Foster Hirsch Defends 1950s Hollywood
In an interview with John Bredlin of The Public Voice Salon Foster Hirsch delivers a passionate defense against the orthodox view that fifties movies were boring and conventional and reveals how the decade produced timeless works of cinematic art. By capturing the tension churning beneath the surface of suburban white picket fence land, with its intense political and psychological conflicts, Hirsch believes Hollywood created filmic masterpieces that remain relevant today.
Studio System, Stars, and Scandals: The 1950s with Foster Hirsch – The Interlocutor Podcast Ep. 51
Foster Hirsch with Tyrel Cameron Eskelson on 1950s cinema, the studio system, the Paramount Decree, the Hollywood Blacklist, Cinerama, and more — aiming to provide a comprehensive understanding of this pivotal time in film history.
Finding Elvis
Foster Hirsch on FOX 5 NY as film specialist on the recently discovered footage of Elvis Presley filming a new ending to LOVE ME TENDER (1956)
The Victoria Wilson – Foster Hirsch podcast
Legendary senior editor, vice president of Alfred Knopf, consulting editor, and author of A Life of Barbara Stanwyck: Steel-True 1907-1940 teams up with Foster in a podcast series about books and movies, including THE STEEL TRAP, PICNIC, ALL THAT HEAVVEN ALLOWS, THE SEARCHERS, STELLA DALLAS, THE WOMAN ON THE BEACH and THE RIVER. Six episodes are now available on YouTube.
A Method to Their Madness
Foster Hirsch discusses the Group Theater, the Actors Studio, what became known as “the Method” and its influence on stage and film.
Foster Hirsch with Harry Belafonte
Harry Belafonte talks with Foster Hirsch at the screening of Odds against Tomorrow at the Music Box Theatre for NOIR CITY: Chicago in 2009. Belafonte talks about the film, Robert Wise, Abraham Polonsky, and The Blacklist.
Foster Hirsch with Farley Granger
Actor Farley Granger talks with Foster Hirsch about fellow actor Robert Walker following a screening of Alfred Hitchcock’s Strangers on a Train. Filmed on October 25, 2008 at the AFI Silver Theatre in Silver Spring, Maryland for NOIR CITY: DC.
Foster Hirsch with Patty McCormack
Foster Hirsch interviews Patty McCormack following the sold-out screening of The Bad Seed at New York City’s Film Forum on December 12, 2021.
Foster Hirsch with Victoria Wilson
Following a screening of Sorry, Wrong Number, Victoria Wilson, author of A Life of Barbara Stanwyck: Steel-True 1907-1940, talks with Foster Hirsch about Stanwyck’s not needing to be loved; what drew Stanwyck to noir; her appearance; why her acting stays vital. Recorded December 9, 2014. (Part 1 of 3)
Foster Hirsch with Stathis Giallelis
Actor Stathis Giallelis talks with Foster Hirsch about The Rehearsal (1974), Jules Dassin’s rarest and most politically charged work “a rehearsal for freedom” screened at San Francisco’s Roxie Theatre on March 22, 2015.
Foster Hirsch with Jerry Carlson
Host, Jerry Carlson, professor of film studies at CCNY, discusses The Hitch-Hiker with Foster Hirsch, film professor at Brooklyn College. Hirsch and Carlson examine the film’s plot and visual style, as well as its director Ida Lupino. Recorded in 2010.