Guest List

Here are some of the people who have appeared on Center Stage with Mark Gordon.

Mark Adler — Focus, 2006
Marilyn Agrelo — Mad Hot Ballroom, 2006
Ayad Akhtar — The War Within, 2005
Sherman Alexie — Smoke Signals, 1998
Art Alexakis — Everclear, 2010
Jordan Allen — Kiss & Tell, 1996
Kevin Allen — Twin Town, 1997
Christian Alvart — Antibodies, 2006
David Amram — Manchurian Canidate, 2000
Karim Anuce — Madame Sata, 2002
Amy Arbus — The Fouth Wall, 2011
Deny Arcan — Les Invasions Barbares, 2003
Don Argott — Rock School, 2004
Gillian Armstrong — Oscar and Lucinda, 1997
Greg Araki — Nowhere, 1997
Greg Araki — The Doom Generation, 1995
Greg Araki — Splendor, 1999
Greg Araki — Mysterious Skin, 2004
Darren Aronofsky — Pi, 1998
Miguel Arteta — Star Maps, 1997
Bille August — Jerusalem, 1996
Daniel Auteuil — Le Huitieme Jour (The 8th Day), 1996
Jon Robin Baitz — Substance of Fire, 1996
Joel Bakan — The Corporation, 2000
Mark Bamford — Cape of Good Hope, 2004
Javier Bardem — Boca a Boca, 1995
Clive Barker — Lord of Illusions, 1995
Shirley Barrett — Love Serenade, 1996
Bruce Barrisford — Bride of the Wind, 2001
Willam Belli — Ticked off Trannies with Knives, 2010
Joshua Bennett — Kiss or Kill, 1997
Luca Bercovici — The Big Squeeze, 1996
Amy Berg — Deliver us from Evil, 2007
Peter Berg — Very Bad Things, 1998
Alain Berliner — Ma vie en rose (My Life in Pink), 1997
Joe Berlinger — Crude, 2010
Joe Berlinger — Metallica: Some Kind of Monster, 2004
Dean Bernal — Dolphins, 2000
Katharina Otto-Bernstein — Absolute Wilson, 2007
Mark Bernstein — World War II on the Air, 2000
Andy Bichlbaum — The Yes Men, 2004
Bruce Bickford — Monster Road, 2000
Doug Block — The Kids Grow Up, 2010
Christoffer Boe — Reconstruction, 2004
Mike Bonanno — The Yes Men, 2004
Jay Bonansinga — The Sinking of the Eastland, 2004
Mike Bonanno — The Yes Men, 2004
Mark Borchardt — American Movie, 1999
Elodie Bouchez — The Dream Life of Angels, 1998
Bob Bowdon — The Cartel, 2010
Danny Boyle — Trainspotting, 1996
Lara Flynn Boyle — The Big Squeese, 1996
Richard Bracewell — The Gigilos, 2005
Ray Bradbury — Zen in the Art of Writing, 1994
Reb Braddock — Curdled, 1996
Jim Broadbent — Iris, 2001
Adrian Brody — The Pianist, 2002
David Brown — Chocolat, 2000
Nathaniel Brown — Enter The Void, 2010
Christopher Browne — After the Cup, 2010
Tony Bui — Three Seasons, 1999
Mary Ann Smothers Bruni — Quest for Honor, 2010
Edward Burns — She’s the One, 1996
George Butler — The Endurance: Shackleton’s Legendary Antarctic Expedition, 2000
George Butler — Going Up River: The Long War of John Kerry, 2004
Joe Carnaham — Blood, Guts, Bullets and Octane, 1998
Justin Carrigon — Human Traffic, 1999
Gerald V. Casale — Devo, 2006
Susan Casey — The Devil’s Teeth, 2000
Frank Cavestani — Operation Last Patrol, 1997
Mariana Chenillo — Nora’s Will, 2010
Lisa Cholodenko — High Art, 1998
Gerald Clarke — Capote, 2006
Arthur Cohn — Il Giardino dei Finzi-Contini (The Garden of the Finzi-Contini, 1998
