Movie Interviews

Duncan's summer is filled with awkward — and often adult-initiated — situations involving the girl next door (Annasophia Robb).

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Oscar Winners Rash And Faxon Team Up For 'The Way, Way Back'

6:13pm July 08, 2013

by NPR Staff

Renee Montagne talks to Nat Faxon and Jim Rash, the writing and directing team on the new film The Way, Way Back. The coming of age movie focuses on a 14-year-old boy's tough summer vacation with his mother and her new boyfriend.

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Dustin Hoffman made his directorial debut with the film Quartet. He has starred in such classics as The Graduate, Kramer vs. Kramer and Tootsie.

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'Quartet': Dustin Hoffman, Behind The Camera

11:03am July 05, 2013

The veteran actor recently made his directorial debut with a film about four aging opera singers who stage a concert at their retirement home. Starring Maggie Smith and Tom Courtenay, the film explores friendship, memory and the time that remains.

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Tomi Ungerer's 1967 book Moon Man follows its lonely protagonist as he visits Earth for the very first time.

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From Kids' Books To Erotica, Tomi Ungerer's 'Far Out' Life

4:00pm July 01, 2013

The famed author and illustrator broke the rules of American children's literature in the '50s and '60s, but many Americans have never heard of him. A new documentary, Far Out Isn't Far Enough, looks at his life and work.

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The Movie Paul Feig Has 'Seen A Million Times'

7:07pm June 29, 2013

by Lily Percy

Writer-director Paul Feig could watch the James Bond film Casino Royale a million times. "Daniel Craig really embodies Ian Fleming's James Bond," he says.

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Throughout the '70s and '80s, the radical African-American MOVE organization had several dramatic encounters with police.

'Let The Fire Burn': A Philadelphia Community Forever Changed

2:05pm June 26, 2013

by NPR Staff

On May 13, 1985, after a long standoff, Philadelphia municipal authorities dropped a bomb on the headquarters of the African-American radical group MOVE. In the documentary Let the Fire Burn, director Jason Osder uses archival footage to chronicle the years of tension that ended in tragedy.

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Emma Watson, who shot to global fame as the level-headed, resourceful Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter films, admits there's a certain irony in her playing a teenager who burgles the homes of celebrities.

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Coppola And Watson On Teens, Fame And 'Bling'

7:30pm June 22, 2013

by NPR Staff

NPR's Scott Simon talks to writer-director Sofia Coppola and actress Emma Watson about their film The Bling Ring, in which a group of celebrity-mad teens rob the homes of Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan and others. It's based on a true story.

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Actor Jeff Cohen in a scene from The Goonies.

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The Movie Matthew Morrison Has 'Seen A Million Times'

6:18pm June 22, 2013

by Lily Percy

Actor and singer Matthew Morrison could watch Richard Donner's cult classic The Goonies a million times. "You know, it was kind of that adventure that every kid wants to have," he says.

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Actor Henry Cavill and director Zack Snyder confer on a shot for an early sequence in Man of Steel. Cavill is the first British actor to wear Superman's iconic red and blue — though not the first to play a D.C. comics superhero.

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Zack Snyder, Making Superman Over For Our Era

11:04am June 14, 2013

by NPR Staff

In Man of Steel, the director behind Watchmen and 300 has had a go at that most quintessentially American superhero. He speaks with NPR's Linda Werthheimer about his reverence for the character's mythology — and why he chose to change some of it up.

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Singer Merry Clayton performs in Hollywood during a celebration of Carole King and her music.

'20 Feet From' The Spotlight, There's Singing Worthy Of One

2:31pm June 12, 2013

A new documentary directed by Morgan Neville profiles backup singers whose voices you know but whose names you probably don't: Lisa Fischer, Darlene Love, Judith Hill and Merry Clayton.

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James Franco (from left), Jonah Hill, Craig Robinson, Seth Rogen, Jay Baruchel and Danny McBride all play versions of themselves in the post-apocalyptic comedy This Is the End, written by Rogen and his writing partner Evan Goldberg.

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Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg: Friends Till 'The End'

5:16pm June 11, 2013

Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg met as adolescents on the Vancouver bar mitzvah circuit — and soon after began writing the script for what would become the movie Superbad. Their new project is This Is the End, a disaster-movie spoof in which the Rapture hits home in Hollywood.

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