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When not playing guitar for one of the world's biggest rock bands, Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood has built a name a composer. His score for Paul Thomas Anderson's <em>Phantom Thread</em> is up for an Oscar.

Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood On The Music Of 'Phantom Thread'

Feb 26, 2018
The guitarist and arranger for one of the world's biggest rock bands is also a composer, whose work on Paul Thomas Anderson's latest film is up for an Oscar.
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Director Raoul Peck attends the <em>The Young Karl Marx</em> press conference during the 67th Berlinale International Film Festival Berlin.

'The Young Karl Marx' Looks Inside The Mind Of A Revolutionary

Feb 25, 2018
Raoul Peck, director of the critically acclaimed documentary I Am Not Your Negro, talks about his latest film, The Young Karl Marx, a biopic about the 19th century philosopher.
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Zombies With Guilt In 'The Cured'

Feb 25, 2018
In the new movie The Cured, former zombies try to to make their way back into society and make amends. NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks with director David Freyne and actor Ellen Page.
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White Helmet Khaled Omar Harrah was killed during an airstrike in 2016. He's part of a group of volunteer rescue workers featured in the documentary <em>Last Men in</em> Aleppo (available on Netflix)<em>.</em>

Director Of Oscar-Nominated Aleppo Doc Wants His Film To Serve As Witness

Feb 23, 2018
Feras Fayyad's Last Men In Aleppo goes inside the Syrian city at a time when it was being reduced to rubble by government bombings.
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'Coco' Filmmakers Explore The 'Connection To Loved Ones Past'

Feb 23, 2018
Co-writers and co-directors Lee Unkrich and Adrian Molina spent six years creating their Oscar-nominated animated film about the Day of the Dead. Originally broadcast Jan. 10, 2018.
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Creature Actor Doug Jones Shares How He Transforms Into Movie Monsters

Feb 22, 2018
Actor Doug Jones has had a long and prolific career playing some of Hollywood's most recognizable monsters. His latest role is the fishy Amphibian Man in Guillermo del Toro's The Shape of Water.
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Actor Richard Jenkins: Reading 'Shape Of Water' Script Was A 'Holy Mackerel' Moment

Feb 21, 2018
Jenkins started out in theater and didn't get a movie role until he was in his 30s. Now 70, he's up for an Oscar for best supporting actor for his role in The Shape of Water.
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Arts & Life

Lady Bird Director Greta Gerwig

Feb 19, 2018
NPR's Audie Cornish talks to Greta Gerwig, the Oscar-nominated director of the film Lady Bird about teenage friendship and complex, sometimes messy, female characters.
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Doug Jones plays an amphibious fish man who strikes up a romance with a mute woman (played by Sally Hawkins) in <em>The Shape of Water.</em>

'Shape Of Water' Actor Explains Makeup, Body Language And Bathroom Breaks

Feb 19, 2018
Doug Jones has made a career out of playing strange, otherworldly creatures. "I find the heart and soul of a character before I find his elbows and his hands," he says.
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'Tell Them We Are Rising' Tackles Impact Of Historically Black Colleges

Feb 18, 2018
NPR's Michel Martin talks with Stanley Nelson, who showcases the history of black colleges and universities in a new documentary Tell Them We Are Rising: The Story of Black Colleges and Universities.
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People And Their Stuff Examined In 'Nostalgia'

Feb 18, 2018
NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks to Ellen Burstyn and Amber Tamblyn about their film Nostalgia. It's a meditation on the objects we part with and those we can't let go.
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Danai Gurira as Okoye in <em>Black Panther</em>.

Danai Gurira On Her 'Black Panther' Role: 'She Protects What We Would Have Been'

Feb 17, 2018
The actress plays warrior Okoye in the new film. "The thing that really connected me ... was her love and her loyalty to this thing called Wakanda, this nation that was never colonized," she says.
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T'Challa's sister Shuri wears a more modern silhouette.

