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A young man with Down Syndrome resists society’s patronizing approach to his life and possibilities, by escaping from a nursing home and going on a...
- Added: Oct 30, 2019
- Length: 04:20
This stylish 1981 cult favorite from Jean-Jacques Beineix tells of a young man’s obsession with an opera singer, and his accidental involvement in ...
- Added: Oct 30, 2019
- Length: 04:02
Jim Jarmusch still seems, at least to me, like the daring young innovator of independent film, even though he’s been writing and directing movies f...
- Added: Aug 15, 2019
- Length: 04:35
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
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
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
George Segal plays an American corporal whose wheeling and dealing makes him a kind of king within the narrow world of a Japanese prisoner of war c...
- Added: May 16, 2019
- Length: 04:24
Jia Zhanke is a Chinese writer and director whose films have garnered steady critical acclaim since the 90s. Years ago I reviewed his 2000 film Pla...
- Added: Apr 24, 2019
- Length: 04:24
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
In the film Leave No Trace, a father and his teenage daughter are living in the woods—we see them foraging for food, mending tarps and other equipm...
- Added: Feb 14, 2019
- Length: 04:12
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
A discussion of the impact of unintended consequences of adoption language in multi-generational and dynasty trusts.
- Added: Feb 14, 2019
- Length: 09:57
A discussion about how to comply with state bar rules, value the law practice, and steps for selling a law practice.
- Added: Oct 03, 2018
- Length: 09:51
James Forman Jr., a former Washington, D.C., public defender, Yale University professor, and author of the Pulitzer Prize winner and The New York’s...
- Added: Jun 07, 2018
- Length: 24:54
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
If you like having a brain but don't really care about having skin, please listen to this episode.
Bought by KMXT
- Added: Mar 12, 2018
- Length: 28:11
- Purchases: 1
Regular listeners to this show may be aware that I’m not a fan of most Christmas movies. Occasionally, though, I offer suggestions during the holid...
- Added: Dec 31, 2017
- Length: 04:19
Cal State University Monterey Bay college professor Daniel Fernandez talks about his fog catchers and how they can convert fog into water.
Bought by KFOI Radio
- Added: Sep 17, 2017
- Length: 52:11
- Purchases: 1
“It's the end of the world where we thought nature was an infinite resource and we could exploit it without consequence,” Professor Richard Weller ...
- Added: Aug 03, 2017
- Length: 57:07
#246 Leap into February Feb 2017 AIRED LIVE KVMR
Great show with upbeat tempo on investing in yourself. Host Marc details his discovery about a...
- Added: Feb 07, 2017
- Length: 50:47
The Brexit, what it means, what to expect. this weeks Money Matters economic commentary!
- Added: Jul 31, 2016
- Length: 04:00
In this hour of The Roadhouse, I’ve got some blues that have crossed over from country, a band that was in some of the very early editions of The R...
Bought by Spokane Public Radio and WJAB
- Added: Jun 22, 2016
- Length: 59:54
- Purchases: 2
