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Tributes to Robert Downey Sr, Dusty Hill and Bix Beiderbecke with music, covers and film clips
- Added: Aug 02, 2021
- Length: 01:57:44
Leif Brush was a pioneering sound artist based in Duluth since the mid 1970s. His Terrain Instruments were just some of the audible sculptures tha...
Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio
- Added: Apr 18, 2021
- Length: 06:11
- Purchases: 1
Today on Art Beat we talk “On the Fly” with Lanesboro Arts. On the Fly is the latest exhibit at the Lanesboro Art Gallery and is inspired by a popu...
- Added: Jul 08, 2020
- Length: 16:24
Talking about the whys and hows of immersive exhibits.
- Added: Dec 13, 2019
- Length: 59:00
We're talking to another artist on this week's episode of The Rough Draft Diaries. This time it's Yusuf Lateef's turn. He's a local Toledo artist w...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jun 24, 2019
- Length: 06:10
- Purchases: 1
Imani Winds play the Poulenc Sextet
Bought by WCNY, Rhythm & News Service, KWAX, and KMXT
- Added: Jul 25, 2018
- Length: 58:30
- Purchases: 4
When parents hire Shelly Mosman to photograph their children, they're encouraged to bring an animal to the studio and leave the smiles behind. KFAI...
Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Jul 25, 2018
- Length: 04:47
- Purchases: 2
Whip-smart and scary, yet seemingly off-the-cuff, Unsane is Steven Soderbergh’s latest contribution to genre film, in this case the suspense thrill...
- Added: May 02, 2018
- Length: 03:58
I often hear people make the mistake of assuming that the main character of a movie should be likeable or sympathetic. This idea is a hold-over fro...
- Added: May 02, 2018
- Length: 04:11
English writer-director Sally Potter is a rare talent, a feminist who is also a first-rate satirist, aiming her barbs not only at male dominance in...
- Added: Apr 03, 2018
- Length: 09:32
There have been three films this year featuring the rescue of British troops from Dunkirk, and two about Winston Churchill. I’m not sure why this w...
- Added: Jan 17, 2018
- Length: 04:32
Soderbergh, one of our best and most versatile directors, announced about four years ago that he was retiring from making movies and was going to f...
- Added: Dec 09, 2017
- Length: 04:24
The surprise winner at the Cannes Film Festival this year was The Square, a provocative and disturbing satire from Swedish writer-director Ruben Ős...
- Added: Dec 09, 2017
- Length: 04:17
It looks like the big blockbuster of the summer is not a superhero or science fiction film, but, surprisingly, a movie set during World War II. Dun...
- Added: Oct 26, 2017
- Length: 04:33
Actor and comedian Kumail Nadjiani and his wife Emily V. Gordon wrote a screenplay about their own very unusual courtship. With Michael Showalter d...
- Added: Oct 26, 2017
- Length: 03:49
Among the films of Federico Fellini are a few that have achieved classic status, and deservedly so, such as La Strada, La Dolce Vita, and 8 ½. But ...
- Added: Oct 26, 2017
- Length: 04:45
When you put something on a pedestal, it becomes a prime target for pigeons. Or to put it another way – if a certain movie consistently shows up on...
- Added: Sep 06, 2017
- Length: 05:52
This week, as promised, I’m continuing my discussion of Citizen Kane, Orson Welles’ famous debut film from 1941. Last time I talked about why the f...
- Added: Sep 06, 2017
- Length: 04:45
The creators of Momma Tried Magazine describe orbeez and the online ASMR culture.
- Added: Jul 28, 2017
- Length: 03:05
We lost a lot of people last year. One of them particularly close to my heart was the Iranian writer/director Abbas Kiarostami, who died in July of...
- Added: Jun 30, 2017
- Length: 04:38
Starting around 2005, a burst of creative energy in filmmaking emerged from an unexpected corner of the world: Romania. The Romanian new wave has g...
- Added: Jun 30, 2017
- Length: 04:09
One can view much of the silent era in movies as a process in which filmmakers gradually unearthed a narrative language appropriate to the new art ...
- Added: Jun 30, 2017
- Length: 03:23
Those who only know Maggie Smith from her roles in later life—such as, most famously, in the Harry Potter films and Downton Abbey, I recommend chec...
- Added: May 25, 2017
- Length: 03:43
In the early years of the 20th century, a film genre was invented that became hugely popular: the adventure serial.
- Added: Apr 13, 2017
- Length: 03:59
A man, a plan, a piano: For 10 days, Brazilian composer Manuel Lima ate, slept and played the piano in a 10 x 10 foot square cube erected on a tria...
- Added: Sep 19, 2016
- Length: 08:03