Listen to interviews with Jed Dietz, Director of the Maryland FIlm Festival, on episodes of Mayland Morning (88.1FM WYPR). Maryland Morning with Sheilah Kast is a lively mix of interviews about news, the arts, politics, science, history – all the topics and people that make Maryland such an interesting place to live and work.
February 20, 2009
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The Oscars are this Sunday and you’re probably already sick of hearing about them. Even though we can all re-enact Slumdog Millionaire scene for scene, there are a lot of movies nominated this year that haven’t gotten a lot of press. Mike Sragow, film critic for the Baltimore Sun, and Jed Dietz from the Maryland Film Festival stop by to give us the scoop on this year’s invisible Oscars.
Movies Discussed:
In Bruge
Waltz With Bashir
The Class
Frozen River
Wall – E
January 9, 2009
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Next Tuesday was to have been the day that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced this year’s Oscar nominations. It turns out that even the world’s biggest movie stars have been upstaged, because all eyes will be focused on Washington DC for the inauguration of Barack Obama, so the Academy moved their announcement date to Thursday. To give us their picks for this year’s Oscar-worthy items Jed Dietz; Director of the Maryland Film Festival and Michael Sragow the film critic for the Baltimore Sun and the author of a great new book, Victor Fleming: An American Movie Master stopped by the studio.
Movies Mentioned:
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
The Visitor
Slumdog Millionaire
Milk
Wall-E
December 12, 2008
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Michael Sragow and Jed Dietz talk to Tom about Victor Fleming, the director of Gone with the Wind, The Wizard of Oz, and Treasure Island, among many other movies. Sragow has just published a biography of Fleming.
Links:
Victor Fleming: An American Movie Master by Michael Sragow
Fleming at IMDB
