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Around the Horn in Wholesale Distribution PodcastBrendan Breen of The ISA on AI, Adaptability, & The Future of Industrial LeadershipWhat does the future of leadership look like in the distribution industry?In this special episode, Kevin Brown and Tom Burton sit down with Brendan Breen, President of the Industrial Supply Association (ISA), to explore how leadership transformation, AI adoption, and workforce evolution are redefining what it means to run a modern distribution business. From data-driven decision-making to generational shifts in workplace expectations, this episode unpacks the trends shaping the next decade of industrial growth.What You’ll Learn:How AI-driven transformation is changing the leadership playbook for distributors and manufacturersWhy em...
2025-10-251h 38
Creating DistanceThe Evolution of Sales Training and Leadership with Nora Hanagan-BreenHey listeners! In this conversation, Nora Hanagan-Breen shares her unique journey into sales, starting from her non-traditional background and experiences abroad. Her experience in Turkey helped her realize her passion for working with people. She discusses the evolution of sales training, her transition into leadership, and the insights gained from her time at HubSpot and Outreach. Nora emphasizes the importance of ownership in sales, the challenges of balancing work and parenthood, and offers valuable advice for aspiring sales professionals. Nora believes that every deal and conversation is unique, requiring tailored approaches. She encourages aspiring sales professionals to i...
2025-05-3049 min
The Rugby Bricks Podcast#71 Tom Coventry | Building Belief: Tom Coventry on Rugby, Leadership & Mental EdgeTom Coventry shares powerful insights into modern rugby coaching, highlighting the importance of team communication, mental preparation, and the evolving demands of the game. From pre-season planning to the influence of role models and off-field habits, this episode dives deep into what drives high-performance teams like Moana Pasifika.
2025-05-131h 10
What Works: The Future of Local NewsEpisode 100 Tom BreenFor their 100th podcast, Dan and Ellen talk with Tom Breen, the editor of the New Haven Independent. Tom joined the staff of the Independent in 2018, and then became managing editor. Last November, he stepped up to succeed founding editor Paul Bass, who launched the Independent in 2005 and is still very involved. He's executive director of the Online Journalism Project, the nonprofit organization he set up to oversee the Independent, the Valley Independent Sentinel in New Haven's northwest suburbs, and WNHH. He continues to report the news for the Independent and hosts a show on WNHH, and he started a...
2025-04-3040 minAround the Horn in Wholesale Distribution PodcastIntroducing Around The Horn 2.0, with Guest Brendan BreenWelcome to the inaugural episode of Around the Horn 2.0! This new podcast builds upon the success of Around the Horn in Wholesale Distribution, offering deeper, more expansive discussions on critical issues affecting the distribution and manufacturing industries. Unlike its predecessor, which focuses on weekly industry news, Around the Horn 2.0 provides a platform for extended, insightful conversations with leading voices in the space.To kick things off, hosts Kevin Brown and Tom Burton welcome Brendan Breen, President of the Industrial Supply Association (ISA). Brendan was among the first guests on the original Around the Horn podcast, making him...
2025-03-201h 02Around the Horn in Wholesale Distribution PodcastISA’s Brendan Breen on the Biggest Trends in Wholesale DistributionTariffs? What tariffs? Oh, those tariffs? Wait...what happened to the tariffs?In this insightful episode of Around The Horn in Wholesale Distribution, hosts Kevin Brown and Tom Burton sit down with Brendan Breen, CEO of the Industrial Supply Association (ISA), to discuss the state of the industrial supply industry, upcoming ISA events, and major economic trends impacting wholesale distribution. From the random comings and goings of tariffs and inflation concerns to the evolving role of AI, automation, and digital transformation, this episode dives deep into the future of wholesale distribution and manufacturing.Brendan shares hi...
2025-03-081h 34
Flog CabinCoke Zero with Harley BreenThis week Hammo & Dan are joined by Australian comedian Harley Breen! They get into some very, very cheap accommodation, being between wives, small town shops and some rehctub gnals. Follow the cabin on Instagram and TikTok @flogcabin or get around the flogs individually @danmuggleton, @andrewhamiltoncomedy and @tomwitcombecomedy. Also full episodes of Flog Cabin are now live on YouTube!Follow Harley Breen (@harley.breen) and catch him live in Toowoomba on December 5th! In case you missed it, Flog Cabin finally has a Patreon so if you like the podcast but want more floggery, join the Fl...
2024-11-271h 06
The BOB & TOM Show Free PodcastB&T Extra: Coupon Date Nights with Alli BreenOn this Bob & Tom Extra: We have comedian Alli Breen joining us on the show to help our listeners with their love advice! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
2024-04-2220 minThe BOB & TOM Show Free PodcastB&T Extra: Rushing Into Marriage with Alli BreenOn this Bob & Tom Extra: We have love guru Alli Breen helping our listeners with their love troubles! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
2024-03-1121 minThe BOB & TOM Show Free PodcastB&T Extra: Relationship Expert Alli BreenOn this Bob & Tom Extra: We have comedian and relationship expert Alli Breen with another installment of Sexy Time! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
2024-03-0719 minAround the Horn in Wholesale Distribution PodcastISA Summer Series Recap With Guests Brandon Breen and Kristin Kraai-KeelyDid you miss ISA Summer Sessions? Then we've got you covered! This week, Tom & Kevin are joined by Kristin Kraai-Keely and Brandon Breen, who organized these informative ISA sessions. We'll review the most important topics and key takeaways from these talks and get you up to date. And if you were able to attend, you won't want to miss these unique, personal insights from the sessions' organizers. Leave a Review: Help us grow by sharing your thoughts on the show.Learn more about the LeadSmart AI B2B Sales Platform: https://www.leadsmarttech.c...
2023-09-1540 min
The Young Fabians PodcastIn All Our Footsteps with Tom BreenIn this episode of the podcast Will Barber Taylor is joined by Dr Tom Breen of Oxford Brookes University to discuss In All Our Footsteps, a research project that Tom is working on that aims to capture and record the various footpaths and other forms of rights of way that exist across the UK. They discuss Labour's contribution to rights of way access in 1949 and 2000; how having access to the countryside can improve mental and physical well being and the debate over the 2026 deadline to have all rights of way recorded. If you want to find out m...
2023-08-0334 min
NicepilledTom Breen: Face the State, but with swearsTwitter friend Tom Breen joins me to dish on a host of topics: the regional media landscape, the peculiar corners of our home state, both IRL and on on Twitter, and a dive on how national politics -- in the particular with an increasingly radicalized GOP -- is filtering down to state level races, municipal elections and town governance. I also reveal that I was the guy behind @fakejeffbutler. Tom runs media for UCONN at Storrs, but of course appears here in his own capacity. You can find him on twitter at @TJBreen Tom's published wor...
