Today on Leonard Lopate at Large, Alison Klayman and producer Marie Therese Guirgis discuss their experience making “The Brink” and why they feel it is a film every American needs to see.
“The Brink” is a startling new documentary directed and filmed by Alison Klayman (“Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry,” “Take Your Pills”) that follows former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon as he takes his effort to spread extreme nationalism from the U.S. to the rest of the world.
With unprecedented access, Klayman’s fly-on-the-wall historical document employs a vérité approach that aims to expose Bannon’s tactics, including his relationship with the media.
In his novel “A View of the Empire at Sunset,” about the Dominican-born, British writer Jean Rhys, Caryl Phillips wrote, “there was something terribly...
Today Leonard has a conversation with Peter Aaron, and Brooke Allen on Syria before the war. In 2009, Peter Aaron, an architectural photographer, and...
Today, on Leonard Lopate At Large….Ruth Beckerman “In Ruth Beckerman’s incisive documentary ‘The Waldheim Waltz,’ the director treats former U.N. Secretary General Kurt Waldheim...