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'Lovelace': A Sex Superstar's Struggle To Show Herself

1:26pm August 12, 2013

by NPR Staff

A new biopic explores the story of Linda Lovelace, star of the 1970s film Deep Throat. Directors Jeffrey Friedman and Rob Epstein talk with host Jacki Lyden their film, Lovelace.

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Robert Klein And The Golden Age Of Comedy

6:29pm August 03, 2013

by NPR Staff

Host Jacki Lyden talks to comedian Robert Klein, the narrator of the documentary When Comedy Went to School, which opened this week in New York City.

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Havana Marking's documentary Smash and Grab depicts members of the Pink Panthers, an international ring of jewel thieves.

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'Smash & Grab': How Pink Panthers Stole Millions In Jewels

12:21pm July 30, 2013

by Christopher Werth

Havana Marking's new documentary focuses on professional thieves who've targeted high-end jewelry shops across Europe, the Middle East and Asia for a decade. According to Interpol, the Pink Panthers have stolen nearly a half a billion dollars worth of jewels over roughly 500 robberies.

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Aubrey Plaza (left) and Rachel Bilson star in the new comedy The To Do List, written and directed by Maggie Carey.

Honor Student's Approach To Sex Makes For A Raunchy 'To Do List'

11:23am July 26, 2013

by NPR Staff

Aubrey Plaza stars as an overachieving high school valedictorian who prepares for sex like studying for an AP exam. Writer and director Maggie Carey says that when she was looking to finance the independent film, she'd describe it as "a dirty Sixteen Candles."

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Lake Bell was born Lake Siegel Bell. Her father is named Harvey Siegel, but she says her mother got the last name in the divorce settlement.

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'In A World ...' Is A Comedy About, You Guessed It, Voice-Over Artists

5:50pm July 25, 2013

by NPR Staff

Actress Lake Bell wrote and directed the film, which mixes laughs with an inspiring story about a female vocal coach who wants to break into the world of movie trailers.

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Neorealism Goes Hollywood

4:48pm July 20, 2013

A new video essay compares two 1952 films that resulted from the collaboration of two renowned filmmakers, Vittorio De Sica, a master of Italian neorealism, and David O. Selznick, a Hollywood producer most famous for Gone With The Wind. Guest host Linda Wertheimer talks with filmmaker Ernie Park, who uses a pseudonym, Kogonada.

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Kristen Wiig (with Darren Criss) stars in Girl Most Likely as a hard-luck case who learns how to reboot her disastrous life after she's forced to move back in with her mom.

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Kristen Wiig: That Loud, Strange Lady Isn't Me

6:12pm July 19, 2013

by NPR Staff

The star of Saturday Night Live, Bridesmaids and now Girl Most Likely joins NPR's Melissa Block to talk about lost characters, loud characters, and how shy she is in real life.

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Troubles Linger In 'Shadow Dancer'

1:22pm July 13, 2013

by Pat Dowell

The new film from the director of Man on Wire and Project Nim, James Marsh, is a fiction film about the period toward the end of the Troubles in Northern Ireland. It stars Clive Owen and up-and-comer Andrea Riseborough.

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A child of the '60s and '70s, Guadalajara-born director Guillermo del Toro has been a fan of the Japanese kaiju film tradition since he was a kid. His latest movie, Pacific Rim, is his passion project and homage to the genre.

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Guillermo Del Toro, On Monsters And Meaning

6:26pm July 12, 2013

by NPR Staff

The director talks to NPR's Audie Cornish about Japanese cinema, growing up watching kaiju films like Godzilla in Mexico, and his new action epic, Pacific Rim.

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One of the aspects that attracted Schreiber to Ray Donovan was the prospect of playing a character for whom words were relatively unimportant.

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As 'Ray Donovan,' Liev Schreiber Cleans Up Hollywood's Messes

8:53am July 09, 2013

In the Showtime series, Schreiber plays a Hollywood fixer with some personal problems of his own. While TV is newish territory for Schreiber, playing a man plagued by inner demons is not. He talks with Dave Davies about acting the heavy — and how his face has shaped his career.

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