2021-11-181h 52
MIKE N’ MARTY from the BurghEpisode XVII: Legendary Tom Walker Interview, Big Ben is BaaackWe start episode 17 with announcing the good news that Big Ben is coming back for one more year, elaborate on the Penguin's HOT streak, look at the positives of Xavier Johnson and Au'Diese Toney leaving Pitt, talk to legendary pitcher Tom Walker and listen to some of his awesome stories (His 15 inning no hitter, Roberto Clemente talk, success of his son Neil), talk about our good friend of the pod Ryan Feczko and his very impressive first outing on the mound for Davidson, Tiger Woods car crash, grinding our gears makes a return, and finish with a happy birthday hype-up...
2021-02-261h 03
Deep Focus on WNHH-LPEpisode 131: Once Upon a Time ... in HollywoodOn today's episode of Deep Focus, host Tom Breen is joined by Allan Appel and Sam Hadelman for a review of Quentin Tarantino's latest, ONCE UPON A TIME ... IN HOLLYWOOD.
2019-08-1350 minDeep Focus on WNHH-LPEpisode 130: 48 Hour Film Project New HavenOn today's episode of Deep Focus, host Tom Breen talks with local producer Trish Clark and New York-based filmmaker Frank Fasano about the 48 Hour Film Project New Haven, the ninth annual competition in which teams rush to write, shoot, edit, and deliver a short movie all over the course of a single weekend at the end of July.
2019-08-1330 minDeep Focus on WNHH-LPEpisode 129: Factory – 150,000 sq feet of Sex, Vice, Music, Art & ClocksOn today's episode of Deep Focus, host Tom Breen talks with producer Bill Kraus and director Gorman Bechard about their new documentary: "Factory – 150,000 sq feet of Sex, Vice, Music, Art & Clocks," about the New Haven Clock Factory's rich and strange history.
2019-08-1330 minDeep Focus on WNHH-LPEpisode 128: Shift ChangeOn today's episode of Deep Focus, host Tom Breen talks with New Haven filmmaker Steve Hamm about SHIFT CHANGE, his new documentary about the past, present, and future of community policing in the Elm City. SHIFT CHANGE will be playing June 4 at 6:30 p.m. at the Whitney Humanities Center as part of the 6th annual New Haven Documentary Film Festival.
2019-08-1350 minDeep Focus on WNHH-LPEpisode 127: Zulu SummerOn today's episode of Deep Focus on WNHH Community Radio, host Tom Breen talks with filmmaker Eric Michael Schrader and Butte, Montana-based community radio host Dark Sevier about ZULU SUMMER, Schrader's new documentary about the unique cross-cultural exchange that takes place when three Zulu men from South Africa visit Butte for the summer with the sole purpose of learning about what makes Americans happy and unhappy.
2019-08-1338 minDeep Focus on WNHH-LPEpisode 126: NHDocs 2019On today's episode of Deep Focus, host Tom Breen talks with NHDocs co-founder and co-director Gorman Bechard about the 2019 festival lineup.
2019-08-1337 minDeep Focus on WNHH-LPEpisode 125: Ingmar Bergman RetrospectiveOn today's episode of Deep Focus, host Tom Breen talks with Brian Meacham, the archive and special collections manager of the Yale Film Study Center, about Yale's new eight-film retrospective on legendary Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman.
2018-10-1133 minDeep Focus on WNHH-LPEpisode 124: Stephen Dest / GraceHost Tom Breen and local filmmaker Stephen Dest talk about Dest's new movie, GRACE.
2018-09-2700 minDeep Focus on WNHH-LPEpisode 123: 2018 Toronto International Film FestivalOn today's episode of Deep Focus, host Tom Breen and Madison Art Cinemas owner Arnold Gorlick recap their favorite films from the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival.
2018-09-2442 minDeep Focus on WNHH-LPEpisode 122: Mission: Impossible - FalloutOn today's episode of Deep Focus on WNHH Community Radio, host Tom Breen and New Haven Independent staff reporter Allan Appel review MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE - FALLOUT, the sixth entry in the Tom Cruise-helmed action franchise.
2018-09-2421 minDeep Focus on WNHH-LPEpisode 121: 48 Hour Film Project New Haven 2018 RecapOn today's episode of Deep Focus, host Tom Breen talks with 48 Hour Film Project New Haven Producer Trish Clark and with Ryan Licwinko and Haley Copes, two local filmmakers who participated in the 2018 competition during the final weekend of July. Licwinko's team, everyoneleavesnewhaven, made the martial arts movie, "The Warrior, The Guardian, and The Liar. Copes's team, Bounce Lounge Productions, made the comedy, "A Slice of Chaos."
2018-08-0237 minDeep Focus on WNHH-LPEpisode 120: Leave No Trace / Three Identical StrangersOn today's episode of Deep Focus, host Tom Breen and New Haven Independent staff reporter Allan Appel review two new releases: Debra Granik's LEAVE NO TRACE and Chris Wardle's THREE IDENTIFICAL STRANGERS.
2018-07-2748 minDeep Focus on WNHH-LPEpisode 119: Trish Clark / 48 Hour Film Project New Haven 2018On today's episode of Deep Focus, host Tom Breen talks with Trish Clark about this summer's 48 Hour Film Project New Haven, the eighth annual Elm City competition to make a 4 to 7 minute movie that follows an assortment of randomly assigned criteria over the course of one weekend. Breen and Clark also talk about the Nutmeg Institute, which Clark co-founded to help connect and inspire local filmmakers.
2018-07-2022 minDeep Focus on WNHH-LPEpisode 118: The Catcher Was A Spy / Won't You Be My Neighbor?On today's episode, host Tom Breen and New Haven Independent reporter Allan Appel review two movies: THE CATCHER WAS A SPY, Ben Lewin's new biopic of professional baseball player-turned-WWII spy Moe Berg, and WON'T YOU BE MY NEIGHBOR?, about the Fred Rogers and the legendary PBS children's program, Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood.
2018-07-1847 minDeep Focus on WNHH-LPEpisode 117: First ReformedOn today's episode of Deep Focus, host Tom Breen and New Haven Independent reporter Allan Appel review FIRST REFORMED, Paul Schrader's new movie about the minister of a small, historic church in upstate New York as he works through in the midst of a physical, emotional and spiritual crisis.
