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Filmspotting 876 (06/03/22): Top 5 Movies For Graduates
From: WBEZ
Series: Filmspotting (weekly series)
Caption: Top 5 Movies For Graduates
For their "Top 5 Movies for Graduates," Adam and Josh choose tales of hardship, uncertainty, letting go, and finding fulfillment from Hayao Miyazak...

Bought by KNCT FM, KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio), KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., RADIOLEX, WRST-FM Oshkosh and more


  • Added: Jun 03, 2022
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 9
Leading an arts center into the future
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Sonja Kostich and Stella Abrera, Credit: Quinn Wharton
Sonja Kostich and Stella Abrera—both Asian Americans, former dancers, and co-leaders of Kaatsbaan Cultural Park—talk about the organization and its...

Bought by WMPG, RADIOLEX, KZUM, WDCB, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif. and more


  • Added: May 31, 2022
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 6
Filmspotting 875 (05/27/22): Top Gun Maverick / Steamboat Bill, Jr. (Keaton #5)
From: WBEZ
Series: Filmspotting (weekly series)
Caption: 'Top Gun: Maverick' / 'Steamboat Bill, Jr.' (Buster Keaton)
Scrubbed of nostalgia, 1986's "Top Gun" is, let's be honest, a big slab of '80s cheese. But there's that star-making turn by Tom Cruise; some flash...

Bought by KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio), KNCT FM, RADIOLEX, GCR (Global Community Radio), KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: May 27, 2022
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 9
Filmspotting 874 (05/20/22): Men / The General (Keaton #4)
From: WBEZ
Series: Filmspotting (weekly series)
Caption: Alex Gardland's 'Men'
Do you have to understand a movie to love it? And if so, how much do you have to understand a movie to love it? This, more or less, is what constit...

Bought by KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio), KNCT FM, GCR (Global Community Radio), RADIOLEX, WRST-FM Oshkosh and more


  • Added: May 20, 2022
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 10
Petite Maman
From: KXCI
Series: Flicks with the Film Snob Chris Dashiell
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French writer-director Céline Sciamma has followed up her big success from 2019, Portrait of a Lady on Fire, with a surprising story of childhood, ...

  • Added: May 19, 2022
  • Length: 03:28
Gunda
From: KXCI
Series: Flicks with the Film Snob Chris Dashiell
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Victor Kossakovsky shows us the experience of farm animals without the mediation of human words and concepts, in a film that extends compassion to ...

  • Added: May 19, 2022
  • Length: 03:23
Daniel K. Isaac from "Billions" to Broadway
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Daniel K. Isaac, Credit: Emil Cohen
You may know Daniel K. Isaac as Ben Kim from the television series “Billions,” but he’s also a committed and talented actor in theater and an accom...

Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KZUM, RADIOLEX, and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: May 16, 2022
  • Length: 29:57
  • Purchases: 4
Filmspotting 873 (05/13/22): Summer Movie Preview – 2022
From: WBEZ
Series: Filmspotting (weekly series)
Caption: Summer Movie Preview
With new films from Jordan Peele, Alex Garland, and Claire Denis, not to mention the latest from Marvel, Pixar, and the long-awaited return of Tom ...

Bought by KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio), KNCT FM, WRST-FM Oshkosh, GCR (Global Community Radio), RADIOLEX and more


  • Added: May 13, 2022
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 10
Licorice Pizza
From: KXCI
Series: Flicks with the Film Snob Chris Dashiell
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Paul Thomas Anderson pays humorous tribute to the 1970s in southern California in this story of a teenage entrepreneur who falls for a clever young...

  • Added: May 11, 2022
  • Length: 03:26
What Do We See When We Look at the Sky?
From: KXCI
Series: Flicks with the Film Snob Chris Dashiell
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An evil eye changes the appearance of two young people in love so that they can’t recognize one another, in a film from the country of Georgia that...

  • Added: May 11, 2022
  • Length: 03:31
Pygmalion
From: KXCI
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Bernard Shaw’s popular comedy, about a phonetics professor who makes a bet that he can turn a street person into a lady, was given near-perfect for...

  • Added: May 11, 2022
  • Length: 03:02
Filmspotting 872 (05/06/22): Spider-Man (20th Anniversary) / Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
From: WBEZ
Series: Filmspotting (weekly series)
Caption: Spider-Man (2002)
Back in 2002, the superhero genre was still finding its feet. Tim Burton's "Batman" had been huge in '89, but the franchise it spawned had fizzled ...

Bought by KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio), KNCT FM, GCR (Global Community Radio), RADIOLEX, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: May 06, 2022
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 9
Filmspotting 871 (04/29/22): The Northman / Sherlock, Jr. (Buster Keaton #3)
From: WBEZ
Caption: 'The Northman' (Robert Eggers) / 'Sherlock, Jr.' (Buster Keaton)
With an obsessive attention to historical detail and a fascination with lore, language, and ritual, there is no mistaking "The Northman" for the wo...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), KNCT FM, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., RadioStPete Florida, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Apr 29, 2022
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 7
Filmspotting 870 (04/22/22): Top 5 Nicolas Cage Performances / Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent
From: WBEZ
Caption: Top 5 Nicolas Cage Performances / 'Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent'
For over four decades, Nicolas Cage has remained a distinctive and unpredictable screen presence, navigating a career that has gone from memorable ...

