Date: 2015-06-21
Name(s): Stinson, Mary (Producer), Thomson, David, 1941-, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Film critic and historian David Thomson's parents took him to see Laurence Olivier in Shakespeare's Henry V when Thomson was about four years old. It was an intense beginning to a lifetime obsession.
Date: 2002-12-15
Name(s): Thomson, David, 1941-, Wachtel, Eleanor, Wente, Jesse
Description: Writers goes to the Movies - Eleanor Wachtel in conversation with film critic David Thomson. He's the author of The New Biographical Dictionary of Film, a smart, opinionated, passionate and entertainment look at the movies and the people who make them.
Date: 1991-01-06
Name(s): Aitken, Will, 1949-, Haskell, Molly, Kelman, Suanne, 1949-, Perry, Linda, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Travers, Peter, Trillin, Calvin, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: PANEL: Will Aitken (Montreal), Molly Haskell and Peter Travers (New York) discuss the "woman as monster" phenomenon in recent Hollywood films. This episode contains clips from the films Bringing Up Baby (1938), Fatal Attraction (1987), Misery (1990), and The Rookie (1990). READING I: Calvin Trillin reads from Enough's Enough (and Other Rules of Life) (1990, Thomas Allen), his latest collection of humourous essays. INTERVIEW: Humorist Calvin Trillin (New York). READING II: Trillin continues…
Date: 2019-09-22
Name(s): Rabinovitch, Sandra, Sciamma, Céline, 1980-, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: French filmmaker Céline Sciamma on coming-of-age stories, gender, and looking, longing and falling in love. Her newest film, Portrait of a Lady on Fire, is a powerful love story between women that is set in nineteenth century Brittany. The film was a hit at TIFF 2019, which is where Eleanor Wachtel spoke to Sciamma.
Date: 2017-09-24
Name(s): Al-Mansour, Haifaa, 1974-, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: In her new film Mary Shelley, Saudi Arabian filmmaker Haifaa Al-Mansour explores the passion and pain that led the teenage author to write her groundbreaking novel, Frankenstein. Eleanor spoke to Al Mansour at the Toronto International Film Festival.
Date: 2020-06-21
Name(s): Boorman, John, 1933-, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: English director, producer and screenwriter John Boorman shares stories and insights from his award-winning career that spans 50 years.
Date: 2017-03-05
Name(s): Assayas, Olivier, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Eleanor Wachtel speaks with French filmmaker Olivier Assayas about his roots, his obsessions, and his new film starring Kristen Stewart - Personal Shopper.
Date: 2019-05-05
Name(s): Stillman, Whit, 1952-, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Writer and director WHit Stillman talks to Eleanor Wachtel about making Love & Friendship, the first film adaptation of Jane Austen's lesser-known novella, Lady Susan. Stillman joined Eleanor in Toronto while in town for TIFF's Books on Film series.
Date: 2021-03-28
Name(s): Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor, Zeller, Florian
Description: Celebrated French novelist and playwright Florian Zeller talks to Eleanor Wachtel about adapting his stage play for the screen. Starring Anthony Hopkins and Olivia Colman, The Father is nominated for six Academy Awards.
Date: 2001-03-18
Name(s): Kiberd, Declan, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Eleanor Wachtel talks with Irish literary historian Declan Kiberd about his new book Irish Classics, which covers four hundred years of poetry and prose, from Gaelic bards to Joyce and Beckett.
Date: 2006-01-08
Name(s): Gray, Francine du Plessix, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: This week, Them: A Memoir of Parents by novelist and biographer Francine du Plessix Gray. Francine du Plessix Gray's mother, Tatiana, became the top hat designer at Saks Fifth Avenue and an icon of New York fashion. And her step-father, Alexander Lieberman, moved through the magazine world to become the head of the Conde Nast publishing empire. Her memoir is a portrait of a glamorous power couple whose lives reflect the upheaval and displacement of the 20th century.
Date: 2005-10-23
Name(s): Prose, Francine, 1947-, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: This week on Writers and Company, host Eleanor Wachtel talks with American novelist and essayist Francine Prose. From Gluttony to Caravaggio, from The Lives of the Muses to reformed Neo-Nazis in her latest novel A Changed Man, Francine Prose is an astute and entertaining observer of the human comedy.
Date: 2011-11-27
Name(s): Goldman, Francisco, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Eleanor Wachtel spoke with Francisco Goldman, onstage, at the International Festival of Authors in October. His most recent book - Say Her Name - is a haunting memoir about the tragic death of his beautiful young wife, Aura.
Date: 2005-01-23
Name(s): Goldman, Francisco, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: This week on Writers and Company, host Eleanor Wachtel talks with Guatemalan American writer Francisco Goldman. Goldman talks about how two cultures - North American Jewish, and Guatemalan - coexisted in his childhood Boston household. The author of The Long Night of White Chickens has a new novel about the revolutionary Cuban hero, José Martí, called The Divine Husband.
Date: 2014-06-15
Name(s): D'Aguiar, Fred, 1960-, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Today on Writers & Company - a conversation with British Guyanese poet, novelist, and playwright, Fred D'Aguiar His new novel, Children of Paradise, is inspired by the horrific events at Jonestown in 1978.
