Interview with Guggenheim curators Tracy Bashkoff and Megan Fontanella on the exhibition The Great Upheaval: Modern Art from the Guggenheim Collection, 1910-1918. Hosted by Xueli Wang.
An interview with director Kirby Dick and producer Amy Ziering about their new documentary, The Invisible War, a powerful and disturbing exposé of the rape epidemic in the US miliary. This film won multiple awards and helped to push for concrete policy changes in the deeply flawed prosecution system of the US military. Hosted by Xueli Wang.
an interview with the directors of Little Miss Sunshine, Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris, as they speak about their second feature film, Ruby Sparks. The program will also feature an interview with the star of the film, actor Paul Dano. Ruby Sparks was released by Fox Searchlight on July 25th. Hosted by Chaim Lazaros.
An in-depth discussion with director Jia Zhangke about his new film, A Touch of Sin (2013), winner of Best Screenplay at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival. The film follows four ordinary individuals from four corners of China who each finds that violence may be the only way to preserve justice and self dignity in a system fraught with corruption, oppression, and convulsive change. Director Jia will discuss these pressing social issues in China today, as well as the creative process behind his film and the social function of cinema.
A phone interview with MoMA curator Starr Figura about the exhibition Gauguin: Metamorphoses. Hosted by Xueli Wang
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