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The classic Harlem Renaissance novel by Ella Larsen about the American delusion of race is beautifully adapted by Rebecca Hall.
- Added: Oct 20, 2022
- Length: 03:31
Claire Denis’ latest film explores one of her important themes: how desire in man-woman relationships is more complicated than we often assume.
- Added: Oct 20, 2022
- Length: 03:35
Alfred Hitchcock made this appeal to join the fight against Hitler a year before the attack on Pearl Harbor. Now this film is valued for being one ...
- Added: Oct 20, 2022
- Length: 05:48
This episode is a reminiscence sparked by some photos taken over 60 years ago. I’m pretty sure my father took the photos, because I can’t remember ...
- Added: Sep 01, 2022
- Length: 04:42
The photos are mine of the Mirabilis longiflora flowers and Manduca sexta, the Carolina sphinx moth and tobacco hornworm. Note the seven streamline...
- Added: Sep 01, 2022
- Length: 04:21
Turkey vultures (Cathartes aura) are wonderful and lots of folks agree. The little town of Bisbee in the Mule Mountains of Cochise County, Arizona ...
- Added: Sep 01, 2022
- Length: 04:29
In the history of Indian film, there’s a dividing line between approximately the first forty years of the movie industry, and the release, in 1955,...
- Added: Sep 01, 2022
- Length: 03:33
A gripping drama based on real events that occurred during the Serbian attack on Bosnia in 1995 brings home to us the nightmare of modern war.
- Added: Sep 01, 2022
- Length: 03:18
The yearning and frustrations of two teenage girls in 1950s New Zealand leads to tragedy, in this wildly expressive film based on an actual murder ...
- Added: Sep 01, 2022
- Length: 03:23
A Finnish woman on a Russian train is aggravated by the man with which she’s forced to share a compartment: an insensitive young tough guy with a c...
- Added: Sep 01, 2022
- Length: 03:12
Two stories about coexistence.
Bought by KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio) and KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio)
- Added: Aug 17, 2022
- Length: 51:20
- Purchases: 2
I grew up in the land of the black walnut, Juglans nigra. And if you grew up in the eastern US, then you did too. It has a very large range in east...
- Added: Aug 12, 2022
- Length: 03:59
The meanings that we access through works of art are not confined to the conscious intentions of the artists. This critical truth came to mind whil...
- Added: Aug 03, 2022
- Length: 03:29
A spellbinding portrait of an elderly couple in crisis, the wife suffering from dementia, the husband unable to cope, in a film composed entirely i...
- Added: Aug 03, 2022
- Length: 03:22
Lost Illusions is an adaptation of a classic 19th-century novel by Honoré de Balzac. The history of film is full of examples of great books that ha...
- Added: Jul 19, 2022
- Length: 03:26
Artist and director Ulrike Ottinger presents her recollections of living and working in Paris in the 1960s.
- Added: Jul 19, 2022
- Length: 03:23
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
At my age I should being thinking more of getting rid of clutter rather than adding to it. I like to tell our daughters Katy and Sarah that some da...
- Added: Jul 19, 2022
- Length: 04:23
This episode is a reminiscence…something I seem to be doing a lot of lately…and also a plea for getting our children and grandchildren out of doors...
- Added: Jul 19, 2022
- Length: 04:02
I hope we all get all of our monsoon fixes this season. One of those for me and maybe you too will be toads calling from puddles.
- Added: Jul 19, 2022
- Length: 04:01
Kindness seems to have taken a backset to rampant racism, abruptness and violence.
It's being selfless, caring, compassionate, and unconditionally...
- Added: Jul 11, 2022
- Length: 03:52
I wrote this song about Lycium fremontii when I was managing the native plant nursery of Desert Survivors on West Starr Pass in Tucson. The nursery...
- Added: Jun 23, 2022
- Length: 05:01
I’ve told the story of the yucca moths and the soaptree yuccas many times. I love to tell it when I give talks and I’m not making this up, many yea...
- Added: Jun 23, 2022
- Length: 04:06
Every time I pull a reference book or field guide off the shelf to read about a recently seen insect I seem to run across a quote by the famous ent...
- Added: Jun 23, 2022
- Length: 05:09
