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After completing his latest documentary feature, Errol Morris professed that the film captured "the strangest interview I’ve ever done." And for Morris, the man famous for the invention of his interviewing machine aptly coined The Interrotron, this conversation with former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld is just one of thousands he’s conducted over the course of his filmmaking career. So to refer to it as "the strangest" is certainly saying something. After developing a personal fascination with Rumsfeld's "snowflakes"—the enormous mountain of memos he composed during his almost fifty
Director Barbara Kopple spoke to Indiewire's Dana Harris about wanting to get inside the Hemingway mythos.
Criticwire's Steve Greene talks to TIM'S VERMEER producer Farley Ziegler about carving their story.
KCRW's Matt Holzman asks Robert Stone about the support he's received from the the likes of Microsoft and Google.
Filmmakers and subjects from THE SQUARE discuss collecting footage from the protests in Tahrir Square, and what the editing process was like for the team.
Director Alex Gibney explains to KCRW's Matt Holzman why -- in order to explain the mechanism behind the leaks -- he had to make his film a personal story.
Morgan Neville decided to make 20 FEET FROM STARDOM after realizing what a gap there was in the history of the talent behind the talent.
Filmmaker Heather Winters discusses why she thinks her film is more than just a story for gay audiences.
Shola Lynch talks about not wanting to be pigeonholed as the black female filmmaker who only tells stories about black women.