2018-06-2138 minDeep Focus on WNHH-LPEpisode 116: Jim Barone / The Week OfOn today's episode, host Tom Breen talks with Jim Barone, a Hamden native who stars in the new Adam Sandler Netflix comedy, THE WEEK OF. Barone lost both of his legs due to complications with diabetes a few years ago, but is now embarking on an acting career, and is calling one of the most famous comedians in the world a new friend and mentor.
2018-06-1536 minDeep Focus on WNHH-LPEpisode 115: Steve Hamm / The VillageOn today's episode, host Tom Breen talks with Steve Hamm, the director of THE VILLAGE, a new documentary and oral history of the Wooster Square neighborhood, which has served for over a century as the city's Little Italy.
2018-06-0744 minDeep Focus on WNHH-LPEpisode 114: NHDocs 2018On today's episode, host Tom Breen talks with local filmmaker Gorman Bechard about the fifith annual New Haven Documentary Film Festival, aka NHDocs.
2018-05-2433 minDeep Focus on WNHH-LPEpisode 113: ChappaquiddickOn today's episode of Deep Focus, host Tom Breen and New Haven Independent reporter Allan Appel review CHAPPAQUIDDICK, a new dramatization of the night of and week after U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy (played here by Jason Clarke) drove his car off of a narrow bridge on Martha's Island, resulting in the death of Mary Jo Kopechne, a former RFK campaign aide who was riding along with him.
2018-04-1936 minDeep Focus on WNHH-LPEpisode 112: A Quiet PlaceOn today's episode, host Tom Breen and New Haven Independent Arts Editor Brian Slattery talk about A QUIET PLACE, John Krasinski's new horror movie about a family in upstate New York that has crafted a wordless survivalist way of life amidst an alien invasion of creatures that are hyper-attuned to noise.
2018-04-0949 minDeep Focus on WNHH-LPEpisode 111: The Death of StalinOn today's episode, host Tom Breen and New Haven Independent staff writer Allan Appel review THE DEATH OF STALIN, the new political satire from writer-director Armando Ianucci that is set in Moscow in 1953 and follows the days before and after the death of Joseph Stalin, the three-decade dictator of the Soviet Union, as his closest cohort of advisers plan the unplannable: how to replace a cult of personality.
2018-04-0639 minDeep Focus on WNHH-LPEpisode 110: AnnhilationOn today's episode, host Tom Breen and guest reviewer Bruce Ditman talk about ANNIHILATION, a new sci-fi / action movie from writer-director Alex Garland that follows five female scientists on an expedition into the heart of a mysterious radioactive zone called The Shimmer.
2018-03-171h 05Deep Focus on WNHH-LPEpisode 109: Norman Weissman / Griggs CollectionOn the first segment of today's show, host Tom Breen talks with Yale film archivist Brian Meacham and documentary filmmaker Norman Weissman about an upcoming screening of Weissman's eclectic industrial and educational films from the 1950s through 1970s.On the second segment of the show, Breen and Meacham talk about the 50-year anniversary of Yale's acquisition of the John Griggs Collection, which marked the beginning of the Yale Film Archive as we know it today.
2018-02-2250 minDeep Focus on WNHH-LPEpisode 108: Black PantherOn today's episode, host Tom Breen talks with Joe Ugly in the Morning Producer Preston Wilson, New Haven Arts Paper Editor Lucy Gellman, and Fantasy Filmball Host Shawn Murray about BLACK PANTHER, Ryan Coogler's much-anticipated Marvel movie set in the African techno-utopia of Wakanda. Breen, Wilson, Gellman, and Murray talk through BLACK PANTHER as a Marvel movie, a Black movie, and a movie about isolationist vs. interventionist politics. On the second segment of the show, the four play a BLACK PANTHER-themed version of Fantasy Filmball, where they recast classic and contemporary movies with the filmmaking team behind B...
2018-02-181h 01Deep Focus on WNHH-LPEpisode 107: Pizza, A Love StoryToday’s show is all about PIZZA, A LOVE STORY, a new documentary from local filmmaker Gorman Bechard and producers Colin Caplan and Dean Falcone that is all about just why, oh why, the small New England city we call home has three of the best pizza places in the world, all within a few blocks of one another. Host Tom Breen talks with them about about their research into Pepe’s, Sally’s and Modern, and about how America’s century-long love affair with pizza has been influenced by a small group of family-owned, Italian-American restaurants based out of New H...
2018-02-0833 minDeep Focus on WNHH-LPEpisode 106: M by Fritz LangOn Wednesday, Jan. 31, host Tom Breen introduced a screening of Fritz Lang's 1931 crime thriller M at the Whitney Humanities Center at Yale as part of the Treasures from the Yale Film Archives series. Today's episode features a recording of that introduction, as well as a few thoughts on the enduring appeal of this masterpiece of world cinema.
2018-02-0125 minDeep Focus on WNHH-LPEpisode 105: The Island Next Door / Phantom ThreadOn Wednesday, September 20, 2017, a Category 4 hurricane made landfall on the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico. Hurricane Maria completely destroyed the island’s power grid, leveled homes and schools, and was and continues to be a source of great humanitarian concern both for the 3.4 million people who live on Puerto Rico as well as for the upwards of 300,000 Puerto Ricans who live in the state of Connecticut.On the first segment of today’s show, host Tom Breen talks with WNPR journalist and photographer Ryan Caron King about the Island Next Door, a reporting project undertaken by King...
2018-01-2551 minDeep Focus on WNHH-LPEpisode 104: African American Cinema / The PostOn the first segment of today’s show, host Tom Breen is joined by New Haven film critic and lecturer Steve Fortes to talk about the history of African American cinema.In the early 1990s, Steve taught two seminars at Yale University about the history of African American film and television. On today’s show we’ll talk with Steve about the films that he covered in those two seminars, what he saw as some of the prevailing themes and trends of in the first century of African American cinema, and about which movies and filmmakers he would...
2018-01-1852 minDeep Focus on WNHH-LPEpisode 103: Best Movies of 2017On today's episode, host Tom Breen is joined by New Haven movie blogger Dan Heaton and Madison Art Cinemas owner Arnold Gorlick to talk through their top 10 movies of 2017. The episode also features over a dozen voicemails from friends, listeners, and former guests on the show with their picks for the best of the year.
2018-01-1251 minDeep Focus on WNHH-LPEpisode 102: Francesca Andre / The Shape of WaterOn the first segment of today’s episode, host Tom Breen is joined by Bridgeport-based filmmaker Francesca Andre to talk about her new movie “Charcoal,” a short film about colorism and prejudices within and without the black community against dark skin. They talk about the origins of this movie, Andre’s background as a fashion and news photographer, and her own experiences with colorism in her native Haiti and here in the States.On the second segment of the show, Breen joined by New Haven Independent reporter Allan Appel for a review of The Shape of Water, director...
