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Meet the Nominees Theatrical Feature Film Symposium 2021 - Part 2 of 3 (Ep. 303)
Listen to Chloé Zhao, Lee Isaac Chung, Emerald Fennell, David Fincher, and Aaron Sorkin continue their conversation with moderator Jeremy Kagan for the 30th Annual DGA Meet the Nominees: Theatrical Feature Film Symposium on their nominated films. Part two finds the nominees discussing actors: tailoring the right approach to an actor’s working style, the importance of establishing confidence in their key collaborators, and readjusting performance to fit the film.
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Guest Programmer: Frank Langella
The Oscar-nominated star of Frost/Nixon (2008), who recently won a Screen Actors Guild Award as part of the ensemble cast of The Trial of the Chicago 7 (2020), takes over as TCM programmer Thursday, May 27, to present three of his all-time favorite films. In a career spanning almost 60 years, Langella has played everything from Dracula (on Broadway and in the 1979 film version) to King Lear (at the UK’s Chichester Festival Theatre and the Brooklyn Academy of Music). He made his Broadway debut in Yerma at Lincoln Center, starring Gloria Foster, and he went on to win four Tony Awards. He made his film debut in 1970’s Diary of a Mad Housewife and has appeared in such notable features as The Twelve Chairs (1970), Those Lips, Those Eyes (1980), Masters of the Universe (1987), Eddie (1996) and Good Night and Good Luck (2005). His released his memoir, Dropped Names: Famous Men and Women As I Knew Them, in 2012.
Langella’s three programming picks, released during his formative years in New Jersey, are:
Our Vines Have Tender Grapes (1945) — This adaptation of George Victor Martin’s novel stars Edward G. Robinson as a Norwegian-born farmer raising daughter Margaret O’Brien on a Wisconsin farm during World War II. The film is fondly remembered by fans of both stars and notable for its sensitive screenplay by Dalton Trumbo, penned a few years before he was blacklisted.
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) — Joseph Kesselring’s uproarious stage farce focuses on two sweet old ladies given to poisoning lonely old men to end their suffering. Josephine Hull and Jean Adair reprised their performances as the murderous maidens from the original Broadway production, though the show’s producers would not release Boris Karloff to film his most famous stage role. Raymond Massey took his place in a film also starring Cary Grant and Peter Lorre.
The Stranger (1946) — Orson Welles had a rare box-office success directing and starring as an escaped Nazi war criminal living under an assumed name in a small Connecticut town. Loretta Young co-stars as his unsuspecting fiancée, with Edward G. Robinson (in a role originally planned for Agnes Moorehead) as the Nazi hunter on his trail. Langella met Young twice and wrote of her in his memoirs, “Miss Young wore [her beauty] like a halo: radiant and definitive….”
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Meet the Nominees Theatrical Feature Film Symposium 2021 - Part 1 of 3 (Ep. 302)
Chloé Zhao, Lee Isaac Chung, Emerald Fennell, David Fincher, and Aaron Sorkin engage in a conversation with moderator Jeremy Kagan for the 30th Annual DGA Meet the Nominees: Theatrical Feature Film Symposium on their nominated films. Part one finds the nominees discussing advice they've gotten from other directors, how they prepare for the first day on a shoot, and where they like to position themselves on set.
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I Carry You With Me with Director Heidi Ewing and Rodrigo Garcia (Ep. 301)
Director Heidi Ewing discusses her new film, I Carry You with Me, with fellow director Rodrigo García in a spoiler-filled virtual Q&A. The film tells the story of Iván, a young aspiring chef in Mexico who is working to support the mother of his child. Iván begins an affair with a handsome teacher, who unlike Iván is out as a gay man. After their relationship comes to light, Iván makes the painful decision to cross the border to advance his culinary career, promising his son and newfound love he will return.
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The High Note with Director Nisha Ganatra and Laura Terruso (Ep. 300)
Director Nisha Gantra discusses her new film, The High Note, with fellow director Laura Terruso in a spoiler-filled virtual Q&A. The film tells the story of Maggie, the overworked personal assistant to superstar singer Grace Davis. When Grace's manager presents her with a choice that could alter the course of her career, Maggie and Grace come up with a plan that could change both of their lives forever.