'Black Panther' Costume Designer Draws On 'The Sacred Geometry Of Africa'

Feb 16, 2018
Ruth Carter is the costume designer for the Marvel's Black Panther movie. She talks about how she grounded the movie's futuristic look in the history and traditions of tribes from all over Africa.
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How A Medically Induced Coma Led To Love, Marriage And The Oscar-Nominated 'Big Sick'

Feb 16, 2018
Comic Kumail Nanjiani didn't think of marrying then-girlfriend Emily V. Gordon until he saw her in a coma. The couple co-wrote a romantic comedy based on the story. Originally broadcast July 12, 2017.
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L to R: Chadwick Boseman as T'Challa/Black Panther and Nakia (Lupita Nyong'o) in <em>Black Panther.</em>

Director Ryan Coogler Says 'Black Panther' Brought Him Closer To His Roots

Feb 15, 2018
The new film imagines an African nation, rich in minerals and unscarred by colonialism and slavery; Coogler says he traveled to the continent to dig into the question of what it means to be African.
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"Her direction was just everything I needed to make Florence come to life," Blige (L) says of Rees (R).

Dee Rees And Mary J. Blige Dug Into Their Roots To Make 'Mudbound'

Feb 10, 2018
The director and singer/actress both drew upon their families' history to make the Oscar-nominated film. "I think I'm always exploring this idea about the battle being bloodier at home," Rees says.
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Television

Remembering John Mahoney, The Tony Award-Winning Actor And 'Frasier' Star

Feb 09, 2018
Mahoney, who died Sunday, was born in Britain and didn't start acting until he was 37. He went on to appear in films like Say Anything and Barton Fink. Originally broadcast 1990.
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The Two-Way
Director Quentin Tarantino and actress Uma Thurman pose at the Cannes Film Festival in 2014. He acknowledges convincing her to do a dangerous driving scene which ended in a crash.

Tarantino Says Uma Thurman's Car Stunt Was 'One Of The Biggest Regrets Of My Life'

Feb 06, 2018
The famed director responded to a New York Times account in which Thurman alleged that she was pressured by him to drive an unsafe car on a sandy road.
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Gloria Allred is seen in Netflix's <em>Seeing Allred. </em>In the documentary, out this week, Allred shares how she became a champion for women's rights.

In A New Netflix Documentary, Gloria Allred Looks At Her Career And What's Next

Feb 04, 2018
Gloria Allred has waged legal battles on behalf of victims of sexual assault, discrimination and harassment for decades. In a new documentary, Seeing Allred, she shares her story in her own words.
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Director Dee Rees Explores Racism In Post-War Mississippi In 'Mudbound'

Feb 02, 2018
Mudbound follows two families — one white and one black — just before, during and after WWII. Rees' experiences growing up in Nashville, Tenn., informed her film. Originally broadcast Nov. 14, 2017.
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Greta Gerwig Takes On Mother-Daughter Love (And Angst) In 'Lady Bird'

Feb 02, 2018
"I don't know any woman who has a simple relationship with their mother or with their daughter," Gerwig says. Her film centers on a teen preparing to leave home. Originally broadcast Nov. 16, 2017.
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Author Interviews

What A Classic '50s Western Can Teach Us About The Hollywood Blacklist

Jan 30, 2018
Author Glenn Frankel says the 1952 film High Noon was inspired by the toxic political climate of the time. Originally broadcast Feb. 21, 2017.
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Paul Thomas Anderso has been nominated for an Oscar for directing <em>Phantom Thread.</em>

Oscar-Nominated 'Phantom Thread' Focuses On Fashion's 'Most Obsessive'

Jan 23, 2018
Paul Thomas Anderson's new film stars Daniel Day-Lewis as a renowned fashion designer. Phantom Thread landed six Oscar nominations, but Anderson says making sewing look dramatic wasn't easy.
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'Coco' Filmmakers Explore The 'Connection To Loved Ones Past'

Jan 10, 2018
Co-writers and co-directors Lee Unkrich and Adrian Molina spent six years creating their animated film about the Day of the Dead, the Mexican holiday Unkrich calls a time of "joyously remembering."
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The Real Molly Bloom

Jan 07, 2018
Aaron Sorkin's new movie Molly's Game tells the story of Molly Bloom, an Olympic skier who ends up in the world of underground poker. NPR's Michel Martin talks to the real-life Bloom about her story.
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