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'Star Wars' Just Keeps Breaking Records

4:31pm January 08, 2016

by NPR Staff

NPR's Audie Cornish talks to director J.J. Abrams about making the movie; he says he feels an 'enormous relief that it's out in the world.' Warning: This will not be a spoiler-free conversation!

Rooney Mara and Cate Blanchett (right) begin a love affair after meeting in a department store in Carol.

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'Carol' Star Cate Blanchett On The 'Empathetic Connection' Of Acting

6:59pm January 07, 2016

NPR's Kelly McEvers talks to Cate Blanchett about playing the title character in Carol, which tells the story of two women who fall in love in 1950s New York.

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In 'Carol,' 2 Women Leap Into An Unlikely Love Affair

4:47pm January 06, 2016

Screenwriter Phyllis Nagy and director Todd Haynes discuss their new film based on Patricia Highsmith's 1952 novel, The Price of Salt. Nagy says the story was "extremely forward thinking."

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'The Hateful Eight's' Walton Goggins: On Being a Southerner in Hollywood

6:08pm January 05, 2016

When Walton Goggins moved to Los Angeles to try acting, he was advised to lose his Southern accent. NPR's Kelly McEvers talks to Goggins about his new role as a Confederate in The Hateful Eight.

Zubaida Ibrahim Fagge plays Halima, a 13-year-old who suffers from fistula, in the movie Dry.

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

12:40pm December 30, 2015

by Glendora Meikle

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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Remembering Oscar-Winning Cinematographer Haskell Wexler

1:26pm December 29, 2015

Wexler won Oscars for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf and Bound for Glory, and was nominated for One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest and Matewan. He died Sunday. He was 93. Originally broadcast in 1993.

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Samuel L. Jackson is one of the stars of Quentin Tarantino's Hateful Eight, which is showing in 100 theaters in 70-millimeter film — a nearly-obsolete premium format.

Old-School Projection Fans Are Grateful For 'Hateful Eight' In 70-Millimeter

10:18pm December 27, 2015

by Andrew Limbong

Quentin Tarantino's new film is helping revive a nearly obsolete extra-wide film format. Theaters are being retrofitted with old reels and lenses to screen the 70mm version of the movie.

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Dr. Bennet Omalu speaks on stage during the 2015 Health Hero Awards hosted by WebMD on Nov. 5 in New York City.

Doctor Behind 'Concussion' Wanted To 'Enhance The Lives' Of Football Players

5:33pm December 27, 2015

Dr. Bennet Omalu's discovery of a new degenerative brain disease among football players inspired a movie-and the wrath of the NFL.

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How Director David O. Russell Discovered 'Joy'

10:57am December 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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Eddie Redmayne stars as Lili Elbe in Tom Hooper's The Danish Girl.

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Eddie Redmayne: Reading 'Danish Girl' Script Was Like Getting 'Sucker-Punched'

5:32pm December 24, 2015

by NPR Staff

The film centers on Lili Elbe, one of the first people known to have had gender reassignment surgery. Redmayne says it's "about love not being defined by gender ... but really being about souls."