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In 1913 Budapest, a young woman searches relentlessly for the secrets of her own family, in a film that dramatizes a premonition of the old Europea...
- Added: Aug 15, 2019
- Length: 04:31
Most of us spend close to half of our waking adult lives at work, but I would venture to guess that less than five percent of narrative films take ...
- Added: Jul 31, 2019
- Length: 03:56
A young black man yearns to reclaim the old San Francisco house that he grew up in, but which his father lost, in this film about home, friendship,...
- Added: Jul 31, 2019
- Length: 03:39
Ari Aster’s latest horror film depicts a group of young Americans encountering a strange pagan community in Sweden.
- Added: Jul 31, 2019
- Length: 04:26
On this show I want to cover two films about people trying to do something no one else has done; both of them played in theaters during the past ye...
- Added: Jul 31, 2019
- Length: 04:26
Jacques Becker’s final film is an intensely focused drama about a seemingly impossible prison escape, based on real events.
- Added: Jul 11, 2019
- Length: 03:07
A documentary tells of a couple’s struggle to create and maintain an organic farm that is totally in harmony with nature.
- Added: Jul 11, 2019
- Length: 04:19
English director Joanna Hogg presents the pain of a young woman filmmaker’s destructive relationship with an addict in The Souvenir, while Pamela B...
- Added: Jul 11, 2019
- Length: 09:07
In the early 1970s, at the peak of her powers and her success, Aretha Franklin decided that she wanted to make a gospel album, going back to the mu...
- Added: May 23, 2019
- Length: 04:35
Elisabeth Moss dominates the screen as a crash-and-burn rock star in Alex Ross Perry’s latest provocative drama.
- Added: May 16, 2019
- Length: 03:54
Claire Denis, the French filmmaker, has established her international reputation over three decades as a director of art cinema: social dramas with...
- Added: May 16, 2019
- Length: 04:12
Ruth Bader Ginsburg is a Supreme Court Justice and an advocate for civil rights, especially the rights of women. She was the second woman ever appo...
- Added: Feb 14, 2019
- Length: 04:39
Sweet Country is a tough, complex Australian film that provides a glimpse into the painful history of that nations’s brutal treatment of its origin...
- Added: Feb 14, 2019
- Length: 04:05
Pablo Trapero is one of the four or five most highly acclaimed Argentine film directors. His first film, Crane World, released in 1999, put him on ...
- Added: Feb 14, 2019
- Length: 03:45
The Little Stranger is what you would call a haunted house mystery, although that description may already give an inaccurate impression of the film.
- Added: Feb 14, 2019
- Length: 04:15
Barry Jenkins adapts a James Baldwin novel about a black couple who won’t let anything, including an unjust arrest, keep them apart.
- Added: Feb 14, 2019
- Length: 04:55
In 1917, a tragic and criminal episode in American history occurred in the copper mining town of Bisbee, Arizona. Local miners had recently been or...
- Added: Jan 31, 2019
- Length: 04:34
You Were Never Really Here. That’s a strange and unsettling title for a film. But it perfectly fits this new picture, the fourth feature from Scott...
- Added: Aug 20, 2018
- Length: 04:11
Sometimes I come across a real treasure by sheer chance. Recently, when the movie I’d gone to see was sold out, I went to another one in the same t...
- Added: Aug 20, 2018
- Length: 03:47
During Russia’s gradual descent back to dictatorship, one prominent film director has unsparingly depicted the spiritual rot in the heart of his co...
- Added: Aug 20, 2018
- Length: 03:52
The desire for a loving relationship takes many forms in the latest film from veteran French director Claire Denis, Let the Sunshine In. Juliette B...
- Added: Aug 20, 2018
- Length: 04:15
I’ve remarked more than once, here on the show, on the unique qualities that director Wes Anderson brings to his films.
- Added: Aug 20, 2018
- Length: 04:44
For someone who writes about films as I do, there are always cases of movies that fly under the radar, escaping my notice, maybe not even playing l...
- Added: Aug 20, 2018
- Length: 03:35
The Insult is another provocative drama about the Middle East from Lebanese director Ziad Doueiri, who made a film a few years ago called The Attac...
- Added: Apr 03, 2018
- Length: 04:23
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
