Music professor Frank Lehman discusses the composer’s brilliance and how his oeuvre augments the action and adventure of the modern classics we love.
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Who really writes movie scores?
Mark Rozzo talks about how name-brand composers often employ assistants to do much of the heavy lifting – and how the credit and money often isn’t shared fairly.
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When Mom Left, Thank God For Grandma
Danielle Henderson, TV writer and cohost of the film podcast “I Saw What You Did,” joins us to discuss her experience being raised by her grandmother after her mother abandoned her – and about how her love of horror movies taught her to have faith in herself.
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Politics And The Birth Of The Blockbuster
Film critic J. Hoberman joins guest host Courtney Collins to talk about how movies dive into the themes American audiences yearned for.
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The Excuse For Racism In Hollywood? Money
University of Georgia assistant professor of sociology and African American studies Maryann Erigha joins us to discuss how decisions made behind the scenes affect what audiences see on the screen.
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What To Do With ‘Gone With The Wind’
Aisha Harris joins us to talk about how we should think about the film in 2017.
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The Story Behind ‘Thank You For Your Service’
Author David Finkel, director Jason Hall, veteran Adam Schumann and actor Miles Teller join us to talk about the film, “Thank You For Your Service.”
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Surviving Boston: The Marathon After The Race
Jake Gyllenhaal and Jeff Bauman join us to talk about the film “Stronger,” which tells the story of how Bauman survived the Boston Marathon Bombing.
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How “Thelma & Louise” Redefined The Roles Of Women In Hollywood
Becky Aikman joins us to talk about the film’s unlikely path from script to screen – and about why more than 25 years later Hollywood is still gun shy when it comes to female-led casts.
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Kumail Nanjiani On Turning A Crisis Into Comedy
Kumail Nanjiani joins us to talk about finding humor in one of the darkest times of his life, the premise of his and wife Emily Gordon’s romantic comedy “The Big Sick.”
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How To Watch Movies
Ann Hornaday, movie critic for the Washington Post, joins us to talk about how we can better understand the sights and sounds of the big screen.
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How Criticism Can Improve Our Lives
This hour, we’ll talk with A.O. Scott, film critic for “The New York Times”, about his approach to writing reviews – and about criticism’s role in fostering creativity – which he writes about in “Better Living Through Criticism: How to Think About Art, Pleasure, Beauty, and Truth”.
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