Isabel Coixet — My Life Without Me, 2004
Michael Colleary — Face/Off, 1997
Cathryn Collins — Vlast (Power), 2010
David Colvard — Family Affair, 2010
Tony Comes — Twist of Faith, 2005
Bill Condon — Gods and Monsters, 1997
Bill Condon — Chicago, 2003
T Authur Cottam — 52 Takes of the Same Thing, then Boobs, 2010
Allen Coulter — Hollywoodland, 2006
Paul Cox — Innocence, 2000
Emma Kate Craghan — Love and Other Castrophies, 1996
Emanuele Crialese — Respiro, 2002
James Cromwell — Babe, 1995
David Cronenberg — Crash, 1996
John Curran — Stone, 2010
Marshall Curry — Street Fight, 2006
Stephen Daldry — Billy Elliott, 2000
Jeff Danna — The Kid Stays in the Picture, 2002
Mychal Danna — Capote, 2006
Chris D’Arienzo — Barry Munday, 2010
Terence Davies — The House of Mirth, 2000
Dave Davidson — A Place out of Time: The Bordentown School, 2010
Don Davis — The Matrix, 1999
Hope Davis — The Daytrippers, 1996
Domikie Deddrer — Everybodies Famous, 2000
Raymond De Felitta — Two Family House, 2000
Marcus DeLeon — The Big Squeeze, 1996
Alexandre Desplat — The Girl with the Pearl Earring, 2003
Kirby Dick — Sick: The Life & Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist, 1997
Kirby Dick — Derrida, 2002
Kirby Dick — Twist of Faith, 2005
Micki Dickoff — Neshoba: The Price of Freedom, 2010
Bill Diffenderffer — The Samurai Leader, 2006
Peter Dobson — The Big Squeeze, 1996
Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck — The Lives of Others, 2007
Martin Donovan — The Opposite of Sex, 1996
Nick Doob — Al Franken: God Spoke, 2006
Steven Dorff — City of Industry, 1997
Drake Doremus — Douchbag, 2010
Andrew Douglas — Searching for the Wrong-eyed Jesus, 2006
Kelly Duda — Factor 8: The Arkansas Prison Blood Scandal, 2005
John Dullaghan — Bukowski: Born into This, 2005
Peter Duncan — Children of the Revolution, 1996
Arron Eckhart — In the Company of Men, 1997
Nash Edgerton — The Square, 2010
Atom Egoyan — The Sweet Hereafter, 1997
Eric Esson — Manito, 2002
Heidi Ewing — The Boys of Baraka, 2006
Caroleen Feeney — Bad Manners, 1997
Heino Ferch — Comedian Harmonists, 1997
Jeff Feuerzeig — The Devil and Daniel Johnston, 2006
Marc Forby — Princess Kaiulani, 2010
Eytan Fox — Walk on Water, 2005
Don Franken — Chamaco, 2010
Rhett Frazier — 2010
David T. Friendly — Big Momma’s House, 2000
Ben Fritz — All the President’s Spin, 2004
Keith Fulton — Brothers of the Head, 2006
Jordan Galland — Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead, 2010
Deborah Koons Garcia — The Future of Food, 2004
Éva Gárdos — An American Rhapsody, 2001
Leon Gast — When We Were Kings, 1996
Paul Giamani — American Splendor, 2003
Alex Gibney — Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer, 2010
Alex Gibney — Casino Jack and the United States of Money, 2010
Alex Gibney — Taxi to the Dark Side, 2007
Alex Gibney — Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, 2006
Philip Giffin — Boomtown, 2002
Rod Gilfrey — South Pacific, 2010
Alec Gillis — The Santa Clause, 2000
Brendon Gleeson — I Went Down, 1997
