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James Marsh (The Theory of Everything) Talks with Laura Poitras (CITIZENFOUR) for The Talkhouse Film Podcast

Marsh and Poitras, two of the most brilliant non-fiction filmmakers of their generation, discuss the latter's incendiary Edward Snowden documentary.

2:00 AM EDT on October 31, 2014

On this week's episode of the Talkhouse Film podcast, James Marsh — the Oscar-winning director of Man on Wire and a regular Talkhouse Film contributor — sits down with Laura Poitras to discuss her gripping and revelatory Edward Snowden doc, CITIZENFOUR. For more filmmakers talking film and TV, visit Talkhouse Film at talkhouse.com/film.

The music featured in the podcast is as follows:
1. Intro / outro underscore: “Plastic Man vs. The Giant Red Phase Of The Sun” – Iced Ink
2. "Ghosts I"– Nine Inch Nails (from CITIZENFOUR)
3. "Ghosts III"– Nine Inch Nails (from CITIZENFOUR)

Episode engineered and edited by Elia Einhorn

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