American Women — Film and television

  • A Crime To Fit The Punishment: an interview with the filmmakers

    Mimi Rosenberg speaks with Barbara A. Moss and Stephen Mack on their new film, “A Crime to Fit the Punishment” (1982), a documentary about the making of the 1954 controversial labor film “Salt of the Earth” during the height of the Hollywood blacklist.

  • Whatever became of Hazel Scott / interviewed by Richard Lamparski.

    Richard Lamparski elicits stories from African American jazz and classical pianist and singer Hazel Scott (1920-1981), about Orson Wells, Josephine Baker, Lena Horne, Billie Holiday, and Harry Cohn.

  • Michelle Parkerson

    This episode of Upstream features filmmaker and poet Michelle Parkerson who talks about the economics of being an independent artist. Parkerson talks about her most recent film, “…But Then She’s Betty Carter” (1980), and how she supports herself as a filmmaker. Parkerson also reads some of her poetry in the second half of the program.…

  • Interview with filmmaker Joan Harvey

    Rich Schrader speaks with Joan Harvey, producer and director of the film “American: from Hitler to M-X” about nuclear war and disarmament.

  • Vanessa Redgrave: candidate for Parliament / Paul McIsaac

    Vanessa Redgrave, campaigning for a seat in Parliament for the Worker’s Revolutionary Party (Redgrave is a Marxist and a famous actress), canvasses council housing, or low income houses, in Great Britain and is recorded doing so and defending her politics to a reporter in this program by Paul McIsaac (WBAI reporter) during his visit to…

  • Soundtrack: Liz Alexander interviewed about the film The Killing of Angel Street

    Paul Wunder (not identified on tape) of WBAI’s Soundtrack program interviews Australian actress, Liz Alexander, about the starring role in the film, The Killing of Angel Street. The story is about the daughter of a man who fights for the right of land holders (resident action groups) against corporate takeovers in Sydney, Australian. Anthony Buckley,…

  • Claude Goretta and Isabelle Huppert

    Judith Kass interviews film director Claude Goretta and actor Isabelle Huppert, the star of his film The Lacemaker. Huppert won the BAFTA Award for Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles in 1977 for her role in the film. They discuss the major themes of Goretta’s films and Huppert describes their working process.

  • Interview with director John Badham / by Judith M. Kass

    Judith M. Kass interviews John Badham, director of Dracula and Saturday Night Fever. Badham discusses the popularity of vampire movies, the production of Dracula, and how his involvement with Saturday Night Fever came about.

  • Dark Circle: interview with the producers / Julia Randall

    Judy Irving and Ruth Landry, co-director/writer and producer, respectively, of the anti-nuclear documentary film Dark Circle (1982), are interviewed by Julia Randall of KPFA’s Women’s Department. Irving and Landry talk about plutonium pollution and how nuclear power and weapons affect everyday people, and their specific focus on women as the leading voices of the anti-nuclear…

  • Jane Fonda: Women in Vietnam

    Part 1 of 3: Live recording of Jane Fonda speaking in San Francisco (UCSF?) week of April 10, 1973 on her recent trip to Hanoi (for several weeks in July 1972) and the position of women in North Vietnam. She witnessed bombing of Hanoi by American planes and witnessed a play based on Arthur Miller’s…