture: 1940-1970," featured his selection of 400 works by living American artists. In Peter Rosen's lively portrait of the iconoclastic connoisseur, many of these artists characterize his influence and personality with breathtaking candor. ("What will the public think? Who gives a rat's ass! It's their job to catch up." - John Chamberlain) With Mark di Suvero, Frank Stella, James Rosenquist, David Hockney, Larry Poons, Ellsworth Kelly, Francesco Clemente, and a slew of other art world notables. 27:55 Film Forum,cinema,1960s,art,Peter Rosen,James Rosenquist,Larry Poons,New York School,Henry Geldzahler,Metropolitan Museum of Art