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Film Forum Presents

FILM FORUM PRESENTS is the official podcast of Film Forum, a nonprofit cinema in downtown New York City, founded in 1970. Each episode features audio from a special event (Q&A, intro, or conversation), recorded live at Film Forum, around our signature programming: premieres of new independent movies and world-class repertory cinema.

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27:42

NAM JUNE PAIK: MOON IS THE OLDEST TV - Amanda Kim &...

Film Forum Presents ·

2023/04/14

In today’s episode, we bring you a Q&A with filmmaker Amanda Kim following a screening of her debut feature NAM JUN PAIK: MOON IS THE OLDEST TV on March 27, 2023. Kim’s acclaimed documentary weaves together rare archival material, interviews with art world luminaries, and mesmerizing footage of Nam June Paik’s work to create an engrossing portrait of the artist known as the “Father of Video Art.” The event was co-presented by the Korea Society and the Asian American Artists’ Workshop, with author

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19:14

THE TRIAL - Beatrice Welles

Film Forum Presents ·

2023/02/01

In this episode, Film Forum Repertory Artistic Director Bruce Goldstein has an informal chat with Beatrice Welles, daughter of Orson Welles, who appeared at Film Forum in 2015 for the re-release of her father’s Chimes at Midnight. Beatrice talks about growing up with her famous father and her Italian mother, Paola Mori and shares her memories of being a 5-year-old on the set of Welles’ THE TRIAL. A stunning new 4K restoration of THE TRIAL, starring Anthony Perkins, Jeanne Moreau, Romy Schneider and

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36:42

THE RUNNER - Amir Naderi & Madjid Niroumand

Film Forum Presents ·

2022/11/10

In today’s episode, we bring you a conversation with Amir Naderi, writer and director of THE RUNNER, one of the most revered figures of the Iranian New Wave, and Madjid Niroumand, who was 11 when he played the film’s central role nearly 40 years ago. The two joined Film Forum’s repertory artistic director Bruce Goldstein for a discussion following our opening night screening of a new restoration of THE RUNNER on October 28. Released in Iran in 1984, THE RUNNER wasn’t seen in New York until 1991,

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42:27

THE TERRITORY - Neidinha Bandeira & Alex Pritz

Film Forum Presents ·

2022/08/26

In today’s episode, we bring you a dynamic, thought-provoking Q&A from opening night of THE TERRITORY, the new double Sundance prize-winning documentary, on August 19, 2022. THE TERRITORY is an urgent, and immersive look inside the struggle by the Indigenous Uru-eu-wau-wau people to protect their territory in the Northern Brazilian Amazon Rainforest from invasion and deforestation. Filmmaker and cinematographer Alex Pritz spent three years embedded in the Indigenous community before ultimately

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47:19

SPACE IS THE PLACE – Paul D. Miller (aka DJ Spooky)

Film Forum Presents ·

2022/04/06

In today’s episode, we bring you the fascinating discussion around our recent screening of the bold 1972 Afrofuturist science fiction film SPACE IS THE PLACE. The film, directed by John Coney, stars the iconic jazz and experimental musician Sun Ra, who also composed the film’s soundtrack and co-wrote the screenplay. The screening was co-presented by the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research (BISR), in association with Carnegie Hall’s city-wide Afrofuturism festival. We were joined for the event by

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30:44

GREAT FREEDOM - Sebastian Meise, Franz Rogowski & Ira...

Film Forum Presents ·

2022/03/11

In today’s episode, we bring you a conversation from the opening night, March 4, of Sebastian Meise’s new drama GREAT FREEDOM. The film centers on an incredible performance by world cinema superstar, Franz Rogowski, as a defiant gay man imprisoned in post-World War II Germany under the draconian Paragraph 175, which outlawed homosexuality. We were joined for this event by filmmaker Sebastian Meise, star Franz Rogowski, and the acclaimed American filmmaker Ira Sachs, who served as moderator. GREAT

