4.6 • 676 Ratings
🗓️ 16 November 2018
⏱️ 29 minutes
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In his career as a documentary filmmaker, Matthew Heineman has criss-crossed the country, followed Syrian activists in exile and embedded with vigilantes fighting Mexican drug cartels. His newest film, ‘A Private War’ is an adventure of a different kind--a narrative feature about war correspondent Marie Colvin. He tells us about using techniques he learned doing documentaries to make his first narrative film.
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0:00.0 | From KCRW, I'm Matt Holsman, filling in for Kim Masters, and this is The Business. |
0:05.7 | You know, in some ironic way, I've tried to make my docs feel like narratives, |
0:10.0 | and in some way I've tried to make this narrative feel like a doc, |
0:13.6 | and I think the world is quite valuable these days. |
0:16.8 | Director Matthew Heineman has crisscrossed the country and the globe making award-winning documentaries, including City of Ghosts and Cartel Land. |
0:24.6 | His newest project, A Private War, is an adventure of a different kind. |
0:28.6 | It's a feature film about war correspondent Marie Colvin. |
0:32.6 | Heinenman tells Kim Masters about how one of his earliest documentary projects involved in interview with |
0:38.3 | a little known man named Mark Zuckerberg. And he also talks about gaining the trust of |
0:43.4 | Marie Colvin's friends and family to make a private war. But first, Kim Masters checks in for a long |
0:49.3 | distance banter this time from London. Stick around. It's the business from KCRW. I am joined by my partner in |
1:04.9 | Bander, Matt Bellany of the Hollywood Reporter. Hello from London, Matt. Cheerio. Yes. Well, that's when you say goodbye, I think, but I have been on the road. |
1:14.3 | Last time it was Portugal, this time it's London. I'm coming back. I'm coming back soon. So, no worries. |
1:19.3 | I will be there. So as the Disney acquisition of Fox progresses, the obvious and logical outcome is that the Fox Broadcasting Network will be |
1:29.4 | lumped in with the other assets that will remain in the control of the Murdoch family, |
1:34.6 | including notably Fox News. And you know, in the day when Fox was a much bigger company, |
1:40.9 | before the Murdoch sold the film studio and the Fox TV production studio |
1:46.2 | and all of these things to Disney, you could sort of maybe kind of fudge a little bit in here, |
1:53.9 | you know, in liberal Hollywood. You know, Fox was a big company. But of course, with this deal, |
2:00.0 | the proximity to Fox News is thrown into |
2:02.7 | much sharper relief for people who do business with other Fox assets. |
2:07.6 | And some in Hollywood are finding that hard to digest because they don't want to be associated |
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