The Director’s Cut - A DGA Podcast

At Eternity’s Gate with Julian Schnabel and Lee Daniels (Ep. 172)

Director Julian Schnabel discusses his film, At Eternity's Gate, with fellow director Lee Daniels. The film is a journey inside the world and mind of the tortured artist who, despite skepticism, ridicule and illness, created some of the world's most beloved and stunning works.
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https://www.dga.org/Events/2018/Dec2018/AtEternitysGate_QnA_1118.aspx

A Private War with Matthew Heineman and Jeremy Kagan (Ep. 171)

Director Matthew Heineman discusses his film, A Private War, with fellow director Jeremy Kagan. Based on Arash Amel's Vanity Fair article "Marie Colvin's Private War," the film follows the extraordinary life of celebrated war correspondent Marie Colvin, whose fearless desire to give voice to the voiceless and show the true cost of war drove her to the front lines of conflicts all across the globe.
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https://www.dga.org/Events/2018/Dec2018/APrivateWar_QnA_1018.aspx

Boy Erased with Joel Edgerton and Gavin O’Connor (Ep. 170)

Director Joel Edgerton discusses his film, Boy Erased, with fellow director Gavin O'Connor. Based on the memoir of the same name by Garrard Conley, the film tells the true coming of age and coming out story of Jared, who is viciously outed to his parents. Pressured into attending a church-supported gay conversion program, he butts heads with its head therapist and begins to find his own voice and accept his true self.
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https://www.dga.org/Events/2018/Dec2018/BoyErased_QnA_1018.aspx

The Hate U Give with George Tillman Jr. and Greg Berlanti (Ep. 169)

Director George Tillman Jr. discusses his film, The Hate U Give, with fellow director Greg Berlanti. Based on the best-selling young adult novel by Angie Thomas, the film tells the story of Starr Carter, a sixteen-year-old African-American girl who witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil at the hands of a police officer and faces pressure from her community.
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https://www.dga.org/Events/2018/Dec2018/HateUGive_QnA_1018.aspx

22 July with Paul Greengrass and Brian Helgeland (Ep. 168)

Director Paul Greengrass discusses his film, 22 July, with fellow director Brian Helgeland. The film dramatizes the true story of Norway's worst terrorist attack, following the survivors and grieving families as they rally the country for justice and healing.
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https://www.dga.org/Events/2018/Dec2018/22July_QnA_1018.aspx

Itzhak with Alison Chernick and Robert Weide (Ep. 167)

Director Alison Chernick discusses her film, Itzhak, with fellow director Robert Weide. The film follows celebrated violinist Itzhak Perlman, looking beyond his performances to see the polio survivor whose parents emigrated from Poland to Israel, and the young man who struggled to be taken seriously as a music student when schools saw only his disability.
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https://www.dga.org/Events/2018/Dec2018/DocSeries_Itzhak.aspx

Beautiful Boy with Felix Van Groeningen and Mike Mills (Ep. 166)

Director Felix Van Groeningen discusses his film, Beautiful Boy, with fellow director Mike Mills. Based on the pair of memoirs by father and son David and Nic Sheff, the film chronicles the heartbreak experienced by a family coping with addiction over many years -- including survival, relapse, and recovery.
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https://www.dga.org/Events/2018/Nov2018/BeautifulBoy_QnA_1018.aspx

Mid90s with Jonah Hill and Bennett Miller (Ep. 165)

Director Jonah Hill discusses his film, Mid90s, with fellow director Bennett Miller. The film follows thirteen-year-old Stevie, who spends summer in 90s-era LA navigating between his troubled home life and a group of new friends that he meets at a Motor Avenue skate shop.
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https://www.dga.org/Events/2018/Dec2018/Mid90s_QnA_1018.aspx

A Star Is Born with Bradley Cooper and Jason Bateman (Ep. 164)

Director Bradley Cooper discusses his film, A Star is Born, with fellow director Jason Bateman. The film features Cooper as a seasoned musician who falls in love with a struggling singer and actress named Ally, played by Lady Gaga.
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https://www.dga.org/Events/2018/Nov2018/AStarIsBorn_QnA_1018.aspx

Bad Times at The El Royale with Drew Goddard and Matt Reeves (Ep. 163)

Director Drew Goddard discusses his film, Bad Times at the El Royale, with fellow director Matt Reeves. The film follows seven strangers who meet at Lake Tahoe's El Royale, a rundown hotel with a dark past. As secrets come out and lives are entangled over the course of one night, everyone will have a last shot at redemption.
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https://www.dga.org/Events/2018/Nov2018/BadTimes_QnA_1018.aspx

First Man with Damien Chazelle and Darren Aronofsky (Ep. 162)

Director Damien Chazelle discusses his film, First Man, with fellow director Darren Aronofsky. The film tells the riveting stories of NASA's mission to land the first human being on the moon, and of Neil Armstrong, the astronaut chosen to make the one small step for man and giant leap for mankind on July 20, 1969.
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https://www.dga.org/Events/2018/Nov2018/FIRSTMAN_QnA_1018.aspx

