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Clara's Heart (1988)
Maid to Order (1987)

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Kasi Lemmons on white Americans; Halina Dyrschka on Hilma af Klint; Recommended books on racism; Wisdom of James Baldwin; Lesli Linka Glatter on David Lynch.

Interviews

Interview with Paul Mazursky (1980)

LOS ANGELES - Paul Mazursky, in 1980, is very much an outsider in contemporary Hollywood. At a time when the bosses of the major studios are engaged in games of musical chairs, when few studio chiefs give any thought to long-term filmmaking philosophies. When the creative deal is more highly regarded than the creative film, when bloated budgets are poured into films that will become either monster hits or complete write-offs...at a time like this, Paul Mazursky is so out of date he seems almost Victorian.