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A primal conflict between love and revenge is the theme of Mauritz Stiller’s great saga of Sweden from 1919.
- Added: Nov 09, 2022
- Length: 02:50
For many modern historians, the First World War, from 1914-18, has a special significance, as the point at which an older version of civilization f...
- Added: Nov 09, 2022
- Length: 03:33
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
When I was a boy vultures were called buzzards. It’s an interesting common name that came across the ocean with early British colonists who had no ...
- Added: Mar 15, 2022
- Length: 04:03
I forgot to say that the genus Crotalus comes from the Greek krotalon or krotos for rattle or rattling. (A couple favorite native plants are called...
- Added: Mar 15, 2022
- Length: 04:18
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
In July of 2002 I produced an episode about the summer monsoon and spadefoots. It was so much fun to write and record. In July of 2013 I re-recorde...
- Added: Sep 28, 2021
- Length: 04:35
George Segal plays an American corporal whose wheeling and dealing makes him a kind of king within the narrow world of a Japanese prisoner of war c...
- Added: May 16, 2019
- Length: 04:24
Argentine filmmaker Lucrecia Martel has become my favorite living director. That might sound extravagant to say about someone who has only made fou...
- Added: Aug 20, 2018
- Length: 08:38
From: Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
Series: Animalogy \ Revealing the Animals in Our Everyday Words and Phrases
Series: Animalogy \ Revealing the Animals in Our Everyday Words and Phrases
Of the 88 constellations officially recognized by Western astronomy, 40 of them are named after animals — 43 if you count the mythical animals. We’...
- Added: Jan 25, 2017
- Length: 49:17