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Walter Hill talks about his amazing and underrated career and his controversial new film "The Assignment." IndieWire's Jude Dry also joins to discuss the problematic way "The Assignment" talks about gender and transgender issues. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Gareth Edwards talks about how he started his career as a visual effects artists and how that has influenced him as a director. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Damien Chazelle and his editor Tom Cross talk about finding the right rhythm for a modern day and how much more difficult it was to edit "La La Land" than "Whiplash." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"Toni Erdmann" has been nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at this year's Oscars and is one of the best reviewed and most loved films of the year. Writer/Director Maren Ade discusses her many year process of creating the celebrated father-daughter story [that's being re-made with Jack Nickolson]. Also, IndieWire's Zack Sharf swings by to tell us why the film was his favorite from 2016 and an American remake would be a very bad idea. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Eliza Hittman returns to Sundance with her follow up "It Felt Like Love." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nanfu Wang talks about the dangers of making her Oscar contending doc "Hooligan Sparrow and how the Chinese government has targeted her parents since the film was shortlisted for Best Documentary consideration by the Academy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Director Pablo Larraín talks two icons who tried to shape their own image and why he finds that fascinating. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mia Hansen-Løve talks about her story process and working with Isabelle Huppert on her new film "Things To Come." IndieWire's David Ehrlich also stops by to explain how he makes his fantastic top 25 Video Countdown. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sophia talks about turning the jealously and competition she felt as an actress into a great new indie horror film. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Eric Heisserer talks about adapting Ted Chiang's "Story of Your Life" -- a short story many thought was un-adoptable for the big screen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Eggers on how he blended genre and history to create the best horror film of the year and why he's remaking “Nosferatu.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The great director talks about his new film "Elle," Isabelle Huppert and how his career as Hollywood director ("Showgirls," Starship Troopers," "Robocop") is starting to be reconsidered. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ezra Edelman discusses how he used the story of OJ Simpson to explore race in American. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Writer/Director Barry Jenkins discusses "Moonlight," his second feature and easily one of the best films of the year. Then IndieWire's Kate Erbland stops by to talk about "Billy Lynn's Long Half Time Walk" and how shooting at 120 frames per second alters movie watching and movie making. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Gianfranco's Rosi is one best filmmakers we aren't paying enough attention to here in the US, but that's about to change as his new film "Fire at Sea" is considered a frontrunner for an Oscar nomination. The film, which won the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival, is a look at a small Italian island caught in the middle of Europe's refugee crisis. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Kelly Reichardt talks about her new film "Certain Women," starring Kristen Stewart and Michelle Williams. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

One of the big premieres at this year's New York Film Festival is "Hamilton's America," a behind-the-scenes look at Lin Manuel Miranda's search for the history behind his hit musical. Director Alex Horwitz stops by to talk about shadowing Miranda from mixtape to superstar. Afterwards we visit with NYFF's Dennis Lim to discuss Jacques Rivette and the discovery of three of his first shorts, which are playing at the fest. Finally, a recommendation for a new movie every filmmaker should see. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Director Andrea Arnold ("Fish Tank") discusses making her new film "American Honey." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The HBO mini-series "The Night Of" is a near perfect use of location shooting. This week we talk to location manager Shane Haden about working with creator Steven Zaillian to create this unique portrait of New York City and the criminal justice system. Shane also brings us behind the scenes of what's involved with being a location manager, the challenges of shooting in NYC and how he got his start. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Kirsten Johnson talks about what she's learned from shooting some of the best nonfiction films of the last 25 years while working with directors like Laura Poitras and Michael Moore. We also discuss her new film "Cameraperson," which uses previously unseen footage from those films to create what IndieWire's Eric Kohn called, "A transcendent documentary experience. Truly original. There's never been a memoir quite like this one." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices