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    Press Play with Madeleine Brand

    Oliver Stone still wants to 'outrage people, wake them up'

    The new film “Snowden,” which stars Joseph Gordon Levitt as NSA leaker Edward Snowden, is out Friday . To coincide with the premiere, as well as filmmaker Oliver Stone’s seventieth birthday, TV and film critic Matt Zoller Seitz has put out a 480-page coffee-table book on Oliver Stone.

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    By Madeleine Brand • Sep 14, 2016 • 1 min read

    The new film “Snowden,” which stars Joseph Gordon Levitt as NSA leaker Edward Snowden, is out Friday. To coincide with the premiere, as well as filmmaker Oliver Stone’s seventieth birthday, TV and film critic Matt Zoller Seitz has put out a 480-page coffee-table book on Oliver Stone. The book is based on 100 hours of interviews, and it includes parts of Stone’s screenplays, storyboards, personal photos and correspondence. The title is “The Oliver Stone Experience,” and Zoller Seitz joins Press Play to talk about how, after four decades making films, Oliver Stone still wants to “outrage people, wake them up.”

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      Madeleine Brand

      Host, 'Press Play'

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      Matt Holzman

      Producer, 'The Document'

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      Anna Scott

      Former KCRW Housing and Homelessness Reporter

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      Jolie Myers

      Managing Producer, 'Press Play'

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      Matt Zoller Seitz

      editor at large of RogerEbert.com; writer for New York Magazine; co-author of the book “The Sopranos Sessions”

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    The full episode

    4 of 4
    Investigation finds Trump's business ties could harm US security
    1. 0:31Could Trump's foreign business ties harm US national security?
    2. 12:16Why has LA resettled only 136 Syrian refugees?
    3. 19:56Tesla’s 'ingenious' autopilot software update
    4. 28:29Oliver Stone still wants to 'outrage people, wake them up'You’re reading this
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