Pinewood Dialogues

January 8, 2003 8:29 AM

Pinewood Dialogues Online from the American Museum of the Moving Image. In-depth conversations with movie actors and directors. Audio in RealAudio and Shockwave formats, with transcripts and a comprehensive index by topic. Sign-in required [more inside].
posted by staggernation (1 comment total)

To get to the content, you have to provide name, email, state/country, and occupation, and opt-in for mailing lists. There's no actual username/password system, so if you delete your cookies you'll have to sign in again. Anyway, so you can decide whether you want to bother, here are the dialogues currently available:

David Cronenberg
Willem Dafoe
Terence Davies
Atom Egoyan
Terry Gilliam
Hal Hartley
Todd Haynes
Buck Henry
Jim Jarmusch
Jennifer Jason Leigh
David Lynch
Mike Nichols
Patricia Rozema
Paul Schrader
Martin Scorsese
Patrizia von Brandenstein
John Waters

The Topics index is pretty cool. It's an alphabetized list of hundreds of keywords; under each keyword, there's a listing of specific topics people have discussed, with links to the corresponding points in the audio and transcript.
posted by staggernation at 8:30 AM on January 8, 2003