Josh Goldin — Wonderful World, 2010
Elliott Goldenthal — Freda, 2002
Rachel Grady — 12th and Delaware, 2010
Rachel Grady — The Boys of Baraka, 2006
Rupert Graves — Different for Girls, 1996
Michael Grecco — Naked Ambition An R-Rated Look At An X-Rated Industry, 2010
David Grizman — Grateful Dawg, 2000
Brian Gilbert — Wilde, 1997
François Girard — The Red Violin, 1998
Richard Glatzer — Quinceanera, 2006
Sandra Goldbacher — The Governess, 1998
Keith Gordon — Waking the Dead, 2000
Marlene Gorris — Antonia’s Line, 1995
Marlene Gorris — The Luzhin Defence, 2000
Marlene Gorris — Mrs Dalloway, 2000
Peter Greenaway — The Pillow Book, 1996
Paul Greengrass — Bloody Sunday, 2002
Davis Guggenheim — An Inconvenient Truth, 2006
Bence Gyöngyössy — Romani Kris, 1997
Philip Haas — Angels and Insects, 1995
Lee Hall — Billy Elliott, 2000
Laird Hamilton — Riding Giants, 2004
Lasse Hallström — Chocolat, 2000
Derek Hanson — A Chorus Line, 2010
Peter Hanson — Tales from the Script, 2010
Kirk Harris — Chamaco, 2010
Greg Harrison — Groove, 2000
Curtis Harrington — Night Tide, 1997
Mary Harron — I Shot Andy Warhol, 1996
Hal Hartley — Henry Fool, 1997
Jonathan Harvey — Beautiful Thing, 1996
Nigel Hawthorne — The Winslow Boy, 1999
David Heilbroner — Stonewall Uprising, 2010
Chris Hededus — Al Franken: God Spoke, 2006
Jonathan Hensleigh — The Punisher, 2004
Paul Hepker — Tsotsi, 2006
Yael Hersonski — A Film Unfinished, 2010
Scott Hicks — Shine, 1996
Scott Hicks — Hearts in Atlantis, 2001
Claire Brownell and Eric Hissom Alfred Hitchcock’s “The 39 Steps”
Eric Hissom — Alfred Hitchcock’s “The 39 Steps”, 2010
Jonathan Hock — Through the Fire, 2005
John Hodges — Trainspotting, 2000
Agnieska Holland — The Third Miricle, 1999
Agnieska Holland — Washington Square, 1997
James Newton Howard — Unbreakable, 2000
Bobby Houston — Rock the Boat, 1998
Peter Howitt — Sliding Doors, 2000
Bronwen Hughes — Stander, 2004
Holly Hunter — Crash, 1996
Davin Hutchins — The Art of Flight, 2005
Leon Ichasco — Bitter Sugar, 1996
Rick Ingraham — 2010
Brett Ingram — Monster Road, 2004
John Irvin — City of Industry, 1997
Mark Isham — Crash, 2006
Angela Ismailos — Great Directors, 2010
Dana Ivey — The Addams Family, 1991
Corey Allen Jackson — I Spit On Your Grave, 2010
Henry Jaglom — Déjà Vu, 1997
Famke Janssen — City of Industry, 1997
Andrew Jarecki — Capturing the Friedmans, 2004
Peter Jazwiniski — Act Now!, 2000
Angelica Jones — Curdled, 1996
Sheena M. Joyce — Rock School, 2004
Mathieu Kassovitz — La Haine, 1997
John Kastner — Life with Murder, 2010
Jonathan Kaufer — Bad Manners, 1997
Stephen T. Kay — The Last Time I committed Suicide, 1997
Catherine Keener — Beautiful Thing, 1996
Shannon Keith — Skin Trade, 2010
Aviva Kempner — Walking and Talking, 1996
Justin Kerrigan — Human Traffic, 1999
Lodge Kerrigan — Keane, 2004
Alex Kershaw — The Longest Winter, 2004
Mark Killian — La Mission, 2010
Mark Killian — Tsotsi, 2006
Ben Kingsley — Twelfth Night, 1996
Cédric Klapisch — When the Cat’s Away, 1996
