FilmWeek

Larry talks with director Tony Kaye about his new documentary film, Lake of Fire, that takes on the controversial topic of abortion. The film was 15 years in the making.

Many of us can rattle off a list of jobs that are integral to movie making. A new exhibit at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences honors an essential, but rarely publicized, member of the filmmaking team: the illustrator. "The Art of the Motion Picture Illustrator" features over one hundred storyboards, sketches, and watercolor renderings by three artists for films including Bambi, The Birds, The Ten Commandments, and Dick Tracy. Larry talks with Ellen Harrington, the Director of Exhibitions at the Academy, about the illustrators and their work in dozens of films from the late 1940s through the early 1990s.

Larry discusses the 2007 All Roads Film Project and its line-up for this year's festival with Francene Blythe and Greg McGruder of the Project. The festival will take place at the Egyptian Theatre from September 27th - 30th.

Larry talks with Peter Rainer of The Christian Science Monitor and Henry Sheehan of henrysheehan.com about the Toronto International Film Festival, and he talks with Charles Solomon, animation critic for amazon.com about the Anime Bento Festival beginning next week.

Between 1968 and 1972 nine American spacecraft traveled to the Moon and 12 men walked upon its surface. They remain the only human beings to have stood on another world. Larry talks with director David Sington about his new documentary, In the Shadow of the Moon, which brings together surviving crew members from every Apollo mission that flew to the Moon to tell their story in their own words.

Larry talks with NBC film critic Jeffrey Lyons about some of the most notable and interesting Fall films.

In 1997 reporter, J.R. Moehringer wrote a feature for the Los Angeles Times Magazine about Bob Satterfield, a former professional boxer Moehringer discovered living on the streets of Santa Ana. Ten years later that article became the basis of the new feature film, Resurrecting the Champ. Ted talks about the story and its journey from page to screen with Moehringer and the film's director, Rod Lurie.

Larry talks to youth culture experts and a television critic about the Disney Channel's smash "tween" hit franchise, High School Musical. The sequel, High School Musical 2 premieres tonight on the Disney Channel. Joining Larry to talk about this word-of-mouth phenomenon are Marisa Meltzer, co-author of the book How Sassy Changed My Life, Los Angeles Times television critic Mary McNamara and Tina Wells, CEO of Buzz Marketing Group.

Today marks the opening of India Splendor, a six-day festival of Indian film, fashion and Art in Los Angeles. As India prepares to mark its 60th anniversary of independence, the UCLA School of Theater Film and Television, along with communications giant MGlobalTrust, have embarked on an ambitious presentation of Indian Culture to the United States. Larry talks with Dr. Bhupendra Kumar Modi of MGlobalTrust and actor and director Rishi Kapoor about the upcoming events and the growing Bollywood presence in American film and culture.

Women have certainly made gains in the film and television industry over the past decades, but how do female writers, directors, and producers affect the content we see? Larry talks about how women's voices have changed the dynamics of the entertainment industry with Jane Fleming of Women In Film, and writer and producer Jill Soloway, whose credits include Grey's Anatomy and Six Feet Under.