Jonathan Mitchell

In the movies, a single cut can jump several decades. Bullets stop and linger onscreen. What do those leaps in cinematic time reveal about our own, daily experience? Three film critics dissect how directors have twisted time in recent movies.

Why does revenge show up so much in kids books? Critic Leonard Marcus and Valerie Lewis, the owner of a children’s bookstore in San Jose, explain.

The filmmaker Jay Rosenblatt has earned a strong critical reputation for his films Human Remains and The Smell of Burning Ants. But not many outside the art film world know who he is.

Thane Rosenbaum's new novel The Golems of Gotham follows Oliver Levin, a mystery writer who's suddenly experiencing writers block, but who has always been emotionally blocked by the most profound mystery of his life. The character's parents survived the Holocaust, then committed suicide when Oliver was a young man. 

Architecture critic Philip Nobel looks a recently constructed jail in Marin County, California, where flights of architectural fancy and a can-do practicality each play a role. 

Usually federal agents chase down stolen art. But on the third floor of the Los Angeles Police Department, Detective Don Hrycyk heads up the country’s only municipal art theft detail.

You probably don’t know the name Nancy Thurston, but you know the people she’s pretended to be…while jumping off buildings.

(Originally aired: September 1, 2001)

Randy Cordero's tribute band — "Surreal Neil" and Superdiamond — will turn on your heart light with their covers of the hit tunes of Neil Diamond.

(Originally aired: August 4, 2001)

Michael Chabon, the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, tells us how comics reveal unintended things about their creators.

Artist Andra McCartney tries to capture the sounds that reveal, if only to your subconscious, where you are.

Producer Jonathan Mitchell goes behind the scenes with Phil Tippet, who designs alien creatures for Hollywood filmmakers. 

The feature which earned the top prize at Showtime's 2000 Alternative Media Festival last winter wasn’t a typical student film. To shoot their movie, the directors exploited the graphic engine of the popular videogame Quake. 

Architecture critic Philip Nobel looks at a recently-constructed jail in Marin County, California, where flights of architectural fancy and a can-do practicality each play a role.

You probably don’t know the name Nancy Thurston, but you know the people she’s pretended to be…while jumping off buildings.

In the spring of 1942, Chiura Obata, an art professor at the University of California at Berkeley, and his family were among the thousands of Japanese Americans relocated to internment camps. Obata's granddaughter, Kimi Kodani Hill, and Timothy Burgard, a curator at the DeYoung Museum in San Francisco, tell the ...

Randy Cordero's tribute band — "Surreal Neil" and Superdiamond — will turn on your heart light with their covers of the hit tunes of Neil Diamond.

Studio 360's Jonathan Mitchell crafts a sound collage of acceptance speeches.