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Ep 524: Edie Falco • Beck Underwood

Artist and filmmaker Beck Underwood has created an online shorts festival called the Creepy Christmas Film Festival which will launch a new short every day from 12/1 — 12/25 at creepychristmasfest.com. Then the great Edie Falco appears to discuss her collaborations with Hal Hartley which you can see in the new Long Island Trilogy box set.

Ep 523: Martin Donovan

The first of 4 segments dedicated to Hal Hartley’s Long Island Trilogy; this one with the actor Martin Donovan who has appeared in a bunch of Hartley’s films, including two from that trilogy: Trust and Simple Men. Donovan has directed the feature film Collaborator starring David Morse and continues to be one of the busiest film and television actors working today.

Ep 520: Amos Poe Returns

Amos Poe last visited the podcast back in December of 2016 on Episode 385. He’s back to discuss his shorts film festival which takes place monthly at the Roxy Hotel’s cinema in Tribeca. Also, we discuss the recent history of the Russian oligarchs. And what we’ve been seeing in the movies. Fun episode with a good friend of the podcast.

Ep 518: Margarethe von Trotta • Lois Vossen Returns

Executive Producer for Independent Lens, Lois Vossen, returns for her second visit. The PBS documentary series began its new season this week. Also, director Margarethe von Trotta discusses her film Searching for Ingmar Bergman which premieres at the Quad Cinema on November 2nd, in addition to a retrospective of her work.

Ep 517: Frederick Wiseman Part 3 • Antonio Méndez Esparza & Regina Williams

Documentary filmmaker Frederick Wiseman returns to the podcast for his third visit with his latest film Monrovia, Indiana; filmmaker Antonio Méndez Esparza and first-time actor Regina Williams with their film Life And Nothing More. Both films premiere at Film Forum in NYC this week as well as other theaters.

Ep 516: PIPELINE’s Karen Pittman

Last year actor Karen Pittman (Luke Cage, Broadway’s Disgraced) starred as Nya Joseph in the Lincoln Center Theater off-Broadway play Pipeline. In the play, written by Dominique Morisseau, Nya is a dedicated, inner-city public high school teacher whose son’s future is jeopardized with expulsion from school & pulled toward the “pipeline”. The filmed version maybe streamed at broadwayhd.com.

Ep 515: Ronald Wohlman on HIFF • Lynne Sachs Returns

Our man in the field, Ron Wohlman (aka Global Adman) returns from The Hamptons with a wrap-up of the recent film festival. And filmmaker Lynne Sachs, re-unites myself and two other participants from her film “Tip of My Tongue” for a reunion, in time for the DVD & streaming release of the film.

Ep 514: Richard E. Grant & Dolly Wells • Peter Biskind

On this episode, “Easy Riders, Raging Bulls” author Peter Biskind with his latest, “The Sky is Falling” (The New Press, 2018); plus two actors from the new Marielle Heller film “Can You Ever Forgive Me?”, Richard E. Grant (“Downton Abbey”) and Dolly Wells (HBO’s “Doll & Em”) visit the podcast. The film opens Friday, October 19th.

Ep 513: Jeff Springer • Megan Griffiths Returns

Jeff Springer is one third of the filmmaking team behind the entertaining new documentary Rodents of Unusual Size. The film is currently screening around the country and will be on Independent Lens this winter. Also back on the show is filmmaker Megan Griffiths with her new film, Sadie which will have a theatrical in NYC at the Cinema Village and in LA at the Arena Cinelounge starting tomorrow, 10/12/18.

Ep 512: At Long Last Peter Bogdanovich

Peter Bogdanovich makes his first appearance on the podcast to discuss two major projects: the Quad Cinema theatrical release of his new documentary, “The Great Buster: A Celebration” (10/5) about the life & career of the iconic silent screen comedian, and the Netflix release of the final Orson Welles film “The Other Side of the Wind” which has finally been completed thanks to the streaming giant (11/2).

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