Cinematographer John Bailey
We visit the movie set of the Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood with an artist whose medium is light and shadow. (Originally aired: April 21, 2001)
View ArticleVideogame Moviemaking
The feature which earned the top prize at Showtime's 2000 Alternative Media Festival last winter wasn’t a typical student film. To shoot their movie, the directors exploited the graphic engine of the...
View ArticleNow Playing: The Royal Tenenbaums
Among the featured props in the new movie, The Royal Tenenbaums, is a vivid and disturbing painting by Miguel Calderon, called Bad Route. Just how did this painting find its way to the movie screen?
View ArticleStunt Double
You probably don’t know the name Nancy Thurston, but you know the people she’s pretended to be…while jumping off buildings. (Originally aired: September 1, 2001)
View ArticleNow Playing: Y Tu Mama Tambien
In English, the movie title means, "And Your Mother, Too." It has broken all box office records in Mexico. We look at this unusual Mexican road movie that opens across the U.S. next week.
View ArticleDody Dorn on the Art of Editing
Kurt Andersen and film editor Dody Dorn look at the art of editing and the people who decide what stays and what goes. Dorn is a twenty-year veteran of the film industry. This year, she was nominated...
View ArticleCinematic Knockouts
Filmmakers have explored the drama and brutality of boxing since the beginning of film history. Writers Victor Navasky and Jack Newfield talk about boxing at the movies.
View ArticleMovie Mistakes
Sara Fishko looks at how we watch movies closely, and how even their tiniest storytelling flaws resonate on the set and off.
View ArticleMovie Mistakes
A look at how we watch movies closely, and how even their tiniest storytelling flaws resonate on the set and off. Produced by Sara Fishko.
View ArticleSpecial Guest: Robert Altman
Kurt Andersen talks to movie director Robert Altman about art that challenges the audience.Robert Altman is one of the most respected directors in American film. A maverick who came to prominence in...
View ArticleSpecial Guest: Walter Murch
Kurt Andersen and master film editor Walter Murch talk about the simple and complex tools we use to innovate in art. Walter Murch is that rare creature — an artist almost universally considered a...
View ArticleCinematic Street
From Rocky to The 'Burbs, there are all kinds of ways the street gets featured on film. Sarah Lilley explores how the street on the screen becomes, for the viewer, much more than a just scenic backdrop.
View ArticleAmerican Standard
Bathroom scenes, no matter how funny, can always seem just a tad too intimate. But a new film currently in production called American Standard takes place entirely in real bathrooms, public and...
View ArticleVive Le Samuel Jackson
When French moviegoers see Black Snake Moan, the voice they’ll hear as Samuel Jackson is Thierry Desroses, who has dubbed all of Jackson’s films into French since Pulp Fiction. Yes, including Snakes on...
View ArticleGirls on Film
At New York University's Kanbar film school, undergrads are training to be the next generation of filmmakers. Jocelyn Gonzales talked to some of her students, and the school’s associate dean, Sheril...
View ArticleBonus Track: James Cameron Uncut
Hear Kurt's full conversation with the director of "Avatar."
View ArticleBeyond Bullets
Documentarian Jon Alpert, former drug dealer Ronald Merritt,and Phyllis Clayburne Watson, who lost her son in a shooting, talk about the Beyond Bullets campaign, which seeks to deter gun violence...
View Article'Pina' Director Wim Wenders: What Dance Taught Him About Life
Acclaimed director Wim Wenders, of past successes like "The Buena Vista Social Club," and "Wings of Desire," talks about the process of creating "Pina," his new film about the legendary choreographer...
View ArticleDCTV Turns 40
Filmmakers Jon Alpert discusses founding the Downtown Community Television Center 40 years ago, and looks at how it has grown over the past four decades.
View ArticleFilm School in Six Minutes
In his series of videos Every Frame a Painting, Tony Zhou goes deep into the craft of filmmaking. Zhou dissects techniques — including lateral tracking shots, dramatic silence, matching cuts — with...
View ArticleActor Dan Stevens of 'Downton Abbey' Takes on the Big Screen
Actor Dan Stevens is perhaps best known as the Brit who broke American hearts in his role as the now-deceased Matthew Crawley on Downton Abbey.But Stevens is also a busy film actor, with four movies...
View ArticleAudio Essay: A Heartfelt Goodbye to The Genius of Mike Nichols
On and off screen, the life of Mike Nichols was legendary. Nichols knew America. He knew love, and he knew actors and what they could do even better than they did. He made Dustin Hoffman a star in...
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Why Wes Was The Best
Here's something you wouldn't have assumed about Wes Craven: the Master of Suspense was an avid birder. To celebrate the arrival of spring in 2013, Studio 360 held a listener challenge: remix spring...
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How the director of ‘Theeb’ created the Oscars’ only ‘Bedouin western’
As eight films battle it out for Best Picture at this Sunday’s Oscars, a stunning contender is lying in wait for the top prize in Best Foreign Language Film. “Theeb,” a quietly stunning coming-of-age...
View ArticleThe Dark Underbelly of Competitive Tickling
David Farrier, entertainment reporter, actor and documentary filmmaker, set out to write a quirky story about "competitive endurance tickling," but as he delved deeper he came up against fierce...
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Horror School
At Tom Savini's Special Make-Up Effects School in Pennsylvania, it's not books the students are cracking open, but heads. A veteran of horror movies like "Friday the 13th," Savini teaches students how...
View ArticleWes Craven
Master of suspense, Wes Craven has been orchestrating horror for more than four decades. It began with “The Last House on the Left” (1972), continued with Freddy Krueger and “A Nightmare on Elm Street”...
