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Jason Schwartzman He's worked with Wes Anderson, Sofia Coppola and Judd Apatow on the big screen. NowJason Schwartzman(Rushmore, Funny People, The Darjeeling Limited, Fantastic Mr.Fox) comes to the small screen as a big-hearted, broken hearted private eye. The show isBored to Death? but you won't be!Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Chris RockChris Rockis known for his potent and direct stand-up comedy. As a filmmaker he?sturned that same unblinking eye on himself and black culture. His newest film, the documentaryGood Hair, examines the profitable and self-denying world of black-hair culture. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Nicolas Winding RefnElvis hosts Danishwriter-directorNicolas Winding Refn(Pusher, Fear X) to talk about his new film,Bronson. The film is loosely based on the life of Charles Bronson, considered to be Britain's most violent criminal.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Scott HicksShine, Snow Falling on Cedars, No Reservations? DirectorScott Hicksis attracted to source material. His newest,The Boys Are Back, is another film of a book, bringing emotional honesty to the truth.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Joe BerlingerFromBrother's KeepertoSome Kind of Monster, directorJoe Berlingerhas made documentaries on communities in crisis. He goes to the Ecuadorian Amazon for his latest,Crude.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Laura JacobsLaura Jacobshas a luminous eye for detail, social and physical.It can be glimpsed in her writings on fashion and culture or in hernovels, such as her newest,The Bird Catcher.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jane CampionWriter-directorJane Campion(In the Cut, Holy Smoke) has felt the passion and complications left in its wake, fromThe Pianoto her newest,Bright Star. She talks to Elvis about the fight between heart and head. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Armando IannucciA war in the Middle East may break out. What's more important than saving lives? Saving face, as seen in directorArmando Iannucci's briliant satire,In the Loop, which derives from his BBC series,The Thick of It. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Geoffrey SmithElvis hosts writer/directorGeoffrey Smith(The Children of Helen House, Your Life in Their Hands) to talk about his latest documentary feature film,The English Surgeon.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bobcat GoldthwaitYou knowBobcat Goldthwait as the assaultively loud comic not concerned with fire safety. As a writer-director (Windy City Heat, Sleeping Dogs Lie) , he's focused on films dealing with discomfort, like his newest,World's Greatest Dad.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Quentin TarantinoJean-Luc Godard once said all you need to make a film is a girl and a gun. InInglourious Basterds,Quentin Tarantino(Pulp Fiction; Kill Bill, Volumes 1 and 2'Reservoir Dogs) adds Winston Churchill, Adolph Hitler and a squad of Nazi-scalping GI's. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Judd ApatowElvis hosts writer-producer-directorJudd Apatow(Knocked Up, The 40 Year Old Virgin) whose latest film isFunny People, starring Seth Rogen and Adam Sandler.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Nancy MillerWriterNancy Miller(The Closer, CSI: Miami) sets her shows outside the LA-New York universe and gives them a deeper view of character.Saving Grace, set in Oklahoma, is about a copy bedeviled by an angel.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Lynn SheltonWriter-directorLynn Shelton's (My Effortless Brilliance, We Go Way Back) new film,Humpday, asks several questions... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Isiah Whitlock, Jr.ActorIsiah Whitlock, Jr.has worked with talents from David Mamet toSpike Lee to Dave Chappelle. On HBO'sThe Wire, his portrayal ofSenator Clay Davis was a study in compromise. He now stars in Farragut Northat the Geffen Playhouse.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sacha GervasiFrom Anthrax to Poison, Guns and Roses to Metalica, these are just a few groups inspired by Anvil, the most influencial band you've never heard of. Its story's inSacha Gervasi's film,Anvil: The Story of Anvil.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Chai VasarhelyiAs a musician, Youssou N'Dour has always been about faith. In the documentaryI Bring What I Love, directorElizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi(A Normal Life) follows him on the journey committed to that goal.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Nick DawsonFrom Utah farm boy, to pioneering film editor, to director of some of the 70's and 80's greatest films -- such asShampooandBeing There, it's all part ofBeing Hal Ashby, the life chronicle byNick Dawson.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Russell BrandRussell Brand(Forgetting Sarah Marshall) has established his own separate wing to the garden of earthly delights...Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rian JohnsonElvis hosts writer-directorRian Johnson(Brick) whose new film isThe Brothers Bloom, starring Rachel Weisz, Adrien Brody and Mark Ruffalo.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Matt TyrnauerAfter a tenure at Vanity Fair,Matt Tyrnauerhas turned to making documentaries. The subject is the couturier, Valentino, at the end of his career but not his powers...Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website James TobackFrom the scripts forThe GamblerandBugsyto his ownfilms as a director,James Tobackhas made intensely personal work. Hisdocumentary,Tyson, is his own take on the boxer...Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tim DisneyThe past twelve months have seen slew of films on perversions of justice.American Violetbrings that material to a smaller, more intimate scale. DirectorTim Disney(Blessed Art Thou) uses real life details to give his drama bite.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Steve McQueenDaring and assaultive, the work of artistSteve McQueenforces us to ask questions about the way we inhabit space. The Turner Award-winner has moved into feature films with his directorial debut,Hunger, based on the 1981 IRA hunger strike in NorthernIreland's infamous Maze prison. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website John HamburgComedy about shifting definitions of masculinity is where writer-directorJohn Hamburg(Zoolander, Safe Men, Meet the Fockers) finds laughs. His newest film isI Love You, Man, starring Paul Rudd and Jason Segel.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Brian De PalmaShould a director court controversy? If you're Brian De Palmayou might answer that with a question.How can you not? The man who madeCarrie, Dressed to Kill, The UntouchablesandScarfaceis back withRedacted, a look at US involvement in Iraq. He'll discuss the court of public opinion.