Film 'Conversations With History': Stanley Cavell, Oliver Stone, Robert Wise, and others

Stanley Cavell, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Harvard University, joins UC Berkeley's Harry Kreisler to talk about his life as a philosopher and his passion for movies as part of Kreisler's Conversations with History series.

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Today, Film Studies For Free is thrilled to bring you links to the great videos and transcripts of interviews with filmmakers and filmthinkers that form part of UC Berkeley's Conversations with History series. All the videos last roughly an hour, so these are rich resources indeed. The full film-related index is HERE.

• Stanley Cavell; Walter M. Cabot Professor of Aesthetics and the General Theory of Value, Emeritus; Harvard: "A Philosopher Goes to the Movies," 2/7/02 video link here
  
• Shima Iwashita, actress: "The Movie Experience," 2/27/99
  
• Ken Jacobs, Film Artist: "Film and the Creation of Mind," 10/14/99 video link here
  
• Nathaniel Rich, Associate Editor, Paris Review: "San Francisco in Film Noir," 6/23/05 video link here
  
• Donald Richie, writer and film critic: "Writing, Film, and Japan: An Expatriate's View," 9/21/01
  
• Masahiro Shinoda, film director: "The Movie Experience," 2/27/99
  
• Oliver Stone, Filmmaker: "History and the Movies," 4/17/97 and 6/27/97 video link here
  
• Robert Wise, Filmmaker: "The Wise Touch," 2/28/98

See also Harry Kreisler's Conversations with History Blog for further updates about this series.