A 50th anniversary celebration of ‘Taxi Driver’
Martin Scorsese's masterpiece about loneliness, urban decay, and vigilantism is 50 years old this month. We’re revisiting archival interviews about ‘Taxi Driver’ with Scorsese, screenwriter Paul Schra...
6 Helmi 47min
Following independent journalists fighting for free press in Russia
Julia Loktev's acclaimed documentary, ‘My Undesirable Friends,’ follows young Russian journalists in the months before and after Putin's invasion of Ukraine — and the impossible choices they face when...
5 Helmi 43min
Is America headed toward dictatorship?
Atlantic writer Robert Kagan says as President Trump violates norms, laws and the Constitution, including his call to nationalize elections, we’re on the edge of the consolidation of dictatorship. “I ...
4 Helmi 44min
How Rupert Murdoch built an empire and broke his family
We go inside the real succession story within the Murdoch family media empire. It includes Fox News, The Wall Street Journal and the New York Post. In 2023 Rupert Murdoch chose his eldest son and most...
3 Helmi 44min
Ethan Hawke
"Every now and then you bump up against a part that presses you to the wall of your ability," Hawke says of playing lyricist Lorenz Hart in ‘Blue Moon.’ He’s nominated for an Oscar for his performance...
2 Helmi 44min
Best Of: Novelists Liz Moore & Julian Barnes
Liz Moore’s bestselling book, ‘Long Bright River,’ was set in a troubled Philadelphia neighborhood where she’d worked on a photo essay. “My own family has a long history of addiction. I was kind of em...
31 Tammi 48min
Guillermo Del Toro would ‘rather die’ than use generative AI
When Oscar-winning filmmaker Guillermo del Toro was a kid growing up in Guadalajara, Mexico, he would draw monsters all day. His deeply Catholic grandmother even had him exorcised because of it. But w...
30 Tammi 44min
Former NBC producer on silence, shame and finding words after #MeToo
Brooke Nevils was a young NBC producer working the 2014 Sochi Olympics when, she says, ‘Today Show’ host Matt Lauer sexually assaulted her. Lauer has denied her account, calling their relationship con...
29 Tammi 43min
