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Edition #1: James Schamus

Screenwriter Elise MacAdam talks to the movers and makers of film and video art. Her guest today: Academy Award nominated screenwriter (The Ice Storm), producer (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon), and CEO of Focus Features, James Schamus.

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Edition #15: Lodge Kerrigan

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Edition #2: Charles Atlas

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Edition #10: Jane Weinstock and Gloria Norris, Easy

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Edition #4: Evan Lurie

Film composer Evan Lurie has created the musical scores for Steve Buscemi's Trees Lounge, Cindy Sherman's Office Killer, and Stanley Tucci's Joe Gould's Secret, and the themes for Nickelodeon Jr.'s hit show "Oswald".

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Edition #14: Albert Maysles, The Gates

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 for New York's Central Park.

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Edition #12: The Mysterious Henry Darger

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Edition #3: Karen Cooper of Film Forum

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Edition #13: The Jewish Film Festival

Aviva Weintraub, Director of Media and Public Programs for the Jewish Museum and Daniel Anker, director of the film, "Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust," discuss tricky questions involving film, art-making and the Holocaust.

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Edition #9: The 2004 Margaret Mead Film Festival

Beauty Academy of Kabul Filmmaker Liz Mermin and Margaret Mead Film Festival director Kathy Brew take a close look at this year's lineup for the Museum of Natural History's anthropological annual.

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Edition #11: Gavin Lambert, The Ivan Moffat File

Author Gary Indiana and Elise MacAdam talk with biographer and screenwriter Gavin Lambert on his new novel about the life of Hollywood legend, British screenwriter Ivan Moffat.

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Edition #7: Bill Morrison

Elise MacAdam interviews filmmaker Bill Morrison to discuss his current projects such as the extraordinary display of images that is "Decasia" his film made from deteriorating nitrate film stock.

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Edition #8: Peter Broderick

Peter Broderick talks with Elise Mac Adam about his new project, "Films to See Before You Vote".