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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
Phemeranthus aurantiacus, the former Talinum aurantiacum, is now in Talinaceae, the flameflower family, “a family of two genera and 28 species.” Th...
- Added: Jul 25, 2020
- Length: 04:45
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
San Miguelito (Antigonon leptopus) is quite the Mexican native plant. I read that it’s found in habitat not only in Sonora and Chihuahua and southw...
- Added: Jul 16, 2020
- Length: 05:19
Jia Zhangke is mainland China’s most cutting-edge director, challenging that country’s official story of economic triumph with poetic and elliptica...
- Added: Jul 14, 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
I think that the common name of orange sneezeweed may be a bit misleading. The flowers we saw and photographed were more on the yellow side, but th...
- Added: Jul 09, 2020
- Length: 05:18
The Bighorn Fire in the Catalina Mountains near Tucson, AZ. started on June 5th of 2020 and as I sit and write this a few weeks later on June 30th ...
- Added: Jul 01, 2020
- Length: 05:16
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
The miller moths that showed up at our little homestead are the adult of the army cutworm (Euxoa auxiliaris) and they migrate from lower areas and ...
- Added: Jun 23, 2020
- Length: 05:26
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
Isn’t it wonderful to live in a region where clouds and humidity and rain are so celebrated? You can identify the natives and converted natives as ...
- Added: Jun 17, 2020
- Length: 05:05
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
Every time I pull a reference book or field guide off the shelf to read about a recently seen insect I seem to run across a quote by the famous ent...
- Added: Jun 11, 2020
- Length: 05:19
These day trips of ours into the hills are so renewing. The particular canyon that I talking about is very close to our home and within 30 or 40 mi...
- Added: Jun 08, 2020
- Length: 05:13
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
I could have jabbered on forever (you probably noticed) and still not have mentioned all the wonderful things happening now in the uplands as sprin...
- Added: May 28, 2020
- Length: 05:51
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
The desert bighorn is found in the arid regions of the western and southwestern US and across the border in Mexico. Its scientific name is Ovis can...
- Added: May 22, 2020
- Length: 05:08
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
