Pulling Focus

Gretjen Clausing

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Pulling Focus zooms in on what’s happening in film and digital media culture and puts soundtracks and film scores in the foreground. Host Gretjen Clausing interviews filmmakers, curators, archivists, critics and creatives about all that is unique and under-covered in indie film, video, digital culture and media policy in Philly and beyond. Since 2017, Pulling Focus has been airing on WPPM 106.5 FM in Philadelphia.

26/03/2024

Interview with Lou DiCrescenzo, Film Historian & Preservationist

I'm very pleased to be joined by film historian and preservationist Lou DiCrescenzo, who has been collecting original 35 millimeter films and production equipment since the late 50s. Through his efforts and generosity, many rare and formerly lost films have been saved and donated to the Library of Congress and the Smithsonian Institute, where they have been copied and are now available for public viewing and study. Lou's projection equipment occupies a floor of the Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria. Queens. He is a technical consultant providing his expertise to theaters dealing with silent era projection in film, a long term member of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers and for many years was the Technical Supervisor for the Ritz Theater circuit here in Philadelphia. He is also an accomplished musician having performed with many regional orchestras including the Philadelphia Orchestra under Eugene Ormandy, and the Trenton State Symphony, and he hosts a daily radio program sunshine music memories with smiling Lou Powers on WBCB 1490 am in Montgomery County. Films from Lou's vast collection aare shown regularly as intended, projected on the big screen at local theaters, notably the Ambler Theater where he was part of their inaugural 35 Millimeter Film Festival in 2018. note: Lou passed away on January 12th, 2024.
27/01/2023

Phil Bertelsen & Lise Yasui discuss their new doc, The Picture Taker

THE PICTURE TAKER is a tale from in front of, and behind the camera. Ernest Withers lived a complicated and extraordinary life, magnified by a legacy of developing nearly two million images that came to define the American civil rights movement. A photo-journalist, soldier, police officer, and civil rights activist in his lifetime, The Picture Taker illuminates Withers lesser-known work as a secret FBI informant, a double-life uncovered only after his death.
28/11/2021

Pulling Focus 9_19_17 with Slate's Sam Adams

In this episode Sam Adams, longtime Philadelphia City Paper writer and now Senior Editor at Slate.com joins me in the studio to discuss the changing role of the film/media critic, the 2017 Emmy Awards, and his recent trips to the Toronto International Film Festival and the Camden International Film Festival in Maine. Featured are some great soundtracks from the current “Golden Age” of television shows Master of None, I Love Dick, Fargo, Empire, This is Us and Broad City plus such classic opening TV themes from Rockford Files, Miami Vice and Peter Gunn.
28/11/2021

Pulling Focus 9_4_17 Back to School

This episode is dedicated to all the students in the Philadelphia Public School System headed back to school on their first day. Featured here are some great soundtracks from Fame, To Sir with Love, Cooley High, Rushmore, Clueless, Breakfast Club and more. This show also celebrates the incredible resources of the Philadelphia Free Library with a set of music pulled from CDs from their music collection.
28/11/2021

Pulling Focus 7_11_1 with Cinespeak's Sarah Mueller

This episode includes a lively conversation with Sarah Mueller, co-organizer of Cinespeak: Alternative Cinema talking about their #Boycott the Oscars summer film series in the Brewerytown neighborhood of Philadelphia. Featured soundtracks include films from Claudine, Sweet Love Bitter, and Spike Lee joints including Do the Right Things, Crooklyn and Bamboozled.
28/11/2021

Pulling Focus 6_13_2017 Shot in Philly

In honor of our tenth episode we finally dug out the Rocky theme, it was only a matter of time. It seemed the only fitting way to close out a short audio piece recorded at a rally in support of the PA Film Tax Credit held on the steps at the Art Museum on June 3, 2017. Featured soundtracks of films shot in Philly include Peter Gabriel's score for Birdy, Paul Buckmaster's theme for Terry Gilliam's Twelve Monkeys and James Newtown Howard's score for M. Night Shyamalan's Unbreakable. We also devote a set of music to Sofia Coppola who just became only the 2nd women to be named Best Director at the Cannes Film Festival. Hear music from her first short film Lick the Star, Lost in Translation, Somewhere, Virgin Suicides and Marie Antoinette.
16/11/2021