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26:29

THE AUTOMAT – Lisa Hurwitz, Ron Barrett & Paul Hardart

Film Forum Presents ·

2022/02/25

In today’s episode, we bring you a conversation from the opening night, February 18, of Lisa Hurwitz’s hit new film THE AUTOMAT. The documentary explores the history and legacy of the beloved 20th-century culinary institution, Horn & Hardart, aka The Automat, with a charming mix of nostalgic archival footage, and interviews with devotees including Mel Brooks, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and Colin Powell, along with former Automat employees and their families. We were joined for this event by filmmaker Lisa

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21:16

From The Archive: A SEPARATION - Asghar Farhadi

Film Forum Presents ·

2021/12/31

Today’s From the Archives episode features an audience Q&A at Film Forum with the Iranian master filmmaker Asghar Farhadi from January 10, 2012. He appeared during our premiere run of his drama A SEPARATION, which won that year’s Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and also garnered Farhadi a Best Screenplay nomination. The Q&A was translated by Sheida Deyani. Today’s episode is presented in anticipation of our opening of Mr. Farhadi’s latest feature, A HERO, on January 7. It will be the

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25:06

DRIVE MY CAR - Ryusuke Hamaguchi

Film Forum Presents ·

2021/12/03

In today’s episode, we bring you a conversation with Ryûsuke Hamaguchi from November 30, following a screening of his newest film, the critically acclaimed drama, DRIVE MY CAR. The film just won Best International Feature at the 2021 Gotham Awards, and is Japan’s official submission in the same category for the 2022 Academy Awards. The discussion was moderated by Vox film critic Alissa Wilkinson. DRIVE MY CAR is now playing. Please check www.filmforum.org for showtimes and tickets. Special thanks to

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46:04

HALLELUJAH! - Donald Bogle, Margaret Bodde & David...

Film Forum Presents ·

2021/11/19

In today’s episode, we bring you audio from the recent world premiere screening of a new 35mm restoration of HALLELUJAH!, director King Vidor’s landmark all-Black feature, the opening event of our series Nina Mae McKinney, Hollywood’s First Black Star, on November 10. The evening began with a conversation between author and film historian Donald Bogle and Bruce Goldstein, Film Forum’s Repertory Program Director, talking about Nina Mae McKinney, King Vidor, HALLELUJAH!, and the Nicholas Brothers

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52:10

CHESS OF THE WIND & HIVE - Shirin Neshat, Blerta...

Film Forum Presents ·

2021/11/16

In today’s episode, we bring you special events around two of our recent hit films – CHESS OF THE WIND and HIVE. First up, we were honored to have the renowned Iranian visual artist Shirin Neshat join us to introduce a screening of Mohammad Reza Aslani’s sumptuous, long-lost 1976 melodrama CHESS OF THE WIND on Sunday, November 7. Here she’s introduced by Bruce Goldstein, Film Forum’s Director of Repertory Programming. In the second segment: the opening night Q&A for Blerta Basholli’s HIVE from

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24:40

SPEER GOES TO HOLLYWOOD - Vanessa Lapa & Tomer Eliav

Film Forum Presents ·

2021/11/05

In today’s episode, Film Forum presents a Q&A from the opening night of SPEER GOES TO HOLLYWOOD, on October 29th. The new documentary explores the post-war life of Albert Speer, the highest ranking Nazi to be spared the death penalty at Nuremburg, who was widely known as Hitler’s architect. After emerging from 20 years at Spandau prison with a best-selling memoir, rebranded as a “good Nazi,” Speer tried – and got shockingly close – to attaining legitimate movie stardom. The film is based on hours of

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24:53

KAREN DALTON: IN MY OWN TIME - Robert Yapkowitz

Film Forum Presents ·

2021/10/08

In today’s episode, Film Forum presents a Q&A with Robert Yapkowitz, co-director of the new documentary, KAREN DALTON: IN MY OWN TIME, about the mesmerizingly talented, and largely underrecognized folk musician Karen Dalton. The event was recorded on opening night - Friday, October 1st. Writing in The New York Times, Critic Lindsay Zoladz called Dalton “one of ’60s and ’70s folk music’s most skilled and idiosyncratic interpreters,” and writes that watching the film “feels like hanging on a porch

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39:57

IN BALANCHINE'S CLASSROOM – Connie Hochman & Merrill...

