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April 25, 2025 • 36 mins
"Chinatown" is inarguably one of the greatest films ever made in the United States. While Roman Polanski is often credited for that certitude, the film's editor Sam O'Steen is also largely responsible for the film's place in film history. And the Metrograph Cinema in NYC is once again recognizing Sam's place in the editing pantheon by screening "Chinatown" in a gorgeous 35mm print as part of the ACE Presents series. That's on Satur...
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April 3, 2025 • 41 mins
Based on a true story, "The Luckiest Man in America" is set in May 1984, when an unemployed ice cream truck driver from Ohio (Paul Walter Hauser) steps onto the game show "Press Your Luck" harboring a big secret: the key to endless amounts of money. His winning streak is threatened when the bewildered executives in the control room start to uncover his real motivations. My guests in this episode are actor Paul Walter Hauser ("Black...
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March 28, 2025 • 24 mins
The filmmaker Geremy Jasper ("Patti Cake$") returns for her second visit to the podcast with his new film, "O'Dessa". Set in a post-apocalyptic future, O’Dessa is an original rock opera about a farm girl on an epic quest to recover a cherished family heirloom. Her journey leads her to a strange and dangerous city where she meets her one true love – but in order to save his soul, she must put the power of destiny and song to the ult...
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March 22, 2025 • 31 mins
The documentary filmmaker Jeremy Workman ("The World Before Your Feet", "Lily Topples the World" )returns for his 7th visit to the podcast with his latest work, "Secret Mall Apartment". In 2003, eight young Rhode Islanders created a secret apartment in a hidden space inside the Providence Place Mall and lived in it for four years, filming everything along the way. They snuck in furniture, tapped into the mall’s electricity, and ev...
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March 19, 2025 • 43 mins
During demonstrations in apartheid-era South Africa, the police arrest Panic (Thomas Mogotlane), a mapantsula or petty gangster, while rounding up activists. His interrogation reveals the motivation for his involvement in the township riots. Once only concerned with partying, alcohol and his own interests, Panic finds himself being irreversibly pulled into the fray. Now, he is forced to choose between his personal freedom and takin...
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March 16, 2025 • 23 mins
Follow the intellectual and emotional journey of a group of medical students at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx in the new PBS documentary "The Calling: A Medical School Journey". Captured through verité scenes and personal video diaries, the film offers an inside look at America’s healthcare system through the eyes of these aspiring practitioners as they learn what it takes to become a doctor in one of the country...
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March 10, 2025 • 52 mins
Filmmaker Atom Egoyan ("Exotica", "The Sweet Hereafter") returns after 9 years for his third appearance on the podcast. He has a new movie that is currently in theaters called "Seven Veils" starring Academy Award® nominee Amanda Seyfried ("Mean Girls", "Mama Mia").
The film follows theater director Jeanine (Seyfried) who, after years away, re-enters the opera world to stage her former mentor’s most famous work. Haunted by dark a...
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March 7, 2025 • 65 mins
Senior Curator of Film at the Museum of the Moving Image, Eric Hynes, is my guest in the first segment. Eric and I discuss the Museum's upcoming First Look festival to take place Wednesday, March 12th through Sunday, March 16th. First Look, MoMI’s annual festival showcasing adventurous new cinema, returns for its 14th edition, offering a diverse slate of major New York premieres, work-in-progress screenings and sessions, gallery in...
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February 28, 2025 • 45 mins
The film author and teacher William J. Mann makes his first appearance on the podcast.
Mann is a New York Times-bestselling author of many books on Hollywood and the American film industry, including his most recent "The Contender: The Story of Marlon Brando", for which he was granted access to Brando’s private estate archive, as well as "Kate: The Woman Who Was Hepburn" (named a Notable Book of the Year by the Times); "Hello Go...
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February 21, 2025 • 45 mins
On this episode, I welcome the filmmaker Noah Pritzker ("Quitters") with his latest film "Ex-Husbands" which opens theatrically in NYC today, Friday, February 21st. The film will continue its national theatrical roll out over the course of the next few weeks. Appearing here with Noah are cast members Griffin Dunne —for his 6th appearance on Filmwax Radio— and the great Richard Benjamin ("West World", "Catch 22").
