Juan Juliet Buck reviews Jacques Audiard’s violent musical masterpiece and explains how a drama about a drug lord who changes sex brings the shock of the new.

Produced and edited by Matty Rosenberg, co-produced by Jennifer Hammoud, and Joan Juliet Buck @ radiofreerhinecliff.org

Do grievances constitute an ideology? No one can get a handle on today, except maybe Nick Quested, producer, director, and maker of documentaries, who embedded with the Proud Boys in the summer of 2020 and followed the plot to the storming of the capitol. We saw him testify before the January 6 committee . With his film '64 Days' just out, he gives a wide ranging interview to Joan Juliet Buck.

Produced and edited by Matty Rosenberg, co-produced by Jennifer Hammoud, and Joan Juliet Buck @ radiofreerhinecliff.org

The actor Griffin Dunne, born rich and fame-adjacent in Hollywood, tells a family story wilder than any miniseries. His mother was an heiress, his aunt was Joan Didion , his uncle John’s Gregory Dunne. After his sister Dominique was murdered, his fatherr Dominick Dunne— a failed and alcoholic producer— wrote about the trial and was launched as a world famous chronicler of true crimes. In a wildly candid interview, Dunne honors the bravery of his closeted father and explains his own brush with organized crime.

Produced and edited by Matty Rosenberg, co-produced by Jennifer Hammoud, and Joan Juliet Buck @ radiofreerhinecliff.org

Michael J Gelb teaches normal humans how to walk, CEOs how to access genius levels of creativity, and also juggles. He began studying the Alexander Technique in London 43 years ago , became a teacher, expanded the mind-body connection to encompass the higher reaches of creativity. His new book 'Walking Well ', written with Bruce Fertman, another Alexander Technique alumnus and teacher, come out September 3, and he's teaching a vital workshop at the Omega Institute this August 16-17-18.

Produced and edited by Matty Rosenberg, co-produced by Jennifer Hammoud, and Joan Juliet Buck @ radiofreerhinecliff.org

Carolyn Pfeiffer's unerring flair took her from North Carolina to Rome at 21 with a one way boat ticket, and straight into La Dolce Vita. As the assistant to Claudia Cardinale, she watched two masterpieces being made-- Fellini's 8 1/2 and Visconti 's The Leopard, and two movie stars later, went to England to become the best PR in--and for--Swinging London. She returned to America to produce such films as Koyaanisqatsi, Kiss of The Spider Woman, and the films of Alan Rudolph.

Produced and edited by Matty Rosenberg, co-produced by Jennifer Hammoud, and Joan Juliet Buck @ radiofreerhinecliff.org

Joan Juliet Buck interviews Howard Korder, co-writer and co-producer of “Franklin”, the 8-part marvel from the team that brought you "The Sopranos".

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Joan Juliet Buck explains two terrific, upsetting, unconventional, genre-defying new series , one from the brilliant Lulu Wang and set in Hong Kong, the other a satire written by and starring the provocative Benny Safdie and the cringe-master Nathan Fielder, who directed and also plays Emma Stone's husband

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The inside story of how, back in 1997, George Dawes Green founded The Moth, the storytelling entity that gave you-- and you and you-- permission to get up on stage and tell your story. The author of bestselling, award-winning thrillers (The Juror, Ravens, The Kingdoms of Savannah), George Green is candid, charming, and full of stories.

Produced and edited by Matty Rosenberg, co-produced by Jennifer Hammoud, and Joan Juliet Buck @ radiofreerhinecliff.org

This winter John Patrick Shanley had three plays running simultaneously in New York; the newest, Brooklyn Laundry, is a wrenching and ecstatic 80 minute ride through attraction, grief, love, giddiness, reality check, responsibility, to adulthood. He talks to Joan Juliet Buck about life, death, the meaning of both, and invokes the possibilities of a blonde wig.

Produced and edited by Matty Rosenberg and Joan Juliet Buck, co-produced by Jennifer Hammoud @ radiofreerhinecliff.org

Words that hurt: It's 1975 and Truman Capote , one of the most famous writers in the world, publishes an extract of his unfinished novel in Esquire. It's the dirty secrets his beloved rich lady friends have been telling him for years. Shit ensues.

Produced and edited by Matty Rosenberg, co-produced by Jennifer Hammoud, and Joan Juliet Buck @ radiofreerhinecliff.org