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Ziad Doueiri talks building a vortex, kicking some ass, and why women in the Arab world might be the key to redemption.
- Added: Feb 09, 2018
- Length: 31:14
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
There have been quite a few dramatic films on the theme of the death penalty, most of them making an eloquent case against it, and some of them rea...
- Added: Dec 09, 2017
- Length: 03:26
The Florida Project is a film of rootlessness and dysfunction, so unusual that nothing could have prepared me for its kind of honesty.
- Added: Dec 09, 2017
- Length: 04:31
Drawn from over 100 hours of footage from the National Geographic archives that was long believed to be lost, and featuring a gorgeous musical scor...
- Added: Dec 09, 2017
- Length: 04:14
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
The Zookeeper’s Wife tells the true story of a married couple in Warsaw, the owners and operators of a zoo, who rescued hundreds of Jews from the g...
- Added: Sep 06, 2017
- Length: 03:55
In 1996, Nick Gold, a British music producer, asked the American guitarist Ry Cooder to come to Havana and help him record a few sessions with some...
- Added: Sep 06, 2017
- Length: 04:43
Sabaah Folayan and Damon Davis talk hypocrisy, reckless disregard, and modernized blackface.
- Added: Aug 11, 2017
- Length: 15:17
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
First impressions may be the most lasting, but contrary to popular belief, they’re often wrong. In the case of the great American poet Emily Dickin...
- Added: Jun 29, 2017
- Length: 04:50
On the next all-NEW Snap…”Tricknology.” When you’re struggling and living at the margins, the powers that be want to keep you…exactly where you are.
- Added: May 25, 2017
- Length: 53:57
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: May 25, 2017
- Length: 04:42
Direct action and reform politics meet in Apartheid South Africa in playwright Athol Fugard’s 1989 play My Children! My Africa! Within the ruling c...
- Added: Apr 25, 2017
- Length: 58:00
- Added: Apr 13, 2017
- Length: 03:48
Many would agree that 2016 was a terrible year in general, and I don’t need to explain why. It is strange to have to admit, then, that it was a gre...
- Added: Feb 26, 2017
- Length: 04:48
Here's Gerald's audio book review of The Long Lavender Look by John D. MacDonald.
- Added: Feb 07, 2017
- Length: 03:16
Starring Ed Asner and Jesse Eisenberg, in The Final Interrogation of Ceausescu’s Dog, a deposed dictator’s beloved pet answers to the disenfranchis...
- Added: Aug 04, 2016
- Length: 10:25
- Purchases: 2
Meera Menon, Sarah Megan Thomas, and Alysia Reiner talk money, mountain-climbing, and the deeper implications of a chocolate chip cookie.
- Added: Aug 03, 2016
- Length: 22:33
In a 2002 interview Patrick McGilligan said of Clint Eastwood, “I think he's a lazy actor and a lazy director. He's a great image. This book is abo...
- Added: Aug 25, 2015
- Length: 01:00:01
Marielle Heller and Bel Powley talk hormones, patriarchy, and the importance of bangs.
- Added: Aug 17, 2015
- Length: 12:03
The freedom of speech is a pillar of our democratic process...it’s supposed to welcome all voices. But what happens those voices sow hate, or threa...
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- Added: Oct 14, 2014
- Length: 05:34
- Purchases: 1
Review of Spike Jonze's HER.
- Added: Mar 10, 2014
- Length: 05:23
Ramin Bahrani talks corporate corruption, Roger Ebert’s friendship, and calling Werner Herzog for advice.
- Added: May 19, 2013
- Length: 17:52
