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Hosted by Stephen Schaefer

Originally aired 6/20/11

Djo Tunda Wa Munga has made the first movie in the Republic of the Congo in 25 years. Host Stephen Schaefer sits down with the writer/director of the lurid film where prostitutes, a priest, lesbians, and sadistic killers mirror the local reality.

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Ewan McGregor, Beginners

Hosted by Stephen Schaefer

Originally aired 6/13/11

Celebrated Scottish actor Ewan McGregor sits down with host Stephen Schaefer to discuss his movie Beginners (with Christopher Plummer) that premiered at the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival and features a 75-year-old man happily coming out.

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Bobby Fischer Against the World

Hosted by Stephen Schaefer

Originally aired 6/6/11

Bobby Fischer Against the World by documentarian Liz Garbus and partner Rory Kennedy kicks off HBO’s 2011 summer documentary series. Perhaps the greatest chess player ever, he became a cold war hero/villain, a fugitive, and arguably a madman as well.

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Werner Herzog, Cave of Forgotten Dreams

Hosted by Stephen Schaefer

Originally aired 5/16/11

On the phone with the pioneering director to talk about his 2011 3-D film about the 32,000 year old Chauvet Neanderthal caves, his lifelong fascination with the subject, and how he came to be allowed into such a restricted, fragile, historic place.

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Susanne Bier, In a Better World

Hosted by Stephen Schaefer

Originally aired 5/3/11

Winner of this year’s Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film with In a Better World, Susanne Bier is one of Denmark’s most accomplished and popular filmmakers. The writer/director has also won audiences with Brothers and After the Wedding.

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Jim Mickle and Nick Damici, Stake Land

Hosted by Stephen Schaefer

Originally aired 5/2/11

Stake Land is a dark, vampire/zombie saga with screenwriters Nick Damici starring as a vampire hunter and Jim Mickle, an NYU Film School grad, directing. It stands as a riposte to currently popular sexy, sleek vampires; these ghouls bleed black bile.

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Rashida Jones, Monogamy

Hosted by Stephen Schaefer

Originally aired 4/25/11

Rashida Jones, a winning presence on television’s Parks and Recreation, changes gears for a serious turn in Dana Adam Shapiro’s Monogamy, whose portrait of a couple coming undone serves as an emblem of today’s culture.

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Bertrand Tavernier, Princess of Montpensier

Hosted by Stephen Schaefer

Originally aired 4/18/11

Film critic-turned-filmmaker Bertrand Tavernier's new film, Princess of Montpensier, adapts Madame de La Fayette's short story set against the 16th century Catholic slaughter of the Protestant Huguenots.

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Joe Wright, Hanna

Hosted by Stephen Schaefer

Originally aired 4/11/11

From the director of Pride and Prejudice ('05) and Atonement ('07) comes a thrilling chase drama unlike any before, with a 16 year old heroine on the run from Finland to Morocco to Berlin, with music by the Chemical Brothers.

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Michelle Williams, Meek's Cutoff

Hosted by Stephen Schaefer

Originally aired 4/4/11

Academy Award nominated actress Michelle Williams talks about her reunion with writer-director Kelly Reichardt in this 19th century Western, along with Oscar anecdotes and a horrible image that still sticks with her from when she was a child actor.

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 »