So out of frustration, i wrote reservoir dogs. Hollywood is not very alluring to me. I am not susceptible to swimming pools and porsches. I got a 79 chevy. Its runnin good. Im a film outlaw, and i think thats a good thing to be. Annenberg media and with additional funding from these foundations and individuals and by and the annual Financial Support of hello, im john lithgow. Welcome to american cinema. At the edge of hollywood and beyond, new filmmakers are making some of the most interesting films in america today, films that have made hollywood stand up and watch. These filmmakers work against great odds on shoestring budgets. If they succeeed, they can get a chance to make hollywood pictures, like Quentin Tarantino and pulp fiction. But going hollywood has its price, one that some of these filmmakers wont pay. In this program, narrated by frances mcdormand, we will look at some visions from the edge. Aaahh big band music playing independent films are the most important there are in
Including lincoln, spotlight, and Straight Outta Compton. Brian John Podhoretz, we would normally ask you here to Talk Straight politics. But, for years, you have been a movie critic. John 37 years i have been a movie critic. Brian when did you get interested in movies . John i started publishing in the American Spectator when i was 18 years old. I grew up in manhattan, and from the age of 11 or 12, i would Wander Around to movie theaters and revival houses and see stuff after school and on weekends. I got fundamentally literate in movies enough that i could write about them. That was over 37 years ago. So now, if you are 18 or 19 years old, you have another 37 years that you have something to be responsible for knowing something about, i dont know if it is as easy as it was then. Movies had only been around for 50 to 60 years then, and now they have been around for 90. And so there are a lot more movies to take account of. Brian when you read your reviews, you see politics in your rev
Interested in movies . John i started publishing in the American Spectator when i was 18 years old. I grew up in manhattan, and from the age of 11 or 12, i would Wander Around to movie theaters and see stuff after school and on weekends. I got fundamentally literate in movies enough that i could write about them. That was over 37 years ago. Now, if you are 18 or 19 years old, you have another 37 years that you have something to be responsible for knowing something about, i dont know if it is as easy as it was then. Movies had only been around for 50 to 60 years then, and now they have been around for 90. So there are more movies to take account of. Brian when you read your reviews, you see politics in your reviews sometime. How influential have movies been on what our political culture is . John it is always a great question about whether they reflect it or lead it or guide it. I think for the most part, movies reflect our political culture, and they are an effort to gain the largest p
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Tonight at the debate . All the blitglitters. The Oscar Nominations out. Will it be joy for Jennifer Lawrence . Will leos oscar dreams survive . Were live as this years list is announced. Thursday, january 14th, 2016. Announcer this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie, live from studio 1a. Welcome. Its thursday morning. I took an ambien and thought maybe i went to florida, tennessee or california and bought a ticket. Happened to you before, so it could have been possible. Ive gone to the kitchen. Can you imagine somebody waking up and thinking, i should check my ticket, and finding out they won . These are the numbers. I got zero of them. The powerball is 10. Lets go to nbc National Correspondent Miguel Almaguer. Hes close to victory. Hes at the winner store out in los angeles. Good morning. Good morning. Three people are waking up hundreds of millions of dollars richer. One of the three tickets was sold inside the store behind me. The 7 11 turneleven is turning into a winner