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Is there a purpose to our sense of wonder, or is it gloriously useless?
- Added: Nov 30, 2023
- Length: 54:00
Modern art, runway fashion, and music today are in the middle of a cultural reckoning, where artists must find a balance between cultural appropria...
- Added: Sep 28, 2023
- Length: 54:01
Can art be broadly accessible without sacrificing quality? Can it be cognitively challenging without being elitist?
Bought by KMUN, KTSW 89.9, KICI Iowa City, KTSW 89.9, RadioStPete Florida and more
- Added: Jul 17, 2023
- Length: 53:59
- Purchases: 9
Can art be broadly accessible without sacrificing quality? Can it be cognitively challenging without being elitist?
- Added: Jul 16, 2023
- Length: 54:00
Themes for this first radio episode of a new year are: “2022 Releases in Review” with six tracks, and “Jazz of the 1970s” with four tracks from tha...
Bought by KJZX-Austin, Northwest Public Broadcasting, KRZA, WYAP, KHNS and more
- Added: Jan 03, 2023
- Length: 02:00:02
- Purchases: 9
A witty English drama from John Schlesinger about an unusual triangle: a man and a woman both in love with the same man.
- Added: Oct 20, 2022
- Length: 03:09
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
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
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
Artist and director Ulrike Ottinger presents her recollections of living and working in Paris in the 1960s.
- Added: Jul 19, 2022
- Length: 03:23
After the success of the massive two-part crime film Dr. Mabuse in 1922, Fritz Lang and screenwriter Thea von Harbou, now husband and wife, embarke...
- Added: May 24, 2022
- Length: 02:52
Todd Haynes tells the story of this influential New York rock band in the cinematic style of the man who discovered them: Andy Warhol.
- Added: May 11, 2022
- Length: 03:29
Mike Leigh’s 1988 breakthrough film already contains what makes him great: working class issues, funny believable characters, and a fine sensitivit...
- Added: Mar 10, 2022
- Length: 03:56
A brother and sister, their addict mother in jail, try to get by under the poverty line in a depressed southern Ohio town, and end up hanging out w...
- Added: Mar 10, 2022
- Length: 03:50
Doug and Bill give you the run down on what's going on around town this week while giving you the run around with some lessor known facts about New...
- Added: Feb 25, 2022
- Length: 29:21
Jane Campion’s first film in twelve years examines deceptive notions of manhood on a cattle ranch in 1920s Montana.
- Added: Feb 17, 2022
- Length: 03:37
Emma Seligman’s debut feature uses a shiva, a Jewish post-funeral gathering, as the setting for a comedy about a young woman who doesn’t fit in, bu...
- Added: Feb 17, 2022
- Length: 04:11
A new film from the West African nation of Ivory Coast presents an intriguing allegory about power and its misuse. Night of the Kings, the second n...
- Added: Feb 17, 2022
- Length: 04:00
Gus Van Sant’s 1991 film portrays the difficult yet tender world of runaways.
- Added: Feb 17, 2022
- Length: 03:25
