Season 4

episodes

1. 1. The Fiji Stooges 2000-09-04 29 min Donal Lardner Ward and John Pierson visit the Meridian Theatre in Fiji, the most remote movie theater in the world, with a few movies in tow; in 1923, a set from a desert-bound Cecil B. DeMille shoot...
2. 2. Animating Waking Life 2000-09-11 26 min Hanging out with Richard Linklater and Tommy Pallotta while making the uniquely animated feature WAKING LIFE; The Alloy Orchestra at the Maui Film Festival; “Multiplex 1—The Projectionist”: Welcome to...
3. 3. Woodworking with William Macy 2000-09-18 28 min “Multiplex II—The Manager”: welcome back to the Museum Place Cinemas; woodworking with William H. Macy in New York City; “Bikers R People 2”: Amy Elliott turns the camera on biker-chick documentarian...
4. 4. Focus Group from Hell 2000-09-25 29 min “Video on Vinyl: Then and Now”: P. H. O’Brien and Doug Stone go from NYC to London in search of the legacy of the mysterious inventor John Logie Baird; “Focus Group From Hell”: movie market research a...
5. 5. Projections: Wes Anderson 2000-10-02 27 min In this installment of Projections, John Pierson speaks with director Wes Anderson about his early filmmaking experiences making BOTTLE ROCKET, RUSHMORE and THE ROYAL
6. 6. Projections: David Picker 2000-10-09 29 min Woody, Leone, Bertolucci, Schlesinger, Lester and 007. David Picker enabled them all, and many more, as production head in United Artists’ golden era. In this installment of PROJECTIONS a series of in...
7. 7. Projections: Christine Vachon 2000-10-16 28 min Quintessential NY producer Christine Vachon has been on the cutting edge with her company Killer Films for over 25 years, supporting numerous breakout first timers and her mainstay Todd Haynes. This e...
8. 8. Projections: Harmony Korine 2000-10-23 29 min In this installment of Projections, a series of interviews about filmmaking in New York, John speaks one-on-one with Harmony Korine.
9. 10. Projections: Jonas Mekas 2000-11-06 29 min Celebrating Jonas Mekas, a true underground hero who tirelessly championed experimental filmmakers and their “essential cinema” for half a century. A man of many hats, he directed, wrote about and sho...
10. 11. Projections: Walter Bernstein 2000-11-13 29 min Of all Projections interviews, Walter Bernstein’s tales are the stuff of a grand movie adventure. From WW2 hero/correspondent to Hollywood Blacklist in five years, both his script for THE FRONT and me...
11. 12. Projections: David O. Russell 2000-11-20 27 min If these Projections interviews focus on New York filmmaking, why is David O. Russell sitting poolside in LA? After a quintessential indie debut, SPANKING THE MONKEY, and a bigger Miramax follow-up, F...
12. 14. Projections: Buck Henry 2000-12-04 29 min In a two-year span early in his storied career, Buck Henry cocreated GET SMART and wrote THE GRADUATE, instantly showing the range of his genius. In the final PROJECTIONS, Buck’s observations on the i...
13. 15. Projections: Schamus/Hope 2000-12-11 29 min Origin story of odd-couple producers Ted Hope and James Schamus, who nurtured many key directors, especially Ang Lee, whose blockbuster CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON opened the week this interview ai...