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Om PuriAugust 3, 2014
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Brendan Gleeson + John Michael McDonaghJuly 27, 2014
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David ChaseApril 30, 2014
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Jake Gyllenhaal, Melissa Leo, Denis Villeneuve, + Aaron GuzikowskiNovember 24, 2013
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Wong Kar-waiAugust 11, 2013
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Harmony KorineMarch 12, 2013
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Making Roots, Making TV HistoryFebruary 4, 2013
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Paul WilliamsJanuary 25, 2013
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Rachel WeiszJanuary 8, 2013
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Tony Kushner + Harold HolzerDecember 18, 2012
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Ava DuVernayNovember 27, 2012
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Todd Haynes, Sandy Powell, + Mark FriedbergJune 14, 2012
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Joan Ganz CooneyMay 2, 2012
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Agnieszka HollandJanuary 16, 2012
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Nekisa CooperDecember 17, 2011
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Alex Ross PerryDecember 8, 2011
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.