2017-12-2253 minDeep Focus on WNHH-LPEpisode 101: Kate Rushin / Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, MissouriOn the first segment of today’s show, host Tom Breen is joined by Connecticut poet Kate Rushin to talk about two movies that have had a profound influence on her understanding and love of cinema: DAUGHTERS OF THE DUST, a landmark 1991 drama from director Julie Dash about three generations of African American Gullah women from the Sea Islands of South Carolina, a movie often celebrated as the first feature film directed by an African American woman to get a wide theatrical release in the United States; and we’ll also talk about BLACK ORPHEUS, a 1959 musical from French dire...
2017-12-1451 minDeep Focus on WNHH-LPEpisode 100: Steven Spielberg's AMISTAD (1997)This marks the 20th anniversary of Steven Spielberg’s AMISTAD, a 1997 historical drama about a successful revolt among enslaved Africans aboard a Cuban slave ship in 1839, those Africans’ subsequent recapture and detention in, among other places, New Haven, Connecticut, and the subsequent landmark United States court cases that resulted in the Africans’ freedom. On today’s episode, host Tom Breen talks with Yale Film Studies Center director Michael Kerbel, Gilder Lehrman Center postdoctoral associate Joseph Yannielli and local film critic and lecturer Steve Fortes about Spielberg’s take on the Amistad uprising and trials, how themovie holds up two deca...
2017-12-0739 minDeep Focus on WNHH-LPEpisode 99: Mark Oppenheimer / Lady BirdToday’s West Coast, High School, Romantic Comedy edition of the show all about a few movies that explore the highs, lows and confused in-betweens of teenage life, mostly told from the perspective of young female protagonists.On the first segment of the show, host Tom Breen is joined by New Haven-based author, journalist and podcaster Mark Oppenheimer to talk about two movies that have had a profound influence on his understanding and love of cinema: Amy Heckerling’s 1982 directorial debut FAST TIMES AT RIDGEMONT HIGH, an ensemble high school sex comedy set in southern california and writ...
2017-11-3051 minDeep Focus on WNHH-LPEpisode 98: Gorman Bechard / Who Is Lydia Loveless?On today's episode, host Tom Breen talks with prolific New Haven filmmaker Gorman Bechard about his latest rock documentary, Who Is Lydia Loveless?
2017-11-2439 minDeep Focus on WNHH-LPEpisode 97: 2017 Latino and Iberian Film Festival at Yale (LIFFY)This week is the Latino and Iberian Film Festival at Yale (LIFFY), an annual celebration of contemporary Spanish and Portueguese-language cinema that takes place in downtown New Haven at the Whitney Humanities Center at 53 Wall St.In this week's episode, host Tom Breen talks with a handful of filmmakers who have movies screenings at this year's festival, including Cuban filmmaker Carlos Barba Salva, Haitian/Dominican filmmaker Jean Jean, Cuban filmmaker Deyma D’Atri, Cuban actor Luis Alberto García, and Colombian filmmaker Claudia Fischer.
2017-11-1720 minDeep Focus on WNHH-LPEpisode 96: Trans Awareness Week / A ProphetNext week is Transgender Awareness Week, an annual grassroots celebration of trans culture and concerns that takes place in different communities throughout the country, including in New Haven.The first segment of this episode is all about a trans film series that the New Haven Pride Center has organized to help celebrate Trans Awareness Week in the Elm City. Host Tom Breen is joined in the studio by two of the series’ programmers, Patrick Dunn and IV Staklo, to talk about the movies that will be playing, the different ways that trans people and issues are represented on...
2017-11-0949 minDeep Focus on WNHH-LPEpisode 95: Loving Vincent / Nasty Women
DescriptionOn the first segment of today’s show, host Tom Breen talks with Allan Appel and Lucy Gellman about LOVING VINCENT, a new animated film from directors Dorota Kobiela and Hugh Welchman that gives the Citizen Kane treatment to the life of Dutch post-impressionist painter Vincent Van Gogh: through a series of flashbacks and second-hand stories, we see the rise and fall of the troubled and inspired life of this eccentric painter, focusing in on the final days of his life in the rural French town of Auvers.Unlike most animated movies, this story is...
2017-11-0249 minDeep Focus on WNHH-LPEpisode 94: Joe Fay / George A. Romero and Tobe Hooper
George A. Romero's KNIGHTRIDERS (1981)
DescriptionHalloween is just around the corner, and so, on today’s episode, host Tom Breen bis joined by horror-flick aficionado Joe Fay to talk about the movies, styles, and legacies of two seminal horror filmmakers who both died in 2017: George A. Romero and Tobe Hooper.But instead of retreading the familiar territory of these two directors’ best known and most influential works, Romero’s 1968 Night of the Living Dead and Hooper’s 1974 The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Joe and Tom focus on two slightly deeper cuts, Romero’s 1981 Arthurian biker dram...
2017-10-2648 minDeep Focus on WNHH-LPEpisode 93: Home Movie Day 2017 / Film Preservation
DescriptionIt’s mid-October, which means that it’s just about time for Home Movie Day, an annual celebration of amateur films and filmmakers that takes place at the New Haven Museum this Saturday, October 21st, from noon to 4 p.m.On today’s show, host Tom Breen is joined by Yale film archivists Brian Meacham and Molly Wheeler, who are the organizers of the New Haven instance of this international event, as well as by Yale University Art Gallery museum staffer Rachel Mihalko.The four dive into the actual work itself that film a...
2017-10-1945 minDeep Focus on WNHH-LPEpisode 92: Blade Runner 2049
Blade Runner 2049 (2017)
DescriptionOn today’s review only episode of the show, host Tom Breen is joined by New Haven Independent reporter Allan Appel to talk about Blade Runner 2049, the new sci-fi-film-noir from director Denis Villeneuve that offers another look at the dystopian American future of uncanny androids and commercialized urban decay originally envisioned by Ridley Scott’s 1982 film Blade Runner.
2017-10-1248 minDeep Focus on WNHH-LPEpisode 91: Battle of the Sexes / Columbus
BATTLE OF THE SEXES (2017)
DescriptionOn today's review only episode of the show, host Tom Breen is joined by New Haven Independent reporter Allan Appel to talk about two new movies about young women torn between social expectation and personal ambition, who find both distraction and clarity in the art that consumes their lives.THE BATTLE OF THE SEXES, the latest feature from directors Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Ferris, tells the story of a 1973 tennis match between 29-year-old tennis star Billie Jean King (played by Emma Stone) and aging tennis veteran and self-proclaimed...
