Movies

A preview of this year's (virtual) Sundance Film Festival

6:09pm January 20, 2022

by Mandalit del Barco

The Sundance Film Festival begins Thursday. Festival goers can expect Jesse Eisenberg's directorial debut, a docuseries about comedian Bill Cosby and a number of films about reproductive rights.

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Seidi Haarla plays a Finnish archaeology student traveling by train through Russia in Compartment No. 6.

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Strangers on a train share a bumpy ride in the Finnish film 'Compartment No. 6'

5:19pm January 20, 2022

by Justin Chang

At times, Juho Kuosmanen's film plays like a scruffier, less romantic version of Richard Linklater's Before Sunrise. There's tension to every scene, a sense that anything could go wrong at any moment.

"[The West is] about as far from my lived experience as you can imagine," Cumberbatch says. He plays a cattle rancher in Jane Campion's film, The Power of the Dog.

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Benedict Cumberbatch digs into toxic masculinity in 'The Power of the Dog'

3:13pm January 19, 2022

by Terry Gross

The British actor says the American West is "about as far from my lived experience as you can imagine." Cumberbatch got into his role for The Power of the Dog by spending time with real ranchers.

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Actor Gaspard Ulliel at a Chanel fashion show in 2015. Ulliel died Wednesday after a skiing accident in the Alps, according to officials in Albertville, France.

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'Hannibal' actor Gaspard Ulliel has died in a ski accident at age 37

1:55pm January 19, 2022

by Elizabeth Blair

Ulliel, known for playing fashion icon Yves Saint Laurent in a 2007 biopic and alongside Audrey Tatou in A Very Long Engagement, will be featured in Marvel's Moon Knight.

Joss Whedon was once hailed as a feminist. Then came the stories about his behavior

5:51pm January 18, 2022

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with reporter Lila Shapiro about the allegations against writer-director Joss Whedon.

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Alec Baldwin surrenders his phone to shooting investigators

1:55pm January 15, 2022

by The Associated Press

The actor has turned his cellphone over to authorities as part of the investigation into a fatal shooting on a New Mexico film set last fall, a law enforcement official says.

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Remembering director Peter Bogdanovich, chronicler of Hollywood's golden age

1:04pm January 14, 2022

by Terry Gross

Bogdanovich's directing credits include The Last Picture Show, Paper Moon and What's Up Doc? He was also a movie critic and a Hollywood historian. He died Jan. 6. Originally broadcast in 1983.

Rahim (Amir Jadidi) tries to reconnect with his son (Saleh Karimai) in A Hero.

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A seemingly good deed goes awry in Asghar Farhadi's gripping moral drama 'A Hero'

11:27am January 14, 2022

by Justin Chang

A media circus ensues when a man on leave from debtors' prison finds a handbag and returns it to its rightful owner. Motives are always more complicated than they appear in Asghar Farhadi's film.

15th September 1980: Sidney Poitier , the American actor and film director.

Sidney Poitier: actor, activist, and trailblazing heartthrob

4:29pm January 13, 2022

by Karen Grigsby Bates

Tributes have cascaded in since Sidney Poitier died. And so they should have. He was an unparalleled actor, a committed activist, and a beloved family member. He was also, frankly, a heartthrob.

The movie Rust was being filmed at the Bonanza Creek Ranch in Santa Fe, N.M., where the fatal shooting took place in October.

The 'Rust' armorer is suing the film's ammo supplier over the deadly, on-set shooting

2:19pm January 13, 2022

by Joe Hernandez

Hannah Gutierrez Reed, the armorer and key props assistant on the movie set, said in the complaint that she bought live ammunition she believed to be dummy rounds.