Stephen Schaefer, photo from Stephen Schaefer's Blog, Hollywood & Mine.
Stephen Schaefer, photo from Stephen Schaefer's Blog, Hollywood & Mine.
Stephen Schaefer
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Film critic and entertainment reporter Stephen Schaefer hosts this half-hour weekly Web interview show where guests range from independent and foreign language filmmakers, documentarians, actors and critics from around the world. Schaefer regularly writes for Variety, the Hollywood trade paper where he contributes to a weekly column “Scene & Heard” and for The Boston Herald with interviews, features, reviews and his blog “Hollywood & Mine”. He often covers film festivals in Berlin,Venice, New York and Toronto.

Shows and Series by Stephen Schaefer
Hosted by Stephen Schaefer
Originally aired Monday, May 28th, 2012

Lebanon's Nadine Labaki refers to her country as tiny, without a film industry but there's nothing insubstantial about Where Do We Go Now?, the acclaimed writer-director-actress's sophomore effort that opened New Directors/New Films this year.


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Hosted by Stephen Schaefer
Originally aired Monday, April 23rd, 2012

Oscar nominated for his acclaimed French Canadian tearjerker Monsieur Lazhar as one of five best foreign language films of 2011, writer-director Philippe Falardeau discusses how he expanded a one-man stage work and found his protagonists.


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Hosted by Stephen Schaefer
Originally aired Monday, April 23rd, 2012

Jessica Phillips, Raúl Esparza's leading lady in the new Alan Menken musical Leap of Faith, explains how to get to Broadway by way of Nashville and Boston and what it's like to have a monologue written one afternoon and played the same night.


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Hosted by Stephen Schaefer
Originally aired Monday, April 16th, 2012

Austrian TV director Julian Polsler makes his feature film debut with an adaptation of international bestseller, "The Wall," which tells of a woman's physical and spiritual journey while mysteriously isolated on a picturesque Austrian mountaintop.


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Hosted by Stephen Schaefer
Originally aired Monday, April 16th, 2012

Stephen Schaefer is joined by Kevin Kline, German shepherd-collie mix Kasey and his trainer Sarah Cole of Lawrence Kasdan's sweet natured comedy Darling Companion to discuss the film's production, Kline's history and Kasey's claim to fame.


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Hosted by Stephen Schaefer
Originally aired Monday, April 9th, 2012

A legendary beauty and film star, France's Carole Bouquet teams with another legend, French director André Téchiné for Unforgivable, a Venetian-set saga that chronicles a tumultuous relationship surrounded by oversexed friends and companions.


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Hosted by Stephen Schaefer
Originally aired Monday, April 2nd, 2012

At Manhattan’s Empire Hotel in a room with a spectacular city view, host Stephen Schaefer sits with one of France’s best known stars, now in the US for a new offbeat romantic comedy — in French — called Delicacy.


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Hosted by Stephen Schaefer
Originally aired Monday, March 26th, 2012

Four years after his documentary "Of Time and the City", one of Britain’s most distinctive cinematic voices, Terence Davies, is back to fiction with an adaptation of a minor Fifties Terence Rattigan drama into a superbly played film.


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Hosted by Stephen Schaefer
Originally aired Monday, March 19th, 2012

Rendez-Vous with French Cinema at Lincoln Center: One half of a writing-directing team, Muriel Coulin’s sensual, strange odyssey 17 Girls, where 17 16-year-old French high schoolers become pregnant, can only be inspired by actual events.


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Hosted by Stephen Schaefer
Originally aired Monday, March 12th, 2012

Rendez-vous with French Cinema @ Lincoln Center: The men behind "one of the greatest blockbusters in French film history" interrupt each other's sentences like siblings, fitting for a 15-year writing/directing team. César-winner, coming to America.


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Hosted by Stephen Schaefer
Originally aired Monday, March 5th, 2012

Berlinale Special: Writer-director Faouzi Bensaidi discusses his drama, Death for Sale, a Moroccan noir about a trio's planned heist, that evokes the definitive aspects of Hollywood's '50s noir and classics from Kubrick, Huston and Welles.


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