Movie Interviews

Cillian Murphy plays physicist Robert Oppenheimer in Christopher Nolan's new film.

Arts

'Like it or not, we live in Oppenheimer's world,' says director Christopher Nolan

10:05am August 15, 2023

by Terry Gross

Nolan's film tells the story of Robert Oppenheimer, the man who spearheaded the development of the atomic bomb. "Of all of the subject matter I've dealt with, it's certainly the darkest," he says.

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'The Deepest Breath' director on her new documentary about free diving

5:40pm July 29, 2023

NPR's Scott Detrow talks to film director Laura McGann about her new documentary on free diving, The Deepest Breath.

John Boyega and Juel Taylor talk new existential thriller 'They Cloned Tyrone'

4:13pm July 14, 2023

NPR's Scott Detrow talks to actor John Boyega and director Juel Taylor about the new Netflix movie They Cloned Tyrone.

Kansas City Monarchs pitching great Satchel Paige warms up at New York's Yankee Stadium Aug. 2, 1942 for a Negro League game between the Monarchs and the New York Cuban Stars.

Sports
Arts

The Negro League revolutionized baseball – MLB's new rules are part of its legacy

2:23pm July 10, 2023

by Dave Davies

In his film The League, Sam Pollard tells the story of the Negro National League: "They brought a different kind of style ... a kind of baseball which Major League Baseball is trying to bring back."

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Arts

Remembering Alan Arkin, an Oscar- and Tony-winning actor/filmmaker

1:49pm July 07, 2023

by Terry Gross

Arkin, who died June 29, got his start creating characters with the comedy troupe Second City and later won an Oscar for his role in Little Miss Sunshine. Originally broadcast Sept. 29, 1989.

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National

Kristen Lovell, co-director of 'The Stroll,' knows sex work is real work

4:44pm July 06, 2023

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Kristen Lovell, co-director of the HBO documentary 'The Stroll.' It's the story of the trans women who worked the streets of the Meatpacking District in New York City.

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Intersex activists Sean Saifa Wall, Alicia Roth Weigel and River Gallo share their stories in the documentary Every Body.

For the intersex community, 'Every Body' exists on a spectrum

2:05pm July 05, 2023

by Terry Gross

Alicia Roth Weigel is one of three activists profiled in Julie Cohen's new documentary. She says intersex is an umbrella term for people whose "anatomy doesn't fit super neatly into a binary box."

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Arts

Remembering Oscar-winning actor and British Parliament member Glenda Jackson

3:04pm July 03, 2023

by Terry Gross

Jackson, who died June 15, won Oscars for her performances in the 1969 movie Women in Love and the 1973 comedy A Touch of Class. She was elected to Pariament in 1992. Originally broadcast in 2019.

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Nimona was ND Stevenson's power fantasy. Now, the comic is a Netflix animated film

4:42pm June 30, 2023

NPR's Scott Detrow talks with Nate "ND" Stevenson, who wrote the original graphic novel on which the new animated movie Nimona is based.

National

Documentary 'Every Body' centers the lives and activism of intersex people

4:30pm June 30, 2023

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with director Julie Cohen and Saifa Wall about the new documentary Every Body, which uncovers the misconceptions around intersex people and the mistreatment they've faced.