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Gerwig, Baumbach Poke At Post-College Pangs()  

Director Noah Baumbach has made a name for himself with films such as The Squid and the Whale and Margot at the Wedding.

May 14, 2013 In Frances Ha, a 27-year-old (Greta Gerwig) navigates New York City — and the transition from prolonged adolescence to proper adulthood. Gerwig and director Noah Baumbach co-wrote the script; they join Fresh Air's Terry Gross to talk about the project.

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Movies I've Seen A Million Times

The Movie Mark McKinney Has 'Seen A Million Times'()  

A scene from Hayao Miyazaki's 1988 film, My Neighbor Totoro.

May 12, 2013 Writer-comedian Mark McKinney could watch Hayao Miyazaki's anime film My Neighbor Totoro a million times. "It still makes me laugh, it still makes me smile," he says.

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Tina Gordon Chism On Directing Her Star-Studded 'Peeples' ()  

Grace Peeples (Kerry Washington, from left), Wade Walker (Craig Robinson) and Virgil Peeples (David Alan Grier) in Peeples.

May 9, 2013 The writer of Drumline and ATL makes her directorial debut with the new comedy Peeples. It has the backing of hit filmmaker Tyler Perry and features some major stars. Chism talks to host Michel Martin about her career and new film.

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An Epic Of India Gets A Canvas Its Own Size()  

Parvati and Saleem (Shriya Saran and Satya Bhabha), born in tandem at the birth of independent India, are at the center of Salman Rushdie's novel Midnight's Children. Thirty years after the book's publication, filmmaker Deepa Mehta has committed the story to the big screen.

May 9, 2013 Midnight's Children, from Oscar-nominated filmmaker Deepa Mehta, is a sweeping big-screen adaptation of Salman Rushdie's great novel of modern Indian history. NPR's Bilal Qureshi talks to the two storytellers about their collaboration on the project.

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'Love' Stories: Pierce Brosnan, Then And Now()  

A reluctant widower (Pierce Brosnan) finds himself drawn to the mother (Trine Dyrholm) of the young woman who's marrying his son in Love Is All You Need, a romantic comedy from Oscar-winning director Susanne Bier.

May 7, 2013 The actor's new film, Love Is All You Need, has him playing a widowed businessman on vacation on the Amalfi Coast. He tells NPR's Audie Cornish it was a role he could identify with.

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