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La piscine (1969)
Directed by Jacques Deray
Country: France
Duration: 122 minutes
Language: French
Spine #1088
DVD BONUS FEATURES
The Swimming Pool: “First Love Never Dies,” the English-language version of the film
Fifty Years Later, a 2019 documentary by Agnès Vincent-Deray featuring actors Alain Delon and Jane Birkin, screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrière, and novelist Jean-Emmanuel Conil
New interview with scholar Nick Rees-Roberts on the film’s cinematic and aesthetic legacy
Archival footage featuring Delon, Birkin, actors Romy Schneider and Maurice Ronet, and director Jacques Deray
Alternate ending
Trailers
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Working Girls (1986)
Directed by Lizzie Borden
Country: United States
Duration: 94 minutes
Language: English
Spine #1087
DVD BONUS FEATURES
Audio commentary from 2007 featuring Borden, director of photography Judy Irola, and actor Amanda Goodwin
New conversation between Borden and filmmaker Bette Gordon
New conversation with actors Louise Smith and Amanda Goodwin, producer Andi Gladstone, and first assistant director Vicky Funari
New conversation with sex workers Antonia Crane, Daphne Von Rey, Selena the Stripper, and Jo Weldon
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Deep Cover (1992)
Directed by Bill Duke
Country: United States
Duration: 107 minutes
Language: English
Spine #1086
DVD BONUS FEATURES
New interview with director Bill Duke
New conversation between film scholars Racquel J. Gates and Michael B. Gillespie about Deep Cover’s place within both the Black film boom of the early 1990s and the noir genre
New conversation between scholar Claudrena N. Harold and professor, DJ, and podcaster Oliver Wang about the film’s title track and its importance to the history of hip-hop
Panel discussion from 2018 featuring Duke and Fishburne and moderated by film critic Elvis Mitchell
Trailer
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Bringing Up Baby (1938)
Directed by Howard Hawks
Country: United States
Duration: 102 minutes
Language: English
Spine #1085
DVD BONUS FEATURES
Audio commentary from 2005 featuring filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich
New video essay on actor Cary Grant by author Scott Eyman
New interview about cinematographer Russell Metty with cinematographer John Bailey
New interview with film scholar Craig Barron on special-effects pioneer Linwood Dunn
New selected-scene commentary about costume designer Howard Greer with costume historian Shelly Foote
Howard Hawks: A Hell of a Good Life, a 1977 documentary by Hans-Christoph Blumenberg featuring the director’s last filmed interview
Audio interview from 1969 with Grant
Audio excerpts from a 1972 conversation between Hawks and Bogdanovich
Trailer
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Mirror (1975)
Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky
Country: Russia
Duration: 106 minutes
Language: Russian
Spine #1084
DVD BONUS FEATURES
Andrei Tarkovsky: A Cinema Prayer, a 2019 documentary about the director by his son Andrei A. Tarkovsky
The Dream in the Mirror, a new documentary by Louise Milne and Seán Martin
New interview with composer Eduard Artemyev
Islands: Georgy Rerberg, a 2007 documentary about the cinematographer
Archival interviews with Tarkovsky and screenwriter Alexander Misharin
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Barb & Star Go to Vista Del Mar with Director Josh Greenbaum and Guillermo Del Toro (Ep. 299)
Director Josh Greenbaum discusses his new film, Barb & Star Go to Vista Del Mar, with fellow director Guillermo del Toro in a spoiler-filled virtual Q&A. The film tells the story of best friends Barb and Star, who leave their small Midwestern town for the first time to vacation in Vista Del Mar, Florida and soon find themselves tangled up in adventure, love, and a villain’s evil plot to murder the entire town.
