Tom Breen

Episode 123: 2018 Toronto International Film Festival

Madison Art Cinemas owner Arnold Gorlick in Toronto.

Madison Art Cinemas owner Arnold Gorlick in Toronto.

Episode 123: 2018 Toronto International Film Festival
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On today's episode of Deep Focus, host Tom Breen and Madison Art Cinemas owner Arnold Gorlick recap their favorite films from the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival.

Episode 121: 48 Hour Film Project New Haven 2018 Recap

Haley Copes, Trish Clark, and Ryan Licwinko.

Haley Copes, Trish Clark, and Ryan Licwinko.

Episode 121: 48 Hour Film Project New Haven 2018 Recap
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On today's episode of Deep Focus, host Tom Breen talks with 48 Hour Film Project New Haven Producer Trish Clark and with Ryan Licwinko and Haley Copes, two local filmmakers who participated in the 2018 competition during the final weekend of July. Licwinko's team, everyoneleavesnewhaven, made the martial arts movie, "The Warrior, The Guardian, and The Liar. Copes's team, Bounce Lounge Productions, made the comedy, "A Slice of Chaos."

Episode 120: Leave No Trace / Three Identical Strangers

LEAVE NO TRACE (2018)

LEAVE NO TRACE (2018)

Episode 120: Leave No Trace / Three Identical Strangers
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On today's episode of Deep Focus, host Tom Breen and New Haven Independent staff reporter Allan Appel review two new releases: Debra Granik's LEAVE NO TRACE and Chris Wardle's THREE IDENTIFICAL STRANGERS.

Episode 119: Trish Clark / 48 Hour Film Project New Haven 2018

Episode 119: Trish Clark / 48 Hour Film Project New Haven 2018
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On today's episode of Deep Focus, host Tom Breen talks with Trish Clark about this summer's 48 Hour Film Project New Haven, the eighth annual Elm City competition to make a 4 to 7 minute movie that follows an assortment of randomly assigned criteria over the course of one weekend. Breen and Clark also talk about the Nutmeg Institute, which Clark co-founded to help connect and inspire local filmmakers.

Links

http://www.48hourfilm.com/new-haven-ct

https://www.nutmeginstitute.com/

https://www.facebook.com/48HourFilmProjectNewHaven/

Episode 118: The Catcher Was A Spy / Won't You Be My Neighbor?

THE CATCHER WAS A SPY (2018)

THE CATCHER WAS A SPY (2018)

Episode 118: The Catcher Was A Spy / Won't You Be My Neighbor?
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On today's episode, host Tom Breen and New Haven Independent reporter Allan Appel review two movies: THE CATCHER WAS A SPY, Ben Lewin's new biopic of professional baseball player-turned-WWII spy Moe Berg, and WON'T YOU BE MY NEIGHBOR?, about the Fred Rogers and the legendary PBS children's program, Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood.

Episode 116: Jim Barone / The Week Of

Episode 116: Jim Barone / The Week Of
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On today's episode, host Tom Breen talks with Jim Barone, a Hamden native who stars in the new Adam Sandler Netflix comedy, THE WEEK OF. Barone lost both of his legs due to complications with diabetes a few years ago, but is now embarking on an acting career, and is calling one of the most famous comedians in the world a new friend and mentor.

Episode 115: Steve Hamm / The Village

Steve Hamm.

Steve Hamm.

Episode 115: Steve Hamm / The Village
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On today's episode, host Tom Breen talks with Steve Hamm, the director of THE VILLAGE, a new documentary and oral history of the Wooster Square neighborhood, which has served for over a century as the city's Little Italy.

Episode 113: Chappaquiddick

Episode 113: Chappaquiddick
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On today's episode of Deep Focus, host Tom Breen and New Haven Independent reporter Allan Appel review CHAPPAQUIDDICK, a new dramatization of the night of and week after U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy (played here by Jason Clarke) drove his car off of a narrow bridge on Martha's Island, resulting in the death of Mary Jo Kopechne, a former RFK campaign aide who was riding along with him.

Episode 112: A Quiet Place

Episode 112: A Quiet Place
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On today's episode, host Tom Breen and New Haven Independent Arts Editor Brian Slattery talk about A QUIET PLACE, John Krasinski's new horror movie about a family in upstate New York that has crafted a wordless survivalist way of life amidst an alien invasion of creatures that are hyper-attuned to noise.