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It's All In Your Head: Director Pete Docter Gets Emotional In 'Inside Out'

1:38pm February 19, 2016

The director's Oscar-nominated film illustrates the inner workings of an 11-year-old's mind, and includes the characters Sadness, Fear, Anger, Disgust and Joy. Originally broadcast June 10, 2015.

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Frame-By-Frame, Filmmakers Make The Mundane Miraculous In 'Anomalisa'

1:38pm February 19, 2016

Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson discuss their Oscar-nominated film. Anomalisa's stop-motion "communicates fragility and humanity and brokenness," Kaufman says. Originally broadcast Dec. 22, 2015.

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Long-Term Devastation Springs From A Hasty Judgment Call In 'A War'

1:38pm February 19, 2016

by David Edelstein

Tobias Lindholm's Oscar-nominated film tells the story of a Danish commander's error in judgment during the war in Afghanistan. Critic David Edelstein says A War will "leave you in pieces."

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Stephan James (center) stars as Jesse Owens and Jason Sudeikis (right) stars as Larry Snyder in Stephen Hopkins' Race.

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'Race' Brings Jesse Owens And The 1936 Olympics To The Screen

12:59pm February 19, 2016

by Ella Taylor

While Race is, for a while, a conventional athlete biopic, once the story begins to balance the many forces that pulled on Owens and complicated his story, it gets more interesting.

George Clooney as Baird Whitlock in the new film Hail, Caesar!

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Pop Culture Happy Hour: 'Hail, Caesar!' And Backstage Stories

9:11am February 19, 2016

by Linda Holmes

On this week's show, the Coen Brothers' 17th feature, the appeal of tales of filmmaking and other creative pursuits, and what's making us happy this week.

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Pianist Dmitri Shteinberg Performs For "Music That Matters"

8:44am February 19, 2016

by Bethany Chafin

Dmitri Shteinberg is a Russian-born pianist who began his musical training in Moscow.

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Winston-Salem Theater Showcases The Art Of The Cat Video

11:14pm February 18, 2016

by Eddie Garcia

The Internet Cat Video Festival begins Friday night at a/perture Cinema in Winston-Salem.

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A New England family in the 1630s struggles against evils it can't quite identify in The Witch.

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A Banished Family Fights Its Demons In A Puritanical Age

7:39pm February 18, 2016

by Scott Tobias

Half a drama about religious hysteria and half a horror film about isolation, The Witch follows a family struggling to identify the source of an evil that seems to plague them.

The Humans is set during a family's Thanksgiving dinner, hosted by the youngest daughter and her boyfriend. (Pictured: Reed Birney, Sarah Steele, Jayne Houdyshell, Arian Moayed)

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Family Drama Meets Existential Horror In 'The Humans'

7:17pm February 18, 2016

by Jeff Lunden

On its surface, the play sounds pretty ordinary: A young woman and her boyfriend have her family over for Thanksgiving dinner. Then things start to get weird.

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Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi (left) talks to the media alongside Argentine President Mauricio Macri in Buenos Aires on Tuesday. Renzi has inspired some mockery in the Italian press for reciting a poem he claimed was by Jorge Luis Borges, which, wel

Italian Prime Minister Botches His Attempt To Read Borges

5:59pm February 18, 2016

by Camila Domonoske

Matteo Renzi was visiting Argentina and thought he would read a poem by the country's most famous literary icon. He thought wrong: The poem he picked was emphatically not by Jorge Luis Borges.