Robert Knight — 1997Rock Prophecies, 2010
Amy Ziering Kofman — Derrida, 2002
Andrei Konchalovsky — The Nutcracker in 3D, 2010
Deborah Koons — The Future of Food, 2004
Harmony Korine — Julien Donkey Boy, 1999
Harmony Korine — Gummo, 1999
Harmony Korine — Trash Humpers, 2010
Ron Kovic — Operation Last Patrol, 2006
Alan Kozlowski — Travellers & Magicians, 2005
Lisa Krueger — Manny & Lo, 1996
Richard Kwietniowski — Owning Mahowny, 2003
Neil LaBute — In the Company of Men, 1997
Frederico Lapenda — Sequestro (Kidnapping), 2010
Dina LaPolt — 2010
Alan Lazar — Gangster’s Paradise: Jerusalema, 2010
Iara Lee — Synthetic Pleasures, 1995
Shawn Lee — Ping Pong Orchestra, 2010
Mike Leigh — Vera Drake, 2005
Ruth Leitman — Lipstick & Dynamite, Piss & Vinegar: The First Ladies of Wrestling, 2004
David Leland — The Land Girls, 1998
Chris Lemmon — A Twist of Lemmon, 2006
Sharon Letts — Behind the Curtain, 2010
Henry Leutwyler — Neverland Lost. A Portrait of Michael Jackson, 2010
Mark Levin — Protocols of Zion, 2005
Nick Long — Dead Country, 2010
James Longley — Iraq in Fragments, 2006
Israel Luna — Ticked off Trannies with Knives, 2010
Dana Lustig — Wedding Bell Blues, 1996
Hattie Macdonald — Beautiful Thing, 1996
Gillies MacKinnon — Small Faces, 1996
John Madden — Mrs. Brown, 1997
Joe Mantegna — Godfather III, 1990
Cliff Martinez — Traffic, 2000
Sean Mathias — Bent, 1997
Charles Matthau — The Grass Harp, 1995
David Mamet — The Winslow Boy, 1999
Henriette Mantel — An Unreasonable Man, 2007
Merav Michaeli — Killing Kasztner: The Jew Who Dealt With Nazis, 2010
Robert Moresco — Crash, 2005
Gustavo Graef-Marino — Johnny Cien Pesos, 1993
Ronnie Marmo — Lenny Bruce is Back, 2010
Robb Marshall — Chicago, 2002
Joshua Marston — Maria Full of Grace, 2004
Doug McGrath — Emma, 1996
Rick Mckay — Broadway: The Golden Age, 2003
Ray Mckinnon — Chrystal, 2005
Jordan Mechner — Chavez Ravine: A Los Angeles Story, 2005
Shane Meadow — A Room for Romeo Brass, 1999
Francis Megahy — The Best Government Money Can Buy, 2010
Dani Menkin — 39 Pounds of Love, 2005
E. Elias Merhige — Shadow of the Vampire, 2000
Eric Merola — Burzynski, 2010
Stephin Merritt — Strange Powers: Stephin Merritt and the Magneticv Fields, 2010
Heath Michaels — Yeardley, 2010)
Radu Mihaileanu — The Train of Life, 1998
Bennett Miller — Capote, 2005
Peter Miller — Jews and Baseball: An American Love Story, 2010
Anthony Minghella — The English Patient, 1996
Anthony Minghella — Cold Mountain, 2003
Jimi Mistry — East is East, 1999
James Moll — The Last Days, 1998
Sam Moore — Only the Strong Survive, 2002
Philippe Mora — Communion, 1989
Peter Morgan — The Queen, 2007
Catalina Sandino Morina — Maria Full of Grace, 2004
Errol Morris — Fast, Cheap & Out of Control, 1997
Errol Morris — The Fog of War, 2003
Robb Moss — The Same River Twice, 2003
Greg Mottola — The Daytrippers, 1996
Dominik Mull — With A Friend Like Harry, 2000
Michael M. Murphy — Gravitas Ventures, 2010
Michael Scott Myers — The Whole Wide World, 1996
