4.6 • 676 Ratings
🗓️ 26 March 2016
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Early in his career, Oscar-winning director Davis Guggenheim declared he would never make documentaries. He tells us about the bad experience in Hollywood that made him have a change of heart, and talks about his newest film, He Named Me Malala, which profiles activist Malala Yousafzai and her family.
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0:00.0 | On To the Point, we try to make sense of the policy debates and the political sideshows on the campaign trail. |
0:05.6 | Neither party's agenda really aligns with who its coalition is today. |
0:09.9 | It was the dumbest speech I have ever seen in my life of covering politics. |
0:15.0 | When people walk into a voting booth, at the end of the day, they do say, |
0:19.1 | I really should vote for someone smarter than me. |
0:21.7 | I'm Warren Alney. To the Point has you covered for the 2016 campaign. Find the To the Point |
0:26.4 | podcast on KCRW's iTunes page. From KCRW and KCRW.com, I'm Kim Masters and this is the business. |
0:37.1 | So I didn't decide to go back in the documentaries. |
0:39.4 | I was just unemployed, desperate, and in a pit of despair, and I said, I'm going to make a movie about people I like. |
0:47.4 | For filmmaker, Davis Guggenheim, making documentaries was never the plan. |
0:51.9 | He was a TV guy working on shows like NYPD Blue and |
0:55.3 | Deadwood with hopes of making feature films. It looked like he was going to get his chance |
1:00.1 | with Training Day until he was abruptly fired. Today we're revisiting our conversation with |
1:05.8 | Guggenheim. He tells us how getting unceremoniously canned from the Denzel Washington thriller, set him on a course to directing movies with a message. |
1:14.4 | From the Oscar-winning doc, An Inconvenient Truth, to his most recent film, he named me Malala, about the Nobel Prize-winning activist Malala Yousafzai. |
1:24.2 | But first on the news banter, Warner Brothers depends on Batman versus Superman, and will the |
1:29.5 | walking dead walk away from Georgia? Stay tuned. It's the business from KCRW. |
1:40.2 | I'm joined by my colleague in banter, Matt Bellany of the Hollywood Reporter. Hello, Matt. |
1:44.9 | Hello. |
1:45.8 | So as we're recording, Batman versus Superman is rolling into theater, so we don't know exactly what number this film will do. |
1:52.2 | We believe it will be a big number. |
1:54.0 | But this is also a very, very expensive film and a very major wager for Warner Brothers. |
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