Friday January 20, 1 - 2 pm: Midday on Film -- China, Sundance, Documentaries, the Oscars, 'Dangerous Method' and "Incredibly Close'

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Midday 01.20.2012 2nd HOUR On the Film.mp3

It's Midday on Film with Linda DeLibero, director of film and media studies at the Johns Hopkins University. Today, Linda takes us to China for a look at the challenges that independent filmmakers, including documentarians, face in westernized Communism. Meanwhile, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has created a new challenge for filmmakers here: It announced that only documentaries reviewed by The Los Angeles Times or The New York Times will be eligible for Oscar nominations. Dan asks Linda if that new rule is as dumb as it sounds.

Another Sundance Film Festival has commenced -- the 34th -- and, as she prepares to head there, Dan will speak to Linda about Sundance's influence on film-making.

And the current cinema: Linda reviews of "Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close," with Tom Hanks, set in the grief-stricken aftermath of 9/11; and "A Dangerous Method," about Freud, Jung and the birth of psychoanalysis.