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Lively banter about entertainment industry news and in-depth interviews with directors, producers, writers and actors, hosted by award-winning journalist Kim Masters of The Hollywood Reporter.
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Feb 14, 2015 • 30min
The Long Road to ‘The Imitation Game’
Director Morten Tyldum and writer and producer Graham Moore tell Kim Masters how the journey of making their Oscar-nominated film about codebreaker Alan Turing started years ago at a fateful cocktail party.

Feb 7, 2015 • 30min
'Leviathan' Filmmakers Face an Unsettling Response in Russia
Director Andrey Zvyagintsev and producer Alexander Rodnyansky's film Leviathan is Oscar-nominated, but back home in Russia, the official reaction has been one of displeasure.

Jan 31, 2015 • 30min
A Sundance Postcard and Director Pawel Pawlikowski on ‘Ida’
Kim Masters reflects on a personal Sundance first—actually appearing in a film featured at the festival. And a conversation with filmmaker Pawel Pawlikowski. His black and white Polish indie Ida is up for two Oscars.

Jan 24, 2015 • 30min
Wash Westmoreland and Richard Glatzer on 'Still Alice'
Julianne Moore is in Oscar contention for playing a woman struggling with Alzheimer's in Still Alice. The film was directed by a married couple with their own story of battling a debilitating disease.

Jan 17, 2015 • 30min
Richard Linklater and His Oscar-Nominated 'Boyhood'
Thirteen years ago, Richard Linklater had a simple, but brilliant idea for a film. Investors loved the idea too. The catch? There'd be no return for over a decade. Now, the film is nominated for six Oscars.

Jan 10, 2015 • 30min
Ava DuVernay on 'Selma,' Building a Career Her Own Way
Before she became a filmmaker, Ava DuVernay worked as a film publicist. DuVernay traces how she shifted her career and ended up making history as the first African American woman nominated for Best Director at the Golden Globes for the historical drama Selma.

Jan 3, 2015 • 30min
Alejandro González Iñárritu on 'Birdman,' the Future of Film
Director Alejandro González Iñárritu talks about the struggles of getting Birdman, his dark comedy about a washed-up actor seeking redemption, off the ground.

Dec 27, 2014 • 30min
The Year in Film and Television: 2014 Edition
Hollywood news banter partners Michael Schneider and Matthew Belloni join Kim Masters to mega-banter 2014, the year that may forever be known as the year of the Sony hack.

Dec 20, 2014 • 30min
Laura Poitras on Snowden, Watchlists and 'Citizenfour'
Documentarian Laura Poitras on the secretive making of Citizenfour, the film about NSA leaker Edward Snowden.

Dec 13, 2014 • 30min
'Big Hero 6' Brings a Marvel Comic Book to a Disney Universe
Big Hero 6 is the first Disney animated feature to use characters from the Marvel library, but it's not being marketed that way. Producer Roy Conli and Disney Animation Studios president Andrew Millstein explain why.