Private Life with Tamara Jenkins and Mike White (Ep. 161)

Director Tamara Jenkins discusses her film, Private Life, with fellow director Mike White. The film stars Kathryn Hahn and Paul Giamatti as a couple struggling to conceive who undergo multiple fertility therapies. But the process of trying to add to their family challenges their relationship with each other as they descend deeper and deeper into the world of assisted reproduction and domestic adoption.
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https://www.dga.org/Events/2018/Nov2018/PrivateLife_QnA_0918.aspx

Life Itself with Dan Fogelman and Ron Howard (Ep. 160)

Director Dan Fogelman discusses his film, Life Itself, with fellow director Ron Howard. The film centers on the story of a young New York couple who experience unexpected twists in their journey from their college romance to marriage and the birth of their first child, creating reverberations that echo across continents and through lifetimes.
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https://www.dga.org/Events/2018/Nov2018/LifeItself_QnA_0918.aspx

White Boy Rick with Yann Demange and John Singleton (Ep. 159)

Director Yann Demange discusses his film, White Boy Rick, with fellow director John Singleton. Set during the height of the crack epidemic and the War on Drugs in 1980s Detroit, the film tells the true story of Rick Wershe, Jr., a teenager who was convinced by federal agents to become an undercover drug informant in exchange for keeping his gun dealing father out prison. Seduced by the lure of easy money, he gets in too deep and becomes a notorious drug dealer himself.
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https://www.dga.org/Events/2018/Nov2018/WhiteBoyRick_QnA_0918.aspx

The Land of Steady Habits with Nicole Holofcener and Greg Mottola (Ep. 158)

Director Nicole Holofcener discusses her film, The Land of Steady Habits, with fellow director Greg Mottola. The film tells the story of Anders Hill, a man who feels trapped in the wealthy enclave of Westport, Connecticut. Seeking to renew his lust for life, he quits his job in finance and leaves his wife and family, but is quickly confronted with the harsh reality of his choices.
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https://www.dga.org/Events/2018/Nov2018/LandOHabits_QnA_0918.aspx

Colette with Wash Westmoreland and Scott McGehee (Ep. 157)

Director Wash Westmoreland discusses his film, Colette, with fellow director Scott McGehee. Set in the dawn of 20th century, the film tells the story of Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette, a talented young writer who moves from her childhood home to Paris after she weds a writer known commonly as "Willy." Convinced by Willy to ghostwrite for him, Colette pens a bestselling semi-autobiographical novel that becomes a cultural sensation and spawns sequels. But her fight to regain creative ownership drives her to overcome societal constraints and challenge gender roles.
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https://www.dga.org/Events/2018/Nov2018/Colette_QnA_0918.aspx

Blaze with Ethan Hawke and John Patrick Shanley (Ep. 156)

Director Ethan Hawke discusses his film, Blaze, with fellow director John Patrick Shanley. Adapted from Sybil Rosen's memoir, Living in the Woods in a Tree: Remembering Blaze, the film tells the story of Blaze Foley, a songwriting legend of the Texas outlaw music movement that spawned superstars like Merle Haggard and Willie Nelson.
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https://www.dga.org/Events/2018/Oct2018/Blaze_QnA_0918.aspx

Kin with The Baker Brothers and James Ponsoldt (Ep. 155)

Directors Jonathan Baker and Josh Baker discusses their film, Kin, with fellow director James Ponsoldt. Based on the Baker brothers' 2014 short film Bag Man, the film tells the story of an ex-con named Jimmy and his adopted teenage brother Eli, who are forced to flee their home after Jimmy lands in trouble with a local crime boss.
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https://www.dga.org/Events/2018/Oct2018/Kin_QnA_0918.aspx

An LA Minute with Daniel Adams and Bill Fishman (Ep. 154)

Director Daniel Adams discusses his film, An LA Minute, with fellow director Bill Fishman. In a satirical look at fame, the film tells the story of Ted Gold, a former Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist who gave up being a serious writer to cash in by penning trashy bestsellers, His world is shaken when he meets Velocity, a young beautiful and homeless performance artist, whose passion and integrity inspires him to follow her example.
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https://www.dga.org/Events/2018/Oct2018/AnLAMinute_QnA_0818.aspx

Shock and Awe with Rob Reiner and Jeremy Kagan (Ep. 153)

Director Rob Reiner discusses his film, Shock and Awe, with fellow director Jeremy Kagan. Based on a true story, the film takes us back to the time after 9/11 when the Bush-Cheney administration claimed that then-President of Iraq Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction, during their push to ramp up support for the invasion of Iraq. However, journalists at the Knight-Ridder news agency were skeptical of the evidence and stayed in pursuit of the real story while their colleagues mistakenly fed the American people news based on faulty and fabricated intelligence.
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https://www.dga.org/Events/2018/Sept2018/ShocknAwe_QnA_0818.aspx