PRX - Pieces for Format: First-Person Essay

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  • Added: Jan 22, 2020
  • Length: 57:56
  • Purchases: 1
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Louisa May Alcott’s classic novel Little Women has been adapted into movies quite a few times before now. The book has usually been relegated to th...

  • Added: Jan 16, 2020
  • Length: 04:46
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Over the long career of director Terrence Malick, he’s developed a unique style all his own, featuring extensive voice-over narration accompanied b...

  • Added: Jan 14, 2020
  • Length: 04:57
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Is it acceptable to use fallen leaves for garden mulch and compost making or should we leave them alone? And of course, Mike Mcgrath takes your ph...

  • Added: Jan 08, 2020
  • Length: 54:58
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This time of year I’m often asked about what films I recommend to watch for the holiday and I have to say, “Sorry, I’m not really a fan of Christma...

  • Added: Jan 02, 2020
  • Length: 04:41
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I just saw a film that touched me deeply, a movie playing at the multiplex for which I had not seen any ads or trailers. It’s about a fairly afflue...

  • Added: Jan 02, 2020
  • Length: 03:39
Caption: A sculptor at NECA works on a Heath Ledger/Joker action figure., Credit: Eric Molinsky
Action figure collectables for adults is booming, even when kids are loosing interest in little plastic guys.

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WABE, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 27, 2019
  • Length: 18:11
  • Purchases: 3
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Noah Baumbach’s new film is called Marriage Story. As you might expect from a writer and director with a humorous and ironic view of life, the titl...

  • Added: Dec 18, 2019
  • Length: 04:38
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In his latest and most personal film, Pedro Almodóvar contemplates aging, regret, the need to make films, and life as a gay man in Spain.

  • Added: Dec 11, 2019
  • Length: 04:07
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Edward Norton is the director and lead actor of this entertaining detective mystery set in 1950s Brooklyn, a story that features political corrupti...

  • Added: Dec 11, 2019
  • Length: 04:05
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Bong Joon Ho’s fiendishly clever new film takes aim at the issue of class, reflected in a tale of a family of criminals invading the home of a weal...

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  • Added: Dec 11, 2019
  • Length: 03:26
  • Purchases: 1
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In early 2003, when the George W. Bush administration was pushing for an invasion of Iraq, with the support of Britain’s government, headed by Tony...

  • Added: Nov 19, 2019
  • Length: 04:48
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Vince Gilligan is a producer, writer and director, working primarily in television. He’s the creator of Breaking Bad, a series that ran for five se...

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  • Added: Oct 31, 2019
  • Length: 04:57
  • Purchases: 1
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Werner Herzog’s 1972 masterwork attacks the colonial mindset through the story of an insane Spanish conquistador searching for a lost city of gold ...

  • Added: Oct 31, 2019
  • Length: 03:24
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Two documentaries about independent journalism: the first chronicles the life and career of the maverick opinion columnist Molly Ivins; the second ...

  • Added: Oct 30, 2019
  • Length: 04:56
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A young man with Down Syndrome resists society’s patronizing approach to his life and possibilities, by escaping from a nursing home and going on a...

  • Added: Oct 30, 2019
  • Length: 04:20
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Olivier Assayas portrays the complex and somewhat devious relationships of a group of Parisian literary types, in a film that poses questions about...

  • Added: Sep 24, 2019
  • Length: 04:38
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There’s a new documentary film about a popular singer who was born and raised in my current home town of Tucson, Arizona: Linda Ronstadt. The movie...

  • Added: Sep 24, 2019
  • Length: 04:42
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Most of us spend close to half of our waking adult lives at work, but I would venture to guess that less than five percent of narrative films take ...

  • Added: Jul 31, 2019
  • Length: 03:56
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A young black man yearns to reclaim the old San Francisco house that he grew up in, but which his father lost, in this film about home, friendship,...

  • Added: Jul 31, 2019
  • Length: 03:39
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Ari Aster’s latest horror film depicts a group of young Americans encountering a strange pagan community in Sweden.

  • Added: Jul 31, 2019
  • Length: 04:26
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On this show I want to cover two films about people trying to do something no one else has done; both of them played in theaters during the past ye...

  • Added: Jul 31, 2019
  • Length: 04:26
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Was the organized theft of a 600-pound petroglyph-covered boulder from a canyon near Ridgecrest related to the monster earthquakes that followed? P...

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  • Added: Jul 12, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Jacques Becker’s final film is an intensely focused drama about a seemingly impossible prison escape, based on real events.

  • Added: Jul 11, 2019
  • Length: 03:07
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A documentary tells of a couple’s struggle to create and maintain an organic farm that is totally in harmony with nature.

  • Added: Jul 11, 2019
  • Length: 04:19