2017-10-1137 minDeep Focus on WNHH-LPEpisode 90: 2017 Toronto International Film Festival
DescriptionOn today’s episode of the show, host Tom Breen is joined by Madison Art Cinemas’ founder and owner Arnold Gorlick to talk about their experiences at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival, which ran from September 7th to September 17th and featured almost 340 movies, many of which were making their world premieres.
2017-09-2154 minDeep Focus on WNHH-LPEpisode 89: Graphic Novel Adaptations / American Splendor
AMERICAN SPLENDOR (2003)
DescriptionIn today's episode, host Tom Breen is joined by New Haven Review publisher Bennett Graff for a conversation about movie adaptations of graphic novels. In particular, they focus on AMERICAN SPLENDOR, a 2003 film from directors Shari Springer Brown and Robert Pulcini that brings to life Cleveland author Harvey Pekar’s decades-spanning autobiographical underground comic series of the same name.
2017-08-3152 minDeep Focus on WNHH-LPEpisode 88: Wind River
WIND RIVER (2017) by Taylor Sheridan
DescriptionOn today's review only episode of the show, host Tom Breen and New Haven Independent reporter Allan Appel talk about WIND RIVER, a new murder mystery from writer-director Taylor Sheridan, whose previous screenwriting credits include SICARIO and HELL OR HIGH WATER, that takes place in a desolate, unforgiving stretch of the Wind River Northern Arapaho Reservation in western Wyoming.
2017-08-2440 minDeep Focus on WNHH-LPEpisode 87: Lady Macbeth
LADY MACBETH (2016)
DescriptionOn today’s review-only episode of the show, host Tom Breen is joined by New Haven Independent reporter Allan Appel for a discussion of Lady Macbeth, a new British film from director William Oldroyd about a young bride in 19th century northern England who chafes against the oppressive boredom, disrespect, and objectification of being a kept woman in a patriarchal society. As the movie’s title indicates, though, our young protagonist is not one to be content with a life of humiliation and immobility, and, once she finds an object of her own...
2017-08-0438 minDeep Focus on WNHH-LPEpisode 85: Baby Driver / Spider-Man: Homecoming
BABY DRIVER (2017)
DescriptionOn today’s review-only episode of the show, host Tom Breen is joined by WNHH intern Sam Hadelman to talk about two new summer releases that follow eager young men who are cocky, talented, good-natured, and naive, destined for great professional success if they can only survive the immense personal danger that comes with their work.Edgar Wright’s BABY DRIVER and Jon Watts’ SPIDER-MAN: HOMECOMING are two summer action movies replete with car chases, explosions, supervillains and extended fight sequences. One follows a youthful Atlanta getaway driver immersed in pop mu...
2017-07-1349 minDeep Focus on WNHH-LPEpisode 84: Josh Larsen / Movies Are Prayers
An interview with Filmspotting co-host Josh Larsen about his new book Movies Are Prayers.
DescriptionOn today’s very special interview-only episode of the show, host Tom Breen is joined by Filmspotting co-host and Chicago-based film critic Josh Larsen to talk about Movies Are Prayers, Larsen’s new book about how movies can function as expressions of joy, lament, anger, and praise in ways that are strikingly similar to what is heard and felt during prayerful worship. As a practicing Christian and a seasoned film critic, Larsen brings a theological perspective to his under...
2017-07-0637 minDeep Focus on WNHH-LPEpisode 83: Tony Conrad: Completely in the Present
Tony Conrad: Completely in the Present (2016)
DescriptionToday's interview-only episode of the show is all about TONY CONRAD: COMPLETELY IN THE PRESENT, a new documentary about an influential, often overlooked New York artist who was a pioneer in musical minimalism in the late 1950s, in experimental underground filmmaking in the 1960s, in pushing the democratic bounds of public access television in the 1990s and 2000s, and in many other areas of anti-authority creativity besides.Host Tom Breen is joined by director Tyler Hubby and local filmmaker Brendan Toller to talk about Hubby’s ne...
2017-06-2945 minDeep Focus on WNHH-LPEpisode 82: Father's Day Movies / Manual Cinema
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
DescriptionIn anticipation of Father’s Day this Sunday, the first segment of today’s show is all about movies and dads. Host Tom Breen is joined by certified dad and movie lover Nick Schupbach to talk about movie recommendations for Father’s Day, the different ways that dads and father-child relationships are portrayed on screen, and the experience of being a dad and sharing movies with your kids.On the second segment of the show, Breen talks with composer Kyle Vegter and artistic director Julia Miller about...
2017-06-151h 08Deep Focus on WNHH-LPEpisode 81: Wonder Woman / The Wedding Plan
The Wedding Plan (2016)
DescriptionOn today’s review-only episode of the show, host Tom Breen is joined by New Haven Independent staff writer Allan Appel for a discussion of two new releases starring Israeli women whose characters brush aside the fatuous hindrances of patriarchy to realize miracles of female strength and ingenuity: the latest blockbuster comic book adaptation WONDER WOMAN and the Israeli romantic comedy THE WEDDING PLAN.
2017-06-0847 minDeep Focus on WNHH-LPEpisode 80: The Life and Gardens of Beatrix Farrand / The High School That Rocked
THE LIFE AND GARDENS OF BEATRIX FARRAND (2017) by Karyl Evans
DescriptionOn today's episode of Deep Focus, host Tom Breen talks with two Connecticut filmmakers who will be screening their new movies playing at this year's New Haven Documentary Festival.On the first segment of the show, Breen is joined by six-time Emmy Award-winning documentary filmmaker Karyl Evans to talk about her new movie The Life and Gardens of Beatrix Farrand, about a pioneering female landscape architect who lived and worked in New Haven for over a decade in the first half of t...
2017-06-0152 minDeep Focus on WNHH-LPEpisode 79: NHDocs 2017 / Alien: Covenant
DescriptionOn the first segment of today’s show, host Tom Breen talks with Yale film studies professor Charles Musser about the 4th annual New Haven Documentary Film Festival, which runs from June 1 through June 11 at the Whitney Humanities Center and the Main Branch of the New Haven Free Public Library in downtown New Haven. Musser is a co-founder and co-director of the fest.On the second segment of the show, Breen is joined by New Haven Independent staff writer Allan Appel for a review of Alien: Covenant, the latest installment in the four-decade-old sci-fi / ho...
2017-05-2551 minDeep Focus on WNHH-LPEpisode 78: Literary Adaptations / A Quiet Passion
THE DEAD (1987) by John Huston
DescriptionOn the first segment of today’s show, host Tom Breen talks with New Haven Review publisher Bennett-Lovett Graff all about movie adaptations of works of literature: what makes for a good movie adaptation of a novel, short story, or play? What are some of the challenges and benefits of making that transition from printed page to screen? What are a few examples of our favorite literary adaptations? This conversation focuses in particular on one such literary adaptation, The Dead, a 1987 film directed by John Huston and adapted from th...
