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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
Caption: OutCaster Brian
Who’s really threatened – kids who are assumed to be cisgender and heterosexual or LGBTQ students?

  • Added: Oct 29, 2021
  • Length: 03:30
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We continue National Hispanic Heritage Month with essayist and fiction writer, Sergio Troncoso. A 2020 International Book Award winner for Best Col...

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  • Added: Oct 07, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
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  • Added: Sep 30, 2021
  • Length: 06:00
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Berberis fremontii is in the Barberry family or Berberidaceae…that’s fun to pronounce. Fremont barberry has quite a range north of the Salt River i...

  • Added: Sep 28, 2021
  • Length: 05:03
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The scientific name of the band-tailed pigeon is no longer Columba fasciata, but is Patagioenas fasciata. That’s too bad because I was hoping to st...

  • Added: Sep 28, 2021
  • Length: 04:59
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I spent so much time jabbering about my conversion to a desert rat and monsoon believer that I left out some fun stuff. Native bees that buzz poll...

  • Added: Sep 28, 2021
  • Length: 04:43
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This episode is a reminiscence sparked by some old photos. I’m pretty sure my father took the photos, because I can’t remember him ever being witho...

  • Added: Sep 28, 2021
  • Length: 04:42
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I grew up in Kentucky where the state flower is goldenrod. The particular species that has that honor is Solidago gigantea. I wonder how it was cho...

  • Added: Sep 28, 2021
  • Length: 05:21
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Here are some morning glory photos. Above is Ipomoea ternifolia var. leptotoma and the photo below is of some floral chaos featuring the red flower...

  • Added: Sep 28, 2021
  • Length: 05:04
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I like the phrase in Arizona Flora about the Loasa family Loasaceae ; it is “remarkable for the diversity and peculiar structure of the hairs.” And...

  • Added: Sep 28, 2021
  • Length: 05:05
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Alice Rohrwacher’s two-part fable portrays the fragility of goodness in a corrupted world.

  • Added: Aug 05, 2021
  • Length: 04:39
Caption: OutCaster Lil
What's lost when kids don't learn about the homophobic context in which the pandemic unfolded?

  • Added: Jun 30, 2021
  • Length: 08:37