Bought by KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio), GCR (Global Community Radio), KNCT FM, RADIOLEX, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Apr 22, 2022
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 8
Meet bassist, composer, and NEA Jazz Master Stanley Clarke
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Stanley Clarke, Credit: Toshi Sakurai
In this tuneful podcast, bassist Stanley Clarke talks about his long and storied career, including his musical partnerships with Chick Corea and th...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, RADIOLEX, KZUM, and KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif.


  • Added: Apr 19, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
Filmspotting 869 (04/15/22): Everything Everywhere All At Once / Face/Off at 25
From: WBEZ
Caption: 'Everything Everywhere All at Once'
The directing duo Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert (“Swiss Army Man”) take a maximalist approach to filmmaking that suits the dizzying plotting of ...

Bought by KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio), KNCT FM, GCR (Global Community Radio), RADIOLEX, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Apr 15, 2022
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 9
Filmspotting 868 (04/08/22): Kogonada interview / After Yang (Next Picture Show discussion)
From: WBEZ
Series: Filmspotting (weekly series)
Caption: Interview with filmmaker Kogonada ('After Yang,' 'Columbus')
With his first two films, 2017's “Columbus” and the new "After Yang," director Kogonada has established a meditative style of filmmaking that rewar...

Bought by RADIOLEX, KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio), KNCT FM, GCR (Global Community Radio), KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Apr 08, 2022
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 8
Filmspotting 867 (04/01/22): Apollo 10 1/2 / Top 5 Linklater Scenes
From: WBEZ
Caption: Apollo 10 1/2 / Top 5 Linklater Scenes
Among Richard Linklater’s gifts is his ability to find the transcendent in the ordinary. A young man and woman meeting on a train. A last day of sc...

Bought by KSRQ, RADIOLEX, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio), RadioStPete Florida and more


  • Added: Apr 01, 2022
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 7
Filmspotting 863 (03/04/22): The Batman / Our Hospitality (Buster Keaton #2)
From: WBEZ
Caption: 'The Batman' (2022)
Part detective story, part serial killer movie, Matt Reeves’ "The Batman" evokes Fincher’s “Se7en” and “Taxi Driver”-era Scorsese, while star Rober...

Bought by KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio), GCR (Global Community Radio), RADIOLEX, WRST-FM Oshkosh, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Mar 04, 2022
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 10
Paul Davies - UK-Based Sound Designer - The Proposition, The Queen, Hunger, We Need To Talk About Kevin, The Imposter, You Were Never Really Here, Saint Maud, Encounter
From: MergingArts Productions
Series: Spoiler Alert Radio
Caption: Encounter
Paul Davies - UK-Based Sound Designer - The Proposition, The Queen, Hunger, We Need To Talk About Kevin, The Imposter, You Were Never Really Here, ...

Bought by RADIOLEX


  • Added: Feb 27, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Went the Day Well?
From: KXCI
Series: Flicks with the Film Snob Chris Dashiell
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One of the most unusual examples of propaganda ever filmed, made in the midst of the Second World War, imagines what it would be like if Germans ca...

  • Added: Feb 17, 2022
  • Length: 04:49
Filmspotting 860 (02/11/22): Top 5 Sondheim Screen Moments
From: WBEZ
Series: Filmspotting (weekly series)
Caption: Stephen Sondheim in 'Original Cast Album: Company' (1970)
Stephen Sondheim’s contributions to musical theater were so immense and influential that when he died last fall at 91, it was not uncommon to see h...

Bought by KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio), KSRQ, GCR (Global Community Radio), RADIOLEX, WRST-FM Oshkosh and more


  • Added: Feb 11, 2022
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 9
Filmspotting 859 (02/04/22): The Godfather (50th anniversary Sacred Cow review)
From: WBEZ
Series: Filmspotting (weekly series)
Caption: Marlon Brando in 'The Godfather' (1972)
As they approached their rewatch of 1972’s "The Godfather," Adam and Josh questioned whether they -- or anybody, really -- could bring anything new...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio, KTSW 89.9, KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio), GCR (Global Community Radio), RADIOLEX and more


  • Added: Feb 04, 2022
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 11
Audio Description: Giving Voice to the Visual
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Joel Snyder
Educator, advocate and pioneer in audio description, Dr. Joel Snyder talks about putting the visual into words for blind people.

Bought by WDCB, RADIOLEX, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KZUM, and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 24, 2022
  • Length: 28:51
  • Purchases: 5
Filmspotting 856 (01/14/22): The Matrix Resurrections / The Tragedy of Macbeth
From: WBEZ
Caption: 'The Matrix Resurrections' / 'The Tragedy of Macbeth'
Adam and Josh did not choose the same color pill before recording their review of "The Matrix Resurrections." Both fans of the '99 original and equ...

Bought by KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio), KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WRST-FM Oshkosh, KSRQ, RadioStPete Florida and more


  • Added: Jan 14, 2022
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 7

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