Mira, Miles, Sticky Fingers
WNYC Pledge Drive Encore
Saturday, October 13, 2007
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“ We are people who live between places. We are people who look out our windows and not see the Hudson but see the Ganges.— filmmaker Mira Nair
We cross the oceans and back again. Director Mira Nair talks about making movies between two worlds –- Calcutta and New York. An Austrian designer raves about his favorite album cover of all time. And back home we look at an American classic: Miles Davis’s Kind of Blue -- perhaps the most recognizable, and the best-selling, jazz record ever.
Mira Nair
Director Mira Nair’s films take place all over the Indian diaspora –- from the rough city streets of Salaam Bombay to the American Deep South in Mississippi Masala. Her most recent film spans the distance from Calcutta to New York:
The ...
American Icons: Kind of Blue
Design for the Real World: Sticky Fingers
Stefan Sagmeister is an award-winning graphic designer who grew up in Austria and has designed album covers for the Rolling Stones and Talking Heads. When we asked him about his favorite album cover of all time, Sagmeister picked a notorious design by Andy Warhol: The Rolling Stones’
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