Oscar-nominated filmmaker Liz Garbus (“What Happened Miss Simone?”) follows The New York Times team of reporters and editors covering the first year of the Trump administration in the four-part Showtime series The Fourth Estate. Garbus talks to Pure Nonfiction host…
Explore Liz Phair’s ‘Exile in Guyville’
Filled with candid, clever songs about sex and scenesters, Liz Phair’s 1993 masterpiece “Exile In Guyville” was an audacious national debut. (Source: Pitchfork)
Casey Affleck Apologizes for His Mistakes on Set of Mockumentary ‘I’m Not There’
With a new movie coming out this fall, “The Old Man & The Gun,” Casey Affleck speaks publicly for the first time in a year that saw him bow out of presenting the best actress Oscar amid the #MeToo and…
John Prine: The Road to His New Record “The Tree of Forgiveness”
In this short film, Prine spends a typical afternoon driving around Nashville while talking about his journey from midwestern mailman to career songwriter. He plays an emotional version of “Summer’s End,” from The Tree of Forgiveness, his first album in…
Allen Hughes on Creating His Masterful ‘THE DEFIANT ONES’
By Carita Rizzo Spending four years on the project, the documentary filmmaker juggled tensions between the moguls and urged them to open up about their pasts: “What we agreed to is, ‘You don’t have to love everything [in the film],…
Night at the Mirage
The story of The Mirage, the famous undercover Chicago Sun bar, as told by two reporters posing as bartenders. Pam Zekman currently works as an investigative reporter for CBS 2 Chicago. You can find Zay Smith’s book about The Mirage,…