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'Dolores' Focuses On Life Of Labor And Civil Rights Leader Dolores Huerta

Jan 22, 2017
Dolores Huerta was one of the co-founders of the group that became the United Farm Workers. She's continuing her activism of more than 60 years and her life is the focus of a new documentary, Dolores.
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Movie Interviews

Dev Patel On The 'Driving Force' Of Playing The Part Of A Living Person

Nov 20, 2016
In the movie, Lion, Dev Patel plays Saroo Brierley, a young man who got separated from his family in India as a child. NPR's Rachel Martin talks to Patel about the role.
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Action Film Director Park Chan-Wook Transports Erotic 'Handmaiden' To 1930s Korea

Oct 30, 2016
The new lesbian romance thriller is a big change from the novel it's based on — 2002's "Fingersmith" set in Victorian England. It's also a change of pace for the acclaimed South Korean director.
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Monkey See
First-time film actress Madina Nalwanga (left) says she often copied co-star Lupita Nyong'o's warm-up exercises on the set of <em>Queen of Katwe</em>.

Pop Culture Happy Hour: Lupita Nyong'o, 'TV: The Book,' 'Take My Wife'

Oct 14, 2016
This week in a special episode, we're featuring three conversations with interesting folks from movies, television, and books (about television).
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Kats On Jerry Lewis: At 90, A New Movie And A One-Man Stage Show

Sep 29, 2016

John Katsilometes of the Las Vegas Review-Journal talks about the new Jerry Lewis movie, "Max Rose."

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Code Switch

Ava Duvernay And 'Queen Sugar': Celebrating Diversity, Inclusivity In TV

Sep 04, 2016
Ava Duvernay, director of the acclaimed film Selma, brings her talents to TV in Queen Sugar, an original drama series for Oprah's OWN network premiering Sept. 6.
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Code Switch
Nate Parker attends the 'The Birth Of A Nation' Premiere during the 2016 Sundance Film Festival.

Nate Parker's Past, His Present, And The Future of 'Birth Of A Nation': Episode 14

Aug 24, 2016
News of a 1999 rape case against Nate Parker raises some age-old questions about culture: Can art be separated from its creator? What moral obligations, if any, do the consumers of culture bear?
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Movie Interviews

Interview With Jonah Hill And Todd Phillips On New Film 'War Dogs'

Aug 21, 2016
Jonah Hill and Todd Phillips talk with Rachel Martin about their "War Dogs," which tells the mostly-true story of two pot-smoking 20-year-olds who win a $300 million U.S. government weapons contract.
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National Security

Documentary Explores The Cyber-War Secrets Of Stuxnet

Jul 04, 2016
Alex Gibney's new documentary, Zero Days, looks at the Stuxnet worm — a cyber weapon developed by the U.S. and Israel. Gibney talks to NPR's Ari Shapiro about the film and the future of cyber warfare.
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'Ant' Is A Movie About Ants — Or Is It?

Jul 03, 2016
The director, a young man from Tajikistan, says he wanted to show a day in the life of an ant. But there may be more to it than that.
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Code Switch
O.J. Simpson sits with his attorneys Johnnie Cochran Jr. (right) and Robert Blasier (left) during a court hearing in the O.J. Simpson murder trial.

On The Code Switch Podcast: 'I'm Not Black, I'm O.J.!'

Jun 29, 2016
The new ESPN documentary O.J.: Made In America examines how O.J. Simpson distanced himself from black life in America — and how that same blackness was turned into a major asset during his trial.
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Monkey See
Chris Evans as Captain America in <em>Marvel's Captain America: Civil War</em>.

Pop Culture Happy Hour: 'Captain America' And The Russo Brothers

May 13, 2016
We're going all-Cap for this episode, in which a panel discussion about Captain America: Civil War is followed by an excerpt from Linda Holmes' talk with the film's directors.
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The Salt
Gold says the <em>birria</em> — goat stew — at El Parian is their best dish.

'City Of Gold,' Patchwork Of Cultures: A Tour Of LA's Food Scene

Mar 18, 2016
Pulitzer Prize-winner Jonathan Gold is as much a culinary anthropologist and cultural philosopher as he is a food critic. A new documentary follows him across Los Angeles.
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Code Switch
Oscar Micheaux staged a realistic lynching scene in his 1919 film <em>Within Our Gates</em>, which some film scholars believe was made in response to D.W. Griffith's <em>The Birth of a Nation</em>.