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Our Friend with Director Gabriela Cowperthwaite and Maryam Keshavarz (Ep. 298)
Director Gabriela Cowperthwaite discusses her new film, Our Friend, with fellow director Maryam Keshavarz in a spoiler-filled virtual Q&A. The film tells the inspiring true story of Matt and Nicole Teague, whose lives are upended after Nicole is diagnosed with terminal cancer. As Matt's duties become increasingly overwhelming, the couple's best friend makes a huge sacrifice to stay with his friends and lend a hand.
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Greyhound with Director Aaron Schneider and Justine Bateman (Ep. 297)
Director Aaron Schneider discusses his new film, Greyhound, with fellow director Justine Bateman in a spoiler-filled virtual Q&A. The film follows a WWII Navy officer on his first war-time command assignment: defending an Allied merchant ship convoy through the Atlantic. When the convoy comes under attack by a German submarine wolfpack, the officer must battle the enemy, the elements and his own doubts to see the mission through.
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American Skin with Director Nate Parker and Jeff Byrd (Ep. 296)
Director Nate Parker discusses his new film, American Skin, with fellow director Jeff Byrd in a spoiler-filled virtual Q&A. Mr. Parker also stars in the film as a Marine veteran and school janitor, who is trying to mend his relationship with his son after a divorce. When his son is killed during a routine traffic stop and the police officer is acquitted, he takes matters into his own hands.
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Antebellum with Director Gerard Bush & Christopher Renz and Tiller Russell (Ep. 295)
Directors Gerard Bush & Christopher Renz discuss their new film, Antebellum, with fellow director Tiller Russell in a spoiler-filled virtual Q&A. The film tells the story of Veronica, a renowned sociologist who must escape a terrifying reality that threatens her life and freedom.
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Wander Darkly with Director Tara Miele and Rachel Lee Goldenberg (Ep. 294)
Director Tara Miele discusses her new film, Wander Darkly, with fellow director Rachel Lee Goldenberg in a spoiler-filled virtual Q&A. The film follows a couple who, shortly after becoming parents, experience a disaster that takes them on a surreal and disorienting journey through both their past and an uncertain future.
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The Forty-Year-Old Version with Director Radha Blank and Liesl Tommy (Ep. 293)
Director Radha Blank discusses her new film, The Forty-Year-Old Version, with fellow director Liesl Tommy in a spoiler-filled virtual Q&A. Ms. Blank also stars in the film as Radha, a down-on-her-luck New York City playwright who is desperate for a breakthrough before 40.
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Judas and the Black Messiah with Director Shaka King and Taylor Hackford (Ep. 292)
Director Shaka King discusses his new film, Judas and the Black Messiah, with fellow director Taylor Hackford in a spoiler-filled virtual Q&A.The film tells the true story of William O’Neal, a career thief who is conscripted by the FBI to infiltrate the Illinois Black Panther Party and surveil their charismatic leader, Chairman Fred Hampton.
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Pariah (2011)
Directed by Dee Rees
Country: United States
Duration: 86 minutes
Language: English
Spine #1083
DVD BONUS FEATURES
New conversation between director Dee Rees and filmmaker and scholar Michelle Parkerson
New cast reunion featuring Rees, Adepero Oduye, Pernell Walker, Kim Wayans, Charles Parnell, and Aasha Davis, moderated by scholar Jacqueline Stewart
New program on the making of the film, featuring Rees, cinematographer Bradford Young, production designer Inbal Weinberg, producer Nekisa Cooper, and editor Mako Kamitsuna, moderated by Stewart
New interview with film scholar Kara Keeling, author of Queer Times, Black Futures
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The Signifyin' Works of Marlon Riggs
Spine #1082
Films Included In This Set
Ethnic Notions (1986)
Directed by Marlon Riggs
Country: United States/Canada
Duration: 58 minutes
Language: English
Tongues Untied (1989)
Directed by Marlon Riggs
Country: United States
Duration: 55 minutes
Language: English
