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Filmspotting 626 (03/17/17): Danny Boyle Interview, & He Shares His Top 5 Boyle Characters
From: WBEZ
Caption: Ewen Bremner, Ewan McGregor, Jonny Lee Miller and Robert Carlyle in 'T2 Trainspotting '
"Trainspotting" wasn't huge hit in its day, but the 1996 film made an impression on a generation of young film fans thanks to its visual flair, mem...

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  • Added: Mar 17, 2017
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 9
Filmspotting 624 (03/03/17): Get Out, Filmspotting Madness-Top 5 Pantheon Contenders, Remembering Bill Paxton
From: WBEZ
Caption: Daniel Kaluuya in Jordan Peele's 'Get Out'
Who needs to be told how great "The Godfather" is? Or "Citizen Kane"? Or, um... "Midnight Run"? That was the logic back in the earliest days of the...

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  • Added: Mar 03, 2017
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 9
Filmspotting 623 (02/24/17): 2017 Oscar Picks
From: WBEZ
Caption: 2017 Oscar Picks
This year’s Oscar ceremony is bound to get political, but how might Oscar voters send a message with their ballots? Adam and guest host Michael Phi...

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  • Added: Feb 24, 2017
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 11
Filmspotting 620 (02/03/17): 2017 Movie Preview, Oscar Talk, Sundance Recap
From: WBEZ
Caption: Denis Villeneuve's 'Blade Runner 2049'
The short version of Filmspotting's 2017 Movie Preview is easy: it starts with "Last" and ends with "Jedi." For a longer take, listen to this week'...

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  • Added: Feb 03, 2017
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 11
Filmspotting Revisited (01/27/17): Interview with Barry Jenkins & Naomie Harris (Moonlight), La La Land review
From: WBEZ
Series: Filmspotting (weekly series)
Caption: Mahershala Ali and Alex R. Hibbert in Barry Jenkins' 'Moonlight'
With its 14 Oscar nominations, the 2017 Best Picture Oscar seems ""La La Land’s" to lose. In the role of spoiler? The critically adored "Moonlight,...

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  • Added: Jan 27, 2017
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 11
Filmspotting 619 (01/20/17): 2016 Wrap Party Live (Best Opening Scenes, Scenes of the Year, Funniest Scenes, Golden Brick Award & more)
From: WBEZ
Series: Filmspotting (weekly series)
Caption: Michael Phillips, Josh Larsen & Adam Kempenaar at Filmspotting's 2016 Wrap Party Live
For Filmspotting's annual year-end Wrap Party, Adam, Josh and some very special guests set up camp on Chicago's South Side for a live show dedicate...

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  • Added: Jan 20, 2017
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 8
Filmspotting 600 REBROADCAST (01/13/17): Top 5 Movies Future Historians Will Remember w/ Chuck Klosterman
From: WBEZ
Series: Filmspotting (weekly series)
Caption: Christopher Nolan's 'Inception'
Citizen Kane, Vertigo, The Godfather. 200 years from now, will anyone even remember these movies? Or are we currently overlooking the classics of t...

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  • Added: Jan 13, 2017
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 10
Filmspotting 617 (12/30/16): Top 10 Films of 2016 (Part 2)
From: WBEZ
Caption: Top 10 Films of 2016, Part 2
2016 was a tough year. We lost icons like Prince, David Bowie and just days ago Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds. And how about that not-divisive-...

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  • Added: Dec 30, 2016
  • Length: 53:52
  • Purchases: 10
Filmspotting 616 (12/23/16): Top 10 Films of 2016 (Part 1)
From: WBEZ
Caption: Top 10 Films of 2016, Part 1
A lot of usual suspects at the top of the box office charts in 2016: Pixar, Marvel, Star Wars, Disney and Harry Potter. And a lot of those movies? ...

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  • Added: Dec 23, 2016
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 10
Filmspotting 612 (11/25/16): Top 5 Movies That Console, and Restore Hope
From: WBEZ
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Movies can entertain us, transport us and move us, but can they heal us? That’s the question Adam, Josh and Michael Phillips wrestled with as they ...

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  • Added: Nov 23, 2016
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 9
The Band 40th Anniversary of "The Last Waltz:" All Access
From: Dan Neer
Series: All Access World Premieres
Caption: The 40th Anniversary of the Band's "The Last Waltz:" All Access
Robbie Robertson shares insights looking back from 40 years on at one of, if not THE best rock and roll concerts and films, The Last Waltz. Interv...

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  • Added: Nov 21, 2016
  • Length: 58:24
  • Purchases: 11
Filmspotting 611.5 (11/18/16): 2016 Golden Brick Preview Special
From: WBEZ
Caption: Royalty Hightower in Anna Rose Holmer's 'The Fits'
With Thanksgiving approaching, Adam and Josh give a shout out to some of the year's best overlooked movies. Along with the shortlist for the 2016 G...

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  • Added: Nov 18, 2016
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 8
Filmspotting 610 (11/04/16): Barry Jenkins and Naomie Harris (Moonlight), Doctor Strange, Tower
From: WBEZ
Caption: Mahershala Ali and Alex R. Hibbert in Barry Jenkins' 'Moonlight'
Director Barry Jenkins and playwright Tarell McCraney grew up in the same neighborhood in 1980s-era Miami. "Moonlight," based on an autobiographica...

