Podcasts about quad cinema

CinemAddicts co-host Eric Holmes Interviews Gunslingers director/writer Brian Skiba and That They May Face The Rising Sun director/co-writer Pat Collins. That They May Face The Rising Sun hits NYC's Quad Cinema and Los Angeles' Laemmle Royal on April 11. Images: Juno Films Catch Gunslingers April 11 in theaters, on Digital and On Demand! Images: Lionsgate Timestamps (0:00) - Gunslingers intro (5:26) - Brian Skiba interview (13:40) - Gunslingers review (22:22) - That They May Face The Rising Sun intro (24:28) - Pat Collins interview (39:06) - Eric's review of That They May Face The Rising Sun When you purchase Amazon items via our SiteStripe or Affiliate Links, we receive a slight commission. Thanks for Supporting CinemAddicts! Rent/purchase Gunslingers on Amazon and support our Podcast! CinemAddicts Info:  Like Our CinemAddicts Facebook Page Join our CinemAddicts Facebook Group for daily movie recommendations. Our email: info@findyourfilms.com. Shop our CinemAddicts Merch store (shirts, hoodies, mugs). Our Website is Find Your Films Thanks to our Patreon Community Ryan Smith 2. Stephen Schrock 3. Susan 4. Charles Peterson 5. Nelson B. McClintock 6. Diana Van De Kamp 7. Pete Abeyta 8. Tyler Andula 9. Stephen Mand 10. Edmund Mendez 11. Abbie Schmidt 12. Jeff Tait 13. Robert Prakash 14. Kristen 15. Chris M 16. Jeremy Chappell 17. Lewis Longshadow 18. Iver 19. Alex Clayton 20. Daniel Hulbert 21. Andrew Martin 22. Angela Clark 23. Myron Freeman 24. Kayn Kalmbach 25. Aaron Fordham 26. Tracy Peters 27. Grant Boston 28. Ken Cunningham 30. Erik Chavez  

52 West 8th Street in Manhattan is a famous address in the history of music. It's the home of Electric Lady Studios, built by Jimi Hendrix and his collaborators in the late 1960s. The space was designed as a home for Hendrix to have a safe and comfortable environment to record and explore new ideas. However, the studio was only finished shortly before his unexpected death. A new documentary tells the story of Electric Lady's construction as told by the musicians and engineers who worked alongside Hendrix. Director and Hendrix estate archivist John McDermott and architect John Storyk discuss the film, “Electric Lady Studios: A Jimi Hendrix Vision,” opening at the Quad Cinema on August 9.

“Made In England: The Films Of Powell And Pressburger” had its world premiere at the Berlin International Film Festival earlier this year, where it received rave reviews for delving into the films and careers of two of the greatest storytellers the medium as ever known: Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. From “Black Narcissus” to “The Red Shoes,” to “A Matter of Life and Death,” to “The Tales of Hoffmann,” their collaboration inspired a generation and is still revered for their daring artistry to this day. Director David Hinton and Executive Producer Thelma Schoonmaker (and Powell's widow wife) were both kind enough to spend a few minutes answering questions about the documentary, which is now playing at Quad Cinema in New York City and will open in Los Angeles at the Landmark's Nuart Theater on July 26th with a national rollout to occur afterward. Check out more on NextBestPicture.com Please subscribe on... Apple Podcasts - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/negs-best-film-podcast/id1087678387?mt=2 Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/7IMIzpYehTqeUa1d9EC4jT YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWA7KiotcWmHiYYy6wJqwOw And be sure to help support us on Patreon for as little as $1 a month at https://www.patreon.com/NextBestPicture and listen to this podcast ad-free Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Actor Karen Allen returns to the podcast with actor William Sadler. The two co-star in the indie drama "A Stage of Twilight" which is now available on the streamers. Also, documentary filmmaker Maren Poitras discusses her new film "Finding the Money" which begins its theatrical at the Quad Cinema in NYC on Friday, 5/4.

