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Filmspotting 539 REBROADCAST (01/01/16): Mad Max: Fury Road, Top 5 Movie Car Scenes revisited
From: WBEZ
Caption: Charlize Theron in 'Mad Max: Fury Road'
We bring you a rebroadcast of Filmspotting's review of one of the year's most talked about films. Powered by guzzlene since the podcast wars of 20...

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  • Added: Dec 31, 2015
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 7
Filmspotting 567 (12/18/15): Top 10 Films of 2015 Pt 1, Star Wars: The Force Awakens
From: WBEZ
Series: Filmspotting (weekly series)
Caption: Scenes from 'Tangerine' and 'Star Wars: The Force Awakens'
End of year movie talk is usually dominated by a few prestige pictures, but does anyone care about prestige with a new "Star Wars" in theaters? Sur...

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  • Added: Dec 18, 2015
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 6
Filmspotting 566 (12/11/15): The Big Short, Top 5 Discoveries of 2015, Chi-Raq
From: WBEZ
Series: Filmspotting (weekly series)
Caption: Steve Carell and Ryan Gosling in a scene from 'The Big Short'
If a movie has you sticking around for the credits, chances are you’re looking for an answer to the question: who was that? Every year the movies i...

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  • Added: Dec 11, 2015
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 9
Filmspotting 565 (12/04/15): Kent Jones (Hitchcock/Truffaut director) Interview, Top 5 Film Books
From: WBEZ
Series: Filmspotting (weekly series)
Caption: François Truffaut and Alfred Hitchcock in scene from film 'Hitchcock/Truffaut'
Based on a true story and made in the same decade as Hitchcock masterpieces "Strangers on a Train," "Rear Window" and "Vertigo," 1956's "The Wrong ...

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  • Added: Dec 04, 2015
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 9
Actor Wayne Carr's life on the stage: It was meant to be.
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Caption: Wayne Carr as Pericles caught in storm at sea., Credit: Teresa Wood
From Pericles to Tupac Shakur, Wayne Carr has the uncanny ability to embody fully-realized characters.

  • Added: Dec 03, 2015
  • Length: 28:30
Filmspotting 564.5 (11/27/15): 2015 Golden Brick Preview Special
From: WBEZ
Series: Filmspotting (weekly series)
Caption: Scenes from this year's 'Golden Brick' film nominees
We hope you haven’t had your fill of leftovers because on this week’s show Josh and Adam start their look back at the year in film with their annua...

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  • Added: Nov 27, 2015
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 9
Filmspotting 564 (11/20/15): Mockingjay - Part 2, Top 5 Ensemble Movies, Spotlight
From: WBEZ
Caption: Characters from 'Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2'
"The Hunger Games" series could have settled for pleasing its YA fan base, but its success at the box office – and (mostly) with critics – shows a ...

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  • Added: Nov 20, 2015
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 9
Charleston Mayor Joe Riley and the great work possible through city design
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Opening Day of Spoleto USA, 2015
After 40 years, Mayor Riley steps down, leaving a legacy that privileges the public sphere and beauty in the everyday.

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  • Added: Nov 17, 2015
  • Length: 28:29
  • Purchases: 3
Filmspotting 563 (11/13/15): Spectre, Top 5 Bond Tropes
From: WBEZ
Caption: Daniel Craig as 007 James Bond in 'Spectre'
Daniel Craig’s James Bond is more serious, more human and more haunted than his predecessors. Does that make him the best? (Yes, actually it does.)...

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  • Added: Nov 13, 2015
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 9
Actor Jane Alexander takes a look back.
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Jane Alexander, Credit: Joan marcus
Jane Alexander reflects on her time at the NEA, her life-long love affair with theater, and the centrality of art to the human experience.

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  • Added: Nov 12, 2015
  • Length: 28:29
  • Purchases: 1
Comic Book Artist and Writer Mike Mignola tells us how Hellboy came to be
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Mike Mignola's Hellboy
After all this time, Mike Mignola still loves drawing monsters

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  • Added: Nov 03, 2015
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 4
Filmspotting 561 (10/30/15): Edward Scissorhands 'Sacred Cow' review, Top 5 Films of 1990
From: WBEZ
Caption: Johnny Depp and Winona Ryder in 'Edward Scissorhands'
Twenty-five years ago, the movies gave us Schwarzenegger on Mars, “Best Director Kevin Costner,” and iconic performances like Kathy Bates’ Annie Wi...

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  • Added: Oct 29, 2015
  • Length: 53:53
  • Purchases: 8
Filmspotting 560 (10/23/15): Crimson Peak, Bridge of Spies, Top 5 Cold War Movies
From: WBEZ
Series: Filmspotting (weekly series)
Caption: Jessica Chastain in Guillermo del Toro's 'Crimson Peak'
Josh and guest host Michael Phillips (Chicago Tribune) are visited by the 'Ghost of Fights over Guillermo del Toro Movies Past' for their divisive ...

