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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
A Danish action film starts out looking like just another revenge drama, but then pulls the rug out from under the audience in a delightful way.
- Added: Aug 05, 2021
- Length: 04:25
Degan Ali, a Somali-American who heads the Nairobi based NGO ADESO, talks about the future of aid with Eileen O'Connor, Senior Vice President of th...
Bought by Classic107.3, WMUU-LP, RADIOLEX, GCR (Global Community Radio), and WHCP-LP Cambridge
- Added: Aug 05, 2021
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 5
In this collaboration with the podcast Self Evident, we look at what happens when we ignore anti-Asian hate—and what happens when we mobilize again...
Bought by WGBH Radio Boston, WMUU-LP, RADIOLEX, GCR (Global Community Radio), and WHCP-LP Cambridge
- Added: Jul 29, 2021
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 5
In this week’s episode, we talk about the tenuous state of US-Iran relations. Just who is the newly elected president of Iran -- and will the Iran ...
Bought by Classic107.3, WMUU-LP, GCR (Global Community Radio), and WHCP-LP Cambridge
- Added: Jul 07, 2021
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 4
What Just Happened. THIS VERSION REFLECTS BIDEN-HARRIS VICTORY Told Through Narration, Music and Soundbites)
Bought by Royalton Community Radio and KMUN
- Added: Nov 07, 2020
- Length: 59:01
- Purchases: 2
"Could Donald Trump be charged with a crime for knowingly exposing others to an infectious disease? He could if that disease was hepatitis. If th...
- Added: Oct 06, 2020
- Length: 04:00
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
"A popularly-elected Republic overturned by a reactionary armed revolt: There are myriad reasons why the painful history of the Spanish civil war ...
- Added: Sep 11, 2020
- Length: 03:30
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
There was an all-too brief renaissance in American film in the 1970s, when writers and directors were free to experiment with radically different s...
- Added: Aug 26, 2020
- Length: 03:18
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
One of the recurring motifs in Alfred Hitchcock’s films concerns a woman who suspects a loved one of being a monster. In his 1936 film Sabotage, th...
- Added: Jul 28, 2020
- Length: 03:28
How do we keep moving forward in a world that doesn't feel like ours anymore? We need grit to stay strong and we need resilience to stay flexible. ...
- Added: Jul 24, 2020
- Length: 11:12
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
Topic 1: Can Brands Be True Advocates for Social Issues? Topic 2: How We're Saving the California Condor. Topic 3: How Bear Hibernation Might Work ...
Bought by KOWS
- Added: Jun 29, 2020
- Length: 51:46
- Purchases: 1
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
The 1954 Army-McCarthy hearings were among the first government hearings to be televised live, providing a spectacle rivaled only by the much later...
- Added: Jun 08, 2020
- Length: 03:38
