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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
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
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
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
The Coen brothers’ latest film is a story anthology presenting the dark themes behind that most American of film genres, the western.
- Added: Feb 14, 2019
- Length: 04:28
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
"[Charles Burnett's] filmmaking is so quiet. It’s a deeply reflective cinema; it’s cinema that focuses on characterization, that really gives chara...
- Added: Mar 14, 2018
- Length: 59:02
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
The surprise winner at the Cannes Film Festival this year was The Square, a provocative and disturbing satire from Swedish writer-director Ruben Ős...
- Added: Dec 09, 2017
- Length: 04:17
This program is a two hour exploration and celebration of original and audacious modern electric music...Sound that at once defines this modern era...
Bought by KEOS
- Added: Nov 13, 2017
- Length: 02:00:01
- Purchases: 1
One can view much of the silent era in movies as a process in which filmmakers gradually unearthed a narrative language appropriate to the new art ...
- Added: Jun 30, 2017
- Length: 03:23
Director Doug Scholz-Carlson fills us in on what you need to know about this years production of Richard III at Great River Shakespeare Festival. G...
- Added: Jun 21, 2017
- Length: 09:46
I’m feeling great about the hour ahead and so will you. I’ve got a couple keyboard-focused tracks, a bit of harp, some killer guitar, and vocals st...
Bought by Spokane Public Radio and WJAB
- Added: Sep 06, 2016
- Length: 59:54
- Purchases: 2
The story of this edition of The Roadhouse is that I’m going to fulfill my favorite plan as your host in our little dive to make the hour as upbeat...
Bought by Spokane Public Radio and WJAB
- Added: Sep 06, 2016
- Length: 59:54
- Purchases: 2
There’s blues enough to get you going in this edition of The Roadhouse. I’ve got The Fabulous Thunderbirds, Sammy Kershaw, Luther Dickinson, The Re...
Bought by Spokane Public Radio, WJAB, and KSRQ
- Added: Sep 06, 2016
- Length: 59:54
- Purchases: 3
I’ve got a full hour ahead, with a next generation set and a set of gospel blues centered around The Staples. It’s all mixed in with a bigger varie...
Bought by Spokane Public Radio and WJAB
- Added: Aug 01, 2016
- Length: 59:54
- Purchases: 2
I've got some blues legends in this hour, along with some folks you may not have heard of. I've also got a Roadhouse Triple Play of a Robert Johnso...
Bought by Spokane Public Radio and WJAB
- Added: Jun 30, 2016
- Length: 59:54
- Purchases: 2
This hour of The Roadhouse has a long set of live music and another trip in the Wayback Machine of blues history. Rivherside, Jim Suhler & Monkey B...
Bought by Spokane Public Radio and WJAB
- Added: Jun 22, 2016
- Length: 59:54
- Purchases: 2
We’re spanning the globe in this edition of The Roadhouse, with blues from Texas, Louisiana, England, Romania, Serbia, and more. Greg Izor & The Bo...
Bought by Spokane Public Radio and WJAB
- Added: Jun 22, 2016
- Length: 59:54
- Purchases: 2
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
ANNIVERSARY by Rachel Bonds, a comic drama about a young, grieving woman who finds love again. Featuring Michael Esper (The Last Ship, A Beautiful ...
- Added: Jun 15, 2016
- Length: 21:24
