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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
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 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
In this story, Walker explores the memory of a short but powerful conversation with her partner, triggered by the scent of fresh evening air.
- Added: Feb 16, 2021
- Length: 02:12
Walker meets up with a close friend at a favorite Thai restaurant to get her advice on the latest situation in her relationship with Trent.
- Added: Jan 15, 2021
- Length: 05:00
- Scent number 20: Chanel No. 5 Perfume -
Walker brings us back to her startup days when the coveted perfume Chanel No. 5 helped her close many bu...
- Added: Jan 15, 2021
- Length: 02:54
From: Third Coast International Audio Festival
Series: Best of the Best: The 2020 Third Coast Broadcast
Series: Best of the Best: The 2020 Third Coast Broadcast
This hour features three intimate stories that grapple with the messiness and the triumph of existing as a person, from the outside body to the ins...
Bought by WXXI Rochester, Prairie Public, WRVO Public Media, New England Public Media, KTSW 89.9 and more
- Added: Nov 17, 2020
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 36
"All this how’s-he-doing coverage is par for the course as we transition to the next administration, but someone’s missing from this picture of our...
- Added: Nov 17, 2020
- Length: 03:30
In this episode of the FEHLER podcast, Sylvia Cunningham, deputy editor at our partner radio station KCRW Berlin, compiles five stories that show j...
- Added: Sep 24, 2020
- Length: 50:35
Among filmmakers of recent times who have had something important to say about the world predicament, a special place is held by Emir Kusturica, a ...
- Added: Sep 21, 2020
- Length: 03:29
It’s hard to believe that it’s been thirty years since Hal Hartley’s film Trust came out. At the time it looked like Hartley was going to be one of...
- Added: Sep 10, 2020
- Length: 03:17
American director Joseph Losey was well on the way to success in Hollywood when he found himself blacklisted during the anti-communist witch hunts ...
- Added: Sep 02, 2020
- Length: 03:27
The screwball comedy was a special kind of a film that flourished in Hollywood in the 1930s and 40s. It featured zany, no-holds-barred dialogue and...
- Added: Aug 21, 2020
- Length: 03:15
There are very few more poignant examples of world-historical irony in cinema than the Soviet silent film—the revolutionary hopes they expressed pr...
- Added: Aug 16, 2020
- Length: 03:43
Loulou, a 1980 film by French director Maurice Pialat, tells of an upper middle class woman named Nelly (played by Isabelle Huppert), who grows tir...
- Added: Aug 08, 2020
- Length: 03:51
Normally, Rachel Gemara is an oncology nurse at Shaare Tzedek Medical Center in Jerusalem. But back in March, she was one of a handful of nurses tr...
- Added: Aug 05, 2020
- Length: 06:35
I’ve spoken on this show before about the Armenian-born Soviet filmmaker Sergei Paradjanov, who directed the groundbreaking film Shadows of Forgott...
- Added: Jul 22, 2020
- Length: 03:32
Jia Zhangke is mainland China’s most cutting-edge director, challenging that country’s official story of economic triumph with poetic and elliptica...
- Added: Jul 14, 2020
- Length: 03:32
Sometimes when I revisit a good film, I start to notice a few flaws which lower my regard for the movie a little bit. But that didn’t happen on a r...
- Added: Jul 09, 2020
- Length: 03:30
"All we want to do is leave." Anietra and Ian basically went into survival mode to find a way out of India. As the first episode mirrored a scen...
- Added: Jul 09, 2020
- Length: 24:00
The Magnificent Ambersons, the first film Orson Welles made after Citizen Kane, has suffered from its reputation as something of a “lost” film. It ...
- Added: Jun 29, 2020
- Length: 03:24
If one were asked to name great British film directors, I’m sure that Alfred Hitchcock and David Lean would spring to mind immediately, and rightly...
- Added: Jun 22, 2020
- Length: 03:21
Recently I was asked to put together a list of my all-time favorite films—not a greatest films of all time list, but a list of movies that were spe...
- Added: Jun 16, 2020
- Length: 03:09
