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Mikio Naruse’s great 1960 film presents a compassionate view of the life of bar hostesses in a disreputable section of Tokyo.

  • Added: Feb 17, 2022
  • Length: 03:20
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Five films from British director Steve McQueen, depicting the experiences of West Indian British families in London from the late 1960s through the...

  • Added: Feb 17, 2022
  • Length: 05:14
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The true story of the 2018 effort to rescue thirteen boys trapped in a huge flooded cave in Thailand is more exciting than most fiction.

  • Added: Feb 17, 2022
  • Length: 04:45
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The vast landscapes of the southwest are to die for and every once in a while I capture one with my camera. More and more I remind myself to just t...

  • Added: Jan 13, 2022
  • Length: 04:56
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Heuchera is found in the saxifrage family, Saxifracaceae, with 80 other genera that includes the genus Saxifraga and its 400 species. Yikes!

  • Added: Nov 01, 2021
  • Length: 05:06
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The glossary in the back of a flora is full of wonderful words that you may never had heard or seen before, especially if you’re not a botanist. I ...

  • Added: Nov 01, 2021
  • Length: 05:13
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I originally learned the botanical name of this native plant as Eupatorium greggii, but it is now Conoclinum dissectum. It’s neat that the tribute ...

  • Added: Nov 01, 2021
  • Length: 05:13
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The photos are mine of a chiltepin at our our home. It’s one of several we have in pots. They are great in the ground too, but I love the way they ...

  • Added: Nov 01, 2021
  • Length: 04:52
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Wandering through a woodland.

  • Added: Nov 01, 2021
  • Length: 05:16
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I concentrated on a few fall bloomers in the Aster family that have yellow flowers and I bet you thought of other species that should have been inc...

  • Added: Nov 01, 2021
  • Length: 04:31
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Twenty years ago, in 2001, the internet was really taking off—the steady increase in internet use was accelerating, especially among young people. ...

  • Added: Nov 01, 2021
  • Length: 04:42
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Thomas Vinterburg’s Oscar-winning comedy tells of four men who decide to use a small amount of alcohol to reinvigorate their jobs and personal live...

  • Added: Nov 01, 2021
  • Length: 04:24
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The traditional way of beekeeping preserved by a Macedonian woman runs up against the modern motive for profit at all costs, in this gorgeous docum...

  • Added: Nov 01, 2021
  • Length: 04:24
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Ken Loach and Paul Laverty present another great film about working class life: a portrait of an English family having to find a way to support the...

  • Added: Nov 01, 2021
  • Length: 04:23
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The latest film by the darkly absurdist Swedish director Roy Andersson tackles the vexing subject of religion.

  • Added: Nov 01, 2021
  • Length: 04:22
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Werner Herzog presents a portrait of his friend, the journalist and travel writer Bruce Chatwin; while Patricio Guzmán examines the mountain range ...

  • Added: Nov 01, 2021
  • Length: 04:23
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Getting old is the source of fear in a new horror movie by Natalie Erika James, about a woman on the edge of dementia whose daughter and granddaugh...

  • Added: Nov 01, 2021
  • Length: 04:21
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A dying man experiences the tragic dualism of past and present, in Andrei Tarkovsky’s autobiographical masterpiece The Mirror.

  • Added: Nov 01, 2021
  • Length: 03:36
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A film by Channing Godfrey Peoples tells of a single mother (Nicole Beharie) in an African American neighborhood in Fort Worth, Texas, who wants he...

  • Added: Nov 01, 2021
  • Length: 04:19
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In an industrial town in China, the lives of four people (three young, one old) intertwine on a day darkened by hostility, powerlessness, and reven...

  • Added: Nov 01, 2021
  • Length: 04:30
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In his first western, Tom Hanks plays an itinerant news reader from Texas who tries to transport a young girl who was an Indian captive to her rela...

  • Added: Nov 01, 2021
  • Length: 04:33
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Transposing Jack London’s autobiographical novel to Italy, Pietro Marcello highlights the conflict of socialist idealism with the individualistic d...

  • Added: Nov 01, 2021
  • Length: 04:05
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Congratulations, you people! It is Fall. You made it. Might take another month or two, until you really notice, but summer is officially over. It'...

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  • Added: Sep 17, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
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The Father is a film about an elderly man suffering from dementia. It started in 2012 as a French play by Florian Zeller, and last year Zeller dire...

  • Added: Aug 05, 2021
  • Length: 04:51
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A man’s last hours are spent being moved from hospital to hospital within the maze of the Romanian health care system, in this devastating portrait...

  • Added: Aug 05, 2021
  • Length: 04:17