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  • Claude Lanzmann

    Discussing the documentary film "Shoah," with the director Claude Lanzmann

    Jan. 9, 1986

    In making this film, Lanzmann interviewed death-camp survivors and Nazi functionaries.

  • Discussing the children's anti-pollution film "Down the road" and interviewing the author Allan Kitchell, Jr.

    1960
  • Discussing the Chicago International Film Festival's screening of "Latino," with the film's writer and director, cinematographer Haskell Wexler

    Nov. 15, 1985
  • Discussing the character of Edith Ann with creators Lily Tomlin and Jane Wagner

    Oct. 20, 1994

    The comedic creative force of Lily Tomlin and comedy writer Jane Wagner discuss the character of Edith Ann as well as the bag lady, Trudy, upon the release of their book "Edith Ann: My Life So Far".* Please note: some sections have been edited out from the original recording due to copyright considerations. 

  • Discussing the book "The Gospel Sound: Good News and Bad Times" with Anthony Heilbut

    Nov. 7, 1985
  • Discussing the book "The Fatal Shore: A History of the Transportation of Convicts to Australia, 1787-1868" with author, cultural historian, art critic and documentary filmmaker Robert Hughes

    Jan. 30, 1987
  • Discussing the book "One Writer's Beginnings" (published by Harvard University Press) with author Eudora Welty and New Stage Theatre founder and director Jane Reid-Petty.

    Aug. 12, 1997

    New State Theatre is Mississippi's only nonprofit professional theatre.

  • Discussing the book "One Hell of an Actor: A Novel," with the author, writer and director Garson Kanin

    Apr. 1, 1977
  • Discussing the book "Moviola," with the author, writer and director Garson Kanin

    Nov. 22, 1974

    Discussing the book "Hollywood" and interviewing the author Garson Kanin.

  • Discussing the book "Making the Mummies Dance: Inside the Metropolitan Museum of Art" with the author and former Director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Thomas Hoving

    Jan. 28, 1993
  • Discussing the book "Dunster" with the author John Mortimer

    Jan. 11, 1992
  • Discussing the book "Culture of Complaint: The Fraying of America" with the art critic, author, and documentary filmmaker Robert Hughes

    May. 5, 1993
  • Discussing the book "Barcelona" with the author, art critic, and documentary filmmaker Robert Hughes

    Mar. 3, 1992
  • Discussing the book "American Visions: The Epic History of Art in America" with the author, art critic, and documentary filmmaker Robert Hughes

    May. 5, 1997
  • Discussing the book "American Visions: The Epic History of Art in America" with the art critic and author Robert Hughes

    May. 28, 1997
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