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Deep Focus on WNHH-LP
by Thomas Breen
Deep Focus is a weekly radio show about movies and New Haven, Connecticut. The show is broadcast live every Thursday from 12 - 1pm on WNHH 103.5 FM, and available via webstream at www.newhavenindependent.org. During each episode, host Tom Breen talks with people from New Haven who make, work on, present, or otherwise think deeply about movies. The second segment of each show features a round-table review of a new release just hitting the Elm City.
Episodes
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Episode 131: Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood
On 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.
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Episode 130: 48 Hour Film Project New Haven
On 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...
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Episode 129: Factory – 150,000 sq feet of Sex, Vice, Music, Art & Clocks
On 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.
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Episode 128: Shift Change
On 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…
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Episode 127: Zulu Summer
On 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...
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Episode 126: NHDocs 2019
On today's episode of Deep Focus, host Tom Breen talks with NHDocs co-founder and co-director Gorman Bechard about the 2019 festival lineup.
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Episode 125: Ingmar Bergman Retrospective
On 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.
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Episode 124: Stephen Dest / Grace
Host Tom Breen and local filmmaker Stephen Dest talk about Dest's new movie, GRACE.
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Episode 123: 2018 Toronto International Film Festival
On 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.
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Episode 122: Mission: Impossible - Fallout
On 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.
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Episode 121: 48 Hour Film Project New Haven 2018 Recap
On 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...
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Episode 120: Leave No Trace / Three Identical Strangers
On 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.
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Episode 119: Trish Clark / 48 Hour Film Project New Haven 2018
On 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...
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Episode 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…
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Episode 117: First Reformed
On 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.
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Episode 116: Jim Barone / The Week Of
On 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...
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Episode 115: Steve Hamm / The Village
On 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.
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Episode 114: NHDocs 2018
On today's episode, host Tom Breen talks with local filmmaker Gorman Bechard about the fifith annual New Haven Documentary Film Festival, aka NHDocs.
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Episode 113: Chappaquiddick
On 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…
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Episode 112: A Quiet Place
On 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…
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Episode 111: The Death of Stalin
On 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...
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Episode 110: Annihilation
On 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.
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Episode 109: Norman Weissman / Griggs Collection
On 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…
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Episode 108: Black Panther
On 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,...
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Episode 107: Pizza, A Love Story
Today’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...
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Episode 106: M by Fritz Lang
On 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...
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Episode 105: The Island Next Door / Phantom Thread
On 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...
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Episode 104: African American Cinema / The Post
On 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...
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Episode 103: Best Movies of 2017
On 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…
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Episode 102: Francescsa Andre / The Shape of Water
On 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,...
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Episode 101: Kate Rushin / Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
On 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...
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Episode 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…
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Episode 99: Mark Oppenheimer / Lady Bird
Today’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...
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Episode 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?
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Episode 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...
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Episode 96: Trans Awareness Week / A Prophet
Next 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...
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Episode 95: Loving Vincent / Nasty Women
On 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...
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Episode 94: Joe Fay / George A. Romero and Tobe Hooper
Halloween 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...
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Episode 93: Home Movie Day 2017 / Film Preservation
It’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…
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Episode 92: Blade Runner 2049
On 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...
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Episode 91: Battle of the Sexes / Columbus
On 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...
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Episode 90: 2017 Toronto International Film Festival
On 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...
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Episode 89: Graphic Novel Adaptations / American Splendor
In 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...
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Episode 88: Wind River
On 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,...
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Episode 87: Lady Macbeth
On 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,...
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Episode 86: Dunkirk
On today's review-only episode of the show, I'll be joined by New Haven Independent staff reporter Allan Appel to talk about DUNKIRK, Christopher Nolan's new WWII action movie about the mass evacuation of hundreds of thousands of British troops from the beaches of a besieged French coastal city…
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Episode 85: Baby Driver / Spider-Man: Homecoming
On 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…
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Episode 84: Josh Larsen / Movies Are Prayers
On 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…
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Episode 83: Tony Conrad: Completely in the Present
Today'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...
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Episode 82: Father's Day Movies / Manual Cinema
In 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 Schupach to talk about movie recommendations for Father’s Day, the different ways that dads and father-child relationships…
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Deep Focus is a weekly radio show about movies and New Haven, Connecticut. The show is broadcast live every Thursday from 12 - 1pm on WNHH 103.5 FM, and available via webstream at www.newhavenindependent.org. During each episode, host Tom Breen talks with people from New Haven who make, work on, present, or otherwise think deeply about movies. The second segment of each show features a round-table review of a new release just hitting the Elm City.
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