Movie Interviews

When Annie Clark was assaulted in 2007 she said the response from her university was victim blaming: "I talked to one campus employee and she gave me this extended metaphor about how rape was like a football game and I was the quarterback in charge and wh

Film About Campus Sexual Assault Tells Survivors: 'You Are Not Alone'

8:13pm February 27, 2015

by NPR Staff

Survivors Annie Clark and Andrea Pino brought a Title IX complaint against the University of North Carolina. "This is not about UNC," Clark says. "We're not doing this to vilify our institution."

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How The Man Behind The Trailers Sparks An Urge To See A Movie

3:09pm February 23, 2015

Mark Woollen has created trailers for many Oscar-nominated films, including Boyhood, The Theory of Everything and Birdman. He talks about how he crafts an audience's first glimpse of a film.

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In "Road to Hell," Wild Tales' third story, Walter Donado plays a man who gets in a fight with a driver on an empty highway. The film opened last year in Argentina and is the country's highest-grossing movie ever.

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1 Film, 6 Stories On The 'Pleasure Of Losing Control'

1:56pm February 23, 2015

by NPR Staff

Wild Tales includes six stories of people who are set off by things like road rage or infidelity. Then, says director Damián Szifron, "they cross the line that separates civilization from barbarism."

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In Birdman, Michael Keaton plays both the actor Riggan Thomson, who is having an identity crisis, and his alter ego, Birdman, who badgers him because he gave up a lucrative Hollywood career for a play in an old Broadway theater.

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From 'Batman' To 'Birdman,' Michael Keaton Knows Suits And Superheroes

8:59am February 23, 2015

Keaton says his 1989 bat suit was downright claustrophobic, but he somehow made it work. In the existential comedy Birdman, Keaton plays a washed-up, insecure actor looking for a second shot at fame.

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This year's Oscars will be given out at the 87th Academy Awards on Sunday night. At O'Brien's Pub in Santa Monica, Calif., pub trivia regulars — including many former game show champs — had their own competition, answering harder-than-average question

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'I'll Take Insanely Hard Oscar Trivia For 400, Alex'

8:57am February 23, 2015

by Neda Ulaby

Can you name the longest title of a film nominated for best picture? Or most Oscar-nominated family? At O'Brien's Irish Pub in Santa Monica, the trivia night regulars are former game show champions.

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A family of Tibetan nomads — they're real, not actors — poses before an Asian backdrop in a new fictional short film.

Tibetan Villagers Pose Before Backdrops, Earn Oscar Nomination

8:53am February 23, 2015

by Linda Poon

They're photographed in front of Asian scenes, a beach, Disneyland. It's a fictional film called Butter Lamp. And it has a real message.

In the movie, the cattle herder Kidane (center, played by Ibrahim Ahmed) and his family live in a tent in the mountains near Timbuktu.

Director Of Oscar-Nommed 'Timbuktu' Found A Star In A Refugee Camp

7:03am February 22, 2015

by Rena Silverman

A 12-year-old girl followed him everywhere. And she got the part. Abderrahmane Sissako tells what it's like to make a reality-based movie in Mauritania.

The raft sequences in Unbroken were filmed on a giant tank of water in Australia, near a highway and an amusement park. All of the dialogue had to be re-recorded on a sound stage.

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The Woman Behind The Oscar-Nominated Sound Of 'Unbroken'

6:25pm February 21, 2015

by Becky Sullivan

The film's tricky dialogue and dogfights were made possible by Becky Sullivan — the fifth woman ever nominated for the sound editing award. NPR's own Becky Sullivan met her to learn about the craft.

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Sloss, pictured here at the 2011 Tribeca Film Festival, has been a key figure associated with independent films including The Fog of War, Little Miss Sunshine and Banksy's Exit Through The Gift Shop.

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Meet John Sloss, The Man Behind Some Of Your Favorite Indie Films

6:19pm February 21, 2015

by Mandalit del Barco

Sloss is a lawyer, talent manager, sales agent and producer for films like Boys Don't Cry, The Fog of War and Boyhood. "He's a bulldog. He fights for the films he believes in," one filmmaker says.

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Food stylist Melissa McSorley demonstrates how she prepared the Cubano sandwich from the movie Chef.

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Hollywood Food Stylists Know: You Can't Film Styrofoam Cake And Eat It, Too

3:13pm February 20, 2015

by Susan Stamberg

Melissa McSorley's job is to make food look good — and last — on camera. Sometimes that means cooking 800 Cubano sandwiches, other times it means scooping butter instead of ice cream.

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