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A witty English drama from John Schlesinger about an unusual triangle: a man and a woman both in love with the same man.

  • Added: Oct 20, 2022
  • Length: 03:09
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The true story of one of the women in Kosovo whose husbands went missing in the war, who decides to step outside the role conservative society expe...

  • Added: Oct 20, 2022
  • Length: 03:22
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The classic Harlem Renaissance novel by Ella Larsen about the American delusion of race is beautifully adapted by Rebecca Hall.

  • Added: Oct 20, 2022
  • Length: 03:31
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Claire Denis’ latest film explores one of her important themes: how desire in man-woman relationships is more complicated than we often assume.

  • Added: Oct 20, 2022
  • Length: 03:35
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Alfred Hitchcock made this appeal to join the fight against Hitler a year before the attack on Pearl Harbor. Now this film is valued for being one ...

  • Added: Oct 20, 2022
  • Length: 05:48
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Sometimes we go astray. But that’s all right, that’s our opposing nature, and we know how to get back on the right road. Not the “straight and narr...

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  • Added: Sep 30, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
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This episode is a reminiscence sparked by some photos taken over 60 years ago. I’m pretty sure my father took the photos, because I can’t remember ...

  • Added: Sep 01, 2022
  • Length: 04:42
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The photos are mine of the Mirabilis longiflora flowers and Manduca sexta, the Carolina sphinx moth and tobacco hornworm. Note the seven streamline...

  • Added: Sep 01, 2022
  • Length: 04:21
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Turkey vultures (Cathartes aura) are wonderful and lots of folks agree. The little town of Bisbee in the Mule Mountains of Cochise County, Arizona ...

  • Added: Sep 01, 2022
  • Length: 04:29
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In the history of Indian film, there’s a dividing line between approximately the first forty years of the movie industry, and the release, in 1955,...

  • Added: Sep 01, 2022
  • Length: 03:33
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A gripping drama based on real events that occurred during the Serbian attack on Bosnia in 1995 brings home to us the nightmare of modern war.

  • Added: Sep 01, 2022
  • Length: 03:18
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The yearning and frustrations of two teenage girls in 1950s New Zealand leads to tragedy, in this wildly expressive film based on an actual murder ...

  • Added: Sep 01, 2022
  • Length: 03:23
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A Finnish woman on a Russian train is aggravated by the man with which she’s forced to share a compartment: an insensitive young tough guy with a c...

  • Added: Sep 01, 2022
  • Length: 03:12
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I grew up in the land of the black walnut, Juglans nigra. And if you grew up in the eastern US, then you did too. It has a very large range in east...

  • Added: Aug 12, 2022
  • Length: 03:59
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This is the time of year when you see desert millipedes out and about on muggy overcast days. Sometimes even crossing the two lane blacktop roads n...

  • Added: Aug 12, 2022
  • Length: 04:03
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I’m pretty sure I first encountered the plant called mala mujer in the Santa Rita Mountains south of Tucson around 30 years ago. I had 10 years of ...

  • Added: Aug 12, 2022
  • Length: 04:30
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The meanings that we access through works of art are not confined to the conscious intentions of the artists. This critical truth came to mind whil...

  • Added: Aug 03, 2022
  • Length: 03:29
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A spellbinding portrait of an elderly couple in crisis, the wife suffering from dementia, the husband unable to cope, in a film composed entirely i...

  • Added: Aug 03, 2022
  • Length: 03:22
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Lost Illusions is an adaptation of a classic 19th-century novel by Honoré de Balzac. The history of film is full of examples of great books that ha...

  • Added: Jul 19, 2022
  • Length: 03:26
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Artist and director Ulrike Ottinger presents her recollections of living and working in Paris in the 1960s.

  • Added: Jul 19, 2022
  • Length: 03:23
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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
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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
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At my age I should being thinking more of getting rid of clutter rather than adding to it. I like to tell our daughters Katy and Sarah that some da...

  • Added: Jul 19, 2022
  • Length: 04:23
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This episode is a reminiscence…something I seem to be doing a lot of lately…and also a plea for getting our children and grandchildren out of doors...

  • Added: Jul 19, 2022
  • Length: 04:02
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I hope we all get all of our monsoon fixes this season. One of those for me and maybe you too will be toads calling from puddles.

  • Added: Jul 19, 2022
  • Length: 04:01