Born Jerome Silberman in Milwaukee, Gene Wilder became one of the most in demand and beloved comic actors of his generation.  A new film uses his own voice and never before seen footage to document his life story and pay tribute to the beloved artist. We speak to Ron Frank, director of "Remembering Gene Wilder," which opens this Friday at the Quad Cinema. *This episode is guest-hosted by Kousha Navidar  

Born Jerome Silberman in Milwaukee, Gene Wilder became one of the most in demand and beloved comic actors of his generation.  A new film uses his own voice and never before seen footage to document his life story and pay tribute to the beloved artist. We speak to Ron Frank, director of "Remembering Gene Wilder," which opens this Friday at the Quad Cinema. *This episode is guest-hosted by Kousha Navidar  

This month we hear from the makers of the five films nominated for the Academy Award for best feature documentary. Today, writer and director Nisha Pahuja talks about her film "To Kill a Tiger" that tells the story of a family in rural India that decides to fight back in court after the daughter is sexually assaulted. "To Kill a Tiger" is screening at Manhattan's Quad Cinema on W. 13th St. Check out the interviews with all the nominees.  

Call Me Dancer is a multiple award winning feature documentary that follows Manish Chauhan, a charismatic street dancer from Mumbai, who dreams of becoming a ballet dancer despite his parents misgivings. In this episode, host Sandra Abrams chats with the filmmakers behind this inspiring film: director and producer Leslie Shampaine, co-director Pip Gilmour, and editor Jennifer Beman. All three are WIFV members. They share their journey of how they made the project that took them from India, to the UK, NY, and Israel, and why it took over  five years to complete and edit. From humble beginnings, Manish's life goes on a roller coaster ride as he navigates the dance world, Covid, and injuries to reach his goals with help from his curmudgeonly ballet teacher, Yehuda Maor. The documentary is in English and Hindi. Theatrical screenings of CALL ME DANCER begin at the Quad Cinema in NYC Dec 15-21. Check the film website for other dates and locations: https://callmedancer.com/see-the-film/Film website: https://callmedancer.com/Instagram for Call Me Dancer: https://www.instagram.com/callmedancermovieInstagram for Manish Chauhan: https://www.instagram.com/manishchauhan02Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/callmedancermovieTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@callmedacnermovie

The animator/filmmaker Signe Baumane makes her first appearance on FIlmwax with her latest feature film, "My Love Affair With Marriage". Her film opens at the Quad Cinema in NYC on Friday, October 6th.

In the ninth episode of 'Independent Animation', our companion podcast series to the Skwigly tie-in book 'Independent Animation: Developing, Producing and Distributing Your Animated Films' (Taylor & Francis/CRC Press), we welcome back Signe Baumane to discuss her latest indie animated feature film 'My Love Affair with Marriage', which is about to embark on its US theatrical run following a multi-award-winning festival journey. My Love Affair With Marriage is an independent animated feature film by Signe Baumane created for an adult audience. The film, a Latvian - USA - Luxembourg co-production, took seven years to make and was financed with the help of 1,685 individual donors along with grants from many arts and cultural institutions. This fall, My Love Affair With Marriage will have its North American theatrical release opening at Quad Cinema in New York City October 6, 2023. The following week the film will open on the West Coast in Los Angeles October 13, 2023. From October through December - and beyond - the film will screen at cinemas, educational and community settings around the country. Written, presented and produced by Ben Mitchell Music by Ben Mitchell Learn more about the film at https://www.myloveaffairwithmarriagemovie.com/

Ariel sits down with Ellie Foumbi, director of Our Father the Devil, an Independent Spirit Award nominee opening at the Quad Cinema in NYC this Friday.Support the show

In Francisca Alegría's poignant and stunning debut feature, THE COW WHO SANG A SONG INTO THE FUTURE, we are introduced to a world delicately constructed by fantasy, mystery, and magical realism. The story begins at a river in the south of Chile where fish are dying due to pollution from a nearby factory. Amid their floating bodies, long-deceased Magdalena (Mia Maestro) bubbles up to the surface gasping for air, bringing with her old wounds and a wave of family secrets. This shocking return sends her widowed husband into turmoil and prompts their daughter Cecilia (Leonor Varela) to return home to the family's dairy farm with her own children. Magdalena's presence reverberates among her family, instigating fits of laughter and despair in equal measure with all but Cecilia's eldest child, who finds much-needed comfort in their grandmother's love and unconditional understanding during a time of transition. THE COW WHO SANG A SONG INTO THE FUTURE is an ambitious proposal for acceptance and healing, suggesting that the dead return when they are most needed. Director Francisca Alegria joins us for a conversation on her ambitious undertaking and how she was able to successfully tell her story as a lyrical rumination on family, nature, renewal, and resurrection. For more go to: kinolorber.com/film/the-cow-who-sang THE COW WHO SANG A SONG INTO THE FUTURE opens May 19 at the Quad Cinema in New York and May 26 at the Landmark Nuart in Los Angeles and the Laemmle Glendale followed by national expansion.