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February 8, 2025 • 69 mins
Returning for his third visit to the podcast, bestselling Hollywood biographer and film historian Scott Eyman tells the story of Charlie Chaplin’s fall from grace. in his latest "Charlie Chaplin vs. America". In the aftermath of World War II, Chaplin was criticized for being politically liberal and internationalist in outlook. He had never become a US citizen, something that would be held against him as xenophobia set in when the p...
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January 31, 2025 • 70 mins
Ryan Lee Crosby blends echoes of Mississippi, Mali, and India into songs that speak from—and to—the heart. Produced by Fat Possum's Bruce Watson, Crosby's latest "Winter Hill Blues" evokes the essence of Mississippi, refracted by influences of Indian slide guitar. The sound is forged from his life as a traveling musician and studies with Jimmy "Duck" Holmes and RL Boyce. “Of all traditions, what speaks to me most is the Bentonia bl...
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January 24, 2025 • 40 mins
The 1996 Sundance hit indie "Girls Town" has gotten the 4K restoration treatment thanks to Indie Collect (a company run by former Filmwax guest Sandra Schulberg). The film is the directing debut of guest Jim McKay, and stars Lili Taylor, Bruklin Harris, Aunjanue Ellis and other guest Anna Grace. The plot follows a group of girl friends and their coming-of-age during their senior year of high school in urban America. The screenplay ...
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January 17, 2025 • 69 mins
Joseph McBride is a film historian and a professor in the School of Cinema at San Francisco State University. He is the author of biographies of Frank Capra, John Ford, and Steven Spielberg; three books on Orson Welles; and critical studies of Ernst Lubitsch, Billy Wilder, and the Coen Brothers. He acted for Welles in The Other Side of the Wind and has won a Writers Guild of America award. His latest book is called "George Cukor's ...
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January 12, 2025 • 36 mins
The great actor of stage and screen, Harris Yulin ("Scarface", "Ozark"), returns to the podcast. He was in the 1987 film "Candy Mountain" which was recently re-released.
New York City, 1980s. A struggling, deadbeat musician named Julius has fallen on hard times. With no guitar, band or paying gigs, he cooks up a get-rich-quick scheme – to find the legendary, yet elusive guitar-maker Elmore Silk. Considered one of the greatest l...
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December 13, 2024 • 51 mins
On the day of his first fight since leaving prison, Mikey (Michael Pitt), once champion boxer, takes a redemptive journey through his past in Jack Huston's "Day of the Fight". As Mikey prepares for the most important fight of his life, he reconnects with the people he was closest to and tries to make things right. Mikey's coach, Stevie Ross, is played by my guest in this segment, the great Ron Perlman ("Hell Boy", "Sons of Anarchy"...
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December 3, 2024 • 70 mins
Film editor Michael Taylor, A.C.E. returns for his 7th visit to the podcast. Taylor is helping to program a series at the Metrograph Cinema in NYC called Filmcraft: American Cinema Editors. This series showcases the best of editing by pairing a screening with a Q&A with its editors. This Friday, December 6th, there is a sold out screening of Elaine May's "Mikey & Nicky" with Ms. May in attendance. (This podcast host will be in att...
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November 30, 2024 • 28 mins
"Beatles ’64" is an all-new documentary from producer Martin Scorsese and director David Tedeschi. The documentary is currently streaming exclusively on Disney+. The film captures the electrifying moment of The Beatles’ first visit to America. Featuring never-before-seen footage of the band and the legions of young fans who helped fuel their ascendance, the film gives a rare glimpse into when The Beatles became the most influential...
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November 25, 2024 • 54 mins
Actor Chris Jackson makes his first appearance on the podcast. This Broadway and film actor is currently in the cast of the new indie film "Boundary Waters". In this lyrical coming-of-age film, 12-year-old Michael Murray relishes the carefree joys of early adolescence – girls and friends – until his mom has a black eye and a busted lip. Michael is desperate to know what happened, but his father Brian avoids him, Granny (Carole Kan...
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November 15, 2024 • 56 mins
The animator, filmmaker, actor and podcaster Jack Dunphy is the guest. Jack has recently launched a very bold new podcast called REVELATIONS WITH JACK DUNPHY where he talks very frankly and as honestly as one can, with his guests. These are sometimes highly intense confessional conversations about addiction, mental illness, sexuality, and more. You can find Jack's films on various platforms as well as his podcast. This is his first...
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