Daniel Myrick — The Blair Witch Project, 1999
Gregory Nava — Selina, 1998
Casey Neistat — 2010
Van Neistat — 2010
Greg Noll — Riding Giants, 2004
Nora-Jane Noone — The Magdalene Sisters, 2002
Duncan North — The Tao of Steve, 2000
Jonathan Nossiter — Sunday, 1997
Phillip Noyce — Catch A Fire, 2007
Danny Nucci — The Big Squeeze, 1996
Trevor Nunn — Twelfth Night, 1996
Roger Nygard — The Nature of Existence, 2010
Sandra Oh — Last Night, 1998
Michèle Ohayon — Colors Straight Up, 1997
Josh Olston — A History of Violence, 2005
John Ottman — X2, 2003
Chris Paine — Who Killed the Electric Car?, 2006
Gwyneth Paltrow — Emma, 1996
Molly Parker — Kissed, 1996
Matthew Parkhill — Dot the I, 2003
Goran Paskaljevic — Someone Else’s America, 1995
Harvey Pekar — American Splendor, 2003
Danny Pelfrey — American Dreams, 2002
Louis Pepe — Brothers of the Head, 2006
Stacy Peralta — Riding Giants, 2004
Manny Perez — Washington Heights, 2002
Nicholas Perry — The Hunting of the President, 2004
Mary Kay Place — Manny & Lo, 1996
The Polish Brothers — Northfork, 2003
The Polish Brothers — Jackpot, 2001
Laura Poitras — The Oath, 2010
Gavin Poolman — Festival Express, 2004
Sally Potter — The Tango Lesson, 1997
Jean-François Pouliot — Seducing Doctor Lewis, 2004
Daniel Pyne — The Manchurian Candidate, 2004
Daniel Raim — Something’s Gonna Live, 2010
Peter Raymont — Shake Hands with the Devil, 2005
Iqbal Rashid — Touch of Pink, 2004
Kimberly Reed — Prodigal Sons, 2010
Matt Reeves — Let Me In, 2010
Jeff Reichert — Gerrymandering, 2010
Adam Reid — Hello Lonesome, 2010
John C. Reilly — Hard Eight, 1996
Pierre-Paul Renders — Thomas est Amoureux (Thomas in Love), 2000
Danielle Renfrew — Groove, 2004
Adam Rifkin — Night at the Golden Eagle, 2002
Rebecca Riker — A Chorus Line, 2010
Guy Ritchie — Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, 1998
Paul Roberts — The End of Oil, 2004
John Rosengren — Blades of Glory, 2004
Marc Rothemund — Sophie Scholl: The Final Days, 2006
Saul Rubinek — Bad Manners, 1997
Paul Rudnick — Jeffrey, 2000
Allan Rudolph — Afterglow, 1997
Henry Alex Rubin — Murderball, 2006
Stefan Ruzowitzky — The Inheritors, 1998
Gregory Ruzzin — Blue Skies Are A Lie, 1995
Ira Sachs — Forty Shades of Blue, 2006
Madeleine Sackler — The Lottery, 2010
Vik Sahay — Chuck, 2010
Walter Salles — Central Station, 1998
Yann Samuell — Love Me If You Dare, 2004
Chris Sanders — Lilo & Stitch, 2002
Jessica Sanders — After Innocence, 2006
Jan Sardi — Shine, 1996
Hubert Sauber — Darwin’s Nightmare, 2006
Jon Schieszer — 2010
Lone Scherfig — Italian for Beginners, 2000
Rick Schmidlin — Touch of Evil, 1998
Louis Schwartzberg — America’s Heart and Soul, 2004
Joel Schumacher — Twelve, 2010
Ridley Scott — Black Hawk Down, 2002
Dana Adam Shapiro — Murderball, 2006
Martin Sherman — Bent, 1997
Fiona Shaw — The Last September, 1999
Jon Shear — Urbania, 2000
Harry Shearer — Teddy Bears’ Picnic, 2002
Bartlett Sher — South Pacific, 2010
Joe Simpson — Touching the Void, 2004
