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A Finnish woman on a Russian train is aggravated by the man with which she’s forced to share a compartment: an insensitive young tough guy with a c...

  • Added: Sep 01, 2022
  • Length: 03:12
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Lost Illusions is an adaptation of a classic 19th-century novel by Honoré de Balzac. The history of film is full of examples of great books that ha...

  • Added: Jul 19, 2022
  • Length: 03:26
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Artist and director Ulrike Ottinger presents her recollections of living and working in Paris in the 1960s.

  • Added: Jul 19, 2022
  • Length: 03:23
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An experiment in how people will react to videos of Israeli army and settler interactions with Palestinians becomes a fascinating study challenging...

  • Added: Jul 19, 2022
  • Length: 03:32
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Guillermo del Toro adds his own Gothic sensibility to this thrilling new version of an old film noir.

  • Added: Jul 19, 2022
  • Length: 03:15
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David Cronenberg pioneered a certain type of horror movie that came to be called “body horror.” Throughout his career, in such films as The Brood, ...

  • Added: Jun 23, 2022
  • Length: 03:36
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Three stories about chance and imagination, written and directed by the up-and-coming director Ryûsuke Hamaguchi.Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy

  • Added: Jun 23, 2022
  • Length: 03:19
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George Orwell’s dystopian novel was made into a great film in the year of its title: 1984.

  • Added: Jun 23, 2022
  • Length: 03:33
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The film version of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Broadway musical is a delightful expression of solidarity in a predominately Latino N.Y. neighborhood, wit...

  • Added: Jun 23, 2022
  • Length: 03:38
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French writer-director Céline Sciamma has followed up her big success from 2019, Portrait of a Lady on Fire, with a surprising story of childhood, ...

  • Added: May 19, 2022
  • Length: 03:28
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Victor Kossakovsky shows us the experience of farm animals without the mediation of human words and concepts, in a film that extends compassion to ...

  • Added: May 19, 2022
  • Length: 03:23
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French director Mia Hansen-Løve is a real cinephile. She loves to think and talk about film history and the works of famous filmmakers. Although sh...

  • Added: May 11, 2022
  • Length: 03:01
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Paul Thomas Anderson pays humorous tribute to the 1970s in southern California in this story of a teenage entrepreneur who falls for a clever young...

  • Added: May 11, 2022
  • Length: 03:26
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Todd Haynes tells the story of this influential New York rock band in the cinematic style of the man who discovered them: Andy Warhol.

  • Added: May 11, 2022
  • Length: 03:29
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An evil eye changes the appearance of two young people in love so that they can’t recognize one another, in a film from the country of Georgia that...

  • Added: May 11, 2022
  • Length: 03:31
From: KXCI
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Bernard Shaw’s popular comedy, about a phonetics professor who makes a bet that he can turn a street person into a lady, was given near-perfect for...

  • Added: May 11, 2022
  • Length: 03:02
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A married woman visits three friends in the city, and we are inspired to consider what is the nature of happiness for women in a “man’s world.”

  • Added: May 11, 2022
  • Length: 03:19
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The Harlem Cultural Festival was a music festival taking place in the same summer of 1969 as Woodstock, and its amazing line-up, and insight into h...

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  • Added: May 11, 2022
  • Length: 03:32
  • Purchases: 1
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Wes Anderson’s playful new film is presented as an issue of a Paris-based American magazine, with three stories about the eternal appeal of non-con...

  • Added: May 11, 2022
  • Length: 03:20
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A film from Norway about a young woman seeking fulfillment in relationships takes the conventions of romantic comedy and turns them over to reveal ...

  • Added: May 11, 2022
  • Length: 03:27
Caption: Appalachian Vibes , Credit: Amanda Bocchi
This week on Appalachian Vibes, my guest is Casey Noel, a Costa Rican Appalachian singer-songwriter from Greensboro NC-she reveals her latest singl...

  • Added: May 04, 2022
  • Length: 58:34
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HOUR ONE: "Poetry In A Troubled Time" - Why do people turn to poetry during troubled times? Poetry is often the one language we need. Join us for a...

  • Added: Apr 22, 2022
  • Length: 01:59:00
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HOUR ONE: "Forged By Hand" - You would think that handcrafting, like iron forging and copper smithing, would be on the way out. But COVID has shown...

  • Added: Apr 08, 2022
  • Length: 01:59:00
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HOUR ONE: "Writing The Climate Change Story" - Floods, wildfires, winds and extreme temperatures. This hour, the novelists and journalists who are ...

  • Added: Apr 01, 2022
  • Length: 01:59:01
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There is no generic description that captures the essence of darkness. And this is what makes darkness so compelling.

  • Added: Mar 28, 2022
  • Length: 08:48