Eran Kolirin is a filmmaker with a current retrospective at NYC's Quad Cinema, in celebration of his new film Let It Be Morning, which premiered at Cannes in Un Certain Regard. You'd know him most from the wildly successful The Band's Visit, which was adapted into a huge musical. I like the movie more, which I had the pleasure of watching on 35mm this week before moderating opening night's Q&A last night. Eran and I talk about identity most. What's it mean to be a Jew? Israeli? Middle Easterner? What's a wall? How's it impact us physically and psychologically? Shot before pandemic, the words 'lockdown' and 'protest' figure importantly and presciently here. I'm happy to watch the film for the first time now, given the newfound context. It's even more impactful. Go see it @quadcinema via @cohenmediagroup https://quadcinema.com/film/let-it-be-morning/ https://cohenmedia.net/product/let-it-be-morning --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/teawithsg/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/teawithsg/support

Welcome to The B-Side, from The Film Stage. Here we talk about movie stars! Not the movies that made them famous or kept them famous, but the ones that they made in between. Today we get to talk to the immensely-talented Mark Pellington, the filmmaker behind hits like Arlington Road and The Mothman Prophecies, some of the best music videos ever made, some of the weirdest, coolest stuff ever on MTV, and a slew of other interesting, powerful pieces of work. He's re-cut (and really remade) his directorial debut Going All The Way, starring Jeremy Davies and Ben Affleck, adapted from the Dan Wakefield novel of the same name. Going All The Way: The Director's Edit is currently screening at Brain Dead Studios & Laemmle Glendale in Los Angeles, and will open on Dec. 16th at Quad Cinema in New York with rollout to follow. Visit this link for more info. We discuss everything with Pellington, from his remaking his first feature to his own B-Sides Henry Poole Is Here and I Melt With You. There's talk of his extremely personal short doc Fathers Daze, his Quibi show Survive and the upcoming feature film version. Pellington tells us why he still likes to discover movies on cable, why he'd like to re-cut Henry Poole Is Here if given the chance, and why there is so much flat cinematography & aesthetic sameness in the streaming age. Finally, he tells us a bit about his hopefully-upcoming Magnum Opus Memory Epic Clang. Fingers crossed on the making of that film! This is one of our most in-depth conversations with a filmmaker so far, and we encourage you to listen good and seek out all that Pellington's done. Be sure to give us a follow on Twitter and Facebook at @TFSBSide. Also enter our giveaways, get access to our private Slack channel, and support new episodes by becoming a Patreon contributor. We are also now on Spotify and Stitcher. Enjoy!

Documentary filmmaker Phil Bertelsman discusses his new film "The Picture Taker" about Ernest Withers, a civil rights photographer turned FBI informant. Opens at BAM in Brooklyn Friday, October 14th. Also, some of the team behind the new dramatic narrative film, "The Same Storm" including writer/director Peter Hedges and actors Alison Pill and Jphn Gallagher, Jr. That film opens at the Quad CInema & Laemmle Monica Center on Friday, October 14th.

