Movie Interviews

Bill Murray, Frances McDormand, Edward Norton and Bruce Willis star in the film — the story of a 12-year-old girl and boy who merge their imaginative worlds on an island off the coast of New England.

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Wes Anderson, Creating A Singular 'Kingdom'

10:38am February 19, 2013

The filmmaker's latest project, Moonrise Kingdom, is up for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. It's the story of a 12-year-old girl and boy who fall in love and then make a pact to run off into the woods together.

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The Movie Connie Britton Has 'Seen A Million Times'

5:00pm February 17, 2013

by Lily Percy

Actress Connie Britton could watch Colin Higgins' comedy Foul Play a million times. "From watching a movie like Foul Play, I have always wanted to bring a sense of humor to really every role that I'm playing," she says.

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Tony Kushner based his screenplay for Lincoln in part on Doris Kearns Goodwin's biography of the president, Team of Rivals â but he read many other histories and biographies, in addition to Lincoln's own writings.

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Kushner's 'Lincoln' Is Strange, But Also Savvy

1:11pm February 15, 2013

Tony Kushner wrote the screenplay for the film Lincoln, which focuses on the 16th president's tumultuous final months in office. Kushner read more than 20 books before writing about Lincoln, a man who had "an enormous capacity for grief that didn't deprive him of the ability to act."

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The bright colors and throwback feel of the Chilean drama No mask the very real political consequences of the 1988 plebiscite it depicts. (Pictured: Gael Garcia Bernal as Rene Saavedra)

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The Story Of 'No' Is The Story Of Modern Chile

8:39am February 15, 2013

by Mandalit del Barco

The Chilean political drama No is the first film from that country to be nominated for the Best Foreign Language Academy Award. The powerful, poignant film uses an unlikely main character to chart the surprising end of a dictator's reign.

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Tyler Perry stars in the action thriller Alex Cross, which is now out on DVD.

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Tyler Perry Transforms: From Madea To Family Man

1:09pm February 08, 2013

Best known for being the man behind Madea, Perry recently starred in the action thriller Alex Cross which is now out on DVD. We listen back to an October interview, in which he told Fresh Air's Terry Gross that his Madea character is a cross between his mom, his aunt and Eddie Murphy.

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Nicholas Hoult, Rob Corddry and Teresa Palmer lurch through a scene in Levine's zombie romantic comedy.

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'Warm Bodies' Director: Teen Romance, Undying

7:50pm February 07, 2013

by NPR Staff

Director Jonathan Levine joins NPR's Audie Cornish to explore the ins and outs of young (zombie) love — the subject of his new romantic comedy, which topped the box office in its first week.

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Bradley Cooper has been nominated for an Academy Award for his role in the film Silver Linings Playbook.

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Bradley Cooper Finds 'Silver Linings' Everywhere

1:14pm February 07, 2013

The actor, nominated for an Academy Award for his role in David O. Russell's film, talks about watching movies with his father as a kid in Philadelphia, his childhood fascination with soldiers and being up against Daniel Day Lewis for an Oscar.

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Jackie, Lynn and Sue — pictured here at age 7 — are three of the children featured in the landmark 1964 documentary 7 Up. The series returns this year with 56 Up, checking in with a group of 14 men and women whose lives have been documented since they

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Michael Apted, Aging With The '7 Up' Crew

2:39pm February 05, 2013

Every seven years since 1964, the director has caught us up on the lives of 14 everyday people in his acclaimed 7 Up series. Apted was 22 when the series began, and the subjects were 7. In the latest episode — 56 Up — the subjects are well into middle age.

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Jon Voight and Jane Fonda in a scene from the Hal Ashby film Coming Home.

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The Movie Jonathan Levine Has 'Seen A Million Times'

6:16pm February 03, 2013

by Lily Percy

Writer-director Jonathan Levine could watch Hal Ashby's Coming Home a million times. "I think that the distinctive thing about Coming Home is the love story," he says.

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Dustin Hoffman makes 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

3:08pm January 17, 2013

The veteran actor makes 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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