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Hosted by Stephen Schaefer
Originally aired on Monday, January 2nd, 2012

Once again, into the breach! Or at least the morass of 2010 movies for a Top 10 list done, as is custom now, with another critic. This year Wilson Morales of BlackFilm.com has rejoined our gentle expert Stephen Schaefer to sift through entries.

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Originally aired on Thursday, December 7th, 2006
Michael Rush with artists Jenny Marketon, John Ravenne, Raphaela Platow and Sharon Louden.Read More
Hosted by Michael Rush
An all-female crew of independent artists stands up to host Michael Rush in a lively conversation that should - at last - put to rest any prescribed notions of where a woman belongs. Margaret Evangeline, for example,...Read More
Originally aired on Monday, September 5th, 2005
Charles Ruas interviews Juris Jurjevics, a founding editor of the prestigious Soho Press, who has turned author to write the novel he would ideally like to read. The Trudeau Vector is a page turner combining...Read More
Hosted by Stephen Schaefer
Originally aired on Monday, April 11th, 2005

Andrea Corr, actress and lead singer of Irish pop/rock/Celtic musical group The Corrs, proudly declares how she convinced veteran director John Irvin to make The Boys and Girl of County Clare, a dramatic comedy about a Ceili music competition.

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Hosted by Phong Bui

Artist, critic, curator, teacher and newspaperman Phong Bui takes his insatiable talent to the airwaves.

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Hosted by Zefrey Throwell
Originally aired on Monday, March 30th, 2009

Host Zefrey Throwell catches up with painter Cecily Brown in her studio in Manhattan and chats about everything from her new book to her ingenious 3-deep stocked bookshelf to the secret code of her paintings.

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Originally aired on Friday, November 27th, 2009
RoseLee Goldberg talks with artist Aurélien Froment and actor Youri Dirkx about their performance In Order of Appearance. The presentation takes place within an abstract playground where objects and artworks are...Read More
Hosted by Charles Bernstein
Originally aired on Friday, April 2nd, 2010
Charles Bernstein talks to poet Fred Wah, who begins by answering his own question, "Why bother?" before discussing what it is to "fake it" and touching upon notions of poetry and race, teaching and community. Wah's...Read More
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Hosted by Charles Bernstein

Conversations and readings with poets and artists, produced in cooperation with PennSound and hosted by Charles Bernstein, the American poet, theorist, editor, and literary scholar.

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Hosted by Stephen Schaefer
Originally aired on Monday, August 4th, 2008
Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited, rightly regarded as one of the great Catholic novels of the 20th century, has been adapted with the cooperation of Waugh's estate into Julian Jarrold's two-hour feature film. ...Read More
Hosted by Jeannie Hopper
Originally aired on Monday, January 9th, 2012

Time to dance off those holiday treats with some super DJ Jeannie Hopper beats! Enjoy some old school to groovy beats to start you out: J-Boogie's Dubtronic
Science, Gil Scott Heron and other remixes by Q-Burns Abstract Message, Clubfeet, and more.

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Hosted by Michael Rush
Originally aired on Friday, February 12th, 2010
If it's all in the telling, don't trust artist Omer Fast to tell it like it was. In single and multi-screen projections, this Israeli-born artist re-imagines interviews he has had with survivors of a suicide bomb, a...Read More
Hosted by David Weinstein
Originally aired on Tuesday, October 11th, 2011

Hallucinogenic films made in the former Yugoslavia in the 60-70s collected by Branko Franceshi on view at Stephan Stoyanov Gallery on Orchard Street in NYC thru Oct. 30, 2011. Really trippy but also really thoughtful and a lot of fun. A time capsule.

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Hosted by Stephen Schaefer
Originally aired on Monday, May 9th, 2005

Kung Fu Hustle - which follows by several years his previous hit Shaolin Soccer - is dazzling mix of comedy, martial arts derring-do and propulsive storytelling and Stephen Chow's salute to the legendary Bruce Lee.

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Hosted by Stephen Schaefer
Originally aired on Friday, April 30th, 2010

In OSS 117: Lost in Rio, France's Bond-style secret agent OSS 117 is back, bringing with him even more pointed idiocy and slapstick adventure.

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Hosted by Stephen Schaefer
Originally aired on Monday, March 7th, 2011

Christopher Smith's new film Black Death, a realistic look at 14th century Europe coping with the devastations of the plague, is first and foremost a horror movie--the dead rise, a woman is branded a witch...Find out why horror's been good to Smith.

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Hosted by Stephen Schaefer
Originally aired on Monday, February 6th, 2006
Writer-director Marc Rothemund towers over Julia Jentsch, his leading lady in Sophie Scholl: The Final Days, but they are obviously a perfect team. This six-foot-four filmmaker and his diminutive actress...Read More
Hosted by Stephen Schaefer
Originally aired on Monday, November 20th, 2006

In honor of John Barry we re-run this one: author and film fanatic Laurent Bouzereau reaches behind-the-scene talents that have made the James Bond films a popular, long running and profitable franchise in the history of motion pictures.

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Hosted by DB
Originally aired on Monday, February 13th, 2012

This mix tape focuses on chilled out songs & beats from as far back as 30 years, right up to stuff that just dropped this week. So chill to this selection of blissed out rockers, dub versions of classics and some of the latest chillwave soundscapes.

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Hosted by Stephen Schaefer
Originally aired on Monday, April 10th, 2006
As a favorite of kids for her singing and dancing with Will Ferrell in Elf, Zooey Deschanel has made her way in movies both funny and serious with a distinctive, sometimes loopy sense of timing and a hipster's...Read More
Hosted by Stephen Schaefer
Originally aired on Monday, March 14th, 2005

Bobby Houston and Robert Hudson were awarded the 2005 Academy Award for Best Documentary Short for Mighty Times: The Children's March, but Hudson said the real triumph was "Still being in love, still being together, years later."

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Hosted by Michael Rush
Originally aired on Monday, June 20th, 2005


Everybody loves money - especially artists who don't have enough of it. Join Michael Rush as he gets down to basics with Sam Miller, Executive Director of a major nationwide project called Leveraging...Read More
Hosted by Julia Draganovic
Originally aired on Wednesday, June 8th, 2011

Curator and critic Julia Draganovic stops by the Cuban Pavilion at the 2011 Venice Biennale to talk with Yoan Capote about his work, Trees With Feet, a meditation on the role of roots both above and below ground.

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Hosted by Stephen Schaefer
Originally aired on Friday, June 19th, 2009

A remarkably candid 2009 phone call with Stephen Schaefer and director Coppola starting with his film Tetro but waltzing into other territory as Mr. Schaefer once again shows us how his gentle and informed approach gets these huge figures to disarm.

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Hosted by Stephen Schaefer
Originally aired on Monday, October 31st, 2005

Boston-born daughter of college professors Uma Thurman has established herself as a world-class beauty and first-rate actress. Here she discusses doing glam comedy with a soulful side in Prime, in which she spars with Meryl Streep.

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Originally aired on Monday, February 6th, 2012

Recorded by the New York Public Library, two photographer/artists discuss their mutual experiences, technique and format, celebrities (and how to photograph them), face blindness, Lana Turner, Yoko Ono, Cindy Sherman, the Dalai Lama, and much more.

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Hosted by Stephen Schaefer
Originally aired on Monday, March 3rd, 2008
France's self-described bad girl of the cinema teams with its bad boy, Guillaume Depardieu, in The Duchess of Langeais. Jeanne Balibar, who is partnered with The Diving Bell and Butterfly star Mathieu...Read More