Today Leslie has a fascinating conversation with Documentary Filmmaker Cevin Soling about what it's like to investigate ancient tribes that still exist. How do you put together a compelling film when you have no idea what you will find? Do you go in with a planned story or agenda? Cevin addresses this and much more in this informative episode of Best in Fest.More About CevinCevin Soling, president of Spectacle Films and Xemu Records, works aswriter, director, producer, artist, and academic. Soling directed and produced, THE WAR ON KIDS, winner of the best educational documentary award at the New York Independent Film and VideoFestival. The film demonstrates how American public schools have becomemodeled after prisons in response to fear and a burgeoning intolerance of youth.The film ran at the Quad Cinema in New York City and screened at HarvardUniversity as well as other major universities. It has received accolades fromThe New York Times, Variety, and The Huffington Post. Soling was a gueston numerous radio shows including The Lionel Show on Air America, TheJoey Reynolds Show on WOR, and The Leonard Lopate Show on WNYC. Inaddition, the film was featured on national television along with an interview onThe Dr. Nancy Show on MSNBC, as well as on RT Television, and Soling wasthe featured guest on The Colbert Report. The film has been broadcastinternationally on The Sundance Channel and aired domestically on TheDocumentary Channel.Soling also produced and directed IKLAND, a film about a tribe in NorthernUganda that had been described as the most despicable people on the planet bythe anthropologist who studied them over forty years ago. IKLAND won theaward for Best Documentary content at the Boston International Film Festivaland was released theatrically in June of 2012 where it received enthusiasticreviews from The New York Times, Discovery Magazine, and from severalsyndicated critics.Soling wrote, directed, and produced the feature film, THE WAR ON THE WARON DRUGS, winner of the best experimental feature film award at the New YorkIndependent Film and Video Festival, the Stoney Award for best documentaryfrom High Times, as well as the “Clear Creek” Honorable Mention Award at theWinslow International Film Festival.The New York Times proclaimed in a rave review that THE WAR ON THE WARON DRUGS "...a lively and well-executed satire that sweetens its occasionaltruths with rebellious humor..." The film was acquired for DVD distributionworldwide through Time Warner by The Disinformation Company.

Welcome, one and all, to the latest episode of The Film Stage Show! Today, Brian Roan, Robyn Bahr, and Bill Graham are joined by Kyle Turner to discuss Andrew Ahn's Fire Island, now on Hulu. Enter our giveaways, get access to our private Slack channel, and support new episodes by becoming a Patreon contributor. For a limited time, all new Patreon supporters will receive a free Blu-ray/DVD. After becoming a contributor, e-mail podcast@thefilmstage.com for an up-to-date list of available films. This episode is sponsored by Oscilloscope Laboratories, presenting the film POSER. Wallflower Lennon Gates creates a podcast to interview the local musicians she adores, hoping to win access to the inner sanctum of the underground scene in Columbus, Ohio. As she discovers her own musical ambitions, she develops a fast friendship with the striking, confident performer Bobbi Kitten, and in the process creates an identity not wholly her own. Soon, Lennon's aspirations lead her down a path of dark obsession. Kate Erbland at IndieWire calls it “Spiky, funny, feverish, and more than a little nail-biting," while Variety's Tomris Laffly says POSER is “Oddly beautiful, absurdly compelling, even freakishly watchable.” POSER opens Friday June 17th at New York City's Quad Cinema and the Landmark Westwood in Los Angeles.

In 2007, MacArthur Fellow Marin Alsop became the first female conductor of a major American orchestra, breaking the patriarchal norms of the traditional classical music world. Since her retirement as music director of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra in 2021, the top twenty-five orchestras in the U.S are once again all conducted by men. A new documentary, "The Conductor," tells the story of the life and career of Alsop, from her early days growing up in New York City as a Juilliard student, to her conducting around the world, from Baltimore, to São Paulo, to Vienna. To discuss the film, we're joined by Marin Alsop and director Bernadette Wegenstein. “The Conductor” is currently screening at the Quad Cinema and will be available on VOD and PBS this March.

As witty as she is articulate, Diana Drumm is a critic, historian, researcher, and self-described "full-time nerd." An assistant editor at Cineaste Magazine, which is America's leading magazine on the art and politics of cinema, Diana is also the marketing coordinator at Quad Cinema, New York's first small four-screen multiplex theater. Additionally, she is assisting in the production of the upcoming memoir of the late movie theater owner and film distributor Dan Talbot of New Yorker Films and Lincoln Plaza Cinemas. She also runs the Female Film Critics Twitter account, amplifying women and gender nonbinary voices in film on social media.Particularly knowledgeable when it comes to classic British cinema and the filmography of James Mason, in a lively two-hour conversation, Diana and I dissect the Sinister Men of The Wicked Lady, Marnie, Inside Daisy Clover, Smooth Talk, and Baby Driver. From Face/Off to the psychology of Hitchcock to our own misadventures in the dating world and beyond, this is one often hilarious, wide-ranging discussion you won't want to miss.Theme Music: Solo Acoustic Guitar by Jason Shaw, Free Music ArchiveOriginally Posted on Patreon (4/9/21) here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/49837807

This episode focuses on a new documentary, the 2019 New York Film Festival hit "The Booksellers", with director D.W. Young and producers Judith Mizrachy and Dan Wechsler. The film opens at the Quad Cinema in NYC on Friday, March 6th. Filmwax Radio host Adam Schartoff will moderate the Q&A's on Saturday's 2:00 & 7:00 screenings.

