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Hosted by Stephen Schaefer

Originally aired 8/13/10

At 50, Patricia Clarkson, who has established herself as one of American cinema's most versatile actors, takes her rightful place center stage in Ruba Nadda's sixteenth film, Cairo Time.

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Jackie Weaver & David Michod, Animal Kingdom

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Originally aired 8/6/10

Animal Kingdom, a rousing study of a Melbourne crime family from first-time filmmaker David Michod, cast Weaver as Smurf, the seemingly maternal matriarch who will turn homicidal when crossed.

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Samuel Maoz, Lebanon

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Originally aired 7/25/10

Last September, Lebanon became the first Israeli film to ever win the Gold Lion at Venice. It is also the first feature from writer-director Samuel Maoz, whose experience in a tank during the 1982 Israeli-Lebanon war was basis for this drama.

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Christian Carion, Farewell

Hosted by Stephen Schaefer

Originally aired 7/23/10

French filmmaker Christian Carion emerges with Farewell, which traces a true World War I story, the 1914 Christmas Day armistice in the trenches, to one of the most important espionage exposes of the 20th century.

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Lance Daly, Kisses

Hosted by Stephen Schaefer

Originally aired 7/16/10

Making the most of limited budgets and real locations, Dublin auteur Lance Daly's third film, Kisses, is a study of two runaways.

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Roger Nygard, The Nature of Existence

Hosted by Stephen Schaefer

Originally aired 7/9/10

In Roger Nygard's latest film, The Nature of Existence, this TV and documentary director goes around the world in the service of the Big Questions: What is the meaning of life?

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Tilda Swinton, I Am Love

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Originally aired 7/2/10

Tilda Swinton--Oscar-winning actress, artist, film festival founder and producer--heats up summer movie-going with two definitive roles. I Am Love presents Scotland's elegant redhead as the Russian-born wife of a wealthy Milanese industrialist.

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Agnès Jaoui, Let It Rain & Danièle Thompson, Change of Plans

Hosted by Stephen Schaefer

Originally aired 6/25/10

In this feature on two of contemporary French cinema's most prominent auteurs, filmmaker-actor Agnès Jaoui and filmmaker Danièle Thompson discuss their methods and most recent work.

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Johan Grimonprez, Double Take

Hosted by Stephen Schaefer

Originally aired 6/18/10

Belgian artist and filmmaker Johan Grimonprez compiles American media and Alfred Hitchcock films in a film essay, where he compared the parallel between America's Cold War tensions and Hitchcock films.

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Joan Rivers, Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work & Jamie Kennedy, Finding Bliss

Hosted by Stephen Schaefer

Originally aired 6/11/10

Joan Rivers and Jamie Kennedy are both stand-up comics who have gone beyond comedy clubs. Rivers, now 76, opens up about being filmed for a year of her life for the documentary Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work.

