Movies

Priya Kansara as Ria Khan in Polite Society.

Arts

Get these Sundance 2023 movies on your radar now

3:08pm January 27, 2023

by Aisha Harris

The Sundance Film Festival returned in-person to Park City, Utah, this year, and with more submissions than ever. NPR's Aisha Harris screened nearly 20 films — these are her favorites.

Gustav De Waele and Eden Dambrine star in Close, which Belgium has submitted for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film.

An adolescent friendship fractures in the Belgian Oscar hopeful, 'Close'

7:51pm January 26, 2023

by Bob Mondello

The social forces are pervasive but subtle in Lukas Dhont's Close — no overt bullying or homophobia, just internalized pressures on still-developing psyches.

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Japanese musician, composer, record producer, pianist, activist, writer, actor and dancer Ryuichi Sakamoto, photographed on June 30, 2016 in Paris.

As Ryuichi Sakamoto returns with '12,' fellow artists recall his impact

4:56pm January 26, 2023

The composer has been lauded for decades over his deeply affective music; director Alejandro González Iñárritu, composer Hildur Guðnadóttir and more join us to explain why.

Inspiration for Bdeir's 'Warsha' came from above — a crane operator in Beirut

5:05am January 26, 2023

NPR's Leila Fadel talks to Dania Bdeir, director of the Lebanese short film Warsha. The movie, about a crane operator in Beirut longing to express himself freely, will be released on Netflix Feb. 1.

National

Has the screenlife format of the new thriller 'Missing' gone stale by now?

6:33pm January 25, 2023

The new movie Missing is the latest iteration of a format called "screenlife," in which the plot develops solely through devices and screens.

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Oscar nominations: 'Everything Everywhere' scores 11, no women for best director

6:19pm January 24, 2023

by Mandalit del Barco

Nominations for this year's Academy Awards were announced Tuesday morning. The film Everything Everywhere All at Once racked up nods in almost every category, including Best Picture.

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National

Encore: Actress Andrea Riseborough on her new movie, 'To Leslie'

5:08pm January 24, 2023

NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer talks with actress Andrea Riseborough about her new movie, To Leslie. It's about a single mother who wins the lottery but quickly loses the money.

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Pamela Anderson tells her story in her own words with a new memoir

5:08pm January 24, 2023

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with actor and writer Pamela Anderson about her autobiography Love, Pamela.

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Stephanie Hsu, Ke Huy Quan, Michelle Yeoh and James Hong in Everything Everywhere All at Once, which led the Oscar nominations Tuesday.

Arts

5 takeaways from the Oscar nominations

12:54pm January 24, 2023

by Linda Holmes

War movies are big, first-time acting nominees had a great morning, and inclusion at the Oscars is still an uphill battle. All this, plus the big showing for the unconventional nominations leader.

The 2023 Oscar nominations are here

10:57am January 24, 2023

This sci-fi movie "Everything Everywhere All at Once" led the nominations announced this morning for the 95th Academy Awards. Sequels to "Avatar" and "Top Gun" are also up for Best Picture Oscars.

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