In honor of one year of Reel 13, Thirteen interviews two of the stars in the January 10 movies. Neal Gabler interviews Martin Landau, who originally appeared in Hitchcock’s North by Northwest, and Richard Pena talks to Debbie Harry, who stars in the indie film My Life Without Me. Watch now.
How is the star film composer of Hollywood’s Golden Years virtually unknown to moviegoers today? The name Franz Waxman doesn’t usually ring a bell, but the movies he worked on—“Philadelphia Story”, “Rebecca”, more…are classics. Read more about this composer’s life and work:
One of Eartha Kitt’s last interviews was conducted by Washington Week’s Gwen Ifill for the Historymakers program “An Evening With Eartha Kitt” (airs on Thirteen in March 2009). You can listen to an mp3 of the interview at Newshour, or see a video excerpt. Ms. Kitt passed away on Christmas, 2008.
This month Great Performances will air The Metropolitan Opera’s premiere of Doctor Atomic, composer John Adams’ powerful portrait of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the physicist presiding over the creation …
See an interview from 2001 with Pinter, who passed away last week, where he discusses his life’s work and his battle with cancer. Also, Rose interviewed Pinter in 2007, where he talks about Lincoln Center Festival’s 2007 Pinter retrospective. Watch now.
The famous wordless, stream-of-consciousness movie Koyaanisqatsi, with music by Philip Glass, is now streaming online. Koyaanisqatsi, aka ‘life out of balance’, originally aired on Thirteen in 1984 as part of Great Performances, and again in 2002. Watch it now. (It’s on Hulu, which means there is a short commercial before the stream).
Chast published her first cartoon on the pages of the New Yorker when she was 23, and since then, more than 1,000 of her mini-epics of everyday angst have appeared in the magazine. Learn about Chast’s inspirations for her comic stories: her life as an artist, philosopher, and suburban mom.
“Cinema’s Exiles” takes an in-depth look at the hundreds of film professionals who fled Nazi Germany for Hollywood in the 1930s, and examines their impact on wartime Tinseltown. The producers have put together an extensive timeline tracking these filmmakers’ and actors’ exodus from Europe to America amidst the activities of the War. The film premieres Jan. 1 at 9:30 pm. Read more….
For the first time in years, This Old House heads to Brooklyn for an NYC renovation. The project is the conversion of a 104-year-old row house in the Brooklyn’s historic Prospect Heights neighborhood—from a 9-room boarding house to a 3-family home. See the project progress in real time here.
