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Fresh Air Weekend: Tilda Swinton; Adrien Brody

5:00am January 11, 2025

Swinton plays a woman dying of cancer in The Room Next Door. Justin Chang reviews Hard Truths. Brody drew on his family's immigration story for his role in The Brutalist.

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A boat skims through the melting ice in the Ilulissat fjord in August 2008, on the western coast of Greenland.

Entrepreneurs Looking For 'Windfall' Cash In On Climate Change

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Music & Culture

Pete Seeger Remembers Guthrie, Hopping Trains And Sharing Songs

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Greg Grandin is a professor of history at New York University.

Books
Arts

On This Spanish Slave Ship, Nothing Was As It Seemed

by Maureen Corrigan

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'Pope And Mussolini' Tells The 'Secret History' Of Fascism And The Church

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Joaquin Phoenix's Her character, Theodore, has a job writing intimate — and sometimes erotic — cards and letters on behalf of other people.

Fresh Air Weekend: Joaquin Phoenix And A Self-Help Skeptic

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Prior to filming, director Paul Greengrass kept the pirate crew and the boat crew separate to make the hijacking scenes feel more authentic. "The hair did stand up on the back of our heads," says Tom Hanks, above.

Tom Hanks Is 'Captain Phillips' In High-Seas Hostage Drama

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Arts

Middle-Aged And Divorced, 'Gloria' Takes On Life's Uncertainties

by David Edelstein

Gloria is a new film from Chile that centers on a late-middle-aged divorced woman whose life is full of ambiguity. She's played by Paulina Garcia, who won the top acting prize — the Silver Bear — at the 2013 Berlin Film Festival, where the movie was a surprise hit. It opens this week in New York and Los Angeles, and wider next month.

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