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Ciarán Hinds & Conor McPherson, The Eclipse

Hosted by Stephen Schaefer

Originally aired 3/26/10

An Irish ghost story The Eclipse is written and directed by Olivier Award-winning playwright Conor McPherson and stars Ciarán Hinds as a widower with two children who comes to doubt alternately his sanity and the sanctity of his household.

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Niels Arden Oplev & Noomi Rapace, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Hosted by Stephen Schaefer

Originally aired 3/19/10

The first in Stieg Larsson's Millenium Trilogy, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is a crime set in Larsson's native Sweden, one teeming with neo-Nazis, serial killers and an astounding punk heroine named Lisbeth Salander, she of the dragon tattoo.

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Mitchell Lichtenstein, Happy Tears

Hosted by Stephen Schaefer

Originally aired 3/12/10

For Happy Tears, Mitchell Lichtenstein follows his mischievously literal 2007 debut Teeth with a comedy drama of two sisters, played by Parker Posey and Demi Moore, tending to their aging father (Rip Torn), and his crack-addicted girlfriend.

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60th Berlin Film Festival: Bobby Sheehan, Arias with a Twist: The Docufantasy

Hosted by Stephen Schaefer

Originally aired 3/5/10

In Berlin for the world premiere of Arias with a Twist: The Docufantasy, his cinematic salute to the great downtown drag star Joey Arias and the extraordinarily inventive puppeteer Basil Twist.

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60th Berlin Film Festival: James Rasin, Beautiful Darling

Hosted by Stephen Schaefer

Originally aired 2/26/10

Beautiful Darling, James Rasin's revealing, affectionate documentary on Candy Darling, the Warhol superstar who modeled herself on Hollywood's iconic blondes Kim Novak and Marilyn Monroe, boasts archival footage with Candy.

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Jacques Audiard, Thomas Bidegain and Tahar Rahim, Un Prophète

Hosted by Stephen Schaefer

Originally aired 2/12/10

Filmmaker Jacques Audiard wanted to do something. The result is the epic Un Prophète, which was the runner-up prize winner at last May's Cannes film festival and received a 2010 Academy Award nomination for Best Foreign Language Film.

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Ernst Aebi, Barefoot to Timbuktu

Hosted by Stephen Schaefer

Originally aired 2/5/10

A fascinating portrait of a modern day adventurer, Barefoot to Timbuktu vividly chronicles the amazing life and travels of Swiss-born Ernst Aebi, who began his adult life as an artist and emerged as a unique social activist.

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James Marsh, Red Riding

Hosted by Stephen Schaefer

Originally aired 1/29/10

The acclaimed director behind the Oscar-winning 2008 documentary Man on Wire--about which Marsh spoke in a previous Subtitles, available here--is back as the middle man in Channel 4's riveting, disturbing three-part series Red Riding.

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Michael Fassbender, Fish Tank

Hosted by Stephen Schaefer

Originally aired 1/22/10

Catch a rising star! That's definitely the sensation watching German-born, Irish-raised Michael Fassbender weave his way through a troubled circle of women as the charming and deceitful Connor in Fish Tank, Andrea Arnold's compelling study.

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Michael Hoffman, The Last Station

Hosted by Stephen Schaefer

Originally aired 1/17/10

Writer-director Michael Hoffman's The Last Station covers the last days of Leo Tolstoy and the debate over his legacy between his wife Sofya and the wily Chertkov.

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 »