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Werner Herzog’s 1972 masterwork attacks the colonial mindset through the story of an insane Spanish conquistador searching for a lost city of gold ...
- Added: Oct 31, 2019
- Length: 03:24
Renée Zellweger gives a stunning performance as Judy Garland in the last year of her life, performing in London while suffering from the drug addic...
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- Added: Oct 30, 2019
- Length: 04:34
- Purchases: 1
Two documentaries about independent journalism: the first chronicles the life and career of the maverick opinion columnist Molly Ivins; the second ...
- Added: Oct 30, 2019
- Length: 04:56
A young man with Down Syndrome resists society’s patronizing approach to his life and possibilities, by escaping from a nursing home and going on a...
- Added: Oct 30, 2019
- Length: 04:20
This stylish 1981 cult favorite from Jean-Jacques Beineix tells of a young man’s obsession with an opera singer, and his accidental involvement in ...
- Added: Oct 30, 2019
- Length: 04:02
Dan, Mary Pat and Nathan discuss a trio of movies that come, more or less, from the film-festival circuit: "Sword of Trust," "The Souvenir" and "Hi...
- Added: Aug 28, 2019
- Length: 24:00
Jim Jarmusch still seems, at least to me, like the daring young innovator of independent film, even though he’s been writing and directing movies f...
- Added: Aug 15, 2019
- Length: 04:35
In 1913 Budapest, a young woman searches relentlessly for the secrets of her own family, in a film that dramatizes a premonition of the old Europea...
- Added: Aug 15, 2019
- Length: 04:31
Most of us spend close to half of our waking adult lives at work, but I would venture to guess that less than five percent of narrative films take ...
- Added: Jul 31, 2019
- Length: 03:56
A young black man yearns to reclaim the old San Francisco house that he grew up in, but which his father lost, in this film about home, friendship,...
- Added: Jul 31, 2019
- Length: 03:39
Ari Aster’s latest horror film depicts a group of young Americans encountering a strange pagan community in Sweden.
- Added: Jul 31, 2019
- Length: 04:26
On this show I want to cover two films about people trying to do something no one else has done; both of them played in theaters during the past ye...
- Added: Jul 31, 2019
- Length: 04:26
A documentary tells of a couple’s struggle to create and maintain an organic farm that is totally in harmony with nature.
- Added: Jul 11, 2019
- Length: 04:19
English director Joanna Hogg presents the pain of a young woman filmmaker’s destructive relationship with an addict in The Souvenir, while Pamela B...
- Added: Jul 11, 2019
- Length: 09:07
In the early 1970s, at the peak of her powers and her success, Aretha Franklin decided that she wanted to make a gospel album, going back to the mu...
- Added: May 23, 2019
- Length: 04:35
Elisabeth Moss dominates the screen as a crash-and-burn rock star in Alex Ross Perry’s latest provocative drama.
- Added: May 16, 2019
- Length: 03:54
Ruth Bader Ginsburg is a Supreme Court Justice and an advocate for civil rights, especially the rights of women. She was the second woman ever appo...
- Added: Feb 14, 2019
- Length: 04:39
Sweet Country is a tough, complex Australian film that provides a glimpse into the painful history of that nations’s brutal treatment of its origin...
- Added: Feb 14, 2019
- Length: 04:05
Barry Jenkins adapts a James Baldwin novel about a black couple who won’t let anything, including an unjust arrest, keep them apart.
- Added: Feb 14, 2019
- Length: 04:55
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
Jon Negroni shares his spoiler-free thoughts on ROMA, the new film directed by Alfonso Cuarón.
- Added: Dec 13, 2018
- Length: 11:15
As the Fashion Footwear Association of New York (FFANY) comes to visit Conrad Bradford talks to Alicia Walters about the shoe business.
- Added: Aug 23, 2018
- Length: 28:30
There have been quite a few dramatic films on the theme of the death penalty, most of them making an eloquent case against it, and some of them rea...
- Added: Dec 09, 2017
- Length: 03:26
Drawn from over 100 hours of footage from the National Geographic archives that was long believed to be lost, and featuring a gorgeous musical scor...
- Added: Dec 09, 2017
- Length: 04:14
The coastline has been basically in the same place for all of human civilization and now that’s changing in very unpredictable and unsettling ways....
- Added: Nov 30, 2017
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 2