2017-05-181h 16Deep Focus on WNHH-LPEpisode 77: Mother's Day Movies / Their Finest
TERMS OF ENDEARMENT
DescriptionOn the first segment of today's show, host Tom Breen and WNHH's Babz Rawls Ivy celebrate Mother's Day by sharing on moms and movies, talking about everything from favorite cinematic moms to movie picks for mother’s day to our own experiences watching movies with our moms. For the second segment of today’s show, Breen is joined by New Haven Independent reporters Allan Appel and Lucy Gellman for a review of THEIR FINEST, Lone Scherfig’s new World War II-era dramedy about a female screenwriter recruited by the Ministry of Inform...
2017-05-1150 minDeep Focus on WNHH-LPEpisode 76: Food Haven
DescriptionOn today's episode of Kitchen Sync, host Lucy Gellman is joined by Deep Focus host Tom Breen and local filmmaker Jim O'Connor to talk about Food Haven, O'Connor's new documentary that explores New Haven's rich and varied culinary scene.
2017-04-2847 minDeep Focus on WNHH-LPEpisode 75: The Lost City of Z / Magneticfest 2 / Breakfast with Curtis
DescriptionOn the first segment of today’s show, host Tom Breen is joined by New Haven Independent staff writer Allan Appel for a review of The Lost City of Z, a new movie from director James Gray that looks at the life of Percy Fawcett, a real-life British explorer, cartographer, and artillery officer who made several expeditions to the Brazilian Amazon in the first quarter of the 20th century before mysteriously disappearing in the heart of what the British Empire referred to as the green desert, or the green hell of the Amazon jungle.On...
2017-04-2747 minDeep Focus on WNHH-LPEpisode 74: Les Blank Music Docs
Brian Slattery on the banjo.
DescriptionOn today’s very special episode of the show, host Tom Breen talks with writer-editor-musician Brian Slattery about the music documentaries of Les Blank, a pioneering independent filmmaker who made over 40 movies between 1960 and 2015, many of which focused on the diverse traditional musical subcultures of the American South. Over the course of the show, Brian plays songs on the guitar, fiddle, and banjo that are inspired by or some way related to the music in Les Blank's movies.Other Linkshttps://www.criterion.com/current/po...
2017-04-2049 minDeep Focus on WNHH-LPEpisode 73: Robert Frank Movies
Still from Laura Israel's DON'T BLINK - ROBERT FRANK
DescriptionToday’s interview-only episode of the show is all about the movies of Robert Frank, the Swiss-born photographer who captured the odd, overlooked, simmering contours of roadside America with his 1958 book The Americans, and then promptly left the field of still photography to become a pioneering figure in the development of post-war American independent cinema. There are two Robert Frank-related movie screenings happening in New Haven this upcoming weekend, and host Tom Breen is joined by the folks who organized and are participating in those ev...
2017-04-1348 minDeep Focus on WNHH-LPEpisode 72: Rob Harmon / John Carpenter Movies
Rob Harmon
DescriptionOn today's interview-only episode of the show, host Tom Breen is joined by Best Video employee Rob Harmon for a conversation about the movies, style, and enduring cinematic appeal of John Carpenter, the writer-director-composer who made a name for himself in the 1980s as both an entertaining genre filmmaker and an artistically ambitious auteur through such films as Assault on Precinct 13, Halloween, The Fog, The Thing, and many more films that straddled the lines between sci-fi, horror, action, and satire.
2017-04-0651 minDeep Focus on WNHH-LPEpisode 71: 1984 National Event Day Screenings
Michael Radford's 1984 (1984)
DescriptionOn today's interview-only episode of the show is about an event that over 190 art house and independent movie theaters throughout the United States and Canada will be participating in next week that will see coordinated screenings, lectures, and community conversations around 1984, the 1980s big screen adaptation of English author George Orwell's legendary mid-century dystopian novel.Host Tom Breen talks with Adam Birnbaum of the Avon Theatre in Stamford, Arnold Gorlick of Madison Art Cinemas, and Leana Hirschfeld-Kroen of the Yale Film Colloquium about why these coordinated screenings and conversations will...
2017-03-3037 minDeep Focus on WNHH-LPEpisode 70: Strange Cinema / Beauty and the Beast
DescriptionOn the first segment of today’s show, host Tom Breen talks with Joe Fay and Alex Dakoulas about Strange Cinema, a new bi-monthly screening series and collaboration between Lyric Hall and Strange Ways in Westville that looks to celebrate 80s and 90s underground culture, from low-budget horror movies to patches, pins, and VHS. On the second segment, Breen and Allan Appel share some thoughts on the latest Disney re-make of Beauty and the Beast.Other Linkshttps://www.facebook.com/events/257005164726923/https://www.strange-ways.com/http://lyrichallnewhaven.com/
2017-03-2354 minDeep Focus on WNHH-LPEpisode 69: David Sikora / I Am Not Your Negro
David Sikora
DescriptionOn the first segment of today's show, host Tom Breen talks with local freelance cinematographer David Sikora about two films that have helped shape his love of cinema: Oliver Stone's 1994 blood-soaked satire Natural Born Killers and Darron Aronofsky's 2000 hallucinogenic drama Requiem for a Dream. For the second segment, Breen talks with Madison Art Cinemas director Arnold Gorlick about the new James Baldwin documentary, I Am Not Your Negro. For a complete archive of Deep Focus episodes, go to deepfocusradio.com.
2017-03-1653 minDeep Focus on WNHH-LPEpisode 68: A United Kingdom
A United Kingdom
DescriptionOn today’s review-only episode of the show, host Tom Breen and New Haven Independent staff writer Allan Appel a review of A United Kingdom, Amma Asante’s new based-on-a-true-story movie about an interracial relationship between an African prince and an English clerk in the 1950s that had surprisingly profound international political consequences, coming at a time of the collapse of the British Empire, the rise of African national independence movements, and the paranoid simmer of the Cold War.
2017-03-0945 minDeep Focus on WNHH-LPEpisode 67: Get Out
Jordan Peele's GET OUT
DescriptionOn today's review-only episode of the show, host Tom Breen is joined by Narrative Project founder Mercy Quaye and Ugly Radio producer Preston Wilson for a review of GET OUT, Jordan Peele's new horror satire about a young black photographer from New York City who his making his first, terrifying visit to his white girlfriend's family home in the suburbs.
