Movies

Halyna Hutchins at the SAGindie Sundance Filmmakers Reception in January 2019.

Arts

Cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, who was fatally shot by a prop gun, was a rising star

3:23pm October 22, 2021

by Elizabeth Blair

Celebrated as a rising star by colleagues and collaborators, Hutchins grew up on a military base, and had a taste for filming herself doing extreme sports.

In this photo from a Hollywood studio gun department in 1958, Rodd Redwing (left) checks the final adjustment that Bob Lane is making on a six-gun. Redwing is an actor and a teacher of western gun handling. Lane is one of the men who repair and service th

National

On-set deaths from prop guns are rare — but not unheard of

11:36am October 22, 2021

by Jaclyn Diaz

The death of director of photography Halyna Hutchins on a film set in Santa Fe, N.M., is a reminder that prop weapons can pose a serious risk. But Hollywood history includes only a few such incidents.

Timothée Chalamet is a royal heir, and Rebecca Ferguson is his mother in Dune.

Arts

Sci-Fi epic 'Dune' is an immersive but incomplete experience

11:20am October 22, 2021

by Justin Chang

Denis Villeneuve's adaptation of Frank Herbert's novel is undeniably staggering. But his Dune also feels rudimentary, as if he's managed his source material without fully mastering it.

National

Alec Baldwin fires prop gun on movie set killing a film crew member

7:39am October 22, 2021

Baldwin discharged a prop firearm on the set of Rust near Sante Fe, killing the film's director of photography and injuring the director, according to the sheriff's office of Santa Fe County, N.M.

In this July 13, 1997 file photo Lorli von Trapp Campbell attends a mass honoring her father, in Stowe, Vt. A funeral home confirmed Lorli von Trapp Campbell died Sunday, Oct. 17, 2021, in Northfield, Vt.

Arts

Lorli von Trapp Campbell from the 'Sound of Music' family has died at age 90

6:32pm October 21, 2021

by The Associated Press

Campbell was born in Austria, the second daughter of Georg and Maria von Trapp and a younger stepsibling to the older von Trapp children who went on to be depicted in the musical and beloved movie.

Books

Review: 'Dune' may be on HBO Max, but it's one film you want to see on a big screen

4:56pm October 21, 2021

by Bob Mondello

Denis Villeneuve's Dune — based on Frank Herbert's bestselling sci-fi novel — arrives in cinemas and on home screens starring Timothee Chalamet and Zendaya.

Rebecca Ferguson as Lady Jessica Atreides, Zendaya as Chani, Javier Bardem as Stilgar, and Timothée Chalamet as Paul Atreides

Arts

With 'Dune,' Denis Villeneuve has made Hollywood's definitive post-9/11 epic

3:23pm October 21, 2021

by Bilal Qureshi

With the new 2021 movie, director Denis Villeneuve turns the novel's meditations on race, culture and colonialism into riveting and undeniable cinema.

National

The world's largest movie theater chain is adding open captions at 240 U.S. locations

2:29pm October 21, 2021

by Rachel Treisman

The world's largest movie theater chain is adding onscreen captioning to 240 locations across the U.S. in an effort to make moviegoing more accessible.

Oscar Isaac, shown here at the 2020 Academy Awards, credits his father with introducing him to acting: "I started making movies with his camcorder."

Arts

For Oscar Isaac, life — and acting — is all about impermanence

2:14pm October 21, 2021

by Terry Gross

Isaac says the bonds he makes on set are both meaningful and transient: "You have these really intense months ... and then it goes away." He stars in Dune, The Card Counter and Scenes from a Marriage.

The film version of 'Dune' aims to remain true to the sci-fi author's vision

6:13am October 21, 2021

Director Denis Villeneuve's film Dune recreates the desert world of the 1965 sci-fi novel. He tells NPR's A Martínez that Dune has lived in his imagination since he was a kid.