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On Music in Film - Ken Burns

2008-07-16T12:45:50Z

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Celebrated documentary filmmaker Ken Burns gives his take on the use of music in movies.

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Ken Burns' most recent documentary film project, The War, tells the story of the Second World War through the personal accounts of more than 40 men and women from four quintessentially American towns - Waterbury, Connecticut; Mobile, Alabama; Sacramento, California; and Luverne, Minnesota - who experienced and helped to win the most extraordinary war in history.

Woven largely from their memories, the narrative unfolds as the war unfolded - month by bloody month, with the outcome always in doubt.

The film series explores the most intimate human dimensions of a worldwide catastrophe that touched the lives of every family on every street in every town in America demonstrating that in extraordinary times, there are no ordinary lives.

From Pearl Harbor to the liberation of the concentration camps, the companion book to this fall 2007 PBS series, The War: An Intimate History, 1941-1945 by Geoffrey C. Ward and Ken Burns, includes all the iconic events as well as those of prisoners of war and Japanese American internees, defense workers and schoolchildren, and those who struggled simply to keep families together while their men were shipped off - NYPL

Ken Burns has been making films for more than thirty years. In 1981, Burns produced and directed his first film for PBS, the Academy Award nominated Brooklyn Bridge. His other films include Huey Long; Thomas Hart Benton; Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio; a trilogy including The Civil War, Baseball, and Jazz; Frank Lloyd Wright; Not For Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony; Mark Twain; and Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson.

Burns is currently producing and directing a six-part film series on the history of the National Parks which will air on PBS in 2009. He is also working on a history of Prohibition and an update to his 1994 epic Baseball.

His current film, which premieres in September on PBS, is The War with a companion book he co-authored with Geoffrey C. Ward entitled The War: An Intimate History, 1941-1945.

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Alan Cumming - Working with Stanley Kubrick

2008-06-13T09:37:57Z

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Actor Alan Cumming describes working with iconic director Stanley Kubrick on the set of Kubrick's 1999 film, "Eyes Wide Shut."

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Tony Award winning actor Alan Cumming addresses the Oxonian Society.

Alan Cumming is a Scottish film and stage actor, perhaps best known for his supporting roles as Boris Grishenko in the James Bond film GoldenEye, Kurt Wagner/Nightcrawler in X2: X-Men United and on the stage with his Tony Award-winning lead performance as the Emcee in the highly successful revival of Cabaret. He has directed, produced, and written films, TV series and plays, voiced several soundtracks, written a book, developed a stand-up show at the Edinburgh Fringe, and formed his own production company.

Joseph Pascal is co-founder and President of the Oxonian Society.

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The Director's Role

2008-06-12T03:33:37Z

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Tony Award winning director Doug Hughes ponders his role as a theater director and his responsibility as a voice for the audience.

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Veteran Broadway director Doug Hughes discusses his career and methods with Robert LuPone, the director of the New School for Drama. Hughes is the New School's artist-in-residence for the 2007-8 academic year.

Doug Hughes is an associate artist at Roundabout Theatre Company, where he recently directed Eugene O’Neill's A Touch of the Poet, Richard Greenberg's A Naked Girl on the Appian Way, Jon Robin Baitz' The Paris Letter and Stephen Belber's McReele. He is also the resident director at MCC Theater, where he directed Last Easter, Scattergood, Frozen, Anadarko and The Grey Zone (1996 Obie Award for Direction).

For his work on Frozen, Hughes received Tony Award, Outer Critics Circle and Lortel nominations. Other recent work in New York includes Engaged at Theatre for a New Audience; Flesh and Blood (Callaway Award for Best Direction), The Beard of Avon and A Question of Mercy, all at NYTW; Othello (with Keith David and Liev Schreiber) at the Public; John Guare's Lake Hollywood at Signature and Doubt, Defiance and An Experiment with An Air Pump for Manhattan Theatre Club. For his work on Doubt, Hughes won the 2005 Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play. He also won the Lucille Lortel, Outer Critics, Drama Desk and Callaway Awards for the same production. In May 2005, Hughes received an Obie Award for Sustained Excellence.

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War Movies - 18 Feb 08 - Part 2

2008-08-19T05:15:26Z

With the Iraq struggle raging on, we speak to America's top writers and directors.

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War Movies - 18 Feb 08 - Part 1

2008-08-19T05:17:01Z

With the Iraq struggle raging on, we speak to America's top writers and directors.

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2008-10-13T02:39:42Z

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2008-09-03T08:43:47Z

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The Fabulous Picture Show - 26 Feb 07 - Part 2

2008-06-06T15:33:05Z

Amanda Palmer hosts a special screening of "Days of Glory" with features on the Oscars, composer Ennio Morricone, and Nollywood - the Nigerian film industry.

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