JOSÉ is an incredicle film depicting the story of a working class young man's struggle to find himself. Rare and unique, the film shows what it means to be gay in Central America. It opens on January 31, 2020 at New York City's Quad Cinema, with national dates to follow, including Los Angeles, Miami and San Diego.   It has been a hit in the festival circuit, featured at Amnesty International and in over 70 leading international festivals, winning multiple awards. José (played by our guest today, Enrique Salanic) lives with his mother (Ana Cecilia Mota) in Guatemala City, where they survive on her selling sandwiches at bus stops and with him working at a local restaurant. In this poor and sometimes dangerous country dominated by conservative Catholic and Evangelical Christian religion, living as an openly gay man is hard for José to imagine. His mother has never had a husband, and as her youngest and favorite son, on the edge of manhood at 19-years old, she is determined to hold on to him. Reserved and private, José fills his free moments playing with random hook ups arranged on his phone apps and meeting in clandestine sex houses. When he meets the attractive and gentle Luis (Manolo Herrera), a migrant from the rural Caribbean coast, an unexpected romance blooms with more emotion than José has ever felt. As he is thrust into new passion and pain he is pushed into never before self-reflection. Will his reluctance to take a leap of faith lead to happiness?  Enrique and  producer George F. Roberson are our special guests today. We will talk to them about the film itself, and also how the Trump administration banned Enrique from entering the US to promote it.

Tomorrow in Manhattan, a film festival opens in honor of the late movie critic Pauline Kael, born 100 years ago this month. A film festival - for a critic? WNYC's Sara Fishko has more in this episode of Fishko Files. "Losing It at the Movies: Pauline Kael at 100" runs at Quad Cinema tomorrow, June 7 through Thursday, June 20. David Denby is a critic and staff writer for The New Yorker. Peter Rainer is the film critic at the Christian Science Monitor and author of "Rainer on Film: Thirty Years of Film Writing in a Turbulent and Transformative Era." Amy Taubin is a film critic and contributing editor at Artforum, Film Comment, and Sight & Sound. Fishko Files with Sara Fishko Assistant Producer: Olivia BrileyMix Engineer: Wayne Shulmister & Jared PaulEditor: Karen Frillmann

The Rep Report returns with an in-depth conversation about the upcoming Nelly Kaplan retrospective at the Quad Cinema, along with other rep highlights. This week, Film Comment Editor in Chief Nicolas Rapold is joined by FC contributing editor Nellie Killian and first-time guest Chris Wells, director of repertory programming at Quad Cinema for a look at an underappreciated filmmaker whose work is primed for reappraisal. The fascinating Nelly Kaplan was something of a polymath, variously a journalist, documentary filmmaker, writer of surrealist fiction, screenwriter, and film critic and theorist (and occasional contributor to Film Comment). Under discussion here is the series of politically probing, playful, and ferociously feminist features which the Paris-based Kaplan began making in the late '60s. In addition to the Kaplan series, which opens April 12 at the Quad, we also touch on Film Forum's upcoming Fay Wray and Robert Riskin series and pay tribute to the Nitrate Picture Show at the George Eastman Museum.

A brief conversation with the returning Oscar nominated editor of "Green Book", Patrick J. Don Vito shares thoughts of the big night. The director of the 1992 indie classic "The Hours and Times", Christopher Munch visits the podcast. The film has been has been given a 4k restoration & a theatrical distribution at NYC's Quad Cinema on 3/1. And author, journalist & filmmaker Marshall Fine.

Jeremy Workman returns to the podcast to discuss his latest documentary, "The World Before Your Feet" which will have its theatrical at the Quad Cinema in NYC beginning Wednesday, November 21st at the Landmark Nuart Theater in Los Angeles beginning Friday, November 23rd. Jeremy, his film's subject Matt Green, and producer Jesse Eisenberg will be conducting Q&A's throughout the theatricals.