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ellen KurasCinematographer turned filmmaker,Ellen Kuras(Summer of Sam, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, No Direction Home: Bob Dylan) dedicated years of her life to making the documentary,The Betrayal, a look at a family devastated by abandonment...Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tony GilroyA world where the protagonist and the viewer doesn't know where he stands. From theBournefilms, toMichael Claytonand the new film,Duplicity. It's what writer-directorTony Gilroy does. More duplicity from the horse's mouth.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jody HillElvis hosts writer-directorJody Hill(The Foot Fist Way) whose latest work is the HBO TV seriesEastbound and Down.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Diablo CodyFrom the blogosphere to an Oscar (Juno) to Showtime. Itâs quite a career for screenwriterDiablo Cody. Her series,The United States of Tara, looks at multiple personalities. She just might know something about that.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website James GrayElvis hosts writer-directorJames Gray(The Yards, We Own the Night, Little Odessa) whose latest film isTwo Lovers, starring Joaquin Phoenix, Gwyneth Paltrow and Isabella Rossellini.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tim Reid and Tom DreesenAs America's only black-and-white comedy team,Tim ReidandTom Dreesenwrote the book on comedy. Now they've written a book...Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Barry JenkinsMedicine for Melancholy, the debut film from writer-directorBarry Jenkins, takes a dreamy contemplative look at a young AfricanAmerican couple in San Francisco. It's a black art film when art filmsare in trouble.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Danny BoyleDirectorDanny Boyle(Shallow Grave, Trainspotting, 28 Days Later, Millions) hasmoved from suspense film to post-punk despair, to zombies, to thecenter of the sun. He combines all that forSlumdog Millionaireandadds a musical number to the mix. It's a Bollywood happy ending. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website David FincherIn just six films, directorDavid Fincher(Seven, Panic Room, Fight Club) has established themes and textures. So much so that his latest,The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, both conforms and contradicts that work.Note:This show first aired January 7 and is being repeated in recognition ofit's having received thirteen Academy Award nominations, including BestPicture and Best Director.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website David FincherIn just six films, directorDavid Fincher(Seven, Panic Room, Fight Club) has established themes and textures. So much so that his latest,The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, both conforms and contradicts that work.Note:This show first aired January 7 and is being repeated in recognition ofit's having received thirteen Academy Award nominations, including BestPicture and Best Director.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sally HawkinsActressSally Hawkinshas had quite a year, stemming from her third collaboration with writer-director Mike Leigh.Happy-Go-Luckyis bright-eyed comedy-drama that's won her audiences and accolades.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sally HawkinsActressSally Hawkinshas had quite a year, stemming from her third collaboration with writer-director Mike Leigh.Happy-Go-Luckyis bright-eyed comedy-drama that's won her audiences and accolades.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ed ZwickDirectorEdward Zwickhas made films (The Siege, Glory, Blood Diamond) about social causes, but also about social responsibility. His newest,Defiance, examines that as deeply as any of his others.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ed ZwickDirectorEdward Zwickhas made films (The Siege, Glory, Blood Diamond) about social causes, but also about social responsibility. His newest,Defiance, examines that as deeply as any of his others.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Steven SoderberghIn the 20 years sinceSex, Lies and Videotape, directorSteven Soderbergh(Out of Sight, Erin Brockovich, Oceans Eleven/Twelve/Thirteen) has made 20 films. His newest, the epicChe, is both formalist and intimate.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Steven SoderberghIn the 20 years sinceSex, Lies and Videotape, directorSteven Soderbergh(Out of Sight, Erin Brockovich, Oceans Eleven/Twelve/Thirteen) has made 20 films. His newest, the epicChe, is both formalist and intimate.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Steven SoderberghIn the 20 years sinceSex, Lies and Videotape, directorSteven Soderbergh(Out of Sight, Erin Brockovich, Oceans Eleven/Twelve/Thirteen) has made 20 films. His newest, the epicChe, is both formalist and intimate.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website David FincherIn just six films, directorDavid Fincher(Seven, Panic Room, Fight Club) has established themes and textures. So much so that his latest,The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, both conforms and contradicts that work.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website David FincherIn just six films, directorDavid Fincher(Seven, Panic Room, Fight Club) has established themes and textures. So much so that his latest,The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, both conforms and contradicts that work.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website David FincherIn just six films, directorDavid Fincher(Seven, Panic Room, Fight Club) has established themes and textures. So much so that his latest,The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, both conforms and contradicts that work.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jenny LumetElvis Mitchell hosts actress-teacher-writerJenny Lumet, whose screenplayRachel Getting Marriedhas been made into a critically acclaimed film, starring Anne Hathaway and directed by Jonathan Demme.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jenny LumetElvis Mitchell hosts actress-teacher-writerJenny Lumet, whose screenplayRachel Getting Marriedhas been made into a critically acclaimed film, starring Anne Hathaway and directed by Jonathan Demme.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jenny LumetElvis Mitchell hosts actress-teacher-writerJenny Lumet, whose screenplayRachel Getting Marriedhas been made into a critically acclaimed film, starring Anne Hathaway and directed by Jonathan Demme.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | |