Movie Interviews

Michelle Yeoh (center) plays Evelyn Wang, a Chinese immigrant who owns a failing laundromat. She protects her daughter Joy (left), played by Stephanie Hsu, and her husband Waymond (right), played by Ke Huy Quan.

Arts

Michelle Yeoh has a new leading role and a new motto: No more turning the other cheek

12:23pm April 10, 2022

Michelle Yeoh has been a star for decades, but she finally gets her turn at a lead role in Hollywood, playing failing laundromat owner Evelyn Wang in Everything Everywhere All At Once.

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Michelle Yeoh finds the beauty in the ordinary in 'Everything Everywhere All at Once'

4:53pm April 08, 2022

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with actress Michelle Yeoh about her leading role in the new sci-fi action movie Everything Everywhere All at Once.

Conductor Marin Alsop talks about the joys and challenges of leading an orchestra

1:30pm April 04, 2022

by Terry Gross

Alsop talks about the rejection she faced on the way to becoming the first woman to lead a major American orchestra, the Baltimore Symphony. She's now the subject of a new documentary, The Conductor.

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A villager brings a yak into the classroom so the new teacher will understand how important the animals are to the village of nomadic yak herders. Yak dung is important too — used to warm homes.

Education

A yak, a ticked-off teacher, an Oscar nomination for Bhutan: We interview the director

2:56pm March 25, 2022

by Kamala Thiagarajan

The movie is Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom, up for best international feature. It's about an urban teacher who's ticked off about being sent to work in a remote village with no electricity.

Amin's character in the animated documentary Flee.

Arts

'Flee' creators on being a refugee: It's not an identity, it's a circumstance of life

3:00pm March 21, 2022

The film Flee opens with a question: "What does the word 'home' mean to you?" For Amin Nawabi, the answer is complicated.

'Attica' filmmakers on the making of the documentary

5:22pm March 19, 2022

The new documentary painstakingly recounts the deadly 1971 prison uprising. NPR's Michel Martin talks to co-directors Stanley Nelson and Traci A. Curry.

Actor Daniel Durant, appearing on the Kelly Clarkson Show, describes how he enjoyed radio as a child by feeling vibrations from a car's sound system turned up all the way.

Arts

'CODA' actor rocks out to music and NPR news

7:35pm March 18, 2022

by Mandalit del Barco

'CODA' costar Daniel Durant, who is deaf, shares a story about turing up the sound system in his car. A musicologist explains that people who are deaf have a complex appreciation of sound.

Will Smith, one of the film's producers, says he got into character by speaking and dressing like Richard Williams.

Sports
Arts

'King Richard,' the Oscar-nominated film, authentically depicts the Williams' history

5:33pm March 16, 2022

by Mandalit del Barco

King Richard is nominated for six Oscars, including Best Picture. Will Smith, Isha Price, and Aunjanue Ellis explain how faith motivated the Williams' family.

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Questlove reflects on his journey with 'Summer of Soul,' now nominated for an Oscar

9:31am March 14, 2022

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Amir "Questlove" Thompson about his critically acclaimed documentary "Summer of Soul," which chronicles the all-but-forgotten 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival.

The making of the 'Lucy and Desi' documentary

5:46pm March 12, 2022

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Lucie Arnaz, daughter of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz about the new documentary "Lucy and Desi."