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2021 Sundance Film Festival: Questlove, Rita Moreno, Pandemic Films

4:12pm January 28, 2021

by Mandalit del Barco

The 2021 Sundance Film Festival will be mostly virtual this year. Highlights include a documentary from Questlove, a biopic about Rita Moreno and films made during the pandemic.

Cloris Leachman, pictured in 1974, seemed game for anything, from playing a creepy housekeeper in Mel Brooks' Young Frankenstein to competing on ABC's Dancing With the Stars.

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Actress Cloris Leachman, Who Played Both Silly And Serious, Dies At 94

1:39am January 28, 2021

by Jacki Lyden

The actress seemed game for anything: She played a heartbroken lover in The Last Picture Show, a creepy housekeeper in Young Frankenstein and even competed on Dancing With the Stars.

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New Documentary Offers An Inside Look At '90s Middle East Peace Negotiations

1:36pm January 26, 2021

by Dave Davies

The Human Factor gives a behind-the-scenes view of the peace effort between Israel and Palestine. We talk with filmmaker Dror Moreh and Dennis Ross, President Clinton's point man in the effort.

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Cicely Tyson says her mother did not want her to be an actress. "But in my gut, I knew there was something there that I was put here to do," Tyson says.

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'Just As I Am': Cicely Tyson Reflects On Her Long Career

6:03pm January 24, 2021

by Michel Martin

In a memoir, Cicely Tyson recalls an improbable journey through a six-decade career. She says several roles "hurt me deeply because it happened simply because of the color of my skin and my sex."

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Director Fernando Frías arrives for the screening of the HBO series Los Espookys on June 2019 in New York City.

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Mexico's Oscar-Winning Directors Embrace Rise Of Fernando Frías De La Parra

7:22pm January 23, 2021

by Mandalit del Barco

Director Fernando Frías de la Parra's Netflix film I'm No Longer Here is Mexico's entry for Best International Feature Film at the Oscars. "He's truly original," says Roma director Alfonso Cuarón.

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Balram (Adarsh Gourav) is a young man struggling to escape poverty in The White Tiger.

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In 'White Tiger,' A Dickensian Rags-To-Riches Story Turns Psychological Thriller

11:48am January 22, 2021

by Justin Chang

In this adaptation of Aravind Adiga's 2008 novel, a young man defies the odds by escaping poverty in a rapidly globalizing India. The White Tiger is a dark satire — with an eat-the-rich ethos.

Director Ramin Bahrani On The Book That Inspired Netflix's 'The White Tiger'

5:15am January 22, 2021

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks with director Ramin Bahrani, about his new film The White Tiger, based on the acclaimed novel.

Derek DelGaudio uses a little magic and a lot of storytelling to talk about identity in In & Of Itself.

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'In & Of Itself' Is A Study Of Identity And Magic

5:00am January 22, 2021

by Linda Holmes

Derek DelGaudio's successful off-Broadway show has been given a marvelous film adaptation that captures the stage production's delicate and humane tone.

Netflix's 'Cops And Robbers' Touted As An Early Oscar Contender

6:25am January 21, 2021

NPR's Noel King talks to the team behind Cops and Robbers which combines animation with activism, with themes of childhood innocence and traumatic realities of racial injustice.

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Carey Mulligan plays Cassie in Emerald Fennell's subversive revenge thriller Promising Young Woman.

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The Agony And Subversion Of The 'Promising Young Woman' Ending

5:00am January 21, 2021

by Aisha Harris

Emerald Fennell's scathing revenge thriller is shocking and deliberately unsatisfying.