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Rape Charge Resurfaces As Nate Parker Promotes 'Birth Of A Nation'

7:41am September 12, 2016

by Bilal Qureshi

At the Toronto film festival, actor and director Nate Parker faced the press about a 1999 rape charge against him. Parker's promoting a movie about Nat Turner's slave rebellion The Birth of a Nation.

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Keith Richards and Mick Jagger in Rolling Stones Olé Olé Olé! : A Trip Across Latin America.

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TIFF Diary, Day 3: 'Mascots,' 'All I See Is You' And 'Rolling Stones Olé Olé Olé!'

9:30am September 11, 2016

by Linda Holmes

On Linda Holmes' third day at the Toronto International Film Festival, she caught a new film from Christopher Guest, a lifeless movie starring Blake Lively, and a rock documentary.

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'Cameraperson' Captures A Filmmaker's Memoir Through Snippets Of Her Subjects

8:22am September 11, 2016

Kirsten Johnson has spent a quarter of a century as a documentary filmmaker. She joins NPR's Rachel Martin to talk about her own documentary that tells the story of her life behind the camera.

Mara Wilson's writing has appeared in Jezebel, The Toast, McSweeney's and The Daily Beast. She lives in New York City.

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'Where Am I Now?' Mara Wilson Explains What Happened When Matilda Grew Up

8:05am September 11, 2016

by NPR Staff

The former child actor says that the most complicated relationship she's ever had is with a fictional, 6-year-old girl. "I wanted to be her so badly," she says.

Lewis MacDougall as Connor in A Monster Calls.

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TIFF Diary, Day 2: 'Nocturnal Animals,' 'Arrival,' 'A Monster Calls' And More

11:59am September 10, 2016

by Linda Holmes

In Linda Holmes' second dispatch from the Toronto International Film Festival, she covers movies that range from alien encounters and tree-shaped monsters to riffs on Shakespeare.

In Sully, Tom Hanks plays Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger, the airplane captain whose unprecedented landing on the Hudson River on Jan. 15, 2009, saved the lives of 155 passengers.

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An Unforgettable 208-Second Flight Creates A Bureaucratic Frenzy In 'Sully'

6:16pm September 09, 2016

by David Edelstein

A new film stars Tom Hanks as the airline captain who made an emergency landing on the Hudson in 2009. Critic David Edelstein says that Sully's flight sequence is by far the best part of the film.

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Justin Tipping's Directorial Debut Follows Young Man's Pursuit Of His 'Kicks'

5:57pm September 09, 2016

NPR's Audie Cornish talks to director Justin Tipping, whose debut feature film Kicks is out now. The movie focuses on a young black man living in an inner-city neighborhood in California, and the lengths he goes to retrieve his stolen vintage sneakers.

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Ruth Negga and Joel Edgerton as Mildred and Richard Loving in Loving.

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TIFF Diary, Day 1: 'Loving,' 'Magnificent Seven,' 'Salesman,' 'Jean of the Joneses'

12:00pm September 09, 2016

by Linda Holmes

In Linda Holmes' first dispatch from the Toronto International Film Festival, she reviews films about a civil rights case, gunslinging, a strained marriage and a warm, talky family.

Julia (Olivia Colman, center left) and June (Anita Dobson, center right) in the musical London Road.

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On 'London Road,' Murder, Music And British Lower-Middle-Class Manners

5:00pm September 08, 2016

by Ella Taylor

In a British film based on an award-winning 2011 stage musical, a suburban community is riven by paranoia in the wake of the murder of five sex workers.

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Hollywood Offers New Batch Of Likely Awards Contenders For Fall

4:29pm September 05, 2016

by Bob Mondello

NPR movie critic Bob Mondello has a selective preview of likely blockbusters and awards contenders that Hollywood has in store for the fall.