Film Forum Presents ·

2021/10/01

In today’s episode, Film Forum presents a Q&A from opening weekend of the new documentary, IN BALANCHINE’S CLASSROOM, about the brilliant artistry of ballet legend George Balanchine as both a choreographer and teacher, recorded on Sunday, September 19th. Filmmaker Connie Hochman was joined by renowned Balanchine ballerina Merrill Ashley for the Q&A, which was moderated by writer Amanda Vaill. In The New York Times, dance critic Gia Kourlas wrote of the film: “To love Balanchine is to love this film;

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31:44

FIRE MUSIC – Tom Surgal, Thurston Moore, Warren Smith

Film Forum Presents ·

2021/09/24

In today’s episode, Film Forum presents a lively Q&A from the opening night of FIRE MUSIC, an engrossing chronicle of the free jazz movement. Joining us for the Q&A were FIRE MUSIC director Tom Surgal, executive producer Thurston Moore--best known as founder of the iconic band Sonic Youth--and legendary jazz drummer Warren Smith, who has played with a wide array of artists, including Sam Rivers, Charles Mingus, Janis Joplin, Van Morrison, Aretha Franklin, and Nat King Cole. In addition to his work

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32:37

MOGUL MOWGLI – Riz Ahmed & Bassam Tariq

Film Forum Presents ·

2021/09/17

In today’s episode, Film Forum presents a Q&A with filmmaker Bassam Tariq and star Riz Ahmed from the opening night of their acclaimed new drama MOGUL MOWGLI on September 3. In the film, Ahmed (who also produced and co-wrote the film with Tariq) gives a tour-de-force performance as a British Pakistani rapper whose successful career is threatened by a sudden illness that forces him to reckon with his own family, identity, and heritage. The Q&A was moderated by Shaka King, filmmaker of last year’s

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45:05

CHAN IS MISSING - Wayne Wang & Hua Hsu

Film Forum Presents ·

2021/09/01

In today’s episode, Film Forum presents a conversation between filmmaker Wayne Wang and New Yorker writer Hua Hsu from the opening night of the new restoration of Wang’s groundbreaking independent film CHAN IS MISSING, on August 20th. When it premiered in 1982 at MoMA’s New Directors/New Films festival, CHAN IS MISSING, a Neo-Noir comedy-drama set in San Francisco’s Chinatown, announced Wang as an exciting new voice in American cinema. Wang went on to make the acclaimed films DIM SUM: A LITTLE BIT

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01:07:30

EYIMOFE (THIS IS MY DESIRE) – Arie & Chuko Esiri,...

Film Forum Presents ·

2021/07/30

In this two-part episode devoted to EYIMOFE (THIS IS MY DESIRE): a Q&A from our July 23rd opening night screening with co-director Arie Esiri and producer Melissa Adeyemo, moderated by premieres programmer Mike Maggiore; and a specially-recorded conversation between Arie, his twin brother (co-director and screenwriter) Chuko Esiri, and Film Forum outreach intern Malchijah Hoskins. EYIMOFE, the Esiri Brothers’ powerful debut feature, is a portrait of life in their native Lagos, Nigeria through the

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54:45

TRUMAN & TENNESSEE - Lisa Immordino Vreeland, Jim...

Film Forum Presents ·

2021/06/30

In this episode, Film Forum Presents a conversation around TRUMAN & TENNESSEE: AN INTIMATE CONVERSATION, a new documentary that explores the intertwined lives of, and often fraught relationship between, two icons of 20th century American literature and culture: Truman Capote and Tennessee Williams. For the event, filmmaker Lisa Immordino Vreeland was joined by actors Jim Parsons and Zachary Quinto, who perform the writings of Capote and Williams via voiceover. Their talk was moderated by Christopher

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49:07

HOPE - Maria Sødahl, Stellan Skarsgård & Andrea Bræin...

Film Forum Presents ·

2021/04/23

In this episode, Film Forum Presents a conversation with Maria Sødahl, writer and director of the new film HOPE, and the film’s stars, Stellan Skarsgård and Andrea Bræin Hovig. Based on Sødahls’ real life experiences, HOPE centers on a couple played by Skarsgård and Hovig whose relationship is tested by crisis. The acclaimed drama was Norway’s official submission to the 2021 Oscars for Best International Feature Film. This episode’s event was co-presented by the Bellevue Literary Review, with

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