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Dodsworth, a 1936 film directed by the great Hollywood filmmaker William Wyler, is an adaptation of the Sinclair Lewis novel of the same name. It’s...
- Added: May 19, 2020
- Length: 03:00
Since 9/11, the invasion of our privacy by the government’s national security apparatus, as well as by corporations, has become so alarming and per...
- Added: May 19, 2020
- Length: 03:31
Vittorio De Sica’s groundbreaking 1946 film about the tribulations of two Italian street kids was one of the founding documents of the film movemen...
- Added: May 19, 2020
- Length: 03:03
Francesco Rosi’s 1962 film uses the life of the titular Mafia bandit as a stepping-off point for an examination of postwar Sicilian history.
A man...
- Added: May 19, 2020
- Length: 03:27
Saint Frances, the debut feature film by Alex Thompson, written by and starring Kelly O’Sullivan, is not about the famous saint of Assisi. In this ...
- Added: May 17, 2020
- Length: 04:15
When It Was Live is pleased to present a weekly one hour series of the Lux Radio Theatre the finest radio theater series ever produced. The Lux Rad...
- Added: Mar 24, 2020
- Length: 59:57
- Purchases: 3
When It Was Live is pleased to present a weekly one hour series of the Lux Radio Theatre the finest radio theater series ever produced. The Lux Rad...
- Added: Mar 24, 2020
- Length: 01:00:14
- Purchases: 2
When It Was Live is pleased to present a weekly one hour series of the Lux Radio Theatre the finest radio theater series ever produced. The Lux Rad...
- Added: Mar 24, 2020
- Length: 01:00:10
- Purchases: 2
I’m a devotee of silent films, which I love and collect, yet even I have to admit that, in many cases, one must make certain allowances in terms of...
- Added: Mar 11, 2020
- Length: 03:58
A woman painter in an age (the 18th century) when such women were rare, is hired to paint a portrait of a countess’s daughter, who is living on a w...
- Added: Mar 04, 2020
- Length: 04:17
Mycology has been a relatively neglected subject over the years. It’s the study of mycelium, which is a term for the vegetative part of a fungus, c...
- Added: Feb 27, 2020
- Length: 04:00
When It Was Live is pleased to present a weekly one hour series of the Lux Radio Theatre the finest radio theater series ever produced. The Lux Rad...
- Added: Feb 26, 2020
- Length: 59:43
- Purchases: 3
When It Was Live is pleased to present a weekly one hour series of the Lux Radio Theatre the finest radio theater series ever produced. The Lux Ra...
- Added: Feb 24, 2020
- Length: 59:35
- Purchases: 3
When It Was Live is pleased to present a weekly one hour series of the Lux Radio Theatre the finest radio theater series ever produced. The Lux Ra...
- Added: Feb 24, 2020
- Length: 59:35
- Purchases: 4
When It Was Live is pleased to present a weekly one hour series of the Lux Radio Theatre the finest radio theater series ever produced. The Lux Ra...
- Added: Feb 24, 2020
- Length: 59:57
- Purchases: 3
The central dramatic figure of our time is the migrant, whose shifting, uncertain, and perilous fate reflects that of our world. Atlantics, the fir...
- Added: Feb 20, 2020
- Length: 04:43
Dark Waters tells the story of Robert Bilott, a corporate lawyer with a Cincinnati firm that specialized in defending big chemical corporations aga...
- Added: Feb 12, 2020
- Length: 04:56
In 1935, Hitler had been in power in Germany for two years. The rest of Europe desperately hoped that the disaster that was the Great War of 1914 t...
- Added: Feb 09, 2020
- Length: 04:31
Thinking back on 2019, preparing to put together a list of my favorite films from last year, I was struck more than ever by how my movie experience...
- Added: Feb 03, 2020
- Length: 04:52
Bryan Stevenson is a lawyer, an African American, who founded the Equal Justice Initiative in 1989. The EJI provides legal assistance to prisoners ...
- Added: Jan 28, 2020
- Length: 04:50
I became a fan of the Safdie brothers, Josh and Benny, after I saw their previous film from a couple years ago, Good Time, which I reviewed on this...
Bought by WOUB
- Added: Jan 23, 2020
- Length: 04:27
- Purchases: 1
Louisa May Alcott’s classic novel Little Women has been adapted into movies quite a few times before now. The book has usually been relegated to th...
- Added: Jan 16, 2020
- Length: 04:46
Over the long career of director Terrence Malick, he’s developed a unique style all his own, featuring extensive voice-over narration accompanied b...
- Added: Jan 14, 2020
- Length: 04:57
This time of year I’m often asked about what films I recommend to watch for the holiday and I have to say, “Sorry, I’m not really a fan of Christma...
- Added: Jan 02, 2020
- Length: 04:41
I just saw a film that touched me deeply, a movie playing at the multiplex for which I had not seen any ads or trailers. It’s about a fairly afflue...
- Added: Jan 02, 2020
- Length: 03:39