2017-03-0252 minDeep Focus on WNHH-LPEpisode 62: Love Hate Relationship / La La Land
DescriptionFor the first segment of today's show, host Tom Breen talks with local rapper Joey A.X. and Boston-based filmmaker Sev One about their recent music video, "Love Hate Relationship," which explores Joey's ambivalent, affectionate perspective on the city in which he grew up: Elm City. Tom is joined by Lucy Gellman and Allan Appel during the second segment for a divisive review if La La Land, Damien Chazelle's new musical that stars Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone.Other Linkshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oN_10rZyBwkhttp://www.killjoeyax...
2017-01-1256 minDeep Focus on WNHH-LPEpisode 61: Best Movies of 2016
Moonlight (Courtesy of TIFF)
DescriptionToday's episode is all about the best movies of 2016. Host Tom Breen is joined by New Haven movie blogger Dan Heaton and Madison Art Cinemas owner Arnold Gorlick to go through their top 10 movies of the year. The episode also features a number of voicemails from Deep Focus guests, friends, and listeners, sharing their picks for the best movies of 2016.Top 10 PicksTOM'S PICKS10. Fences by Denzel Washington9. Krisha by Trey Edward Shults8. After the Storm by Hirokazu Kore-eda7. Green Room by Jerem...
2017-01-0558 minDeep Focus on WNHH-LPEpisode 60: Garlic Is as Good as Ten Mothers / Manchester by the Sea
Garlic Is as Good as Ten Mothers (1980)D
DescriptionOn this episode, host Tom Breen welcomes "Kitchen Sync" host and WNHH Station Manager Lucy Gellman for another installment of their food and movies series. They take a look back at Les Blank's 1980 documentary Garlic Is as Good as Ten Mothers. For the second segment of the show, Breen is joined by Allan Appel for a review of Manchester By The Sea.Other Linkshttps://vimeo.com/111386326
2016-12-2255 minDeep Focus on WNHH-LPEpisode 59: Green Room / Krisha / Nocturnal Animals
Jeremy Saulnier's GREEN ROOM
DescriptionIn the spirit of being as prepared as possible for the Best Movies of 2016 show at the end of the year, host Tom Breen and Lyric Hall’s Joe Fay shine a light on a few smaller, critically-acclaimed movies that may have slipped under your radar when they came out in limited release earlier in the year. Jeremy Saulnier’s GREEN ROOM and Trey Edward Shults’ KRISHA are two low-budget, independent dramas that know how to make the most of confined spaces, unexpected violence, and the absurdity (funny, sad, inspiring, and de...
2016-12-1553 minDeep Focus on WNHH-LPEpisode 57: In Search of Lost Films / Loving
DescriptionOn today's episode of Deep Focus on WNHH Community Radio, host Tom Breen talks with film journalist Phil Hall about his new book, "In Search of Lost Films," which explores the many influential and intriguing movies that have disappeared over the course of the past century. For the second segment of the show, Breen is joined by WNHH Station Manager Lucy Gellman and New Haven Independent reporter Allan Appel for a review of the new movie, Loving.Other Linkshttps://soundcloud.com/onlinemovieshowhttp://cinema-crazed.com/blog/author/philhall/http...
2016-12-0156 minDeep Focus on WNHH-LPEpisode 55: Hacksaw Ridge / Joe Fay
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)
DescriptionOn today's episode of Deep Focus, host Tom Breen and fellow WNHH hosts Allan Appel and Lucy Gellman review Hacksaw Ridge, a new World War II movie from director Mel Gibson that stars Andrew Garfield as American Army medic and battlefield conscientious objector Desmond Doss. For the second segment of the show, Breen talks with Lyric Hall film programmer Joe Fay about his time working at the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema in Dallas-Fort Worth and about two movies that have had a strong influence on his own understanding and love of...
2016-11-1059 minDeep Focus on WNHH-LPEpisode 54: Frank and Caroline Mouris / The Handmaiden
Excerpt from FRANK FILM (1973) by Frank and Caroline Mouris
DescriptionOn today's episode of Deep Focus, host Tom Breen welcomes experimental animators and filmmakers Frank and Caroline Mouris and film archivist Brian Meacham to the show to talk about the Mouris' careers making movies, some reflections on the mesmerizing world of experimental animation, and upcoming screenings of their films at the Whitney Humanities center. For the second segment of the show, Breen, Allan Appel, and Lucy Gellman review the new movie The Handmaiden.Timeline00:00 - 43:02 -- interview with filmmakers Frank and...
2016-11-0359 minDeep Focus on WNHH-LPEpisode 53: It Happened But Nobody Noticed / Denial
Jerry Lombardo (Thomas Breen photo)
Timeline00:00 - 38:20 -- interview with Jerry Lombardo and Eric Michael Schrader about It Happened, But Nobody Noticed39:20 - 58:42 -- review of DenialDescriptionThis week's episode is about It Happened, But Nobody Noticed, a 2009 documentary from directors Jerry Lombardo and Eric Michael Schrader that documents New Haven’s punk and New Wave underground music scene from 1978 to 1988. Host Tom Breen talks with Lombardo and Schrader about how this movie came to be; some of the bands, venues and unique personalities that made up New Haven’s pu...
2016-10-2758 minDeep Focus on WNHH-LPEpisode 52: Mark Schenker / American Honey
Mark Schenker (Thomas Breen photo)
Timeline00:00 - 37:20 -- interview with Mark Schenker about his new series on John Huston40:25 - 59:44 -- review of American HoneyDescriptionOn this episode, host Tom Breen talks all about the movies of John Huston with Yale dean and lecturer Mark Schenker, who will be hosting a 4-part series on Huston's movies at Best Video Film & Cultural Center in Hamden starting Sunday Oct. 23. For the second segment of the show, Breen is joined by Allan Appel and Lucy Gellman for a review of the new...
2016-10-2159 minDeep Focus on WNHH-LPEpisode 51: Home Movie Day 2016 / 13th
Molly Wheeler (Lucy Gellman photo)
Timeline00:00 - 31:20 -- interview about Home Movie Day34:40 - 55:38 -- review of 13TH with Babz Rawls IvyDescriptionOn today's episode of Deep Focus, host Tom Breen talks to Brian Meacham, Molly Wheeler, and David Pilot about Home Movie Day New Haven 2016, hosted Saturday 10/15 at the New Haven Museum. During the second half of the show Breen welcomes fellow WNHH host and Inner City News CT editor Babz Rawls Ivy for a review of Ava Duvernay's new Netflix documentary, 13TH.Other Links
2016-10-1355 minDeep Focus on WNHH-LPEpisode 49: Brendan Toller / Russ D Martin
Brendan Toller (Lucy Gellman photo)
Timeline00:00 - 36:37 -- interview with Brendan Toller39:35 - 55:43 -- interview with Russ D MartinDescriptionOn today's episode of Deep Focus, host Tom Breen talks with local filmmaker Brendan Toller, director of the new documentary DANNY SAYS, about two movies that have had a profound influence on him as a watcher and maker of movies: BENJAMIN SMOKE, a 2000 documentary about a singer-songwriter, drag queen, speedfreak, misfit named Benjamin from Atlanta, Georgia, and SILVERLAKE LIFE, a 1993 documentary about a California couple living and dying with AIDS...
