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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
How do you sleep when so much of life is unsettled?
In this episode that comes to us from the award-winning podcast Shelter in Place, we talk abo...
- Added: Oct 28, 2021
- Length: 26:15
What have you lost in the pandemic? What have you found?
We asked these questions to people from New York to New Mexico. What they told us has gi...
- Added: Oct 07, 2021
- Length: 26:58
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
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
Riz Ahmed plays a rock drummer who loses his hearing and must come to terms with being a deaf person, in Darius Marder’s moving drama.
- Added: Aug 05, 2021
- Length: 04:11
The film version of August Wilson’s play about a jazz recording session in 1927 features Viola Davis in the title role, and Chadwick Boseman as the...
- Added: Aug 05, 2021
- Length: 04:48
Catherine Deneuve plays a famous actress in conflict with her daughter, played by Juliette Binoche, in Hirokazu Kore-eda’s first film made outside ...
- Added: Aug 05, 2021
- Length: 04:10
In a Leningrad hospital, two women deal with the aftereffects of their experiences in World War II, in a powerful examination of trauma by a young ...
- Added: Aug 05, 2021
- Length: 04:28
Minari, the latest film from writer-director Lee Isaac Chung, tells the story of an immigrant Korean family’s struggle to make a new life in the Un...
- Added: Aug 05, 2021
- Length: 04:07
Alice Rohrwacher’s two-part fable portrays the fragility of goodness in a corrupted world.
- Added: Aug 05, 2021
- Length: 04:39
A Danish action film starts out looking like just another revenge drama, but then pulls the rug out from under the audience in a delightful way.
- Added: Aug 05, 2021
- Length: 04:25
Is there such a thing as a good death?
In this episode we reflect on some of our own experiences of death, and get some fresh perspective from Sa...
- Added: May 21, 2021
- Length: 52:04
What story will we tell when we look back on this pandemic year?
On the one-year anniversary of the pandemic (and Shelter in Place, a pandemic-bor...
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- Added: Mar 19, 2021
- Length: 25:34
- Purchases: 2
Today’s episode takes its name after a quote by Lewis Carrol, “All That Is Really Worth Doing is Worth the Doing is What We do for Others,” and we ...
- Added: Jan 11, 2021
- Length: 58:01
Why we're losing against COVID-19--but don't have to be.
- Added: Nov 25, 2020
- Length: 40:06
What does your body need in order to rest fully? What does your heart need to soften a bit? What would it feel like to rest - not with one ear out ...
- Added: Oct 16, 2020
- Length: 13:21
"Could Donald Trump be charged with a crime for knowingly exposing others to an infectious disease? He could if that disease was hepatitis. If th...
- Added: Oct 06, 2020
- Length: 04:00