MEET CEVIN SOLING Cevin Soling, president of Spectacle Films and Xemu Records, works as writer, director, producer, artist, and academic. Soling directed and produced, THE WAR ON KIDS, winner of the best educational documentary award at the New York Independent Film and Video Festival. The film demonstrates how American public schools have become modeled after prisons in response to fear and a burgeoning intolerance of youth. The film ran at the Quad Cinema in New York City and screened at Harvard University as well as other major universities. It has received accolades from The New York Times, Variety, and The Huffington Post. Soling was a guest on numerous radio shows including The Lionel Show on Air America, The Joey Reynolds Show on WOR, and The Leonard Lopate Show on WNYC. In addition, the film was featured on national television along with an interview on The Dr. Nancy Show on MSNBC as well as on RT Television, and Soling was the featured guest on The Colbert Report. The film has been broadcast internationally on The Sundance Channel and aired domestically on The Documentary Channel. Soling also produced and directed IKLAND, a film about a tribe in Northern Uganda that had been described as the most despicable people on the planet by the anthropologist who studied them over forty years ago. IKLAND won the award for Best Documentary content at the Boston International Film Festival and was released theatrically in June of 2012 where it received enthusiastic reviews from The New York Times, Discovery Magazine, and from several syndicated critics. Soling wrote, directed, and produced the feature film, THE WAR ON THE WAR ON DRUGS, winner of the best experimental feature film award at the New York Independent Film and Video Festival, the Stoney Award for best documentary from High Times, as well as the “Clear Creek” Honorable Mention Award at the Winslow International Film Festival.

Executive Producer for Independent Lens, Lois Vossen, returns for her second visit. The PBS documentary series began its new season this week. Also, director Margarethe von Trotta discusses her film "Searching for Ingmar Bergman" which premieres at the Quad Cinema on November 2nd, in addition to a retrospective of her work.

Preservationist and co-founder of the company Vinegar Syndrome Joe Rubin joins us to talk about his restorations of classic sex films. Vinegar Syndrome can be thought of as the “Criterion Collection for porn!” And the quality of their restorations have garnered compliments from their peers who say that their work is better than what has been done on Paramount’s Hitchcock restorations! Joe also has encyclopedic knowledge about of the Golden Age of porn. This is what lead the Quad Cinema in New York City to ask him to program a series of classic sex films for their Erotic City series in the summer of 2017, where films like Bacchanale (1970), Bijou (1972), Both Ways (1975), the documentaries Changes (1970) and Not a Love Story (1981), Double Agent 73 (1974), Naked Came the Stranger (1975), Not Just Another Woman (1973), The Opening of Misty Beethoven (1976), The Private Afternoons of Pamela Mann (1974) and Scoundrels (1982) were screened. This is a wide-ranging interview covering Joe’s fascination with porn at a very early age, how he got into restoration while still in his teens, and why his company’s restorations are better than those VHS copies that you all covet so dearly. Joe fills us in on a lot of behind the scenes stories about a lot of the films screened in the series. And Joe discusses what bothers him most about the way porn studies is practiced by academics. www.vinegarsyndrome.com you can find out more about the series here: https://quadcinema.com/program/erotic-city/ New York Times article about Vinegar Syndrome: https://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/26/movies/smut-refreshed-for-a-new-generation.html?_r=0 pornocultures.podomatic.com facebook.com/academicsex twitter.com/pornocultures https://concordia.academia.edu/brandrroyo

QUEST is Jonathan Olshefski’s moving chronicle of a close-knit African-American family living in North Philadelphia. Beginning at the dawn of the Obama presidency, the film follows the Raineys: father Christopher “Quest” Rainey, who juggles various jobs to support his family; Christine’s “Ma Quest,” who works at a women’s shelter; Christine’a’s son William, who is undergoing cancer treatment while caring for his baby son; and PJ, Quest and Christine’a’s young daughter. In a neighborhood besieged by inequality and neglect, they nurture a community of hip hop artists in their home music studio. It's a safe space where all are welcome, but this creative sanctuary can't always shield them from the strife that grips their neighborhood. Epic in scope, QUEST is a vivid illumination of race and class in America, and a profound testament to love, healing and hope. Filmed with vérité intimacy for almost a decade, QUEST has swept top documentary awards at festivals across the country since it premiered at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival, including the Grand Jury prize at the Full Frame Festival, as well as nominations for Best Documentary at the upcoming Independent Spirit and Cinema Eye awards. Quest will open in New York on Friday, December 8 at the Quad Cinema and in Los Angeles on December 15. Director Jonathan Olshefski and Producer Sabrina Schmidt Gordon join us for a conversation on their beautifully rendered story of  family, race and hope. For news and updates go to: firstrunfeatures.com - Quest