2016-09-2955 minDeep Focus on WNHH-LPEpisode 48: Arnold Gorlick / 2016 Toronto International Film Festival
Arnold Gorlick and Thomas Breen (Lucy Gellman photo)
Listen on SoundCloudListen on iTunesTopics00:00 - 50:49 -- interview about Toronto International Film Festival with Arnold GorlickDescriptionOn today's episode, host Tom Breen talks with Madison Art Cinemas owner and operator Arnold Gorlick about the 41st annual Toronto International Film Festival, which they both attended earlier in September. They talk about their favorite movies, surprises, disappointments, and key takeaways from this year in Toronto.GuestsArnold GorlickLinkshttp://www...
2016-09-2250 minDeep Focus on WNHH-LPEpisode 47: Rich Hanley / Last Days of the Coliseum
Rich Hanley (Thomas Breen photo)
Topics00:00 - 48:47 -- interview with Rich Hanley about Last Days of the ColiseumDescriptionOn today's episode of Deep Focus, host Tom Breen talks with Rich Hanley, Associate Professor of Journalism at Quinnipiac University and writer/director of the 2010 documentary Last Days at the Coliseum. Tom and Rich talk about the history of the New Haven Coliseum, and the symbolic intersections of hockey, rock and roll, wrestling, and urban renewal in mid-century downtown New Haven.Linkshttps://www.facebook.com/newhavencoliseum/...
2016-09-0248 minDeep Focus on WNHH-LPEpisode 46: Matt Feiner / Little Men
Matt Feiner (Thomas Breen photo)
Topics00:00 - 36:00 -- interview with Matt Feiner about Starman and The Girl in the Cafe38:36 - 57:21 -- review of Little MenDescriptionOn today's episode of Deep Focus, host Tom Breen talks with Matt Feiner, the founder and owner of Devil's Gear bike shop and a New Haven-based visual artist, about two movies that he holds dear: 1984's sci-fi road trip movie Starman, and 2005's romantic comedy with a conscience, The Girl in the Cafe. On the second segment of the show, Breen is joined b...
2016-08-2557 minDeep Focus on WNHH-LPEpisode 45: Nick Palmer / Indignation
Nick Palmer (Thomas Breen photo)
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0:00 - 35:45 - interview with CT filmmaker Nick Palmer about Parable Media, "A Bottled Rose," and FTMA
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Guests: Allan Appel, Lucy Gellman
37:34 - 56:22 - review of the new Philip Roth-adaptation INDIGNATION
DescriptionOn today's episode of Deep Focus, host Tom Breen talks with CT filmmaker Nick Palmer about his work on the 2016 48 Hour Film Project New Haven, the Film...
2016-08-1856 minDeep Focus on WNHH-LPEpisode 43: 48 Hour Film Project New Haven
Russ D Martin and Li Martin (Thomas Breen photo)
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0:00 - 51:44 - interview with Russ D Martin and Li Martin about the 2016 48 Hour Film Project New Haven
DescriptionOn this episode host Tom Breen talks to Russ D and Li Martin, a husband and wife who headed different teams in this year's 48 Hour Film Project New Haven contest, about the challenges, joys, and lessons learned while making films...
2016-08-0451 minDeep Focus on WNHH-LPEpisode 39: Wheel to Sea / Free State of Jones
Wheel to Sea Productions
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Guests: William Minter, Leah Russell
0:00 - 34:55 - interview due behind Wheel to Sea productions
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Guest: Allan Appel
36:38 - 57:18 - review of FREE STATE OF JONES
DescriptionOn this episode, host Tom Breen talks to filmmakers William Minter and Leah Russell about Wheel to Sea, a video production company that focuses on making videos about non-profits in the greater New Haven area. During...
2016-07-0157 minDeep Focus on WNHH-LPEpisode 38: Jordan Brower / The Great Gatsby
The Great Gatsby (2013)
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0:00 - 52:02 - discussion of the Hollywood studio system's influence on early 20th century American lit with Jordan Brower, followed by a discussion of the THE GREAT GATSBY and its various movie adaptations.
DescriptionOn today's episode of Deep Focus, host Tom Breen talks about literature and the movies with Jordan Brower, a recent Yale PhD whose dissertation looks at the profound influence of the Hollywood studio system...
2016-06-2352 minDeep Focus on WNHH-LPEpisode 37: The Lobster / Yorgos Lanthimos Movies
The Lobster
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Guest: Lucy Gellman
0:00 - 48:29 - review of THE LOBSTER and discussion of the movies of Greek filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos
DescriptionOn today's episode of Deep Focus, host Tom Breen talks with Lucy Gellman about THE LOBSTER, a new dark satire from Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos. Breen and Gellman also talk about Lanthimos' previous two films, DOGTOOTH and ALPS, as a way into some of the key themes this idiosyncratic filmmaker is...
2016-06-1648 minDeep Focus on WNHH-LPEpisode 35: Mike Rhodes / Money Monster
Mike Rhodes (Lucy Gellman photo)
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0:00 - 39:29 - interview with CT filmmaker Mike Rhodes
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Guest: Lucy Gellman
41:02 - 53:07 - review of MONEY MONSTER
DescriptionOn this episode of Deep Focus, host Tom Breen sits down with Connecticut filmmaker Mike Rhodes to discuss freelancing, music videos, and the benefits and challenges of making movies in the Nutmeg State. During the second part of the episode...
2016-05-2653 minDeep Focus on WNHH-LPEpisode 34: Bruce Ditman / Francofonia
Bruce Ditman (Thomas Breen photo)
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Guest: Bruce Ditman
0:00 - 40:19 - reviews of THIEF and BEVERLY HILLS COP
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Guests: Lucy Gellman, Allan Appel
41:51 - 1:00:15 - review of FRANCOFONIA
DescriptionOn today's episode of Deep Focus, host Tom Breen talks with New Haven's own Bruce Ditman about two films from the early 1980s that have had a profound influence on the way he watches, makes, and enjoys movies...
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