Lectures and Q&A Sessions from Film Forum in New York http://www.filmforum.org en-us Thu, 25 Jun 2009 11:45:00 EDT podcasts@filmforum.org (Richard Hutchins) Copyright 2007, The Moving Image, Inc. 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.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 filmmaking 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/podcast/mp3/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/podcast/mp3/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/podcast/mp3/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/podcast/mp3/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/podcast/mp3/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/podcast/mp3/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/podcast/mp3/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/podcast/mp3/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/podcast/mp3/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/podcast/mp3/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/podcast/mp3/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/podcast/mp3/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/podcast/mp3/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/podcast/mp3/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/podcast/mp3/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/podcast/mp3/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/podcast/mp3/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/podcast/mp3/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/podcast/mp3/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/podcast/mp3/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/podcast/mp3/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/podcast/mp3/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/podcast/mp3/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/podcast/mp3/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/podcast/mp3/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/podcast/mp3/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/podcast/mp3/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/podcast/mp3/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/podcast/mp3/2or3ThingsIKnowAboutHim.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/podcast/mp3/2or3ThingsIKnowAboutHim.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/podcast/mp3/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/podcast/mp3/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/podcast/mp3/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/podcast/mp3/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/podcast/mp3/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/podcast/mp3/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/podcast/mp3/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/podcast/mp3/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/podcast/mp3/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/podcast/mp3/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/podcast/mp3/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/podcast/mp3/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/podcast/mp3/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/podcast/mp3/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/podcast/mp3/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/podcast/mp3/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/podcast/mp3/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/podcast/mp3/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/podcast/mp3/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/podcast/mp3/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/podcast/mp3/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/podcast/mp3/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/podcast/mp3/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/podcast/mp3/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/podcast/mp3/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/podcast/mp3/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/podcast/mp3/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/podcast/mp3/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/podcast/mp3/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/podcast/mp3/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/podcast/mp3/13TzametiJuly282006.mp3 Q&A session with 13 TZAMETI Director Gela Babluani Podcasts Tue, 1 Aug 2006 15:00:00 EST http://www.filmforum.org/podcast/mp3/13TzametiJuly282006.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/podcast/mp3/ExcellentCadaversJuly122006.mp3 Q&A session with EXCELLENT CADAVERS author Alexander Stille Podcasts Thu, 13 Jul 2006 12:00:00 EST http://www.filmforum.org/podcast/mp3/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/podcast/mp3/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/podcast/mp3/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/podcast/mp3/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/podcast/mp3/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/podcast/mp3/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/podcast/mp3/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/podcast/mp3/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/podcast/mp3/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/podcast/mp3/SlightlyScarletJun152006.mp3 Q&A session with actress Arlene Dahl Podcasts Mon, 19 Jun 2006 12:00:00 EST http://www.filmforum.org/podcast/mp3/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/podcast/mp3/AKATommyChongJun142006.mp3 Q&A session with filmmaker Josh Gilbert Podcasts Thu, 15 Jun 2006 12:00:00 EST http://www.filmforum.org/podcast/mp3/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/podcast/mp3/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/podcast/mp3/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/podcast/mp3/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/podcast/mp3/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/podcast/mp3/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/podcast/mp3/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/podcast/mp3/ArmyOfShadowsApr282006.mp3 Original cinematographer Pierre LHomme introduces ARMY OF SHADOWS Podcasts Wed, 3 May 2006 12:00:00 EST http://www.filmforum.org/podcast/mp3/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/podcast/mp3/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/podcast/mp3/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/podcast/mp3/YangBanXiMar292006.mp3 Q&A session with filmmaker Yan-Ting Yuen Podcasts Fri, 31 Mar 2006 12:00:00 EST http://www.filmforum.org/podcast/mp3/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/podcast/mp3/BlueVelvetMar62006.mp3 Q&A session with Isabella Rossellini Podcasts Tue, 14 Mar 2006 12:00:00 EST http://www.filmforum.org/podcast/mp3/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/podcast/mp3/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/podcast/mp3/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/podcast/mp3/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/podcast/mp3/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/podcast/mp3/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/podcast/mp3/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/podcast/mp3/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/podcast/mp3/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/podcast/mp3/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/podcast/mp3/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/podcast/mp3/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/podcast/mp3/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