Bonus Episode of One Week Only! The new documentary "Quest" looks at the life of the Raineys, an African-American family living in North Philadelphia. Carlos interviews director Jonathan Olshefski about filming the Raineys for over a decade and capturing incredibly intimate moments of love and heartbreak, constructing a moving portrait of a modern American family. The film is now playing in New York at the Quad Cinema. Hosted by Carlos Aguilar & Conor Holt. Music by Kevin MacLeod at www.incompetech.com

Starting tomorrow, 25 classic movies by director William Wyler will be screened in New York. In this edition of Fishko Files, WNYC's Sara Fishko picks a couple of favorites. The film series "More Than Meets the Eye: William Wyler" starts tomorrow, December 1, at the Quad Cinema in the Village. Quad Cinema34 W. 13th StreetNew York, NY 10011 Dec 1: The Big CountryDec 1-2: The LetterDec 1-3: Funny GirlDec 1-11: JezebelDec 2-4: The Best Years of Our LivesDec 2-6: Wuthering HeightsDec 2-8: CarrieDec 3: A House Divided; The Good Fairy; Counsellor-at-LawDec 4-8: Detective StoryDec 5-10: The HeiressDec 5-12: How to Steal a MillionDec 5-14: Roman HolidayDec 6: Dead EndDec 6-7: DodsworthDec 7: Mrs. MiniverDec 7-8: The Desperate HoursDec 9: The Children's Hour; These Three; The WesternerDec 10: Ben-HurDec 10-13: The CollectorDec 11: The Liberation of L. B. Jones; The Little Foxes Fishko Files with Sara Fishko Assistant Producer: Olivia BrileyMix Engineer: Bill MossEditor: Sean Bowditch

Snapped up by Roadside Attractions at the Sundance Film Festival for 3 million dollars in 2006, director/writer Chris Gorak's first film and passion project Right At Your Door only managed to make it into 20 venues it's opening weekend.  It would eventually deliver more than 2 million dollars in sales worldwide, enough to get him hired on the bigger budget science fiction/horror movie The Darkest Hour from Summit Entertainment. After two months away from the podcast, Dan and Vicky discuss this forgotten, intense gem from 2007 starring Rory Cochrane and Mary McCormack as a couple dealing with the fallout from a dirty bomb attack on Los Angeles.  There's also LOTS of recently seen to talk about like the summer blockbusters Atomic Blonde, The Mummy, Wonder Woman and War for the Planet of the Apes, TV shows like True Detective, The Keepers, and Orphan Black and documentaries about Whitney Houston and Nora Ephron. Vicky talks about the thrill of getting her first NY Library card, seeing Oscar Isaac play Hamlet on stage, fearing for her life at the Quad Cinema and loving Erykah Badu.  Dan tells us all about his time at Minneapolis's Guthrie Theater, his trip to Provincetown and his love of free streaming service Kanopy.   Hot Date 56 is Right At Your Door.  Will you answer?  We hope you do and leave us some feedback once you have.   

Two great documentaries on tap dancing made in the late '70s and early '80s open at the Quad Cinemas Friday, July 7. They help kick off a whole week of tap-related events all over New York starting July 8. In their honor, WNYC's Sara Fishko and guests explore the art and history of tap in this Fishko Files. (Produced in 2005) For showtimes and tickets to No Maps on My Taps and About Tap, visit www.quadcinema.com.   WNYC Production Credits Executive Producer: Sara FishkoAssistant Producer: Olivia BrileyMix Engineer: Wayne ShulmisterManaging Editor, WNYC News: Karen Frillmann

Yes! Back again.  Film maker Dom Bagnato returns to talk about the theatrical screening of his film, "A Convenient Truth".  Join as we discuss the backbreaking work it takes to release an independent film from scratch.  Go see the film at the Quad Cinema in NYC, running from February 20th to the 26th!   Also, check out more about film atwww.contruthmovie.comwww.livingdaylights.org and follow Dom at @ConTruthMovie