Saying Goodbye to Hollywood's Cinerama Dome
Hollywood's Cinerama Dome is known for its space-age looking dome and its wide, curved screen. 60 years of movie-going there seems to be coming to The End.
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Neither #OscarsSoWhite Nor #OscarsSoMale — What A Difference A Pandemic Makes
It's been a catastrophic 12 months for movie theaters. It has also been a banner year for diversity at the Oscars — but it's going to take some work to make it permanent.
'Quo Vadis, Aida?' Asks: Where Does A Society Go After War Ends?
Jasmila Zbanic's Oscar-nominated film dramatizes the genocide of more than 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys in Srebrenica in 1995. Aida is a former teacher working as a translator for U.N. forces.
Starring As A Starlet, Amanda Seyfried Shines As Marion Davies In 'Mank'
To get into the role, Seyfried watched Davies' old movies, read her autobiography and listened to old scratchy recordings. She says playing the silver screen star was the ultimate dress-up dream.
Cinerama Dome Among ArcLight, Pacific Theaters To Close Due To Pandemic Losses
With the closing of 300 screens, Hollywood laments the loss of the iconic Cinerama Dome; it opened in 1963 with the premiere of Stanley Kramer's wide-screen comedy It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World.
'Emancipation' Moving Production Out Of Georgia Due To New Voting Laws
Actor Will Smith and director Antoine Fuqua, who are producing the Civil War-era film Emancipation, announced Monday that they are pulling the movie's production from Georgia.
Emerald Fennell's 'Promising Young Woman' Doesn't Let Anyone Off The Hook
Writer-director Fennell describes her Oscar-nominated film about a woman who hunts down sexual predators as "a kind of fantasy" but also as something "much darker and, I hope, more honest than that."
Leslie Odom Jr. Finds Sam Cooke's Voice In 'One Night In Miami'
Odom Jr. landed his first Broadway role at 16, and later starred as Aaron Burr in Hamilton. Now he's up for two Oscars, one for his role as Cooke in One Night in Miami.
In 'Moffie,' A Gay Soldier Comes Of Age During Apartheid In South Africa
NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks to director Oliver Hermanus about his new movie, Moffie, set in 1981 apartheid-era South Africa.
'Ma Rainey' Hairstylist Talks Horsehair Wigs, Historic Oscar Nomination
NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Jamika Wilson, who is currently nominated for an Oscar in the hairstyling and makeup category for their work on the film Ma Rainey's Black Bottom.