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  Simon Wincer “The Cup”

  April 21, 2012 / Directors, Featured

  Tune in Tuesday, May 8th, 2012 at 7PM (PST) as KXLU Los Angeles proudly presents Center Stage with Mark Gordon featuring special guest filmmaker Simon Wincer. His latest film THE CUP is a gripping and inspiring true story about brotherly love and the triumph of the human spirit. Born into a legendary racing family, jockeys Damien Oliver (STEPHEN CURRY) and his brother, Jason (DANIEL MACPHERSON), were destined for greatness. However, tragedy strikes when Jason is in a deathly riding accident [...]

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  Bess Kargman “First Position”

  April 21, 2012 / Dance, Directors, Documentary, Featured

  Tune in Tuesday, May 8th, 2012 at 7PM (PST) as KXLU Los Angeles proudly presents Center Stage with Mark Gordon featuring special guest filmmaker Bess Kargman, director of “First Position.” Follow in the inspirational footsteps of six talented ballet dancers (ages nine to nineteen) as they struggle to maintain form in the face of injury and personal sacrifice on their way to one of the most prestigious youth ballet competitions in the world. First Position is a feature length documentary [...]

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  P. David Ebersole & Patty Schemel HIT SO HARD: “The Life and Near-Death Story of Drummer Patty Schemel”

  April 14, 2012 / Directors, Documentary, Featured, Music, Musicians, Punk

  Tune in Tuesday, April 17, 2012 at 7PM (PST) as KXLU Los Angeles proudly presents Center Stage with Mark Gordon featuring special guests P. David Ebersole & Patty Schemel. They will be talking about the new film HIT SO HARD: “The Life and Near-Death Story of Drummer Patty Schemel.”  The film is a behind-the scenes portrait of what has been dubbed the unlucky 13th Generation, told through one woman’s amazing journey. In HIT SO HARD we follow the rise and [...]

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  Michael Tucker “Fightville”

  April 9, 2012 / Directors, Documentary, Featured

  Tune in Tuesday, April 17, 2012 at 7PM (PST) as KXLU Los Angeles proudly presents Center Stage with Mark Gordon featuring special guest Michael Tucker. He will be talking about making the film “Fightville.” Over the last decade, Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) has grown from a controversial no-holds-barred gladiatorial sideshow into a billion dollar phenomenon. MMA has eclipsed boxing as the dominant combat sport in the world, and is so popular that MMA fights regularly appear on U.S. network television [...]

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  Leon Gast “When We Were Kings”

  April 7, 2012 / Directors, Documentary, Featured

  Tune in Tuesday, April 3, 2012 at 7PM (PST) as KXLU Los Angeles proudly presents Center Stage with Mark Gordon featuring an interview with Leon Gast. He will be talking about making the film WHEN WE WERE KINGS. The interview was originally recorded in 1996 just weeks prior to Gast receiving the Oscar for “Best Documentary.” The film has been called one of the best boxing documentaries of all time. Its main focus is “Rumble in The Jungle.” A fight [...]

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  Steven Ascher and Jeanne Jordan “Raising Renee”

  February 21, 2012 / Directors, Documentary, Featured

  Tune in Tuesday, February 21, at 7PM (PST), as KXLU Los Angeles proudly presents Center Stage with Mark Gordon featuring special guests Steven Ascher and Jeanne Jordan the creative people behind the documentary RAISING RENEE. A promise is a promise.  But what if your career takes off right when your life takes over? Artist Beverly McIver was enjoying a skyrocketing career as a painter when a casual yet life-changing promise made to her mother Ethel years before – to take [...]

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  Terje Carlsson ISRAEL VS. ISRAEL

  February 20, 2012 / Directors, Documentary, Featured, Political

  Tune in Tuesday, February 21, at 7PM (PST), as KXLU Los Angeles proudly presents Center Stage with Mark Gordon featuring special guests Terje Carlsson the director of ISRAEL VS ISRAEL, A Film About Israeli Peace Activists. Terje Carlsson is a freelance journalist.  He has spent almost a decade covering the Middle East for the news media including Swedish Television and Radio.  He had thought about making a movie about Israel peace activists.  Carlsson felt their work was very important, and [...]

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  David Pomes “Cook County”

  December 12, 2011 / Directors, Featured

  Tune in Tuesday, December 13, at 7PM (PST), as KXLU Los Angeles proudly presents Center Stage with Mark Gordon featuring special guest David Pomes.  He will be talking about making COOK COUNTY.  The film follows three generations of meth addicts living in the piney woods of East Texas. Xander Berkeley, Anson Mount, and Ryan Donowho explode on the screen in this visceral tale about three generations of meth addicts living in the piney woods of East Texas. Living in a [...]

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  Alex Stapleton “Corman’s World: Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel”

  December 12, 2011 / Directors, Documentary, Featured

  Tune in Tuesday, December 13, at 7PM (PST), as KXLU Los Angeles proudly presents Center Stage with Mark Gordon featuring special guest Alex Stapleton the director of CORMAN’S WORLD: EXPLOITS OF A HOLLYWOOD REBEL.  The film is a tantalizing and star-studded tribute to Roger Corman, Hollywood’s most prolific writer-director producer, and seminal influencing force in modern movie making over the last 60 years. CORMAN’S WORLD: EXPLOITS OF A HOLLYWOOD REBEL is a tantalizing and star-studded tribute to Roger Corman, Hollywood’s [...]

