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This episode focuses on the making of Whit Stillman's third film, The Last Days of Disco, the conclusion in what is often referred to as his Doomed...
- Added: Feb 23, 2024
- Length: 54:00
Jean Shepard, a renowned American storyteller, captivated audiences for decades with his unique blend of humor, wit, and nostalgia. His radio caree...
- Added: Dec 14, 2023
- Length: 04:55
On this episode of the Polley Music Library Show, we looked at the new book "Music for Prime Time," which documents the rich history of music writt...
- Added: Jun 21, 2023
- Length: 28:30
Once outrage in distant India would barely ruffle feathers in New York. But no more. As the newsletter Broadsheet pointed out today if media is glo...
- Added: Dec 11, 2018
- Length: 06:00
You Were Never Really Here. That’s a strange and unsettling title for a film. But it perfectly fits this new picture, the fourth feature from Scott...
- Added: Aug 20, 2018
- Length: 04:11
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
During Russia’s gradual descent back to dictatorship, one prominent film director has unsparingly depicted the spiritual rot in the heart of his co...
- Added: Aug 20, 2018
- Length: 03:52
The desire for a loving relationship takes many forms in the latest film from veteran French director Claire Denis, Let the Sunshine In. Juliette B...
- Added: Aug 20, 2018
- Length: 04:15
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
A man of faith is tested to the limit in Paul Schrader’s latest film, First Reformed. Ethan Hawke plays Reverend Stoller, the minister of a Dutch R...
- Added: Aug 20, 2018
- Length: 04:35
I’ve remarked more than once, here on the show, on the unique qualities that director Wes Anderson brings to his films.
- Added: Aug 20, 2018
- Length: 04:44
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
Call Me by Your Name is a gay love story without the angst, struggle, campiness, social comment, or outright tragedy that we have come to expect fr...
- Added: Feb 12, 2018
- Length: 04:04
This last year saw the release of Blade Runner 2049, a sequel to the 1982 science fiction classic Blade Runner. It’s rather unusual for a sequel to...
- Added: Jan 24, 2018
- Length: 04:40
In today’s installment of the Untold Stories of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack presents Part 1 of 2 of the Untol...
- Added: Jun 27, 2017
- Length: 30:01
It must sting Hindu Americans that Aslan, an Iranian-American often called upon to speak out against stereotyping Islam, seems to be now playing a ...
- Added: Mar 14, 2017
- Length: 05:59
Was your best friend is a fictional person? Our Unlikely Celebrity Obsession series continues with the story of a boy who wrote letters to an 80's ...
- Added: Jan 15, 2017
- Length: 19:44
What makes a great origin story -- for superheroes or regular people going on a job interview?
Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WABE, and PRX Remix
- Added: Dec 05, 2014
- Length: 15:21
- Purchases: 3
Seton Hall University Athletics competitive rise to the top of Intercollegiate Athletics behind the Vision and dedication of their Athletic Directo...
- Added: Nov 21, 2014
- Length: 15:59
XPRESSIONS is a series of short, light-hearted features about the origin of popular phrases & sayings of every sort.
Bought by Key Radio KEYK 89.3 FM
- Added: Oct 26, 2014
- Length: 01:45
- Purchases: 1
Aaron J. Brown is an author and community college instructor from the Iron Range. He writes MinnesotaBrown.com and hosts Northern Community Radio's...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: May 13, 2014
- Length: 03:25
- Purchases: 1
In which I finally give my opinion.
- Added: Apr 08, 2014
- Length: 12:58
In the relaxation drink market, companies aren’t waging the usual battle over a single word like “energy”; instead they’re picking their drugs of c...
- Added: Jan 30, 2014
- Length: 04:57
A box of sound effects from the Captain Kangaroo show opens the door to a bygone era of live television production. Interviews with key players on ...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Aug 16, 2013
- Length: 09:50
- Purchases: 1
