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Abstract artist Larry Poons is enjoying a late-career resurgence of interest, decades after his optical dot paintings attracted acclaim in the 1960s. Poons is a key figure in the documentary The Price of Everything.

Arts

New Documentary Paints A Picture Of The Contemporary Art Market Run Amok

5:41pm November 04, 2018

by Michel Martin

HBO's The Price of Everything calls into question the current price explosion and commodification of modern art "that's fascinating, but it's also terrifying," says director Nathaniel Kahn.

Charlene deGuzman plays the lead character Joy in Unlovable, which is loosely based on her own experience with sex and love addiction.

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Behind The Real Sex And Love Addiction In The Musical Film 'Unlovable'

8:13am November 04, 2018

by Lulu Garcia-Navarro

The new movie stars Charlene deGuzman as a woman finding her way back from rock bottom. It's somewhat comedic, but also based on her own condition and recovery.

Executive producer and author Kevin Kwan on the set of Crazy Rich Asians.

Arts

Not My Job: We Quiz 'Crazy Rich Asians' Writer Kevin Kwan On Crazy Itch Reasons

9:29am November 03, 2018

Kwan was born into a wealthy family in Singapore, and when he moved to the U.S. at age 11, he thought nobody would believe the world he grew up in — so he wrote a novel about it.

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Outsized Music Personalities Featured In 'Bohemian Rhapsody' And 'Maria By Callas'

5:58pm November 02, 2018

by Bob Mondello

In the biopic Bohemian Rhapsody, Rami Malek plays Freddie Mercury, the lead singer of the rock group Queen. In the documentary Maria by Callas, opera singer Maria Callas speaks for herself through letters and interviews.

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Rami Malek On Being Freddie Mercury

5:42am November 02, 2018

In the new film Bohemian Rhapsody, Rami Malek plays Freddie Mercury, Queen's frontman who shattered convention. NPR's Rachel Martin speaks with Malek about his role.

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Sir Michael Caine attends the European Film Award ceremony in Berlin in 2015, when he won the best actor prize for his work on the movie Youth.

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Actor Michael Caine, 85, On His Long Career: 'The Alternative Was A Factory'

6:44pm November 01, 2018

by Ari Shapiro

From the title heartthrob in Alfie to the fatherly butler of a Batman franchise, the actor has been filling movie screens for a half-century. His new memoir is Blowing The Bloody Doors Off.

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Rosamund Pike plays war correspondent Marie Colvin in A Private War.

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'A Private War': Combat Takes Its Merciless Toll On A Tireless War Correspondent

5:01pm November 01, 2018

by Mark Jenkins

To play the Sunday Times war reporter Marie Colvin, Rosamund Pike "transform[s] herself into a singular figure, one who goes places few people would and see[s] things that even fewer could handle."

Adam (Calum Worthy) and his rap battle mentor Behn Grymm (Jackie Long) in Bodied.

Arts

Once More Unto The Beat: A Grad Student Enters The World Of Rap Battles In 'Bodied'

5:00pm November 01, 2018

by Scott Tobias

"It's juvenile. It's irritating. Yet it's also fiendishly clever in the way it anticipates and dismantles every argument that could be made against it," says critic Scott Tobias.

Xavier (Theodore Pellerin) and Jared (Lucas Hedges) share a fleeting moment of intimacy in the gay-conversion-therapy drama Boy Erased.

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Strong Performances Make 'Boy Erased' Indelible

5:00pm November 01, 2018

by Ella Taylor

Actor Joel Edgerton adapts for the screen a 2016 memoir about a teenager undergoing "gay conversion therapy;" he also directs and stars in this "intelligent message movie."

The documentary They'll Love Me When I'm Dead profiles a late-in-life Orson Welles as he struggles to complete The Other Side of the Wind.

Arts

A Guide To Netflix's Orson Welles Mini-Fest: A Long-Unfinished Film And A Documentary About It

5:00pm November 01, 2018

by Andrew Lapin

Welles' abandoned Hollywood satire The Other Side of the Wind hits Netflix and select theaters alongside the new making-of documentary They'll Love Me When I'm Dead; the two films inform each other.