The Walker Art Center announces the launch of an online archive of Dialogues and Film Retrospectives: The First Thirty Years. Visitors can explore more than 60 in-depth portraits of directors, actors, writers, and producers who were celebrated in the Walker Cinema at pivotal moments in their careers. Newly collected and designed as a digital experience, the dynamic catalogue is enriched throughout with archival sound and video interview recordings, transcripts, photography, and ephemera, as well as essays and articles written for the esteemed series of intimate onstage interviews and film retrospectives that screened between 1990-2020.
Experienced together, this rich online trove brings profound and personal conversations with some of the cinema’s most iconic figures to movie lovers all over the world. From the inaugural 1990 event when actor Clint Eastwood discussed his directorial debut, to earlier this year when director Bong Joon Ho arrived at the Walker just days after Parasite became the first non-English-language film to win the Oscar for Best Picture and days later when Julia Reichert showed up with her Oscar for Best Documentary for American Factory, a wealth of unique, diverse, celebrated filmmakers share behind-the-scenes stories and discuss the meaning of cinema in their lives on the Walker stage.
Sheryl Mousley, Senior Curator, Moving Image, said “For three decades the Walker Dialogue program has presented some of the most innovative and influential filmmakers of our time discussing their love of cinema with leading critics, writers, and historians.”
List of Guests:
Clint Eastwood
James Ivory
Jodie Foster
Edward R. Pressman
Keith Carradine
John Sayles
Ken Burns
Wim Wenders
Danny Glover
Robert Altman
Marcel Ophuls
Liv Ullmann
Lindsay Law and Julie Dash
Chen Kaige
Jim Jarmusch
Jane Campion
Haile Gerima
Agnieszka Holland
Timothy and Stephen Quay
Gordon Parks
Tom Hanks
Spike Lee
Peter Greenaway
Jessica Lange
Abbas Kiarostami
Terry Gilliam
Stan Brakhage
Werner Herzog
John Waters
Leos Carax
Doris Dorrie
Agnes Varda
Hanif Kureishi
Heddy Honigmann
Gus Van Sant
Matthew Barney
Frederick Wiseman
Guy Maddin
Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Alexander Payne
Ang Lee
Lili Taylor
Isabella Rossellini
Michel Gondry
Bela Tarr
Milos Forman
Mike Leigh
William Klein
Joel and Ethan Coen
Kelly Reichardt
Olivier Assayas
Julian Schnabel
Harry Belafonte
Lawrence Kasdan
Claire Denis
Noah Baumbach
Steve McQueen
Christopher Nolan
Todd Haynes and Christine Vachon
Robert Redford
Lucy Walker
Luca Guadagnino
Bong Joon Ho
Julia Reichert
List of Contributors:
Darsie Alexander
John Anderson
Phil Anderson
David Bordwell
Jay Carr
Stuart Comer
Julie Dash
Paulina del Paso
Roger Ebert
Howard Feinstein
Richard Flood
Scott Foundas
Molly Haskell
J. Hoberman
Eric Hynes
Arthur Jafa
Bruce Jenkins
Kent Jones
Tom Kalin
Stuart Klawans
Phillip Lopate
Scott Macaulay
Jim McKay
Elvis Mitchell
Richard Pena
Wollen Peter
Klaus Phillips
Terrance Rafferty
Berenice Reynaud
B. Ruby Rich
Susan Robeson
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Julie Salamon
James Schamus
Richard Schickel
A.O. Scott
Chuck Stephens
David Sterritt
Amy Taubin
Michael Tortorello
Kenneth Turan
Armond White