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  • Added: Oct 23, 2015
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 8
Playwright Karen Zacarias does it all!
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Caption: A scene from Destiny of Desire, Credit: C. Stanley Photography.
Karen Zacarias is the most produced Latina playwright in the nation. Now, she brings the telenovela to the stage with Destiny of Desire

  • Added: Oct 16, 2015
  • Length: 28:29
Filmspotting 559 (10/16/15): Steve Jobs, Top 5 Back-to-Back Movies
From: WBEZ
Caption: Michael Fassbender in the title role in Danny Boyle's 'Steve Jobs'
How hard is it to make two great films back to back? Turns out, most legendary directors have done it. Our recent Ridley Scott Death Match poll bet...

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  • Added: Oct 16, 2015
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 8
Filmspotting 558 (10/09/15): The Martian, CIFF Preview
From: WBEZ
Caption: Matt Damon in Ridley Scott's adaptation of 'The Martian'
Telluride, Venice, Toronto, New York… they’ve had their fun. Now it’s Chicago’s turn, as the Fall film festival season sweeps into the Windy City f...

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  • Added: Oct 09, 2015
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 9
Flying with Dolly Jacobs!
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Dolly Jacobs, Credit: Richard Czina
Most kids run away from home to join the circus. For aerialist and 2015 National Heritage Fellow, Dolly Jacobs, it was a family affair.

Bought by WMUU-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and WNJR


  • Added: Oct 08, 2015
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 3
Filmspotting 557 (10/02/15): Sicario, Top 5 Breaking Up the Boys' Club Movies
From: WBEZ
Caption: Emily Blunt in 'Sicario'
Adam and Josh held out hope that fellow critics Tasha Robinson and Dana Stevens might come crashing into the studio to share *their* Top 5 Breaking...

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  • Added: Oct 02, 2015
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 7
A Conversation with Kevin McKenzie of American Ballet Theatre
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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American Ballet Theatre received the first grant ever given by the National Endowment for the Arts. We talk about that long and fruitful relationship.

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  • Added: Sep 28, 2015
  • Length: 28:29
  • Purchases: 4
Filmspotting 556 (09/25/15): Black Mass, Top 5 Neighborhood Movies
From: WBEZ
Caption: Johnny Depp in 'Black Mass'
Master of Disguise Johnny Depp goes Southie as infamous Boston gangster Whitey Bulger in the new film "Black Mass." Josh and Adam eat some chowdah ...

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  • Added: Sep 25, 2015
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 9
The Speed of Sound: Veruca Salt
From: Louisville Public Media
Series: The Speed of Sound
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The newly reunited Veruca Salt talks with Kyle Meredith about what it took to bury the hatchet and put the band back together, and what the band me...

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  • Added: Sep 21, 2015
  • Length: 07:01
  • Purchases: 4
Filmspotting 555 (09/18/15): The Visit, Top 5 Movie House Guests
From: WBEZ
Caption: Olivia DeJonge and Deanna Dunagan in Night Shyamalan's 'The Visit'
A trip to grandma and grandpa's house takes a turn for the Brothers Grimm, and my, Adam and Josh never realized what big teeth they had! Filmspotti...

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  • Added: Sep 17, 2015
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 8
Filmspotting 554 (09/11/15): Queen of Earth, Top 5 Films of 1988
From: WBEZ
Caption: Elisabeth Moss in 'Queen of Earth'
Live from the rooftop of Nakatomi Plaza, it's Filmspotting, where this week Adam and Josh welcome special guests Ebby Calvin “Nuke” LaLoosh, Prince...

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  • Added: Sep 10, 2015
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 7
Filmspotting 553 (09/04/15): Remembering Wes Craven, Top 5 Most Anticipated Fall Movies (& Top 5 Questions About Them)
From: WBEZ
Series: Filmspotting (weekly series)
Caption: Daniel Craig in the upcoming Bond film, 'Spectre'
If the summer and year-end movie seasons are all about expectation, fall… is all about surprises. Hopefully good ones. The Chicago Tribune's Michae...

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  • Added: Sep 03, 2015
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 8
Filmspotting 552 (08/28/15): Mistress America, Top 5 Desert Island Directors revisited)
From: WBEZ
Caption: Greta Gerwig and Lola Kirke in 'Mistress America'
Of current actor-director combos, Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach are significant for their writing partnership – and for Gerwig’s impact on Baumbac...

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  • Added: Aug 28, 2015
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 6