Movie Interviews

Alex Winter and Keanu Reeves are back as everyone's favorite dim-witted would-be rock stars, Bill S. Preston, Esq., and Ted "Theodore" Logan.

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Not Heinous At All: Bill And Ted Are Back To 'Face The Music'

7:49am August 23, 2020

by Lulu Garcia-Navarro

Thirty years after they befriended Napoleon and beat the Grim Reaper in a game of Battleship, Bill S. Preston (Esq.) and Ted "Theodore" Logan are back — older, but not necessarily any wiser.

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Documentary Chronicles Students' Fight For Black Rights During 'Freedom Summer'

1:20pm August 21, 2020

by Terry Gross

Freedom Summer, now streaming on PBS, focuses on the 1964 movement to get Black people to vote in Mississippi. Director Stanley Nelson and organizer Charles Cobb discussed the film in 2014.

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Director Gina Prince-Bythewood says The Old Guard shows "the opposite side of what we all envision immortality to be."

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'Everybody Deserves To Be Seen As A Hero,' Says 'Old Guard' Director

12:51pm August 10, 2020

by Terry Gross

"Female characters are not [usually] the center of the story," filmmaker Gina Prince-Bythewood says. Her new movie follows a diverse group of world-weary warriors who've been alive for centuries.

Music & Culture

'The Go-Go's' Documentary Offers A Look At The All-Female Band's Journey To Stardom

4:33pm July 30, 2020

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with guitarist Charlotte Caffey and drummer Gina Schock of The Go-Go's about the new documentary that charts the band's rise to global stardom.

Josephine Decker Releases A New Film About The Horror Writer Shirley Jackson

4:07pm July 27, 2020

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with filmmaker Josephine Decker about her new film. Shirley is a fictionalized story about the real writer Shirley Jackson, the author of the short story "The Lottery."

Rosamund Pike plays Marie Curie in the new Amazon Studios biopic Radioactive.

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Like Her 'Radioactive' Elements, Marie Curie Didn't 'Behave' As Expected

3:00pm July 25, 2020

by Leila Fadel

Rosamund Pike plays the Nobel Prize-winning scientist in the biopic Radioactive. She took chemistry lessons ahead of time, and says it was refreshing to prepare for a role by getting "mentally fit."

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Documentary Honors Civil Rights Leader Rep. John Lewis

6:42pm July 20, 2020

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to actress Erika Alexander, co-founder of Color Farm Media and producer of John Lewis: Good Trouble, about the late Georgia congressman's civil rights legacy.

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Charlize Theron Reflects On Growing Up In South Africa During The Apartheid Era

12:04pm July 18, 2020

by Terry Gross

"This climate that we're in right now with our polarizing political views in this country, it was very similar in South Africa," the star of The Old Guard says. Originally broadcast Dec. 16, 2019.

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Lin-Manuel Miranda and members of the hip-hop group Freestyle Love Supreme perform at the Greenwich House Theater.

'We Are Freestyle Love Supreme' Is An Accidental 'Hamilton' Cast Origin Story

10:12am July 18, 2020

A new documentary catalogs the rise of Lin-Manuel Miranda, Christopher Jackson and other members of the hip-hop group Freestyle Love Supreme in the mid-2000s before they became famous on Broadway.

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Laverne Cox is the executive producer and a prominent voice in the new documentary Disclosure.

Trans People 'Have Always Been There,' Says 'Disclosure' Producer Laverne Cox

5:08am July 13, 2020

by Noel King

The Emmy-winning actress is the executive producer of Disclosure, a new documentary on trans representation in Hollywood. Trans people were on film as early as 1914, but often misrepresented.