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Frame-By-Frame, Filmmakers Make The Mundane Miraculous In 'Anomalisa'

1:38pm February 19, 2016

Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson discuss their Oscar-nominated film. Anomalisa's stop-motion "communicates fragility and humanity and brokenness," Kaufman says. Originally broadcast Dec. 22, 2015.

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Long-Term Devastation Springs From A Hasty Judgment Call In 'A War'

1:38pm February 19, 2016

by David Edelstein

Tobias Lindholm's Oscar-nominated film tells the story of a Danish commander's error in judgment during the war in Afghanistan. Critic David Edelstein says A War will "leave you in pieces."

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Stephan James (center) stars as Jesse Owens and Jason Sudeikis (right) stars as Larry Snyder in Stephen Hopkins' Race.

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'Race' Brings Jesse Owens And The 1936 Olympics To The Screen

12:59pm February 19, 2016

by Ella Taylor

While Race is, for a while, a conventional athlete biopic, once the story begins to balance the many forces that pulled on Owens and complicated his story, it gets more interesting.

George Clooney as Baird Whitlock in the new film Hail, Caesar!

Arts

Pop Culture Happy Hour: 'Hail, Caesar!' And Backstage Stories

9:11am February 19, 2016

by Linda Holmes

On this week's show, the Coen Brothers' 17th feature, the appeal of tales of filmmaking and other creative pursuits, and what's making us happy this week.

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A New England family in the 1630s struggles against evils it can't quite identify in The Witch.

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A Banished Family Fights Its Demons In A Puritanical Age

7:39pm February 18, 2016

by Scott Tobias

Half a drama about religious hysteria and half a horror film about isolation, The Witch follows a family struggling to identify the source of an evil that seems to plague them.

Two scientists and an Amazonian shaman work together over 40 years to find a sacred healing plant in Embrace the Serpent.

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The Strange And Intoxicating 'Embrace Of The Serpent'

5:00pm February 18, 2016

by Mark Jenkins

This Colombian nominee for the Oscar for best foreign-language film is loosely based on the journals of two real explorers and creates a story in which they spend decades seeking a sacred plant.

Kiefer Sutherland (left) as John Henry Clayton and Donald Sutherland (right) as Reverend William Clayton in the western Forsaken.

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A Father And Son Among Tumbling Tumbleweeds Of The Familiar

5:00pm February 18, 2016

by Andrew Lapin

Donald and Kiefer Sutherland appear together in a Western with little to offer beyond the usual formulas.

New Manufacturer Gives Oscar Statue A Minor Makeover

5:56pm February 17, 2016

by Laura Wagner

The New York-based company, Polich Tallix Fine Art Foundry, has taken over production from the Chicago-based R.S. Owens & Co., which had made the statues since 1982.

Misty Copeland (center) performed in the Washington Ballet production of Swan Lake in April 2015.

Misty Copeland Achieves #SquadGoals In The Documentary 'A Ballerina's Tale'

1:37pm February 16, 2016

by Leah Donnella

Misty Copeland talks body image, ballet and blackness in the new PBS documentary A Ballerina's Tale.

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'You Bite Off A Little Bit': 'Mad Max' Editor On How To Shape A Film

6:56pm February 15, 2016

by NPR Staff

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Margaret Sixel, Oscar-nominated editor for Mad Max: Fury Road, about how she highlighted emotional content in the action film.

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