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Sunday, November 18, 2012
Movies
Kids Prove They're No Pawns In 'Brooklyn Castle'
November 18, 2012 What happens when you take a group of junior high kids from a school with a poverty level of more than 65 percent and teach them how to play chess? Katie Dellamaggiore's documentary, Brooklyn Castle, explores the amazing results.
In McElwee Doc, 'Memory' Fails And Family Clashes
November 18, 2012 In his new documentary, Photographic Memory, Ross McElwee lingers on small moments and (mis)remembered experiences as he turns the camera on his son, Adrian. McElwee hoped to understand his son better through his work on the film, which he describes as a piece of "comic melancholy."
Saturday, November 17, 2012
Oscars 2013: The 85th Annual Academy Awards
Ang Lee On 'Life Of Pi' And Being A Slave To Film
November 17, 2012 With films including period pieces like Sense and Sensibility, big-budget action films like Hulk and epic romances like Brokeback Mountain, Lee can't be pigeonholed. So he was up for the challenge when presented with a story that takes place almost entirely on a boat — with a real tiger.
Tom Stoppard, On Adapting 'Anna' And Defining Love
November 17, 2012 The award-winning playwright and screenwriter is best known for such works as Arcadia and Shakespeare in Love. He speaks with NPR's Scott Simon about the screenplay for Joe Wright's adaptation of Anna Karenina.
Movies
Christopher Plummer: One Great Actor Plays Another
November 17, 2012 Actor Christopher Plummer has taken his Tony Award-winning performance as actor John Barrymore to film. He speaks with Weekend Edition host Scott Simon about Barrymore as a man and as a role.
Friday, November 16, 2012
Director Joe Wright On Tolstoy's Iconic Adultress
November 16, 2012 Wright has made four feature-length movies, three of which have been adapted from literature. His newest film, Anna Karenina, tackles Leo Tolstoy's iconic love tragedy. He speaks with NPR's Renee Montagne about making a familiar story his own.
Thursday, November 15, 2012
Oscars 2013: The 85th Annual Academy Awards
Kushner's 'Lincoln' Is Strange, But Also Savvy
November 15, 2012 Tony Kushner wrote the screenplay for the film Lincoln, which focuses on the 16th president's tumultuous final months in office. Kushner read more than 20 books before writing about Lincoln, a man who had "an enormous capacity for grief that didn't deprive him of the ability to act."
Sunday, November 11, 2012
Saturday, November 10, 2012
Verdi's 'La Forza,' Born Under A Bad Sign
November 10, 2012 Now considered one of Verdi's masterpieces, the opera flopped on its first run and carries the stigma of cursing those who perform it to terrible fates.
Movies
Hearing History In The Sounds Of 'Lincoln'
November 10, 2012 Stephen Spielberg's new movie Lincoln features the authentic sounds of 1865, from Lincoln's own pocket watch to the latch on the carriage door that carried him to Ford's Theatre. Sound designer Ben Burtt talks about making the objects of Lincoln's life heard.
Propelled By Climate Change, Activist Is Drawn To Ice
November 10, 2012 Photographer James Balog has spent the last several years recording global warming in its coldest regions. NPR's Scott Simon talks with Balog about the new documentary, Chasing Ice, which follows Balog on his quest to document the planet's vanishing glaciers.
Friday, November 09, 2012
Oscars 2013: The 85th Annual Academy Awards
Daniel Day-Lewis On Creating A Voice From The Past
November 9, 2012 The actor portrays Abraham Lincoln in the new movie Lincoln; he tells NPR's Melissa Block about one challenge the role posed — figuring out what the 16th president might have sounded like.
From The Theater To MI6: Sam Mendes On 'Skyfall'
November 9, 2012 Director Sam Mendes won critical acclaim and an Oscar for his first feature film, American Beauty. Now, he is taking on one of the most iconic cinematic franchises in the new James Bond film, Skyfall. He speaks with Renee Montagne about the experience.
Saturday, November 03, 2012
Movies I've Seen A Million Times
The Movie RZA Has 'Seen A Million Times'
November 3, 2012 Rapper-turned-director RZA could watch Sergio Leone's western The Good, the Bad and the Ugly a million times. "It's funny, this movie is to me an American classic, even though it's an Italian film," he says.
Author Interviews
Nick, Nora (And Asta) Return In 'Thin Man' Novellas
November 3, 2012 Dashiell Hammett's The Thin Man invented a new kind of crime fiction. It was hard-boiled, but also light-hearted; funny, with a hint of homicide. Now, for the first time, the stories of After the Thin Man and Another Thin Man have been published as novellas.