Affirmations (1990)
Directed by Marlon Riggs
Country: United States
Duration: 11 minutes
Language: English
Anthem (1991)
Directed by Marlon Riggs
Country: United States
Duration: 9 minutes
Language: English
Color Adjustment (1992)
Directed by Marlon Riggs
Country: United States
Duration: 80 minutes
Language: English
Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien (No Regrets) (1993)
Directed by Marlon Riggs
Country: United States
Duration: 38 minutes
Language: English
Black Is . . . Black Ain't (1995)
Directed by Marlon Riggs
Country: United States
Duration: 88 minutes
Language: English
DVD SET BONUS FEATURES
Four new programs featuring editor Christiane Badgley; performers Brian Freeman, Reginald T. Jackson, and Bill T. Jones; filmmakers Cheryl Dunye and Rodney Evans; poet Jericho Brown; film and media scholar Racquel Gates; and sociologist Herman Gray
Long Train Running: The Story of the Oakland Blues (1981), Riggs’s graduate thesis film
Introduction to Riggs, recorded in 2020 and featuring filmmakers Vivian Kleiman and Shikeith, and Ashley Clark, curatorial director of the Criterion Collection
I Shall Not Be Removed: The Life of Marlon Riggs (1996), a documentary by Karen Everett that features interviews with Riggs; Kleiman; filmmaker Isaac Julien; African American studies scholar Barbara Christian; several of Riggs’s longtime friends and collaborators; and members of his family
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Visions of Eight (1973)
Directed by Milos Forman, Kon Ichikawa, Claude Lelouch, Juri Ozerov, Arthur Penn, Michael Pfleghar, John Schlesinger, Mai Zetterling
Country: United States/West Germany
Duration: 110 minutes
Language: English
Spine #1081
DVD BONUS FEATURES
New audio commentary by podcasters Amanda Dobbins, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan of the website the Ringer
New documentary featuring director Claude Lelouch; supervising editor Robert K. Lambert; Ousmane Sembène biographer Samba Gadjigo; Munich Olympic Games historian David Clay Large; producer David L. Wolper’s son, Mark Wolper; and director Arthur Penn’s son Matthew Penn, which also includes behind-the-scenes footage from the film and material from Sembène’s uncompleted short film
On Location with “Visions of Eight,” a short promotional film
Trailer
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Streetwise/Tiny: The Life of Erin Blackwell Box Set
Films Included in this Set
Streetwise (1984)
Directed by Martin Bell
Country: United States
Language: English
Duration: 91 minutes
Spine #1079
Tiny: The Life of Erin Blackwell (2016)
Directed by Martin Bell
Country: United States
Duration: 88 minutes
Language: English
Spine #1080
DVD BOX SET FEATURES
New audio commentary on Streetwise featuring Bell
New interview with Bell about photographer Mary Ellen Mark
New interview with Streetwise editor Nancy Baker
Four short films by Bell
Trailer
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Charm City Kings with Director Ángel Manuel Soto and Derek Cianfrance (Ep. 291)
Director Ángel Manuel Soto discusses his new film, Charm City Kings, with fellow director Derek Cianfrance in a spoiler-filled virtual Q&A. The film tells the story of fourteen-year-old Mouse, who desperately wants to join the Midnight Clique. When the Midnight Clique’s leader takes Mouse under his wing, the lure of revving his own dirt bike skids him toward a road past the straight and narrow.
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I'm Your Woman with Director Julia Hart and Tayarisha Poe (Ep. 290)
Director Julia Hart discusses her new film, I'm Your Woman, with fellow director Tayarisha Poe in a spoiler-filled virtual Q&A. Set in the 1970s, Hart’s film tells the story of Jean, a woman who is forced to go on the run after her professional thief husband betrays his partners, sending her and her baby on a dangerous journey.
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Meet The Nominees Theatrical Feature Film Symposium 2021 - Part 3 of 3 (Ep. 304)
Listen to Chloé Zhao, Lee Isaac Chung, Emerald Fennell, David Fincher, and Aaron Sorkin continue their conversation with moderator Jeremy Kagan for the 30th Annual DGA Meet the Nominees: Theatrical Feature Film Symposium on their nominated films. Part three wraps up the discussion as the nominees talk about working with assistant directors, the last images of their film, and how they handle pressure.