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The story of the past, present, and future of cinema as told by the people who make, consume, and critique it.

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"A Novel for Television" with David J. Joehr

July 31, 2014

David J Loehr joins Moisés to discuss FX's Fargo and The Strain, along with what makes (and has made) TV compelling as a "novelistic" art form. Is the approach of these new shows very different from Homicide: Life on the Street?

SPOILER WARNING: If you have not seen seasons 1 & 2 of House of Cards, there's a big spoiler in the Strain Q&A clip.

Special guests by way of ATX Television Festival Q&A recordings include Guillermo del Toro, Carlton Cuse, Keith Carradine, Allison Tolman, Noah Hawley, and Warren Littlefield.

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Guest Co-Host

  • David J Loehr is playwright-in-residence at Riverrun Theatre, radio playwright-in-residence for The Incomparable, and is @dloehr

Special Guests

  • Guillermo del Toro co-created The Strain with Chuck Hogan, and for nearly 20 years, he has directed, written and produced thought-provoking, "weird" movies including Pan's Labyrinth, The Devil's Backbone, and Hellboy.

  • Carlton Cuse is currently producing and overseeing more TV shows than you likely have fingers with which to count.

  • Keith Carradine is a cinema legend who's been in everything from Ridley Scott's The Duellists to David Milch's Deadwood.

  • Allison Tolman might be newer to the screen acting scene, but her performance as Molly in Fargo is one of the best of 2014, bar none.

  • Noah Hawley is a novelist and writer beyond his duties as Fargo creator/showrunner. He wrote on over 20 episodes of Bones.

  • Warren Littlefield is Executive Producer on Fargo as well as the former head of NBC, where he originally tried developing Fargo as a series.

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ENLISTED: "Hands on Heads" with Producers & Cast

June 22, 2014

FOX comedy Enlisted got cancelled, but it might get a new lease on life elsewhere. Getting a show on the air is hard. Getting it brought back is harder. Enlisted did the first and might do the second.

In this first of a two-part ATX TV Festival Special, we look at the short life of a brilliant-but-cancelled show, and the inner workings of bringing it back from the brink.

Left-to-right: TV critic Ryan McGee, writer Sanjay Shah, actor Mort Burke, actress Angelique Cabral, actress Michelle Buteau, writer Kate Purdy, executive producer/co-showrunner Mike Royce, creator/co-showrunner Kevin Biegel

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"Irons in the Fire" with Ben Thompson & Guy English

June 13, 2014

Ben Thompson joins and Guy English returns to discuss the "Puck Problem" and WWDC 2014. Do we really want one centralized box, or is specialization the new convergence? Will Apple shake up Microsoft and Sony, or can they address a market that no one is really going after?

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PANELISTS

  • Ben Thompson has written a series of articles about Apple, TV, and the future of content distribution found in the show notes. He writes Stratechery and co-hosts Exponent, a relatively new (and excellent) podcast.

  • Guy English is best-known for being on the first episode of Electric Shadow, and is also known (we suppose) for being a brilliant developer, podcaster, and blogger.

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"The Contract of Fear" with Katie Floyd & Bradley Chambers

May 15, 2014

Katie Floyd and Bradley Chambers talk about the TV pucks we have, the pucks we want, and the future of TV and how we consume content.

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PANELISTS

  • Katie Floyd (twitter) is an attorney by day and Mac Power Users superhero at all times.

  • Bradley Chambers (twitter) podcasts about working in eduction at Out Of School and blogs at Chambers Daily.

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Louis Black (L), ? (C), Leonard Maltin (R)

South by Southwest: "Blasphemy and Sex"

April 9, 2014

South by Southwest & Austin Film Society co-founder (and newly-inducted Texas Film Hall of Fame member) Louis Black talks about the history of both organizations and the Austin film scene, supplemented by anecdotes and thoughts from directors, actors, colleagues, and childhood friend Leonard Maltin.

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SPECIAL GUESTS

  • Directors/Writers: Richard Linklater, Robert Rodriguez, David Gordon Green, Gareth Edwards, Alejandro Jodorowsky

  • Actors: Danny McBride, Danny Trejo, Fred Williamson

  • SXSW Film head Janet Pierson

  • Dick Cavett and Frank Capra (and Mel Brooks and Peter Bogdanovich)

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