John Waters’s Life in Parties
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Song Exploder: Tears for Fears “Everybody Wants To Rule The World”
Tears for Fears is a duo formed in 1981 in Bath, England by Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith. They’ve sold over 30 million albums, starting with their first, The Hurting,…
Between The Lines (1977)
Between the Lines is a 1977 American ensemble romantic comedy-drama film from Midwest Films. It was directed by Joan Micklin Silver and produced by her husband Raphael D. Silver. The…
How the Public Library Became an American Civic Institution
Free For All: The Public Library tells the story of the quiet revolutionaries who made a simple idea happen. From the pioneering women behind the “Free Library Movement” to today's…
Ian McKellen finds another actor in the family
As the 'last of the McKellens', Sir Ian admits to a degree of melancholy as he delves into his family history. But the results pay off richly for one of…
Meet Marlon Brando (1966)
Directed by Albert Maysles, David Maysles, and Charlotte Zwerin • 1966 • United StatesStarring Marlon Brando, Rex Morgan, Mary Frann MEET MARLON BRANDO is a delightful, unusually candid portrait of…
THE RED TREE / L’ALBERO ROSSO
short documentary that tells the little known history of Italian gay men being arrested and exiled to a remote island during Mussolini's Fascist regime. In the film, an elderly man…
A City of Churches
Donald Barthelme
Fred Rogers
testifying before Senate on behalf of PBS
The Surprising Family History Charles Dance
Actor Charles Dance has made his name playing aristocrats, including Tywin Lannister in HBO's Game of Thrones. But the upstairs world Charles inhabits on screen is nothing like his own…