Restored 'Race Films' Find New Audiences

Mar 04, 2016
Some of the earliest movies by African-American filmmakers from the 1910s through 1940s languished in film archives over the years on poor-quality film prints. Now some have been digitally restored.
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Movies

'Whiskey Tango Foxtrot' Dramatizes War Reporter's Experience

Feb 28, 2016
In "Whiskey Tango Foxtrot," Tina Fey stars as reporter Kim Barker, on assignment in Afghanistan. Barker joins Rachel Martin to talk about the movie and war reporting.
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Goats and Soda
Director Stephanie Linus on the set of <em>Dry</em>.

A Nigerian Actress Had An Unlikely Dream: Make A Movie About Fistula

Dec 30, 2015
Fistula, an injury that can result from childbirth, causes incontinence. Health groups supported the idea of a film, but nobody wanted to back it. That didn't stop Stephanie Linus from making Dry.
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Movies

How Director David O. Russell Discovered 'Joy'

Dec 26, 2015
NPR's Linda Wertheimer speaks with director David O. Russell about his new comedy "Joy," starring Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper.
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Movie Interviews
Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy is aware that all of her film mentors have been men. "Part of my responsibility is I need to bring other women along," she says.

Kathleen Kennedy: From Standing In Line To See 'Star Wars' To Producing It Herself

Dec 17, 2015
The Lucasfilm president was handpicked by George Lucas to take over his company and the franchise. She's aware that all her film mentors have been men; "I need to bring other women along," she says.
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Deceptive Cadence
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'We Use Music To Understand Where We Are': David Lang On The Music Of 'Youth'

Dec 04, 2015
David Lang was tasked with writing music for Michael Caine's character, an elderly composer who gets abruptly called out of retirement.
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Antonio Banderas plays Chilean miner Mario Sepulveda in <em>The 33.</em>

Indie Filmmaker Brings Story Of Chile's '33' Miners To The Big Screen

Nov 13, 2015
Before making the film, Patricia Riggen met with the real miners and heard their stories. She says she aimed to "portray the heart of these guys and what they went through emotionally."
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Religion

Boston Clergy Sex Abuse Under 'Spotlight' Anew

Nov 09, 2015
Boston Globe reporter Sacha Pfeiffer was part of the investigative team that uncovered the massive scandal involving sexual abuse by Catholic priests. She speaks with NPR's Audie Cornish about their story, which is now told in the feature film Spotlight.
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Religion
Actor Michael Keaton (left) portrays <em>Globe</em> journalist Walter Robinson (right) in <em>Spotlight.</em>

Film Shines A 'Spotlight' On Boston's Clergy Sex Abuse Scandal

Oct 29, 2015
A new movie chronicles the team of journalists who uncovered the clergy sex abuse scandal in Boston. Director Tom McCarthy and former Globe editor Walter Robinson join Fresh Air to discuss Spotlight.
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Remembrances
Maureen O'Hara acts opposite John Wayne during scene in the film <em>McLintock</em>! The pair starred in five films together during their careers.

Maureen O'Hara, Hollywood's 'Queen Of Technicolor,' Dies At 95

Oct 24, 2015
The Irish-American actress, known for her cascading red hair and sea-green eyes and who often starred opposite John Wayne, passed away at her home in Boise, Idaho, Saturday.
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Shots - Health News
Sarah Silverman plays a profoundly depressed woman who has gone off her medication in the film <em>I Smile Back.</em>

Sarah Silverman Opens Up About Depression, Comedy And Troublemaking

Oct 22, 2015
Throughout her life, comedian Sarah Silverman has experienced varying degrees of depression, which she likens to a "chemical change." She plays a profoundly depressed woman in the film I Smile Back.
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Code Switch
Photo from the set of <em>Spa Night</em>

Spa Hookups, Korean Parents, And Coming Out On Screen: Q&A With Filmmaker Andrew Ahn

Oct 06, 2015
Andrew Ahn came out to his family in his last film, Dol. This time, he films in sanctified Korean spaces to tell the wider community, "We love being Korean as much as you love being Korean."

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