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Center Stage

Welcome to Center Stage, a weekly radio show that looks at film and the people who make it happen in front of the camera as well as behind the scenes.

Each week, Center Stage features interviews with some of the most innovative and creative people working in film. Tune in Tuesdays at 7PM (PST) to KXLU Los Angeles, 88.9 FM to hear actors, writers, producers, composers and directors talking about the craft of cinema.

Michael Shellenberger talks about PANDORA’S PROMISE

PANDORA’S PROMISE film poster

Tune in Tuesday, June 11, 2013 as KXLU Los Angeles, 88.9 proudly presents Center Stage with Mark Gordon, featuring special guest Michael Shellenberger, a leading global thinker on energy, climate, security, human development, and politics is feature in the new film PANDORA’S PROMISE. The atomic bomb and meltdowns like Fukushima have made nuclear power synonymous with global disaster. But what

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Anthony Arnove talks about the Film “Dirty Wars”

Dirty Wars movie poster

Tune in June 4th as KXLU Los Angeles proudly presents Center Stage with Mark Gordon featuring special guest Anthony Arnove.  He with be talking the powerful documentary “Dirty Wars.” The film won the Cintematography Prize at Sundance. Variety says it is “astonishingly hard-hitting” and adds: “This jaw-dropping, persuasively researched pic has the power to pry open government lockboxes.” “Dirty Wars”

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Will Bates FALL ON YOUR SWORD coming Center Stage with Mark Gordon

We Steal Secrets the Story of Wikileaks Movie Poster

Will Bates founder “FALL ON YOUR SWORD” will be appearing Center Stage with Mark Gordon to talk about creating the soundtrack for Alex Gibney latest documentary WE STEAL SECRETS: THE STORY OF WIKILEAKS. Tune in Tuesday, May 21, 2013 as KXLU Los Angeles proudly present Center Stage with Mark Gordon featuring special Guest Will Bates FALL ON YOUR SWORD.  During

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VANISHING WAVES

A bold, visionary work of science fiction cinema that recalls the genre in its cerebral 1960s and ’70s golden age, just as it simultaneously forges new territory with its unique fusion of emotional melodrama and hallucinatory widescreen spectacle,Vanishing Waves is one of the most accomplished and distinctive European films in recent memory. The second solo feature from Lithuanian director Kristina Buozyte, following

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THE INVISIBLE WAR

The Invisible War Film Poster

Nominated for an Academy Award® in the Best Documentary Feature category, THE INVISIBLE WAR is an investigation into one of the American military’s best kept secrets: the widespread epidemic of rape. As the film illustrates, a female soldier in a combat zone is more likely to be raped than killed by enemy fire; in fact, twenty percent of all U.S. servicewomen have

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