Gorman Bechard (Thomas Breen photo)
Guest: Gorman Bechard
0:00 - 40:21 - interview about Who Is Lydia Loveless? and other rock documentaries
Guest: Lucy Gellman
40:22 - 51:03 - review of The Revenant
Tom Breen talks with local filmmaker Gorman Bechard about rock docs, animal rights, and New Haven film culture.
Trailer for Who Is Lydia Loveless? by Gorman Bechard
Trailer for The Revenant
CHI-RAQ by Spike Lee
Guest: Jeremy Rumas
0:00 - 26:48 - interview with filmmaker Jeremy Rumas about his new surf documentary HANGS UPON NOTHING
Guests:Shafiq Abdussabur, Allan Appel
26:49 - 57:11 - review of Spike Lee's CHI-RAQ
Host Tom Breen talks with Jeremy Rumas, director of the new surf movie "Hangs Upon Nothing." For the second segment of the show, Tom talks with Allan Appel, Shafiq Abdussabur, and Lucy Gellman about Spike Lee's "Chi-Raq."
Trailer for HANGS UPON NOTHING
Trailer for CHI-RAQ
Elihu Rubin (Lucy Gellman photo)
Guest: Elihu Rubin
0:00 - 41:48 - interview with filmmaker and architectural historian Elihu Rubin about his New Haven Trilogy of documentaries
On this week's episode, WNHH host Tom Breen speaks with Elihu Rubin, the author of Insuring the City: The Prudential Center and the Postwar Urban Landscape (Yale University Press, 2012).
Clip from ON BROADWAY (2000)
Stephen Dest (Lucy Gellman photo)
Guest: Stephen Dest
0:00 - 38:03 - interview with filmmaker Stephen Dest
Guests: Allan Appel, Lucy Gellman
38:04 - 51:33 - review of SPOTLIGHT
WNHH host Tom Breen interviews local filmmaker, writer and director Stephen Dest, then discusses the film "Spotlight" with NHI reporters Allan Appel and Lucy Gellman.
Trailer for Spotlight (2015)
Travis Carbonella (Lucy Gellman photo)
Guest: Travis Carbonella
0:00 - 33:11 - interview with Travis Carbonella
Guest: Doris Zelinsky
35:50 - 52:05 - interview with Doris Zelinsky about People Forget, New Haven Remembers
On the first segment of today's episode, Tom talks with Travis Carbonella, a local videographer whose many short promotional, documentary, and fiction movies offer a unique perspective on the people and places that make up the Elm City. They talk about a few of the subjects he’s trained his camera on to date; the differences between making a movie for hire and making one for oneself; and the challenges and benefits of being a New Haven-based filmmaker. For the second segment of the show, Tom talks with producer Doris Zelinsky about People Forget, New Haven Remembers, a new documentary about New Haven's Holocaust Memorial on Whalley Avenue.
Travis Carbonella's video about the Westville Artwalk 2016
Angela Bowen (left), Jennifer Abod, and poet Kitty Tsui (PHOTO BY ROSIE KAR, PHD)
Guest: Jennifer Abod
0:00 - 52:33 - interview with director Jennifer Abod about THE PASSIONATE PURSUITS OF ANGELA BOWEN
Deep Focus host Tom Breen sits down in the studio with Dr. Jennifer Abod, scholar, activist, feminist, and musician, to speak about her recent documentary "The Passionate Pursuits of Angela Bowen."
Brendan Toller (Lucy Gellman photo)
Guest: Brendan Toller
0:00 - 37:18 - interview with local filmmaker Brendan Toller
Guests: Allan Appel, Lucy Gellman
37:19 - 54:41 - review of SICARIO
WNHH host Tom Breen sits down with local documentary filmmaker Brendan Toller to talk about his latest music documentary, DANNY SAYS, about the punk rock pioneer Danny Fields.
Trailer for SICARIO (2015)
Donald Marguleis (Paul Bass photo)
Guest: Donald Margulies
0:00 - 38:49 - interview with Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and screenwriter Donald Margulies about THE END OF THE TOUR
Guests: Allan Appel, Lucy Gellman
38:50 - 53:41 - review of THE END OF THE TOUR
Deep Focus host Tom Breen takes a closer look at the new and acclaimed "The End of the Tour" with screenwriter and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Don Margulies. He then reviews it with Allan Appel and Lucy Gellman.
Trailer for THE END OF THE TOUR