Photo by Jim McFarland, 2010.
Photo by Jim McFarland, 2010.
Cineopolis
Hosted by Elise MacAdam
Hosted by Elise MacAdam, this series explores contemporary cinema through interviews with and discussions about its most pertinent contributors and contributions.
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Originally aired on Tuesday, September 27th, 2005
After a year-long tour of the festival circuit, earning rave reviews at the New York Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival and the 2005 Cannes Director's Fortnight, filmmaker Lodge Kerrigan's third feature,...Read More
Director/screenwriter Jane Weinstock and producer Gloria Norris come easy - "Easy" the movie, that is, the new romantic comedy for people who really want a dream date and are afraid they'll get one.

Jane...Read More
Author Gary Indiana joins host Elise MacAdam for this historic conference call with one of the Hollywood's great insiders, biographer (Natalie Wood), novelist (Inside Daisy Clover,) and screenwriter ("Spartacus")...Read More
In her new film, "In the Realms of the Unreal: The Mystery of Henry Darger", currently playing at New York's Film Forum, writer/director/producer Jessica Yu avoids psychoanalyzing the fascinating but peculiar Henry...Read More
Is Elie Wiesel correct in thinking that all depictions of the Holocaust are obscene? How can filmmakers and artists answer this charge? Should "The Pawnbroker" never have been made? "Schindler's List?" What about...Read More
Albert Maysles has been shooting "The Gates" since 1979, when artists Christo and Jean-Claude first proposed the project - a massive installation of 7,500 fabric-draped steel gates (requiring 600 workers to install) for...Read More
Screenwriter Elise MacAdam talks to the movers and makers of film and video art. Her guest today: screenwriter (The Ice Storm) and producer (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) James Schamus.Read More
Host Elise MacAdam speaks with video artist and filmmaker Charles Atlas about this summer's DVD release of The Legend of Leigh Bowery, his eye-opening documentary of the London-based artist recently played by Boy George...Read More
Host Elise MacAdam meets with Karen Cooper, co-director of Film Forum, New York City's longest-lived repertory cinema, to discuss current and upcoming films and how to see them.Read More
Elise MacAdam learns the ins and outs of film composing from Evan Lurie. A founding member of the Lounge Lizards, he has created the musical scores for such movies as Steve Buscemi's Trees Lounge, Cindy Sherman's Office...Read More
The energetic Neistat brothers (Casey and Van) visit Elise MacAdam with Creative Time's Ann Pasternak, talking an illicit bicycle ride though New York's Holland Tunnel, turning the tables (or rather iPOD wheels) on...Read More
Are they terrorists or are they law-abiding Americans with Arabic names? That is one question that Alison MacLean and her codirector, Tobias Perse, peruse in their new film, Persons of Interest, where they...Read More
Bill Morrison meets with host Elise MacAdam to speak of the extraordinary display of images that is Decasia, his film made from deteriorating nitrate stock, and such other projects as The Film of Her.Read More
Does the conservative right need a film festival in Dallas when it already has FOX news? Will the digital revolution make current modes of film distribution extinct? Has Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 actually...Read More
What would it be like to start a beauty academy in Afghanistan just after the fall of the Taliban? Find out here, as host Elise MacAdam brings filmmaker Liz Mermin and festival director Kathy Brew to her table for a...Read More
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