Episodios

  • Wild Strawberries: Living a Worthy Life

    Wild Strawberries: Living a Worthy Life
    May 19 2025
    Heather zooms with film professor Sharon Swenson about Ingmar Berman's 1957 Wild Strawberries, the iconic Swedish film about reconsidering the life you've lived. Sharon also throws in a thought or two about why action films are under-valued and what makes Terminator 2 so awesome. Stay tuned for more recommends of films that consider what a life is for. Sharon Swenson spent 30 years teaching film at BYU and now teaches in the University of Utah's Continuing education program. Part of her research focused on spectatorship, and she enjoys learning about how others experience film and figuring out the ways "seeing is believing".
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    37 m
  • How Do You Know: Recovering Yourself

    How Do You Know: Recovering Yourself
    May 19 2025
    Heather chats with sociologist Liberty Barnes about James L. Brooks' 2010 How Do You Know and how the film changed for her after she recovered from breast cancer. Listen to the end for more rom-com recommendations! Liberty Barnes, PhD, is a medical sociologist and ethnographer, whose first book, Conceiving Masculinity, won the 2015 Sociology of Health and Illness Book of the Year Prize. She holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of California-San Diego and completed postdoctoral training at Cambridge University and the University of Oregon.
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    32 m
  • Arrival: Approaching Joy

    Arrival: Approaching Joy
    May 19 2025
    Heather sits down with film professional Ian Puente from InTension Industries to discuss Denis Villeneuve's 2016 Arrival, and what the film has to say about spirituality and joy, as well as heptapods, language acquisition, and some familiar scriptures. Listen to the end for suggestions of other films you might like if Arrival is one of your favorites. Ian Puente as helped grow several independent film and television companies, holding various business development and strategy roles at Sony Pictures Classics, Samuel Goldwyn Films, and the pay-television network EPIX.
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    35 m
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