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Hosted by Stephen Schaefer

Originally aired 5/28/12

In this Special Edition installment of Beyond the Subtitles, François Cluzet candidly discusses his crossover into commercial filmmaking and what it's like to suddenly star in France's surprising blockbuster hit, the comedy-drama The Intouchables.

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Nadine Labaki, Where Do We Go Now?

Hosted by Stephen Schaefer

Originally aired 5/28/12

Lebanon's Nadine Labaki refers to her country as tiny, without a film industry but there's nothing insubstantial about Where Do We Go Now?, the acclaimed writer-director-actress's sophomore effort that opened New Directors/New Films this year.

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Jessica Phillips, Leap of Faith

Hosted by Stephen Schaefer

Originally aired 4/23/12

Jessica Phillips, Raúl Esparza's leading lady in the new Alan Menken musical Leap of Faith, explains how to get to Broadway by way of Nashville and Boston and what it's like to have a monologue written one afternoon and played the same night.

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Philippe Falardeau, Monsieur Lazhar

Hosted by Stephen Schaefer

Originally aired 4/23/12

Oscar nominated for his acclaimed French Canadian tearjerker Monsieur Lazhar as one of five best foreign language films of 2011, writer-director Philippe Falardeau discusses how he expanded a one-man stage work and found his protagonists.

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Julian Roman Pölsler and Martina Gedeck, The Wall

Hosted by Stephen Schaefer

Originally aired 4/16/12

Austrian TV director Julian Polsler makes his feature film debut with an adaptation of international bestseller, "The Wall," which tells of a woman's physical and spiritual journey while mysteriously isolated on a picturesque Austrian mountaintop.

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Kevin Kline and Kasey the Canine Star, Darling Companion

Hosted by Stephen Schaefer

Originally aired 4/16/12

Stephen Schaefer is joined by Kevin Kline, German shepherd-collie mix Kasey and his trainer Sarah Cole of Lawrence Kasdan's sweet natured comedy Darling Companion to discuss the film's production, Kline's history and Kasey's claim to fame.

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Carole Bouquet, Unforgivable

Hosted by Stephen Schaefer

Originally aired 4/9/12

A legendary beauty and film star, France's Carole Bouquet teams with another legend, French director André Téchiné for Unforgivable, a Venetian-set saga that chronicles a tumultuous relationship surrounded by oversexed friends and companions.

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Audrey Tautou, Delicacy

Hosted by Stephen Schaefer

Originally aired 4/2/12

At Manhattan’s Empire Hotel in a room with a spectacular city view, host Stephen Schaefer sits with one of France’s best known stars, now in the US for a new offbeat romantic comedy — in French — called Delicacy.

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Terence Davies, The Deep Blue Sea

Hosted by Stephen Schaefer

Originally aired 3/26/12

Four years after his documentary "Of Time and the City", one of Britain’s most distinctive cinematic voices, Terence Davies, is back to fiction with an adaptation of a minor Fifties Terence Rattigan drama into a superbly played film.

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Muriel Coulin, 17 Girls

Hosted by Stephen Schaefer

Originally aired 3/19/12

Rendez-Vous with French Cinema at Lincoln Center: One half of a writing-directing team, Muriel Coulin’s sensual, strange odyssey 17 Girls, where 17 16-year-old French high schoolers become pregnant, can only be inspired by actual events.

RADIO // Beyond the Subtitles Eric Rochant & Cecile deFrance, Mobius Hosted by Stephen Schaefer Radio show Eric Rochant's "Mobius" teams two of the most attractive people on planet Earth, Jean Dujardin and Cecile deFrance as spies in a torrid affair, in a Monaco-set spy thriller/love story. Shades of Ingrid Bergman and Cary Grant in Hitchcock's Notorious? Tribeca Film Festival 2013: Eric Rochant's Mobius, which screened at Tribeca in the hope of getting American distribution, teams two of the most attractive people on planet Earth in a Monaco-set spy thriller cum love story that would seem to... Originally aired 5/27/13 Listen Read More »	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 »