Movie Interviews

'City Of Ghosts' Shows Everyday Horrors Of Living With ISIS

5:12pm July 16, 2017

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with director Matthew Heineman about his new film City of Ghosts, which follows a group of citizen journalists from Raqqa on life in ISIS-occupied Syria.

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Documentary Reveals The 'Dirty Tricks' Of One Of Trump's Closest Political Advisers

2:15pm July 13, 2017

Morgan Pehme co-directed the new Netflix documentary, Get Me Roger Stone, about the political operative who spent three decades trying to convince Donald Trump to run for president.

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Married co-writers Emily V. Gordon and Kumail Nanjiani based the romantic comedy The Big Sick on their own love story.

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How A Medically Induced Coma Led To Love, Marriage And 'The Big Sick'

6:42pm July 12, 2017

by Terry Gross

Comic Kumail Nanjiani remembers the first time he thought of marrying then-girlfriend Emily V. Gordon: when he saw her in a coma. Now the couple has co-written a romantic comedy based on their story.

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Wendy Whelan danced with the New York City Ballet for three decades.

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From Injury To Recovery, A Ballerina Fought To Retire On Her Own Terms

8:28am July 11, 2017

by Terry Gross

Wendy Whelan feared she would never dance again after undergoing hip surgery. The documentary Restless Creature chronicles her recovery and final performance with the New York City Ballet.

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'Baby Driver' Follows Criminal Who Wants Out Of The Game

6:17pm June 30, 2017

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with director Edgar Wright and Joe Loya, Wright's technical consultant, about the new movie, Baby Driver, which is about a getaway driver who wants out of the game.

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Sam Elliott On Career Longevity, Playing Tough And His Iconic Role In 'Lebowski'

3:05pm June 29, 2017

Elliott says that being selective about the roles he takes has helped him maintain his acting career for nearly 50 years. He plays an aging actor with a stalled career in the new film, The Hero.

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Christopher Plummer as the exiled Kaiser Wilhelm II in The Exception — a man with the outward trappings of power, who hasn't made a real decision in decades.

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Unconscious Prejudice Meets Real-World Horror In 'The Exception'

8:01am June 24, 2017

by Melissa Block

David Leveaux's new film follows exiled German emperor Kaiser Wilhelm II as he realizes that the new Germany of National Socialism has nothing at all in common with the Germany of his memories.

Zoe Kazan stars alongside Kumail Nanjiani in The Big Sick.

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'Big Sick' Creators Nanjiani And Gordon On Turning Their Courtship Into A Movie

4:38pm June 23, 2017

In Kumail Nanjiani and Emily Gordon's new rom-com, girl meets boy, girl contracts a mysterious illness and boy's Pakistani parents struggle to accept the relationship.

'From The Ashes' Documents Rise And Fall Of Coal In America

4:31pm June 22, 2017

After President Trump pulled out of the Paris Climate Agreement, former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg pledged to lead a group of mayors, governors and CEOs in cutting emissions according to the Paris framework. And now Bloomberg also has a film out documenting coal's rise and fall in America, From the Ashes.

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In 'The Hero,' Sam Elliott Continues His Career Renaissance

5:46pm June 11, 2017

NPR's Lakshmi Singh speaks with actor Sam Elliott about his new film, "The Hero." Sam Elliott plays an aging actor, coming to terms with his mortality and a career as a typecast cowboy.