Show Notes
With her award-winning first feature Blue Heron rolling into theatrical release, writer-director Sophy Romvari returns to the podcast to unpack Martha Coolidge’s devastating 1975 documentary Not a Pretty Picture, in which Coolidge enlisted a group of actors to re-create her own sexual assault and explored the effect the project has on her cast, and herself. Your genial host Norm Wilner has never seen anything like it.
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As Late Fame arrives on Blu-ray and VOD, Oscar-nominated screenwriter Samy Burch is here to discuss her love for Fred Schepisi’s 1993 adaptation of John Guare’s award-winning play Six Degrees of Separation, a film that’s sort of fallen through the cracks over the decades. Your genial host Norm Wilner is very glad to have her.
With their first feature A Breed Apart launching its theatrical run this Saturday, October 3rd, at Toronto’s Revue Cinema writer-directors Adam Belanger and David Lafontaine stop by to celebrate Ken Loach’s devastating coming-of-age drama Kes. Your genial host Norm Wilner is here to hit the North.
With his new Godspell documentary You Had to Be There rolling across North America, Emmy-winning documentarian Nick Davis is here to share the love for another cultural milestone of the early ‘70s: Young Frankenstein, Mel Brooks and Gene Wilder’s greatest collaboration. Your genial host Norm Wilner is so happy he did.