Harry Sinclair — The Price of Milk, 2000
Bruce Sinofsky — Metallica: Some Kind of Monster, 2004
David Sirota — Hostile Takeover, 2006
Susan Skoog — Whatever, 1998
Steve Skrovan — An Unreasonable Man, 2007
Ebbe Roe Smith — Falling Down, 2000
Carrie Snodgrass — Diary of a Mad Housewife, 1997
Todd Solondz — Welcome to the Dollhouse, 1995
Richard Sparks — Getting Lucky: The Education of a Mad Poker Player, 2006
Jill Specker — Thirteen Conversations About One Thing, 2001
Odette Springer — Some Nudity Required, 1998
Imelda Staunton — Vera Drake, 2005
Darren Stein — Sparkler, 1997
Ben Steinbauer — Winnebago Man, 2010
Josh Sternfeld — Winter Solstice, 2005
Sting — Kate & Leopold, 2000
Lynne Stopkewich — Kissed, 1996
Jordan Susman — The Anarchist Cookbook, 2002
John Swanbeck — The Big Kahuna, 1999
Russ Tamblyn — West Side Story, 1997
Daniel Taplitz — Commandments, 1997
Finn Taylor — Dream with the Fishes, 1997
Quentin Terrantino — Iron Monkey, 1993
Harry Thomason — The Hunting of the President, 2004
Linda Bloodworth Thomason — Liberating Paris, 2004
Benicio Del Toro — The Funeral, 1996
John Trudell — Trudell, 2006
Anand Tucker — Hilary and Jackie, 1998
Deborah Kara Unger — Crash, 1996
Brenda Vaccaro — Midnight Cowboy, 1996
James l. Venable — The Powepuff Girls, 2002
Thomas Vinterberg — Festen, 1998
Tony Vitale — Kiss Me, Guido, 1997
Aleksandra Vujcic — Broken English, 2000
Andrucha Waddington — Eu Tu Eles, 2000
Wong Kar Wai — Happy Together, 1997
John Walsh — Ed’s Next Move, 1996
Lucy Walker — Blindsight, 2006
Lucy Walker — Countdown to Zero, 2010
Wayne Wang — Chinese Box, 1997
Régis Wargnier — Est – Ouest, 1999
Deborah Warner — The Last September, 1999
John Waters — Pink Flamingos, 1998
Mark S. Waters — The House of Yes, 1997
Zhao Wei — So Close, 2002
Robert B. Weide — Lenny Bruce: Swear to Tell the Truth, 1998
Mike Werb — Face/Off, 1997
Wash Westmoreland — Quinceanera, 2006
Haskell Wexler — Who Needs Sleep, 2006
Mark Wexler — Tell Them Who You Are, 2004
Frank Whaley — Joe the King, 1999
Diz White — Haunted Cotswolds, 1997
John Wilcockson — 23 Days in July, 2004
Frederick Wiseman — Boxing Gym, 2010
Heather Woodbury — Tale of 2Cities, 2006
Stephen Woolley — Stoned, 2006
Chuck Workman — The Source, 1999
Michael Wranovics — Up for Grabs, 2005
Doug Wright — Quills, 2000
Alex Wurman — March of the Penguins, 2006
Alex Wurman — Thirteen Conversations about One Thing, 2001
Peter Yates — Don Quixote, 2000
Donny Yen — Iron Monkey, 1993
Christopher Young — Wonder Boys, 2000
Erin Faith Young — Music from the Big House, 2010
Lance Young — Bliss, 1997
Robert M. Young — Caught, 1996
Corey Yung — So Close, 2002
Saul Zaentz — The English Patient, 1996
David Zeiger — Sir! No Sir!, 2006
Leslie Zemeckis — Behind the Burley Q, 2010
Ralph Ziman — Gangster’s Paradise: Jerusalema, 2010
Hans Zimmer — Gladator, 2000
Howard Zinn — Voices of a People’s History, 2004
Howard Zinn — Just War, 2006
Mark Zupan — Murderball, 2006
Marcos Zurinaga — The Disappearance of Garcia Lorca, 1997