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Elvis. Michael Jackson. Tupac. Many believe these people are still alive but faked their death. What is better is that of all the musicians we ...
- Added: Sep 19, 2021
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 6
This week we speak with author Jim Curtis about his new book, Decoding Dylan Making Sense of the Songs That Changed Modern Culture. Curtis is an a...
- Added: Sep 12, 2021
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 7
All too often, when a concert is poorly attended, it is made fun of. However, used correctly, it can be a learning experience to work on your perf...
- Added: Sep 05, 2021
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 7
If you have ever posted content to YouTube that contains music, there is a good chance you've had a ContentID interaction. You could have received...
- Added: Aug 29, 2021
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 7
What is the future of music? Could it be music made only for you, by a computer that knows and monitors you? THat way it plays you the exact musi...
Bought by KWIT, KTRL, WOUB, and Harford Community Radio
- Added: Aug 09, 2021
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 4
This week, we're not talking about songs that were featured in movies, rather, songs that were written because a movie the artist saw, prompted it,...
- Added: Jul 25, 2021
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 6
The FreeBritney movement has been active lately calling for the singer to be free of her father. But should she be? Why was she put under a conse...
Bought by KWIT, WOUB, KTRL, KSRQ, and Harford Community Radio
- Added: Jul 18, 2021
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 5
We break down the NBA Finals game 2, talk about Trevor Bauer and get into Kens Top 10 and the name game.
Bought by WYAP
- Added: Jul 13, 2021
- Length: 56:05
- Purchases: 1
There was an all-too brief renaissance in American film in the 1970s, when writers and directors were free to experiment with radically different s...
- Added: Aug 26, 2020
- Length: 03:18
The screwball comedy was a special kind of a film that flourished in Hollywood in the 1930s and 40s. It featured zany, no-holds-barred dialogue and...
- Added: Aug 21, 2020
- Length: 03:15
Loulou, a 1980 film by French director Maurice Pialat, tells of an upper middle class woman named Nelly (played by Isabelle Huppert), who grows tir...
- Added: Aug 08, 2020
- Length: 03:51
One of the recurring motifs in Alfred Hitchcock’s films concerns a woman who suspects a loved one of being a monster. In his 1936 film Sabotage, th...
- Added: Jul 28, 2020
- Length: 03:28
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
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
This week on the show we talk about what concerts will be like after the major pandemic which has affected the world.
- Added: May 25, 2020
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 8
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
