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Mike Sawyer is on a mission to uncover the roots of Upper Midwest folk music and keep it alive for future generations.
- Added: Mar 07, 2024
- Length: 30:20
Part 2 of Up Close And Acoustic's interview of Robin Armstrong and Cosmograf 2022. It's a fine return visit by Robin and contains lots of music fro...
- Added: Dec 14, 2022
- Length: 58:12
An experiment in how people will react to videos of Israeli army and settler interactions with Palestinians becomes a fascinating study challenging...
- Added: Jul 19, 2022
- Length: 03:32
Guillermo del Toro adds his own Gothic sensibility to this thrilling new version of an old film noir.
- Added: Jul 19, 2022
- Length: 03:15
Tonight on The Sound, we dive into the alternative pop sounds of The Astronomers. This duo band, based out of Oshkosh WI, released their newest alb...
- Added: May 27, 2022
- Length: 01:01:09
French director Mia Hansen-Løve is a real cinephile. She loves to think and talk about film history and the works of famous filmmakers. Although sh...
- Added: May 11, 2022
- Length: 03:01
A married woman visits three friends in the city, and we are inspired to consider what is the nature of happiness for women in a “man’s world.”
- Added: May 11, 2022
- Length: 03:19
The Harlem Cultural Festival was a music festival taking place in the same summer of 1969 as Woodstock, and its amazing line-up, and insight into h...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: May 11, 2022
- Length: 03:32
- Purchases: 1
Wes Anderson’s playful new film is presented as an issue of a Paris-based American magazine, with three stories about the eternal appeal of non-con...
- Added: May 11, 2022
- Length: 03:20
A film from Norway about a young woman seeking fulfillment in relationships takes the conventions of romantic comedy and turns them over to reveal ...
- Added: May 11, 2022
- Length: 03:27
Jane Campion’s first film in twelve years examines deceptive notions of manhood on a cattle ranch in 1920s Montana.
- Added: Feb 17, 2022
- Length: 03:37
Emma Seligman’s debut feature uses a shiva, a Jewish post-funeral gathering, as the setting for a comedy about a young woman who doesn’t fit in, bu...
- Added: Feb 17, 2022
- Length: 04:11
Mikio Naruse’s great 1960 film presents a compassionate view of the life of bar hostesses in a disreputable section of Tokyo.
- Added: Feb 17, 2022
- Length: 03:20
Welcome to Up Close And Acoustic's complete Warren Zevon audio Documentary.
I am of the opinion that Warren Zevon should be recognized as one of Am...
- Added: May 19, 2021
- Length: 02:54:04
Robin Armstrong is a songwriter and composer whose outlet is the Progressive Rock music project Cosmograf.
Cosmograf's sound is very much based on ...
Bought by KTNA
- Added: Mar 21, 2021
- Length: 58:55
- Purchases: 1
In Part 1 of this interview, we explore the role of arts during crises, as well as how arts and artists are viewed in U.S. mainstream society. We’v...
- Added: Jul 23, 2020
- Length: 29:30
Many artists are familiar with the frustrating experience of performing “for exposure” or not being compensated fairly for their work. However, the...
Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio
- Added: Feb 21, 2020
- Length: 05:01
- Purchases: 1
The Irishman is the latest film from the now legendary director Martin Scorsese. It reunites him with his favorite actor Robert De Niro, and Joe Pe...
- Added: Dec 11, 2019
- Length: 04:58
George Segal plays an American corporal whose wheeling and dealing makes him a kind of king within the narrow world of a Japanese prisoner of war c...
- Added: May 16, 2019
- Length: 04:24
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
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
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
