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We reflect on the role of art and cultural strategy in movement building with Micah Bazant and Kemi Alabi , and how imagining creative processes ou...
- Added: Aug 02, 2020
- Length: 01:06:55
Perseverance - Adam B. Shapiro is an award-winning actor, known for HBO's "The Normal Heart" (2014), "Master of None" (2015), and "The Cobbler" (20...
- Added: Jul 31, 2020
- Length: 03:33
One of the recurring motifs in Alfred Hitchcock’s films concerns a woman who suspects a loved one of being a monster. In his 1936 film Sabotage, th...
- Added: Jul 28, 2020
- Length: 03:28
I’ve spoken on this show before about the Armenian-born Soviet filmmaker Sergei Paradjanov, who directed the groundbreaking film Shadows of Forgott...
- Added: Jul 22, 2020
- Length: 03:32
Sometimes when I revisit a good film, I start to notice a few flaws which lower my regard for the movie a little bit. But that didn’t happen on a r...
- Added: Jul 09, 2020
- Length: 03:30
This week on World Ocean Radio we review a new book by photographer George Steinmetz with essays by Andrew Revkin. "The Human Planet: Earth at the ...
- Added: Jun 29, 2020
- Length: 04:34
The Magnificent Ambersons, the first film Orson Welles made after Citizen Kane, has suffered from its reputation as something of a “lost” film. It ...
- Added: Jun 29, 2020
- Length: 03:24
If one were asked to name great British film directors, I’m sure that Alfred Hitchcock and David Lean would spring to mind immediately, and rightly...
- Added: Jun 22, 2020
- Length: 03:21
Recently I was asked to put together a list of my all-time favorite films—not a greatest films of all time list, but a list of movies that were spe...
- Added: Jun 16, 2020
- Length: 03:09
The 1954 Army-McCarthy hearings were among the first government hearings to be televised live, providing a spectacle rivaled only by the much later...
- Added: Jun 08, 2020
- Length: 03:38
Never has a filmmaker been so influential, with such a short career, as the French director Jean Vigo. With only three films to his name, Vigo, who...
- Added: Jun 02, 2020
- Length: 03:21
Once in a while when I see the previews for a film, it gives me the wrong impression, and makes me decide to stay away. This is what happened to me...
- Added: May 25, 2020
- Length: 03:40
For a brief time in the 1930s, there was a movement in French cinema called “poetic realism.” These films combined deeply romantic themes with a ki...
- Added: May 19, 2020
- Length: 03:01
In what we now call the classic era of Hollywood film, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) had more stars than any other studio. In 1932, as if to prove that...
- Added: May 19, 2020
- Length: 03:28
On any film buff’s short list of great Russian directors you’re bound to see the name of Andrei Tarkovsky, who directed seven brilliant and challen...
- Added: May 19, 2020
- Length: 03:05
Dodsworth, a 1936 film directed by the great Hollywood filmmaker William Wyler, is an adaptation of the Sinclair Lewis novel of the same name. It’s...
- Added: May 19, 2020
- Length: 03:00
Since 9/11, the invasion of our privacy by the government’s national security apparatus, as well as by corporations, has become so alarming and per...
- Added: May 19, 2020
- Length: 03:31
Vittorio De Sica’s groundbreaking 1946 film about the tribulations of two Italian street kids was one of the founding documents of the film movemen...
- Added: May 19, 2020
- Length: 03:03
Francesco Rosi’s 1962 film uses the life of the titular Mafia bandit as a stepping-off point for an examination of postwar Sicilian history.
A man...
- Added: May 19, 2020
- Length: 03:27
Saint Frances, the debut feature film by Alex Thompson, written by and starring Kelly O’Sullivan, is not about the famous saint of Assisi. In this ...
- Added: May 17, 2020
- Length: 04:15
HOUR ONE: "Solace Of Nature" - Time to get outside. Despite all the changes, there are still signs of renewal everywhere. We'll show you where to l...
- Added: May 08, 2020
- Length: 01:58:58
On this podcast Dave Soldier & Zajal album producer Pedro Cortes discuss how the influences of medieval Andalusia influenced the entirety of the we...
- Added: Apr 30, 2020
- Length: 04:15
On this edition of PEACE TALKS RADIO, we hear three perspectives on climate anxiety. We hear from Frances Roberts-Gregory, an environmental sociol...
Bought by KUNM, Radio Baha'i, WLGI, and KUNM
- Added: Apr 21, 2020
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
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 03, 2020
- Length: 01:59:00
HOUR ONE: "Music Beyond Genre" - You listen to more than one kind of music. Why not make all kinds of music? This hour, music without rules.
HOU...
- Added: Mar 20, 2020
- Length: 01:58:58
