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Filmmaker Kirsten Johnson stages one of her father's "deaths" in Dick Johnson Is Dead.

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Filmmaker Faces Her Father's Mortality By Staging His 'Death' Again And Again

12:08pm September 30, 2020

by Sam Briger

When Kirsten Johnson's dad started showing signs of dementia, she struggled to accept the impending loss. So she staged a series of imagined accidents in her new film, Dick Johnson Is Dead.

Filmmaker Radha Blank stars as a fictionalized version of herself in The Forty-Year-Old Version. The film, which began as a Web series, was inspired by Blank's own experience as a playwright and rapper in Harlem.

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'The Forty-Year-Old Version' Is Fast, Funny, Multi-Faceted And No Small Feat

11:27am September 30, 2020

by Justin Chang

Radha Blank plays a fictionalized version of herself — a struggling artist from Harlem, who was hailed years earlier as a promising playwright. The film is gorgeously shot in black-and-white.

"The train's afoot!": (L to R) Sherlock (Henry Cavill) and Mycroft (Sam Claflin) literally look down on their younger sister Enola (Millie Bobby Brown) in Netflix's Enola Holmes.

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In The Lively 'Enola Holmes,' Sherlock's Little Sister Goes Sleuthing

10:50am September 23, 2020

by Glen Weldon

This bright and breezy Netflix adaptation of a YA novel finds Millie Bobby Brown starring as the brilliant, fourth-wall-busting little sister of Sherlock Holmes.

New Movie: 'The Secrets We Keep'

6:39am September 23, 2020

NPR's David Greene speaks with actress Noomi Rapace about her new film: The Secrets We Keep. She also starred in the Swedish version of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo.

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What It's Like To Attend A Film Festival During The Pandemic

4:16pm September 21, 2020

by Linda Holmes

The Toronto International Film Festival has ended. This year, it offered socially distanced in-person screenings as well as virtual ones.

'Antebellum': A Movie That Uses Horror To Process America's Racial Problems

3:58pm September 18, 2020

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with filmmakers Gerard Bush and Christopher Renz about their new movie, Antebellum. It stars Janelle Monáe in a story that takes on the legacy of slavery in a surprising way.

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Tom Holland plays Arvin, a young man who refuses to let evil go unpunished in The Devil All the Time.

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Everyone's A Sinner In 'The Devil All The Time'

1:28pm September 18, 2020

by Justin Chang

The Netflix adaptation of Donald Ray Pollock's novel is grim in ways that can be both exciting and wearying: so many twists and betrayals, so many awful characters, so many horrific acts of violence.

NC Film Spending Up, Council Urges More Incentives

4:50pm September 16, 2020

by Eddie Garcia

Five new film and television productions have been approved for North Carolina Film and Entertainment G

'We Are Who We Are': Coming-Of-Age Story Offers A Different View Of Italy

4:09pm September 16, 2020

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Italian filmmaker Luca Guadagnino about his new series, We Are Who We Are. It's a coming-of-age drama set on an American military base in Italy.

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Charlie Kaufman's 'I'm Thinking Of Ending Things' Is A Wildly Inventive Comic Thriller

2:08pm September 11, 2020

by Justin Chang

The relationship at the center of Kaufman's new Netflix film might not be long for the world, but the main characters are nevertheless awfully hard to get out of your mind.

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