PRX - Pieces for Tone: Polished
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Ours is an age of migrants, those martyred by the legal fictions we call borders. Two recent films explore this persistent, troubling experience.
- Added: Jan 25, 2023
- Length: 03:31
It’s hard for me to believe that I’ve been doing this show for 17 years, and yet I haven’t talked about one of my favorite movies, The Big Sleep, u...
- Added: Dec 13, 2022
- Length: 03:25
Joanna Hogg continues her semi-autobiographical portrait of the artist, a young woman filmmaker in 1980s England exploring grief.
- Added: Dec 06, 2022
- Length: 03:25
The genus Heuchera is found in the saxifrage family, Saxifracaceae, with 80 other genera that includes the genus Saxifraga and its 400 species. Yikes!
- Added: Nov 16, 2022
- Length: 04:16
A brother and sister, their addict mother in jail, try to get by under the poverty line in a depressed southern Ohio town, and end up hanging out w...
- Added: Mar 10, 2022
- Length: 03:50
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
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
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
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
A group of Mexican immigrants, as yet undocumented, live together in a crowded apartment in Brooklyn, work hard, and play soccer in an amateur league.
- Added: Feb 14, 2019
- Length: 03:45
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