Carolyn Pfeiffer's unerring flair took her from North Carolina to Rome at 21 with a one way boat ticket, and straight into La Dolce Vita. As the assistant to Claudia Cardinale, she watched two masterpieces being made-- Fellini's 8 1/2 and Visconti 's The Leopard, and two movie stars later, went to England to become the best PR in--and for--Swinging London. She returned to America to produce such films as Koyaanisqatsi, Kiss of The Spider Woman, and the films of Alan Rudolph. Her incomparable adventures with the greats of mid-century cinema are well told in her memoir Chasing the Panther, (Harper Horizon, 2023) and she talks with Joan Juliet Buck here before they have a talk onstage at Upstate films Rhinebeck on June 16.

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Joan Juliet Buck interviews Howard Korder, co-writer and co-producer of “Franklin”, the 8-part marvel from the team that brought you "The Sopranos". “Franklin”, streaming on Apple TV+ , is as lavish and candlelit as “Barry Lyndon” but more fun, and explodes the myth of fundamental American purity.
Watch Benjamin Franklin manipulate to steer bewigged and rouged French aristos into funding the American Revolution to piss off their arch enemies, the British.

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Joan Juliet Buck explains two terrific, upsetting, unconventional, genre-defying new series , one from the brilliant Lulu Wang and set in Hong Kong, the other a satire written by and starring the provocative Benny Safdie and the cringe-master Nathan Fielder, who directed and also plays Emma Stone's husband

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The inside story of how, back in 1997, George Dawes Green founded The Moth, the storytelling entity that gave you-- and you and you-- permission to get up on stage and tell your story. The author of bestselling, award-winning thrillers (The Juror, Ravens, The Kingdoms of Savannah), George Green is candid, charming, and full of stories.

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This winter John Patrick Shanley had three plays running simultaneously in New York; the newest, Brooklyn Laundry, is a wrenching and ecstatic 80 minute ride through attraction, grief, love, giddiness, reality check, responsibility, to adulthood. He talks to Joan Juliet Buck about life, death, the meaning of both, and invokes the possibilities of a blonde wig.

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Words that hurt: It's 1975 and Truman Capote , one of the most famous writers in the world, publishes an extract of his unfinished novel in Esquire. It's the dirty secrets his beloved rich lady friends have been telling him for years. Shit ensues.

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If truth, emotion and love counted with the academy, this film would be nominated for best actor, (Andrew Scott) best supporting actor (Paul Mescal) , best adapted screenplay, best director, (Andrew Haigh) and best film. Andrew Haigh brings the dead back to life, and explores the truth of intimacy , desire, comfort, and love. He tells the impossible story with such ease and confidence that you believe it all. Andrew Scott plays Adam, a lonely screenwriter living in a high rise so new it seems empty. A young neighbor comes on to him; he takes a train to visit his parents , who've been dead for 30 years...

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Afraid of losing your story? The great screenwriter Joan Tewkesbury, who wrote Altman's game-changing masterpiece 'Nashville', is also a director who has been teaching at Robert Redford's Sundance Institute Labs since 1992. Sundance is where she evolved the way for filmmakers to get at the truth of the story they are trying to tell. She explains to Joan Juliet Buck how to dive deep into the seemingly random to go beyond personal concerns.

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