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It may take a while to process your feelings once you’ve seen Hereditary, the scary debut feature from writer-director Ari Aster. A lot of horror m...

  • Added: Aug 20, 2018
  • Length: 03:45
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Argentine filmmaker Lucrecia Martel has become my favorite living director. That might sound extravagant to say about someone who has only made fou...

  • Added: Aug 20, 2018
  • Length: 08:38
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Egypt has the largest film industry in the Arab world. There have been movies produced in Egypt, mostly in Cairo, since the early silent era.

  • Added: Aug 20, 2018
  • Length: 04:21
Caption: Rafael Casal & Daveed Diggs, San Francisco, CA 7/12/18, Credit: Andrea Chase
Daveed Diggs and Rafael Casal talk compassion, snap judgments, and the Michael Bay button.

  • Added: Jul 17, 2018
  • Length: 14:08
Caption: Bart Layton, San Francisco, CA 4/9/18, Credit: Andrea Chase
Bart Layton talks experiment, memory, and having skin in the game.

  • Added: Jun 09, 2018
  • Length: 14:46
Caption: Dria Brown in the title role of G.B. Shaw's St. Joan, Credit: Teresa Wood
Young actor Dria Brown talks with the National Endowment for the Arts about playing Joan of Arc at DC's Folger Theatre.

  • Added: Jun 08, 2018
  • Length: 25:10
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Peter Livolsi talks challenging norms, synchronicity, and why Nick Offerman is silky soft.

  • Added: May 25, 2018
  • Length: 14:32
Caption: Michael Mayer, San Francisco, CA 4/29/18, Credit: Andrea Chase
Michael Mayer talks the necessity of art, the difference between theater and cinema, and how Annette Benning makes everything possible.

  • Added: May 18, 2018
  • Length: 23:39

  • Added: Apr 26, 2018
  • Length: 49:40
Caption: Aaron Katz, San Francisco, CA 3/12/18, Credit: Andrea Chase
Aaron Katz talks the fluidity of truth, the isolation of crowds, and why Edinburgh is the anti-Hollywood.

  • Added: Apr 05, 2018
  • Length: 11:39
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The Insult is another provocative drama about the Middle East from Lebanese director Ziad Doueiri, who made a film a few years ago called The Attac...

  • Added: Apr 03, 2018
  • Length: 04:23
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Every critic has blind spots. I’m sure I have more than a few. The fact that it’s taken me this long to go see Coco, the latest feature from Disney...

  • Added: Apr 03, 2018
  • Length: 03:52
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There’s a special place in my heart for silly comedies. I realize I don’t review these kinds of movies on the show very often, and that’s partly be...

  • Added: Apr 03, 2018
  • Length: 04:46
Caption: Daniela Vega & Sebastián Lelio, San Francisco, CA 1/9/18, Credit: Andrea Chase
Sebastián Lelio, Daniela Vega talk following intuition, the depths of femininity, and the tension between law and desire.

  • Added: Feb 15, 2018
  • Length: 16:28
Caption: Ziad Douieri, San Francisco, CA 11/14/17, Credit: Andrea Chase
Ziad Doueiri talks building a vortex, kicking some ass, and why women in the Arab world might be the key to redemption.

  • Added: Feb 09, 2018
  • Length: 31:14
Caption: Ciaran Hinds
Game of Throne's Ciaran Hinds stars in TWO CROWS APART. A couple braces themselves for unwanted houseguests, political correctness, and a murder of...

  • Added: Jan 30, 2018
  • Length: 22:11
Caption: Len Cariou
In Andy Reynolds' A Departure, a father and son (stage legend Len Cariou and ”Ugly Betty’s” Michael Urie) bond in the most unlikely of places - an ...

  • Added: Jan 29, 2018
  • Length: 28:15
Caption: Paul McGuigan, San Francisco, CA 12/8/17, Credit: Andrea Chase
Paul McGuigan talks synchronicity, the proper lens, and the best Christmas present ever.

  • Added: Jan 15, 2018
  • Length: 22:48
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Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri. I have to admit I kind of admire the courage it took for a producer to approve such an awkward title for...

  • Added: Dec 31, 2017
  • Length: 03:34
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Regular listeners to this show may be aware that I’m not a fan of most Christmas movies. Occasionally, though, I offer suggestions during the holid...

  • Added: Dec 31, 2017
  • Length: 04:19
Caption: Pekka Strang (and the book he discusses in the interview), San Francisco, CA 10/21/17, Credit: Andrea Chase
Pekka Strang talks liberation, sauna culture, and how we’re all the same under the leather

  • Added: Dec 07, 2017
  • Length: 16:09
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Michael Almereyda talks illusion, stretching corners, and the serendipity of a sneaked cigarette.

  • Added: Nov 25, 2017
  • Length: 15:18
Caption: Richard LInklater, October 13, 2017, Credit: Andrea Chase
Richard Linklater talks social cohesion, necessary lies, and selective editing.

  • Added: Nov 20, 2017
  • Length: 17:31
Caption: Santiago Rizzo, Mill Valley, CA 10/15/17, Credit: Andrea Chase
Santiago Rizzo talks shadows, energy, and trusting the struggle.

  • Added: Nov 07, 2017
  • Length: 15:17
Caption: Peter Landesman, San Francisco, CA 9/28/17, Credit: Andrea Chase
Peter Landesman talks integrity, corruption, and what he grooves on.

  • Added: Oct 07, 2017
  • Length: 14:29