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  Andrea Nevins “The Other F Word”

  October 6, 2011 / Directors, Featured, Musicians

  Tune in Tuesday, November 1st at 7PM (PST), as KXLU Los Angeles, 88.9 FM presents Center Stage with Mark Gordon featuring Andrea Nevins the director of “The Other F Word.” This revealing and touching film asks what happens when a generation’s ultimate anti-authoritarians — punk rockers — become society’s ultimate authorities — dads. With a large chorus of punk rock’s leading men – Blink-182′s Mark Hoppus, Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Flea, Rise Against’s Tim McIlrath – THE OTHER F WORD [...]

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  Lavinia Currier “OKA!”

  October 6, 2011 / Directors, Featured

  Tune in Tuesday, October 25th as KXLU Los Angeles, 88.9 FM presents Center Stage with Mark Gordon featuring Lavinia Currier the director of OKA! Based on the memoir by Louis Sarno (“Last Thoughts Before Vanishing from the Face of the Earth”), OKA! is a fish-out-of-water tale of a ethnomusicologist from New Jersey who finds himself immersed in the colorful lives ofthe Bayake pygmies.Based on the memoir by ethnomusicologist Louis Sarno, who has lived with the pygmies for over 20 years, OKA! [...]

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  Aaron Schock “Circo”

  September 18, 2011 / Directors, Documentary, Featured

  Tune in Tuesday, September 20th as KXLU Los Angeles, 88.9 FM presents Center Stage with Mark Gordon featuring Aaron Schock the director of “Circo.” Aaron Schock’s acclaimed film, which has appeared at many world festivals and is the most recent winner of the Jury Award at the Hampton’s International Film Festival, is one of the most compelling documentaries seen in years. Set in the cinematically rich milieu of a century-old traveling circus in rural Mexico, CIRCO follows the family-run “Circo [...]

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  Deborah Koons Garcia “The Future of Food”

  September 13, 2011 / Directors, Documentary

  Deborah Koons Garcia will be talking about her documentary THE FUTURE OF FOOD. The film offers an in-depth investigation into the disturbing truth behind the unlabeled, patented, genetically engineered foods that have quietly filled U.S. grocery store shelves for the past decade. Tune in Tuesday, September 13, 2011 at 7:00 PM (PST) on Center Stage with Mark Gordon. Listen “live” on 88.9 FM and at www.kxlu.com Genetic engineering of food crops is as controversial today as ever, as many of [...]

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  Katie Galloway & Kelly Duane de la Vega “Better This World”

  September 5, 2011 / Directors, Documentary, Featured

  Katie Galloway and Kelly Duane de la Vega’s BETTER THIS WORLD tells a provocative and cautionary story about the shifting fault lines of civil liberties, protest and government vigilance. Tuesday, September 6, 2011 at 7:00 PM (PST) on Center Stage with Mark Gordon. Listen “live” on 88.9 FM and at www.kxlu.com Better This World tells a provocative and cautionary story about the shifting fault lines of civil liberties, protest and government vigilance. Two boyhood friends from the heart of Texas, [...]

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  Doug Pray “Art & Copy

  September 5, 2011 / Directors, Documentary, Featured

  Doug Pray will be talking about his film ART & COPY, which looks at the world advertising and inspiration. Tuesday, September 6, 2011 at 7:00 PM (PST) on Center Stage with Mark Gordon. Listen “live” on 88.9 FM and at www.kxlu.com ART & COPY is a powerful film about advertising and inspiration. Directed by Doug Pray (SURFWISE, SCRATCH, HYPE!), it reveals the work and wisdom of some of the most influential advertising creatives of our time — people who’ve profoundly [...]

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  The Polish Brothers “For Lovers Only”

  August 24, 2011 / Directors, Featured

  The Polish Brothers came Center Stage with Mark Gordon to discuss their latest film “For Lovers Only.” The film is a beautiful and intimate love story about a couple who meets up in Paris and lives “in” the moment. Will the romance last or will reality set in and leave the lovers to pine over love lost. Beautifully shot in and around Paris.

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  Mike Galinsky & Suki Hawley “Battle for Brooklyn”

  August 23, 2011 / Architecture, Directors, Documentary, Featured

  Mike Galinsky and Suki Hawley discuss their film BATTLE FOR BROOKLYN, which looks at eminent domain and the impact it can have on a community. Tuesday, August 23, 2011 at 7:00 PM (PST) on Center Stage with Mark Gordon. Listen “live” on 88.9 FM and at www.kxlu.com In the 1950′s the Dodgers left Brooklyn for Los Angeles where they’d eventually play in their new stadium built on the remains of Chavez Ravine, a community destroyed by eminent domain after it [...]

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  Vivi Friedman “The Family Tree”

  August 23, 2011 / Directors, Featured

  Vivi Friedman shares her thoughts on making the film THE FAMILY TREE, a comedy about guns, God and a dysfunctional family in suburban Ohio. Tuesday, August 23, 2011 at 7:00 PM (PST) on Center Stage with Mark Gordon. Listen “live” on 88.9 FM and at www.kxlu.com Life in suburban Serenity, Ohio is never quite as serene as it appears. The dysfunctional Burnett family – Bunnie (Hope Davis), Jack (Dermot Mulroney) and their twin 17 year olds Eric (Max Thieriot) and [...]

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