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On this episode of Art Beat, we continue our coverage of Frozen River Film Festival. First, we’ll hear from Cy Dodson, director of Beneath the Ink....
- Added: Mar 04, 2019
- Length: 17:14
Pawel Pawlikowski talks the honesty of black-and-white, non-political nostalgia, and eschewing extraneous exposition.
- Added: Feb 17, 2019
- Length: 16:19
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
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
Evan Dumouchel and MacLeod Andrews talk monsters, motives, and the magic of serendipitous loons.
- Added: Feb 12, 2019
- Length: 15:53
In 1917, a tragic and criminal episode in American history occurred in the copper mining town of Bisbee, Arizona. Local miners had recently been or...
- Added: Jan 31, 2019
- Length: 04:34
Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck talks art as a bulwark, Caleb Deschanel’s preternatural powers, and what’s wrong with bio-pics.
- Added: Jan 30, 2019
- Length: 16:57
On this episode of Art Beat we talk to Kim Lawler, a scenic artist who has been hired to lead the restoration of 13 historic backdrops at the Mason...
- Added: Jan 22, 2019
- Length: 18:27
A vivid portrait of a brilliant, troubled author.
- Added: Jan 15, 2019
- Length: 01:57:58
- Purchases: 13
A family crisis leads to a reluctant reunion.
Bought by KCHW, WCPN, Spokane Public Radio, KMUN, KWMR and more
- Added: Jan 15, 2019
- Length: 01:58:00
- Purchases: 16
Within the first days of the First Lebanon War, two families become unfortunately intertwined through the coincidence of their name.
- Added: Nov 15, 2018
- Length: 29:26
Hindsight is not a good way to view history. Yet, we frequently see our past with an expression of “what if”. On the other hand, even the slightest...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Nov 13, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Paul Dano talks love, pain, and the space between the lines.
- Added: Oct 27, 2018
- Length: 15:09
On this episode of Art Beat we talk to filmmakers Vince O’Connel and Kathy Swanson, who together produced the film Farmer of the Year. Made and set...
- Added: Sep 21, 2018
- Length: 35:24
Björn Runge talks starting in the past, being generous to the audience, and taking care of the writer.
- Added: Aug 25, 2018
- Length: 17:17
Sometimes I come across a real treasure by sheer chance. Recently, when the movie I’d gone to see was sold out, I went to another one in the same t...
- Added: Aug 20, 2018
- Length: 03:47
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
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
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
Daveed Diggs and Rafael Casal talk compassion, snap judgments, and the Michael Bay button.
- Added: Jul 17, 2018
- Length: 14:08
2018 is the 25th anniversary of Angels In America. Author of its oral history, The World Only Spins Forward discusses the influence of the play.
- Added: Jun 22, 2018
- Length: 53:59
- Purchases: 2
Bart Layton talks experiment, memory, and having skin in the game.
- Added: Jun 09, 2018
- Length: 14:46
Young actor Dria Brown talks with the National Endowment for the Arts about playing Joan of Arc at DC's Folger Theatre.
- Added: Jun 08, 2018
- Length: 25:10