Movie Interviews

In Bong Joon-ho's movie Parasite, the Kim family — which assembles pizza boxes to get by — resides in a semi-basement apartment originally constructed as a nuclear-fallout bunker.

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The Hit Movie 'Parasite' Puts Basement Structures In Structural Inequality

4:43pm November 05, 2019

by Neda Ulaby

In the South Korean film, architecture is a symbol of class conflict. Director Bong Joon-ho knows that mansions are all over — but a certain humble subterranean apartment is particular to Seoul.

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'Farming' Director's Journey Into A White Supremacist Group As A Nigerian Boy

5:24pm November 03, 2019

NPR's Leila Fadel speaks to director Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje. His new movie Farming is about a Nigerian boy who joined a British white supremacist group.

Emilia Clarke plays Kate, who works in a year-round Christmas goods store, in Last Christmas, directed by Paul Feig.

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Emilia Clarke On 'Last Christmas,' Brexit And Life After 'Game Of Thrones'

10:20am November 03, 2019

by Lulu Garcia-Navarro

Her new romantic comedy, also starring Henry Golding, is set to George Michael tunes, was co-written by Emma Thompson and takes place in London in winter.

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Edward Norton plays detective Lionel Essrog in Motherless Brooklyn, a movie he also directed and wrote.

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Why Edward Norton Moved 'Motherless Brooklyn' To The New York Of Robert Moses

9:08am November 02, 2019

by Mary Louise Kelly

The actor stars in — and directs, and wrote the screenplay for — his adaptation of Jonathan Lethem's detective novel. But he moved it to the 1950s to mine a dark side of NYC history.

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Remembering Robert Evans, Producer Of 'The Godfather' And 'Chinatown'

2:18pm November 01, 2019

by Terry Gross

Evans, who died Oct. 26, had a long and storied career as a studio head and producer at Paramount. In 1994, he talked about his career in film, which started when he was discovered poolside in 1956.

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Music & Culture

Edward Norton Shares His Vision For The Music Of 'Motherless Brooklyn'

12:00pm November 01, 2019

Songs from Wynton Marsalis, Radiohead's Thom Yorke and a pulpy score from Daniel Pemberton all help set a noir scene for the film's 1950s New York setting.

Cynthia Erivo stars as Harriet Tubman in the biopic Harriet.

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The 'Superhero Journey' Of Harriet Tubman, Now On Film

10:58am November 01, 2019

by Noel King

Harriet, a biographical film directed and co-written by Kasi Lemmons, is out in theaters. "I don't want to rob her of either her womanhood or her superheroism," Lemmons says.

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François Ozon's By the Grace of God dramatizes the child sexual abuse scandal in the Catholic Church of Lyon, France.

'People Are Afraid Of Cinema': François Ozon Takes On Church Sexual Abuse

7:58am October 26, 2019

by Rebecca Rosman

The French filmmaker first wanted to make a documentary about an accused pedophile priest. But the victims convinced him that fiction would reach more viewers. It's called By the Grace of God.

Why Dan Krauss Turned His Documentary, 'The Kill Team,' Into A Feature Film

5:15pm October 24, 2019

Dan Krauss made a 2014 documentary about five U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan who were accused of murdering civilians. He told NPR's Ari Shapiro why he made the story into a feature film this year.

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Naomie Harris stars in the action thriller Black and Blue as a police officer who captures a murder committed by corrupt cops on her body camera.

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What Naomie Harris Had To Do To Be So 'Black And Blue'

6:10pm October 23, 2019

by Ari Shapiro

The new action movie is about a black police officer straddling two worlds. It's also the British actress' first leading role. She explains how she prepared for a deeply American story.

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