Popcorn, photo by LBpics, 2007, from Flickr.
Popcorn, photo by LBpics, 2007, from Flickr.
Beyond the Subtitles
Hosted by Stephen Schaefer

Stephen Schaefer hosts candid conversations with actors, filmmakers, producers and movie people near and far. Schaefer has over three decades of writing and talking about movies behind him. He is the author of the Hollywood spoof The Autobiography of Marla Del Marr as told to Stephen Schaefer  and is currently a film critic and entertainment writer for The Boston Herald; and a contributor to USA Today and Entertainment Weekly.

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Hosted by Stephen Schaefer
Originally aired on Monday, January 9th, 2012

The Paris-based, Vietnamese-born filmmaker of The Scent of Green Papaya adapts one of Haruki Murakami’s most famous novels, a melancholy tale of a Japanese youth whose first great love is mentally ill. Tran discusses language, finance, motivation...

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Hosted by Stephen Schaefer
Originally aired on Monday, January 2nd, 2012

Once again, into the breach! Or at least the morass of 2010 movies for a Top 10 list done, as is custom now, with another critic. This year Wilson Morales of BlackFilm.com has rejoined our gentle expert Stephen Schaefer to sift through entries.

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Hosted by Stephen Schaefer
Originally aired on Monday, December 26th, 2011

In this two-part interview director Gaby Dellal and actor Lynn Collins consider the challenge of Angels Crest, an ensemble drama that illuminates how the tragedy of a child’s accidental death reverberates in a tiny Western community in the Rockies.

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Hosted by Stephen Schaefer
Originally aired on Monday, December 19th, 2011

Director Farhadi’s film follows two couples, one middle class and contemplating divorce, the other poor and religious, in contemporary Iran through a legal systemthat--Roshomon-like--evokes questions of morality, honesty, truth and justice.

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Hosted by Stephen Schaefer
Originally aired on Monday, December 12th, 2011

The French writer director responsible for the hit Auberge Espanole (2002) and the charming Paris (09) tries for a Capra-esque tale in My Piece of the Pie which brings a powerbroker and his domestic, a downsized mother of three, into close contact.

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Hosted by Stephen Schaefer
Originally aired on Monday, December 5th, 2011

The legendary Hollywood producer, AIDS activist, and Miramax Films and The Weinstein Company co-founder (with his younger brother Bob), Harvey Weinstein discusses the 2012 Oscars with a focus on Marilyn, Margaret, and Meryl.

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Hosted by Stephen Schaefer
Originally aired on Monday, November 14th, 2011

The Screen Actors Guild screening at Manhattan’s Angelika Film Center introduced a new talent in writer-director Sam Levinson, whose 2011 debut feature film features a star-studded cast. Stephen Schaefer moderates the post-screening discussion.

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Hosted by Stephen Schaefer
Originally aired on Monday, November 7th, 2011

Hollywood royalty Joely Richardson (daughter of Vanessa Redgrave and Tony Richardson; granddaughter of Sir Michael Redgrave and Rachel Kempson) takes a regal role on screen as a young Queen Elizabeth in Roland Emmerich's Anonymous.

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Hosted by Stephen Schaefer
Originally aired on Monday, October 31st, 2011

Spain’s Elena Anaya’s stand-out role as the captive Vera, the subject of mad skin tissue experiments by Antonio Banderas’ plastic surgeon in Pedro Almodovar’s The Skin I Live In, easily rates as her most memorable role. She talks about it and them.

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Hosted by Stephen Schaefer
Originally aired on Monday, October 24th, 2011

Three decades after Antonio Banderas and Pedro Almodovar initiated a collaboration that would make then both international stars the duo have reunited for the complex horrors following a psychopathic plastic surgeon set on an incredible revenge.

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Hosted by Stephen Schaefer
Originally aired on Monday, October 17th, 2011

A devastating documentary following the legal execution in Texas of an innocent man, Cameron Todd Willingham who, despite post-trial scientific reports that contradicted evidence of his “arson,” is put to death after a highly politicized battle.

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Hosted by Stephen Schaefer
Originally aired on Monday, October 10th, 2011

This true giant of American independent cinema discusses this 2011 film, which stars muse Shanyn Leigh and the magnetic Willem Dafoe, and marks a comeback of sorts with his incisive look at an East Village couple facing the world’s end.

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Hosted by Stephen Schaefer
Originally aired on Monday, October 3rd, 2011

At 24, Mexican actress Stephanie Sigman delivers a star-making film debut in this thriller. Writer-director Gerardo Naranjo presents her as Laura, a kidnapped beauty queen contestant whose ordeal is told primarily through her eyes.

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Hosted by Stephen Schaefer
Originally aired on Monday, September 26th, 2011

At Venice’s Excelsior Hotel Willem Dafoe discussed his role as in Abel Ferrara’s comeback drama where it was given its world premiere (and which also screens in the 2011 New York Film Festival). What would you do if you knew your end was near?

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Hosted by Stephen Schaefer
Originally aired on Monday, September 19th, 2011

Pamela Yates has carved out a career as a photographer, documentary filmmaker, and editor over the past 30 years. Her 1982 documentary on Guatemala, When the Mountains Tremble, became evidence in a genocide trial against the military dictator.

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