Pulling Focus 5_30_17 with Marangeli Meija Rabell, Phila Latino Film Festival

This episode offers a sneak preview of the upcoming Philadelphia Latino Film Festival (PHLAFF) opening on Friday, June 2. Festival Director, Marangeli Meija Rabell discusses this year's festival offerings and their commitment to showcasing work by emerging filmmakers and those using film as a means of social change. We talk about the current economic crisis in Puerto Rico, the new documentary film about Residente and how PHLAFF is building community by bringing artists together with audiences. Featured soundtracks include Alejandro Iñárritu's Amores Perros, Marcel Camus' Black Orpheus, Eliseo Subiela's Dark Side of the Heart and Residente.
14/11/2021

Pulling Focus 5_2_17 with Maori Karmael Holmes, Nefertite Nguvu & Kimi Takesue

This episode of Pulling Focus is a conversation with local film curator, filmmaker, cultural critic, fashionista, Maori Karmael Holmes. She invited 2 filmmakers. Nefertite Nguvu (In the Morning) and Kimi Takasue (95 and 6 to Go) to talk about their recent films screening here in Philadelphia in May 2017. In the Morning follows a group young, hip folks on a day in Brooklyn and that got me thinking about other films with strong ensemble casts full of young breakout talents. Soundtracks featured in this episode include Diner and Chacun cherche son chat plus music by Danny Elfman, Bahamadia, Greg Tate and Abby Dobson.
20/02/2021

Poetry and Jazz with Beth Feldman Brandt

Continuing the celebration of National Poetry Month but this time adding jazz to the mix. April is designated as Jazz Appreciation Month in Philadelphia and here at WPPM we have been pulling out all the stops highlighting the tremendous community of jazz musicians of all genres and generations. I’ll put playing of some seminal jazz film tracks film noir to the French new wave. And in just a few minutes I will be having a conversation with poet Beth Feldman Brandt who was commissioned by the Philadelpia Jazz Project to adapt her poems to the stage and combine them with jazz in the work Retro Love. Aired on WPPM 106.5 FM in Philadelphia in April 2017.
14/02/2021

Women Animators with Emily Hubley and Signe Baumane

Recorded on the eve of International Women's Day, this episode of Pulling Focus puts women directors in the foreground and features interviews with Laris Kreslins, programmer of the Women's Animation Festival, and animators Emily Hubley and Signe Baumane. For more info about the festival go to http://moore.edu/calendar/moore-women-artists-film-festival-women-in-animation.
14/02/2021

Interview with Documentary Film Producer Hebert Peck

This episode of Pulling Focus is an Oscar preview and features an interview with Hebert Peck, one of the producers of the Oscar nominated I Am Not Your Negro. Original air date on WPPM in Philadelphia, 2/21/2017. Featured artists include Maurice Jarre, Mychael Danna, Nicholas Britell, Little Jimmie Scott, Alexi Aigui, words by James Baldwin and more.
01/02/2021

Valentine to the Movies

This edition of Pulling Focus is a crowd sourced mix of songs about movies. Original air date on WPPM in Philadelphia, 2/14/17. Au Cinema by Lianne La Havas Skate Away by Dire Straits Clint (Silence on tourne) by Thomas Dutronc Matinee Idol by Rufus Wainwright Mon Pere se prenait pour Fred Astaire by Antoine Brimful of Asha by Cornershop Celluloid Heroes by Kinks B Movie by Elvis Costello What’s Your Take on Cassavetes by Le Tigre - Films by Gary Numan Gary Numan by Let's all go to the Lobby Let's Go to the Movies by Ozomatli Saturday Night at the Movies by The Drifters Grace Kelly by Mika The Film of My Love by 10 cc

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Pulling Focus zooms in on what’s happening in film and digital media culture and puts soundtracks and film scores in the foreground. Host Gretjen Clausing interviews filmmakers, curators, archivists, critics and creatives about all that is unique and under-covered in indie film, video, digital culture and media policy in Philly and beyond. Since 2017, Pulling Focus has been airing on WPPM 106.5 FM in Philadelphia.

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