FilmWeek

FilmWeek on AirTalk, hosted by Larry Mantle, is a one-hour weekly segment devoted to films. It offers reviews of the week's new movies, interviews with filmmakers, and discussions on various aspects of the industry.

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FilmWeek for November 6, 2009

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Larry Mantle and film critics Claudia Puig of USA Today, Peter Rainer of The Christian Science Monitor and Charles Solomon, animation critic and historian for amazon.com discuss several of the week’s new releases including Disney’s A Christmas Carol, The Men Who Stare At Goats, The Box, Precious, The Fourth Kind, The Yes Men Fix The World, Turning Green, The Wedding Song, Died Young Stayed Pretty, and Araya.

Why do we need another book on Elizabeth Taylor? Author William Mann says that Taylor created the culture of celebrity that we have today and that everyone from Madonna to Britney to Miley Cyrus has taken a page from her book. In his new biography of the famed film star, Mann reveals how Liz Taylor “did it,” how her on-and off-screen passions ignited the sexual revolution and how she helped kick down the studio system by taking control of her own career.


FilmWeek for October 30, 2009

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Larry Mantle and KPCC film critics Lael Lowenstein of Variety and Peter Rainer of Christian Science Monitor discuss the week’s new film releases, including This Is It, Gentlemen Broncos, Skin, The House of the Devil, The Fall, and Jump. Then, the AFI Fest presents movies by emerging and established filmmakers. For this year’s festival, from October 30-November 7, tickets are free to all movie screenings. Larry Mantle talks with AFI Fest’s artistic director about this year’s lineup. Author Mitchell Zuckoff joins Larry Mantle to talk about legendary Hollywood movie maker Robert Altman who burst onto the Hollywood scene in 1970 with the movie M*A*S*H.


FilmWeek for October 23, 2009

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Larry Mantle and KPCC film critics Wade Major of boxoffice.com, Andy Klein of Brand X, and Charles Solomon, animation critic and historian for amazon.com discuss the week’s new film releases including Amelia, Antichrist, Astro Boy, Cirque Du Freak: The Vampire’s Assistant, Ong Bak 2, Motherhood, Untitled, The Maid, The Canyon, and Meeting Andrei Tarkovsky. And, Mitch Albom is here. The author of Tuesdays with Morrie has written a new book that profiles a Jewish rabbi preparing for his own death and a Christian pastor who works with Detroit's homeless.


FilmWeek for October 16, 2009

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Larry Mantle and KPCC film critics Claudia Puig of USA Today, Henry Sheehan of henrysheehan.com, and Charles Solomon of amazon.com discuss the week’s new film releases, including Where the Wild Things Are; Law Abiding Citizen, Black Dynamite; New York, I Love You; Visual Acoustics; Trucker; and Bronson.


FilmWeek for October 9, 2009

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Larry Mantle and KPCC film critics Henry Sheehan of henrysheehan.com and Andy Klein of Brand X discuss the week’s new film releases, including Couples Retreat; An Education; Bliss; 35 Shots of Rum; The Damned United; Good Hair; The Horse Boy; Paranormal Activity; and Peter and Vandy. And, a look at films of 1939. Marking the 70th anniversary of its theatrical release, The Wizard of Oz will be available on Blu Ray this week. Larry and FilmWeek critics Henry Sheehan and Andy Klein discuss Oz and the other great films of 1939, including Gone With the Wind, Stagecoach and Dark Victory.


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