Guests: Dudley Andrew, David Bromwich
0:00 - 43:39 - interview with Yale professors Dudley Andrew and David Bromwich about the Film Masterpieces screening series
Guests: Allan Appel
43:40 - 54:09 - review of BLACK MASS
Tom Breen talks with Professors Dudley Andrew and David Bromwich about how to classify a film masterpiece, and then reviews BLACK MASS with Allan Appel.
Trailer for BLACK MASS (2015)
Guest: Arnold Gorlick
0:00 - 34:39 - interview with Arnold Gorlick about the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival
Guests: Arnold Gorlick, Allan Appel, Lucy Gellman
34:40 - 47:29 - review of GRANDMA
Host Tom Breen talks with Madison Art Cinemas's Arnold Gorlick about the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival, and then reviews the new movie GRANDMA.
Trailer for GRANDMA (2015)
Brian Meacham (Lucy Gellman photo)
Guest: Bran Meacham
0:00 - 33:52 - interview with film archivist Brian Meacham about the Yale Film Archive and the Treasues from the Yale Film Archive series
Guests: Allan Appel, Lucy Gellman
33:53 - 53:22 - review of THE DIARY OF A TEENAGE GIRL
Deep Focus host Tom Breen sits down with Brian Meacham, Archive and Special Collections Manager at the Yale Film Archive, to discuss films that will be showing for free at the Whitney Humanities Center this fall and winter. In the last 15 minutes, New Haven Independent reporter and WNHH Station Manager Lucy Gellman join in for a discussion of a new release, "Diary of a Teenage Girl."
Trailer for THE DIARY OF A TEENAGE GIRL
Lesbian Film Series at Yale
Guests: Ron Gregg, Lena Eckart-Erdheim
0:00 - 37:19 - interview with film studies professor Ron Gregg and Yale grad student Lena Eckart-Erdheim about the Lesbian Filmmaker series at Yale
Guest: Ken Winokur
37:20 - 59:55 - conversation with Ken Winokur about the Alloy Orchestra and the Man with the Movie Camera
Tom Breen talks with professor Ron Gregg and Yale grad student Lena Eckart-Erdheim about the new film series that focuses on 6 groundbreaking lesbian filmmakers. He then talks with Ken Winokur of the Alloy Orchestra about their score for Dziga Vertob's THE MAN WITH THE MOVIE CAMERA.
Trailer for BOYS DON'T CRY
BAD GIRLS screening series
Guest: Kirsty Dootson
0:00 - 34:47 - interview with Yale grad student Kirsty Dootson about the Bad Girls film series at Yale
Guests: Allan Appel, Lucy Gellman
34:48 - 57:29 - review of MISTRESS AMERICA
Host Tom Breen turns to the "Bad Girls" movie series now on at Yale University, curated by doctoral student Kirsty Dootson. He then reviews MISTRESS AMERICA with Allan Appel and Lucy Gellman.
Trailer of MISTRESS AMERICA
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
William F. Buckley and Gore Vidal in BEST OF ENEMIES
Guests: Joe Fay, Brandon Upson
0:00 - 39:08 - interview about exploitation cinema with Lyric Hall's Joe Fay and Vinegar Syndrome's Brandon Upson
Guests: Allan Appel, Lucy Gellman
38:50 - 53:20 - review of BEST OF ENEMIES
Host Tom Breen talks with Joe Fay from Lyric Hall and Brandon Upson from Vinegar Syndrome about the unique pleasures of exploitation cinema. He then reviews BEST OF ENEMIES with Allan Appel and Lucy Gellman.
Review of BEST OF ENEMIES
Kelly Bigelow Becerra and Ben Hecht (Lucy Gellman photo)
Guests: Trish Clark, Kelly Bigelow Becerra, Ben Hecht
0:00 - 30:15 - interview about the 2015 New Haven 48 Hour Film Project
Guests: Arnold Gorlick, Lucy Gellman
31:07 - 57:46 - review of Wood Allen's "Irrational Man"
On the first episode of Deep Focus, host Tom Breen interviews members of New Haven's 48 Hour Film Project, looking at what did and didn't work for them during a cinematically crazy 48 hours. He also speaks with Arnold Gorlick of Madison Art Cinemas about the newest Woody Allen release, "Irrational Man."
Trailer for IRRATIONAL MAN by Woody Allen