photo by Nicholas Branda

Director Mary Harron is quickly becoming the go-to gal for edgy period pieces. Her latest, The Notorious Bettie Page (starring sometime it girl Gretchen Mol as the titular pin-up queen), which premiered last night here in Austin,  is the subject of most of the positive buzz I've heard over the past few days. I sat in on a roundtable interview with Ms. Harron yesterday (that's me throwing out the name "Halle Berry"), which you can listen to here