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I’ve spoken on this show before about the Armenian-born Soviet filmmaker Sergei Paradjanov, who directed the groundbreaking film Shadows of Forgott...
- Added: Jul 22, 2020
- Length: 03:32
Jia Zhangke is mainland China’s most cutting-edge director, challenging that country’s official story of economic triumph with poetic and elliptica...
- Added: Jul 14, 2020
- Length: 03:32
Sometimes when I revisit a good film, I start to notice a few flaws which lower my regard for the movie a little bit. But that didn’t happen on a r...
- Added: Jul 09, 2020
- Length: 03:30
The Magnificent Ambersons, the first film Orson Welles made after Citizen Kane, has suffered from its reputation as something of a “lost” film. It ...
- Added: Jun 29, 2020
- Length: 03:24
This week on On Story, legendary director Jonathan Demme (Silence of the Lambs, Rachel Getting Married, Philadelphia) spoke with Paul Thomas Anders...
- Added: Jun 22, 2020
- Length: 54:00
If one were asked to name great British film directors, I’m sure that Alfred Hitchcock and David Lean would spring to mind immediately, and rightly...
- Added: Jun 22, 2020
- Length: 03:21
Recently I was asked to put together a list of my all-time favorite films—not a greatest films of all time list, but a list of movies that were spe...
- Added: Jun 16, 2020
- Length: 03:09
The 1954 Army-McCarthy hearings were among the first government hearings to be televised live, providing a spectacle rivaled only by the much later...
- Added: Jun 08, 2020
- Length: 03:38
Never has a filmmaker been so influential, with such a short career, as the French director Jean Vigo. With only three films to his name, Vigo, who...
- Added: Jun 02, 2020
- Length: 03:21
Once in a while when I see the previews for a film, it gives me the wrong impression, and makes me decide to stay away. This is what happened to me...
- Added: May 25, 2020
- Length: 03:40
For a brief time in the 1930s, there was a movement in French cinema called “poetic realism.” These films combined deeply romantic themes with a ki...
- Added: May 19, 2020
- Length: 03:01
In what we now call the classic era of Hollywood film, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) had more stars than any other studio. In 1932, as if to prove that...
- Added: May 19, 2020
- Length: 03:28
On any film buff’s short list of great Russian directors you’re bound to see the name of Andrei Tarkovsky, who directed seven brilliant and challen...
- Added: May 19, 2020
- Length: 03:05
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
This week on On Story we’ll hear from documentary storytellers Chapman and Maclain Way on their Emmy award winning Netflix documentary Wild Wild Co...
- Added: May 13, 2020
- Length: 53:56
This week, Oscar-nominated writer Randall Wallace reflects on his iconic and Academy Award-winning film, Braveheart followed by screenwriter, Jeb S...
- Added: Apr 22, 2020
- Length: 54:00
This week on On Story we’ll hear Pulitzer Prize-winning author Lawrence Wright on his new book God Save Texas and the Hulu mini-series he adapted f...
- Added: Apr 15, 2020
- Length: 54:00
This week on On Story, CHERNOBYL creator Craig Mazin discusses his HBO five part mini-series. The series tells the true story of the world’s worst ...
- Added: Apr 08, 2020
- Length: 54:00
The 67 shots that rang out at Kent State amid a May 4,1970 Vietnam War protest, killing four students and wounding nine, reverberate nearly 50 year...
- Added: Apr 01, 2020
- Length: 58:58
- Purchases: 29
This week, The Glass Castle co-writer Andrew Lanham discusses adapting the New York Times Best Seller memoir of the same name followed by Life of ...
- Added: Mar 25, 2020
- Length: 54:00
This week on the show: Coronavirus? Don't panic! -
So far, the COVID-19 virus has infected about 200,000 people worldwide. To help contain t...
- Added: Mar 20, 2020
- Length: 30:00