View ArticleSam Raimi
Kurt talks with filmmaker Sam Raimi about the horror movie genre. Best known for directing "Spider-Man," Raimi's roots are in cult classics like “Evil Dead” and “Army of Darkness.” He tells Kurt about...
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Abou Farman on Leonor Caraballo’s “Vision”
In 2012, Studio 360 aired a story about a pair of artists — a husband and wife team named Leonor Caraballo and Abou Farman. In 2008, Caraballo had been diagnosed with breast cancer. She felt a strong...
View ArticleHot Fuzz
England still isn’t safe from filmmaker Edgar Wright. First it was invaded by zombies, in his cult hit “Shaun of the Dead.” Kurt talks with Edgar and stars Simon Pegg and Nick Frost about their...
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A Forgotten Black Director's Only Film Resurfaces After Three Decades
Click on the 'Listen' button above to hear this interview.Filmmaker Horace Jenkins is not a widely known name, even to the most well versed movie buff. Jenkins, an African-American writer and director,...
View ArticleGrowing up in Internment Camps
Filmmaker Emiko Omori joins us to discuss a retrospective of her films at MoMA titled, “Emiko Omori Retrospective: Rabbit in the Moon.” Omori is a Japanese-American woman who grew up in an internment...
View ArticleKubrick's Right-Hand Leading Man
Tony Zierra’s documentary Filmworker, opening May 11, highlights the best of movie-making. It sings an unsung hero, and through him, all the unsung heroes of Hollywood. Actor Leon Vitali got his break...
View Article102 - Archive Fever: Henri Langlois and the Cinémathèque Française
Keepers: people possessed with a passion for preservation, individuals afflicted with a bad case of Archive Fever. The Keepers continues with the story of one such man, Henri Langlois, founder and...
View Article102 - Archive Fever: Henri Langlois and the Cinémathèque Française
Keepers: people possessed with a passion for preservation, individuals afflicted with a bad case of Archive Fever. The Keepers continues with the story of one such man, Henri Langlois, founder and...
View ArticleEmilio Estevez Is Making Great Films, Doesn't Do Breakfast Club Reunions
By the time Emilio Estevez was 23, he'd starred in The Outsiders, Repo Man, The Breakfast Club, and St. Elmo’s Fire. As the son of Martin Sheen, he was Hollywood royalty, and as a member of the "brat...
View Article7th Annual Teen Indie Awards Show
Andrew Jenks, filmmaker and founder of the Annual Teen Indie Awards Show, joins us to discuss the 7th annual ceremony. Event: The 7th Annual Teen Indie Awards Show& IMAX Blue Carpet takes place on...
View ArticleWhen Schemers Become Dreamers
"Narrowsburg" is a whimsical tale about a small town in the Catskills where an independent film stirred up Hollywood dreams and disappointments. The film plays like "The Music Man" with a dark side....
View ArticleErrol Morris on Steve Bannon, Self-Loathing, and Life as a Private Eye
Errol Morris’s documentaries are visually unmistakable, whether they’re about pet cemeteries or the morally bankrupt "great men" of American history. Thanks to his optical invention, the...
View ArticleAnd Another Thing, with Errol Morris
Alec wanted to know a few more things about Errol Morris's work -- so he set up a call!
View ArticleRevealing Barry Sonnenfeld
Barry Sonnenfeld was among Hollywood's most in-demand cinematographers (Big, When Harry Met Sally, Misery) when he decided to make the switch to directing in 1991. The producers were nervous, but the...
View ArticleBrian De Palma on Scarface, Mission: Impossible, and the Movie He Made in...
Brian De Palma's astonishingly diverse hits as a director include Blow Out, Scarface, The Untouchables, The Bonfire of the Vanities, Raising Cain, Carlito’s Way, and Mission: Impossible. He wrote many...
View ArticleOn a Zoom Call with Woody Allen
Woody Allen's new book, Apropos of Nothing, starts with a portrait of his father, a tough-guy World War One Navy veteran and onetime gunman in a firing squad. It's the first of a series of surprising,...
View ArticleMan with a Movie Camera
It's 125 years since the birth of Dziga Vertov, the Russian documentary film and newsreel director. That's a good excuse, says WNYC's Sara Fishko, to look at his remarkable and pioneering 1920s film...
View ArticleHoliday Family Viewing: Chris Columbus' 'Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's...
[REBROADCAST FROM November 9, 2021] Twenty years ago, the film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone was released in theaters, setting the stage for over a decade of films and launching...
View ArticleInside John Waters' Home (But Not Inside His Colon)
John Waters is the writer and director of such cult classics like Pink Flamingos, Serial Mom, and his biggest mainstream success, Hairspray. He’s been making movies since the 1960s and this year he...
View ArticleIn John Waters' Home (But Not In His Colon)
John Waters is the writer and director of such cult classics like Pink Flamingos, Serial Mom, and his biggest mainstream success, Hairspray. He’s been making movies since the 1960s and this year he...
View ArticleJenny Slate and Dean Fleischer-Camp Talk About Their Divorce, Anxiety, and...
When we looked back on the movies we loved in 2022, Marcel the Shell with Shoes On was one of our favorites. The film stars Marcel (voiced by actress and comedian Jenny Slate), a small, animated shell...
View ArticleWhy the Creators of "Everything Everywhere All At Once" Treat Their...
When Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert first met as film students at Emerson College, they didn’t like each other. But after a summer camp job, they embarked on a creative partnership that’s lasted for...
View ArticleThe Big Picture: Hair for 'Black Panther: Wakanda Forever'
In continuing our series The Big Picture, celebrating Oscar nominees working behind the camera, we speak to the Oscar nominated hair and makeup team behind the great looks in "Black Panther: Wakanda...
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