36th Telluride Film Festival

In reference to his latest film, BAD LIEUTENANT: PORT OF CALL NEW ORLEANS, Davia Nelson asks Nicolas Cage, "Why New Orleans?" Cage answers with mesmerizing candor.

Telluride Film Festival Tributee Viggo Mortensen talks with Davia Nelson about THE ROAD and how his extraordinary 11 year-old costar Kodi Smit-McPhee taught him valuable lessons about their craft, as well as about life.

Award winning actors Laura Linney and Helen Mirren chat about Mirren's new film THE LAST STATION, the comic-dramatic account of Leo Tolstoy's final months, in which Mirren plays his self-absorbed wife, Sofya Tolstoy, with great enthusiasm.

Laura Linney and Helen Mirren continue their Courthouse Conversation with talk of Helen's other film at the Festival THE JAZZ BARONESS. While the film's director, Hannah Rothschild, chimes in that Helen's participation in the film was brilliant, Helen reveals an early career moment where famed Italian director Federico Fellini thought differently.

In the third and final part of this panel discussion, Barbara Sukowa captivates all with her wise answer to the question of how she prepared to portray the complex heroine Hildegard von Bingen in 36th TFF Tributee Margarethe von Trotta's new film VISION.