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'Chang Can Dunk' is the coming-of-age sports film Jingyi Shao wished for as a kid

7:42pm March 16, 2023

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with filmmaker Jingyi Shao about Chang Can Dunk, a coming-of-age sports film about an Asian American teen's quest to reinvent himself — by learning to dunk.

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Arts

'Bad guys never think they're bad guys,' says veteran character actor Clancy Brown

1:32pm March 14, 2023

by Sam Briger

Brown's been working since the 1980s, voicing Mr. Krabs in Spongebob and playing memorable villains in movies like The Shawshank Redemption and Highlander. He now has a supporting role in John Wick 4.

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Interview with the director of 'The Year Between'

5:26pm March 05, 2023

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with up-and-coming director Alex Heller about her first feature length film, The Year Between.

How Volker Bertelmann created the score for "All Quiet On The Western Front"

4:42pm March 03, 2023

NPR's Robin Hilton sits down with composer Volker Bertelmann to talk about how he channeled the drama and horror of World War I into his Oscar-nominated score for "All Quiet On The Western Front."

Daniel Roher attends the Navalny New York premiere at Walter Reade Theater on April 6, 2022 in New York City.

World News

'Navalny' director says Russian opposition leader's spirit is unbroken

12:11pm March 02, 2023

by Jojo Macaluso

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to film director Daniel Roher about his award winning documentary detailing the events following assassination attempt of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny.

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Cate Blanchett stars as Lydia Tár in director Todd Field's Tár.

Arts

'Whoever holds power, it's going to corrupt them,' says 'Tár' director Todd Field

1:52pm March 01, 2023

by Terry Gross

Cate Blanchett plays a charismatic conductor who uses her power to take sexual advantage of young women she's mentoring. Both Blanchett and Tár director Todd Field have been nominated for Oscars.

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Ke Huy Quan plays Waymond, the meta-verse traveling husband in Everything Everywhere All At Once.

Arts

In 'Everything Everywhere,' Ke Huy Quan found the role he'd been missing

2:30pm February 27, 2023

by Ann Marie Baldonado

As a kid, Quan appeared in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom and The Goonies. But he quit acting when he couldn't land good roles. He's nominated for an Oscar for his first performance in decades.

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Costume designer Ruth E. Carter won an Oscar in 2019 for her work on Black Panther. She's been nominated for another Academy Award for Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.

Arts

An Oscar-winning costume designer explains how clothes 'create a mood'

2:11pm February 14, 2023

by Tonya Mosley

In the last 30 years, Ruth E. Carter has produced some of the most iconic looks in the Black film canon and beyond. She won an Academy Award for Black Panther and is now nominated for Wakanda Forever.

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Sports

Director Sam Pollard on 'Bill Russell: Legend'

6:18pm February 12, 2023

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with director Sam Pollard about his new documentary Bill Russell: Legend, which is now streaming on Netflix.

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Activists hold a banner reading "Take down the Sackler name" in front of the Pyramid of the Louvre museum in Paris on July 1, 2019.

'All the Beauty and the Bloodshed' chronicles Nan Goldin's career of art and activism

3:46pm February 09, 2023

by Terry Gross

Filmmaker Laura Poitras and Goldin discuss their Oscar-nominated documentary about efforts to remove the Sackler family name from prominent museums amid the opioid epidemic.

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