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Tommy Lee JonesDecember 12, 2005
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Melvin + Mario Van PeeblesMay 8, 2004
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Conrad HallSeptember 28, 2002
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Mira NairAugust 29, 2004
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Brad BirdJanuary 9, 2005
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Francis Ford CoppolaOctober 21, 2003
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Forest Whitaker, Kevin Macdonald + James McAvoySeptember 17, 2006
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Terry GilliamOctober 2, 2006
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Donald RichieOctober 21, 2006
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Considering Horror PanelJune 17, 2007
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Sarah PolleyApril 27, 2007
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Michael MooreJune 28, 2007
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Matthew ModineJune 17, 2006
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D. A. PennebakerFebruary 4, 2007
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Albert MayslesJanuary 20, 2007
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Michael PowellAugust 13, 1989
Mira Nair August 29, 2004
The immigrant's sense of dislocation resonates in the films of Mira Nair, who often focuses on different permutations of the outsider—Bombay street urchins in Salaam Bombay!, Cuban immigrants in The Perez Family, a sixteenth-century Indian servant girl in Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love—and their disconnection from the social order around them. Nair's films often focus on complex female characters, and examine the complications that arise from the intermingling of ethnicities, traditions, and classes. In this talk, Nair discusses the examination of sociopolitical exclusion in her past work and in her adaptation of William Thackeray's Vanity Fair.
