Movies

In The Rewrite Grant plays a washed-up Hollywood screenwriter who takes a job teaching at a university in upstate New York.

Arts

Hugh Grant On Smart Romantic Comedies And Standing Up To The Tabloids

10:12am March 02, 2015

by NPR Staff

In The Rewrite Grant plays a washed-up Hollywood screenwriter who takes a job teaching at a college. Recently, Grant has been fighting against British tabloids using illegal hacking tactics.

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In Selma, director of photography Bradford Young wanted the camera to feel like a participant. "It was just about never retreating, always staying dangerously close to Martin Luther King," he says.

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A Most Vibrant Year For Cinematographer Bradford Young

6:07pm March 01, 2015

by NPR Staff

The man behind the look of Selma and A Most Violent Year talks about depicting violence, participating in history and being a black cinematographer in Hollywood.

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Gina Rodriguez stars alongside Justin Baldoni in The CW's Jane the Virgin.

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Diversity Sells — But Hollywood Remains Overwhelmingly White, Male

6:39pm February 28, 2015

by NPR Staff

Women and minorities continue to be under-represented on TV and in film, both behind and in front of the camera, according to a new study — even though diverse films and shows make more money.

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Nimoy Is Gone, But Mr. Spock WIll Live Forever

10:40am February 28, 2015

Leonard Nimoy died Friday at the age of 83. NPR's Scott Simon remembers the man who was best known for his role as Spock.

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Eastern Boys begins as a home invasion story but evolves to something more complex, says NPR film critic Bob Mondello.

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Tense 'Eastern Boys': Cruising, and Bruising

8:13pm February 27, 2015

by Bob Mondello

NPR film critic Bob Mondello reviews Eastern Boys, a French film that is half love story, half home invasion drama.

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When Annie Clark was assaulted in 2007 she said the response from her university was victim blaming: "I talked to one campus employee and she gave me this extended metaphor about how rape was like a football game and I was the quarterback in charge and wh

Film About Campus Sexual Assault Tells Survivors: 'You Are Not Alone'

8:13pm February 27, 2015

by NPR Staff

Survivors Annie Clark and Andrea Pino brought a Title IX complaint against the University of North Carolina. "This is not about UNC," Clark says. "We're not doing this to vilify our institution."

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Pedestrians cross the cobblestone Via dei Fori Imperiali in front of Rome's Colosseum.

World News

James Bond Meets His Match — The Roman Cobblestone

5:54pm February 26, 2015

by Sylvia Poggioli

Actor Daniel Craig reportedly hit his head when the Aston Martin he was driving during filming the 24th James Bond thriller encountered a loose sanpietrino, as the cobblestones in Rome are known.

Co-director Bruce Sinofsky attends the Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory press day at HBO Studios on Jan. 6, 2012, in New York City.

Acclaimed Documentary Filmmaker Bruce Sinofsky Dies At 58

5:14pm February 25, 2015

by Elizabeth Blair

Sinofsky and his longtime co-director, Joe Berlinger, are perhaps best known for Paradise Lost, a trilogy of films about three teenagers convicted of killing three little boys in West Memphis, Ark.

Michael Keaton is up for an Academy Award for his performance in Birdman. The movie's original score, despite receiving critical acclaim, was declared ineligible for Oscar consideration.

In Oscar Nominations For Best Score, Some Hear Sour Notes

6:46pm February 23, 2015

by Joel Rose

The distinctive music in the movie Birdman will not win an Oscar — in fact, it wasn't even nominated. Like other acclaimed film scores from years past, it didn't comply with academy rules.

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How The Man Behind The Trailers Sparks An Urge To See A Movie

3:09pm February 23, 2015

Mark Woollen has created trailers for many Oscar-nominated films, including Boyhood, The Theory of Everything and Birdman. He talks about how he crafts an audience's first glimpse of a film.

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