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  • Added: Nov 04, 2016
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 10
Filmspotting 609 (10/28/16): Top 5 Childhood Movie Scares (with guest Ti West), sacred cow review of A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
From: WBEZ
Caption: Robert Englund as Freddy Krueger in 'A Nightmare On Elm Street'
The clown under the bed. The shadow on the other side of the shower curtain. The elevator filled with blood. Scary movies make an impression -- and...

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  • Added: Oct 28, 2016
  • Length: 53:57
  • Purchases: 11
Filmspotting 607 (10/14/16): Conversation with Steve James (Hoop Dreams, The Interrrupters)
From: WBEZ
Caption: Documentary director and producer, Steve James
Back in June, IDA and Chicago's Kartemquin Films invited Adam to host a career-spanning conversation with documentary filmmaker Steve James ("Hoop ...

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  • Added: Oct 14, 2016
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 8
Filmspotting 605 (09/30/16): Top 5 Denzel Performances (with W. Kamau Bell), The Magnificent Seven
From: WBEZ
Caption: Denzel Washington in Spike Lee's biopic 'Malcolm X'
Denzel Washington has been nominated for an Oscar in every decade since the ‘80s. He’s been a consistently bankable star for just about that long, ...

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  • Added: Sep 30, 2016
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 10
Filmspotting 604 (09/23/16): Top 5 Oliver Stones Scenes (with Matt Zoller Seitz)
From: WBEZ
Caption: Oliver Stone's 'Born on the Fourth of July'
In the 1980s and '90s, Oliver Stone was one of the most vital and high-profile directors working in Hollywood. "Platoon," "JFK," "Natural Born Kill...

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  • Added: Sep 23, 2016
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 10
Filmspotting 602 (09/09/16): Gene Wilder, 'Young Frankenstein' (Sacred Cow Review), Top 5 Comedies of the 21st Century
From: WBEZ
Caption: Teri Garr, Gene Wilder and Marty Feldman in 'Young Frankenstein'
Earlier this year, the BBC polled movie critics worldwide for the best films of the 21st century. The resulting list -- the Top 100 of the new mill...

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  • Added: Sep 09, 2016
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 9
Filmspotting 600 (08/26/16): Top 5 Movies Future Historians Will Remember w/ Chuck Klosterman
From: WBEZ
Series: Filmspotting (weekly series)
Caption: Christopher Nolan's 'Inception'
Citizen Kane, Vertigo, The Godfather. 200 years from now, will anyone even remember these movies? Or are we currently overlooking the classics of t...

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  • Added: Aug 26, 2016
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 8
Filmspotting 594 (07/15/16): Top 5 Films of 2016 (So Far)
From: WBEZ
Caption: Anya Taylor in 'The Witch'
The 2016 box office has been dominated by the usual suspects -- animated films from Pixar and Disney, caped crusaders, sequels. But with half the y...

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  • Added: Jul 15, 2016
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 9
Filmspotting 590 (06/17/16): Body Double ('Blindspotting' Review), Contemporary Nordic Cinema Marathon with Roy Andersson's You the Living
From: WBEZ
Series: Filmspotting (weekly series)
Caption: Scene from Brian De Palma's 1984 'Body Double'
Director Brian De Palma made his mark in the ‘70s alongside contemporaries like Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola and Steven Spielberg. But 40 ...

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  • Added: Jun 17, 2016
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 7
Filmspotting 589 (06/10/16): The Royal Tenenbaums (Sacred Cow Review), Top 5 Films To Show Your Kids
From: WBEZ
Series: Filmspotting (weekly series)
Caption: 'The Royal Tenenbaums'
Back in 2001, Wes Anderson was known as the director of the modest indie hit "Rushmore." Then came "The Royal Tenenbaums," with its family full of ...

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  • Added: Jun 10, 2016
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 7
Anishinaabenaajimon: Barriers to Higher Education
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Area Voices
Piece image
Anton Treuer has been immersed in higher education for many years. Some of the most common barriers to higher education disproportionately affect s...

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  • Added: Mar 30, 2016
  • Length: 03:03
  • Purchases: 1
Filmspotting 560 REBROADCAST (03/11/16): Crimson Peak, Bridge of Spies, Top 5 Cold War Movies
From: WBEZ
Caption: Mark Rylance and Tom Hanks in Steven Spielberg's 'Bridge of Spies'
With the Academy Awards just behind us, we revisit our review of multi-award nominee, Stephen Spielberg's "Bridge of Spies." The Cold War drama to...

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  • Added: Mar 11, 2016
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 10
Filmspotting 576 (03/04/16): Crouching Tiger: Sword of Destiny, Top 5 Wuxia Films
From: WBEZ
Caption: Michelle Yeoh in 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny'
Debuting last weekend on Netflix, "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny" has lost original director Ang Lee, but star Michelle Yeoh has...

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  • Added: Mar 04, 2016
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 10