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World in Progress: Picking up the pieces -
In this week's show: As more than one million people are leaving their homes in the US to escape Hurr...
- Added: Sep 12, 2018
- Length: 30:00
It may take a while to process your feelings once you’ve seen Hereditary, the scary debut feature from writer-director Ari Aster. A lot of horror m...
- Added: Aug 20, 2018
- Length: 03:45
I’ve remarked more than once, here on the show, on the unique qualities that director Wes Anderson brings to his films.
- Added: Aug 20, 2018
- Length: 04:44
Argentine filmmaker Lucrecia Martel has become my favorite living director. That might sound extravagant to say about someone who has only made fou...
- Added: Aug 20, 2018
- Length: 08:38
For someone who writes about films as I do, there are always cases of movies that fly under the radar, escaping my notice, maybe not even playing l...
- Added: Aug 20, 2018
- Length: 03:35
Egypt has the largest film industry in the Arab world. There have been movies produced in Egypt, mostly in Cairo, since the early silent era.
- Added: Aug 20, 2018
- Length: 04:21
There’s a special place in my heart for silly comedies. I realize I don’t review these kinds of movies on the show very often, and that’s partly be...
- Added: Apr 03, 2018
- Length: 04:46
There have been three films this year featuring the rescue of British troops from Dunkirk, and two about Winston Churchill. I’m not sure why this w...
- Added: Jan 17, 2018
- Length: 04:32
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
The talented writer and actress Greta Gerwig proves that she can also excel in the director’s chair, in her debut film, Lady Bird. The film begins ...
- Added: Dec 09, 2017
- Length: 03:35
The Zookeeper’s Wife tells the true story of a married couple in Warsaw, the owners and operators of a zoo, who rescued hundreds of Jews from the g...
- Added: Sep 06, 2017
- Length: 03:55
When you put something on a pedestal, it becomes a prime target for pigeons. Or to put it another way – if a certain movie consistently shows up on...
- Added: Sep 06, 2017
- Length: 05:52
This week, as promised, I’m continuing my discussion of Citizen Kane, Orson Welles’ famous debut film from 1941. Last time I talked about why the f...
- Added: Sep 06, 2017
- Length: 04:45
We'll feature the amazing mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato, from her very first solo cd to her latest release, In War and Peace.
- Added: Jun 22, 2017
- Length: 01:58:00
- Purchases: 6
Host Bob Kustra talks with historian H.W. Brands about his book about a showdown between President Truman and General MacArthur.
- Added: Mar 03, 2017
- Length: 30:30
My taste in horror films tends towards the classical. I like a movie with a creepy or macabre point of view more than one that tries really hard to...
Bought by WTIP
- Added: Jan 05, 2017
- Length: 03:36
- Purchases: 1
The Queen of Katwe, a film by Mira Nair, is based on the true story of Phiona Mutesi, a Ugandan girl who, with very little formal education, became...
- Added: Jan 05, 2017
- Length: 03:39
I’ve been on a music documentary binge lately. After Eight Days a Week, the Ron Howard film about The Beatles, which I loved, I saw another doc abo...
- Added: Jan 05, 2017
- Length: 04:29
William J. Mann is an American novelist, biographer, and Hollywood historian best known for his studies of Hollywood and the American film industry.
- Added: Oct 14, 2014
- Length: 21:16
We take you to Lanesboro MN's Ibsen Fest 2014 with a talk by Proessor Mark Sandberg. Sandberg is the current president of The Ibsen Society of Amer...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Sep 05, 2014
- Length: 29:05
- Purchases: 1
Carl Hoffman is a journalist who has written for many publications.
- Added: May 19, 2014
- Length: 20:57
The following piece is a portrait of a relationship between a high school theatre teacher and his student.
Bought by KUT
- Added: May 24, 2013
- Length: 09:57
- Purchases: 1
On this episode of Art Beat we visit with Eric Stone a scenic designer for The Great River Shakespeare Festival Season 9 in Winona MN. Eric has des...
Bought by KPIP-LP
- Added: Jun 20, 2012
- Length: 26:47
- Purchases: 1
Emmy award winner Ed Asner talks with Dawn Newton about is appearance in the one man show, "FDR". Asner also comments on how those "FDR" years sha...
- Added: May 08, 2012
- Length: 09:10
Mike Daisey has admitted to fabricating parts of his story on Foxconn for "This American Life." But, perhaps partly due to the attention his story ...
- Added: Apr 10, 2012
- Length: 02:02