RADIO // Beyond the Subtitles Alice Winocour, Augustine Hosted by Stephen Schaefer Radio show Alice Winocour on her film "Augustine." With great attention to historical accuracy, the film investigates the history of young women being admitted to psychiatric hospitals as "hysterics" as told through the eyes of a teenage servent Augustine. Writer-director Alice Winocour's Augustine is rare film that actually stays close to the known facts. She vividly brings to life the 19th Century story of Augustine, a teenage servant who became the most famous patient of pioneering French... Originally aired 5/20/13 Listen Read More »	RADIO // Beyond the Subtitles Kerry Washington & Diahann Carroll, Tyler Perry presents Peeples Hosted by Stephen Schaefer Radio show Kerry Washington (who made this years before her star turn in Scandal) and Diahann Carroll (the legend. period. after a long hiatus) discuss their roles in the Tyler Perry film Peeples, a family comedy about dysfuntion, marriage and vacation. While it’s called Tyler Perry presents Peeples, the dysfunctional family comedy actually is written and directed by Tina Gordon Chism and stars Kerry Washington as the daddy-dominated Peeples daughter Grace with Diahann Carroll in a small role as... Originally aired 5/13/13 Listen Read More »	RADIO // Beyond the Subtitles Dominic Purcell, Assault on Wall Street Hosted by Stephen Schaefer Radio show Australian actor Dominic Purcell on his transition from four seasons with the TV series “Prison Break” to Uwe Boll's new film "Assault on Wall Street"; the story of blue collar, ex-soldier who loses all to Wall Street and takes dramatic revenge. Truly a live wire, Australia’s Dominic Purcell has no trouble expressing exactly what he feels about: Life after his global breakthrough, the four season TV series “Prison Break,” what prompted him to read the script for Uwe Boll’s “Assault on Wall... Originally aired 5/6/13 Listen Read More »
RADIO // Beyond the Subtitles Brandon Cronenberg, Antiviral Hosted by Stephen Schaefer Radio show Brandon Cronenberg on his directing debut "Antiviral;" a disturbing, needle-obsessed condemnation of science gone awry and celebrity worship in a soulless society. He also touches on Cannes 2012 and his famous father, David. As to the endless question that virtually begins every interview for his filmmaking debut with the contemporary horror entry Antiviral, Brandon Cronenberg manages to remain gracious and say as little as he politely can about his famous... Originally aired 4/29/13 Listen Read More »	RADIO // Beyond the Subtitles Francois Ozon, In the House Hosted by Stephen Schaefer Radio show The French filmmaker Francois Ozon discusses his critically acclaimed movie "In the House". Having been dubbed the "French Hitchcock," Ozon reflects on his recent thriller; which is about a literature teacher's infatuation with one of his students. France’s precocious talent is now 45 and continues to mine suspense, sex, humor and psychology with his latest, the critically successful and popular French language In the House. Ozon talks about being dubbed “the French Hitchcock,” again... Originally aired 4/22/13 Listen Read More »	RADIO // Beyond the Subtitles Sally El Hosaini & James Floyd, My Brother the Devil Hosted by Stephen Schaefer Radio show Sally El Hosaini's "My Brother the Devil" details the relationship of two Egyptian-English brothers, lives that involve gangs, education, romance, art, identity and always a question of what exactly it means to be a man. From Hackney, England, Sally El Hosaini lives in public housing in her ethnically mixed neighborhood which she uses as the bright, often joyous setting for her feature writing and directing debut "My Brother the Devil". A festival favorite around... Originally aired 4/15/13 Listen Read More »
RADIO // Beyond the Subtitles Pablo Berger, Blancanieves Hosted by Stephen Schaefer Radio show Spanish director Pablo Berger discusses his version of Snow White. It's a black and white silent film, with influences from 1920s matadors. The director reveals that he has spent nearly ten years conceptualizing how he wanted to tell the tale. Blancanieves is an audacious, to say the least, retelling of the classic Snow White story, by Spain's Pablo Berger. He has opted to do so with a cast of actual dwarfs (rather than with digital technologies), in black-and-white, and as a 1920s silent... Originally aired 4/8/13 Listen Read More »	RADIO // Beyond the Subtitles Gilles Bourdos, Renoir Hosted by Stephen Schaefer Radio show Gilles Bourdos discusses his film, Renoir, which is about a scandalous love triangle between the artist, his son Jean, and his model Andree Heuschling. Schaefer predicts that this movie will among some of the year's best. Could Renoir, a delicate portrait of the great Impressionist painter Auguste Renoir--plus his future filmmaker son Jean and the model they are both entranced by--be the most gorgeous, most beautiful, most glorious movie since Elvira... Originally aired 4/1/13 Listen Read More »	RADIO // Beyond the Subtitles Gerard Butler: Olympus Has Fallen Hosted by Stephen Schaefer Radio show Scottish actor Gerard Butler discusses his role in the action-thriller "Olympus Has Fallen" and reveals the training, discipline and meticulously itemized bruises, burns and mishaps that are part and parcel of making screen magic. Gerard Butler, the Scots actor who has succeeded in action (300), romance (opposite Jennifer Aniston in The Bounty Hunter) and drama (Law Abiding Citizen with Jamie Foxx) now must save the Free World in Olympus Has... Originally aired 3/25/13 Listen Read More »