Summary: DownloadGet it on iTunes {pb_mediael audio_mp3=[http://d343ypnmzkqpnf.cloudfront.net/filmwax/1311-filmwax.mp3] } Host Kristin McCracken with another dispatch from this year's Sundance Film Festival. In this show, Kristin interviews filmmkaer Zachary Heinzerling, whose new film CUTIE AND THE BOXER premiered at the festival. CUTIE AND THE BOXER is an intimate documentary chronicling a unique New York love story between two immigrant Japanese artists. Ushio and Noriko Shinohara met and married in New York City in the late 1960’s and have lived and worked there together ever since. The film is a moving portrait of a couple wrestling with the universal themes of sacrifice, disappointment, aging, and love against the background of lives dedicated to art. Through candid scenes we come to understand that the stark differences in the Shinoharas’ art and personalities are the basis for a deep and challenging symbiosis that has kept the couple together for nearly 40 years. The film shifts back and forth between present-day verite footage of their life in Brooklyn and a stylized version of the past, blending archival material and the artists’ own illustrations, blurring the lines between life and art. HOST: After abandoning a career in higher education, Kristin McCracken realized that writing about movies all day long was way more fun. Until recently, she was the Vice President of Digital Media at TribecaFilm.com. She now writes about film and consults with filmmakers about social media. Her most recent book is entitled 101 Things to Do Before You Turn 40.
