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Claire Denis, the French filmmaker, has established her international reputation over three decades as a director of art cinema: social dramas with...
- Added: May 16, 2019
- Length: 04:12
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
Inspired by actual events, Happy Family tells the story of a group of working women in the 1970s who sued a major corporation for equal pay and equ...
Bought by KUNM
- Added: Dec 18, 2018
- Length: 58:34
- Purchases: 1
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
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri. I have to admit I kind of admire the courage it took for a producer to approve such an awkward title for...
- Added: Dec 31, 2017
- Length: 03:34
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
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
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
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
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
Two short plays about teenagers facing their futures. With summer imminent, they look ahead with anxiety, optimism, resignation, possibility. In th...
Bought by Connecticut Public (WNPR), Oregon Public Broadcasting, WHRV, and KUNM
- Added: Nov 04, 2015
- Length: 53:00
- Purchases: 4
Two Jewish Men In Their Seventies by Pulitzer Prize finalist Alexandra Gersten-Vassilaros features the hilarous Bob Dishy (Along Came Polly) and Je...
- Added: Oct 29, 2015
- Length: 15:10
In the manic, outrageous and other dimension comedy The Philadelphia by David Ives, even ordering a sandwich is a challenge of epic proportions - l...
- Added: Oct 28, 2015
- Length: 15:04
- Purchases: 3
In BANSHEE, a teacher (Aidan Quinn) who's home sick receives a visitation from an Irish sprite (Geraldine Hughes) and an out-of-this-world proposal...
- Added: Feb 12, 2015
- Length: 25:46
Michael Urie, Harriet Harris and a great ensemble of actors star in three short plays about love and marriage. A couple celebrates their 24th anniv...
Bought by KUNM, Connecticut Public (WNPR), Oregon Public Broadcasting, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), and KUNM
- Added: Feb 11, 2015
- Length: 53:00
- Purchases: 5
William Jackson Harper is a lascivious bee swarming a young woman’s Upper West Side apartment. Two vultures have a bone to pick with Saint Francis....
Bought by Connecticut Public (WNPR), New Hampshire Public Radio, Oregon Public Broadcasting, KZYX, and KUNM
- Added: Sep 04, 2014
- Length: 53:00
- Purchases: 5
