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Back to SearchRichard Linklater: 'Filmmaking Is Problem Solving'
Filmmaker Richard Linklater doesn't speak French, but that didn't stop him from directing a movie that's almost entirely in French. ‘Nouvelle Vague’ focuses on the beginning of the New Wave of cinema…
Published on 1 week, 4 days ago
Best Of: Guillermo Del Toro / Cameron Crowe
The great filmmaker Guillermo Del Toro has a new adaptation of Frankenstein. He saw the 1931 film when he was 7. “I realized I understood my faith better through Frankenstein than through Sunday Mass…
Published on 2 weeks ago
The Making Of ‘Young Frankenstein’
Mel Brooks’s classic 1974 movie Young Frankenstein parodies the iconic Frankenstein movies of the 1930s. This Halloween, we’re featuring our interviews with director Mel Brooks and stars Gene Wilder,…
Published on 2 weeks ago
The ‘Shadow President’ Dismantling The Government
In a New Yorker article co-published with ProPublica, reporter Andy Kroll describes Russell Vought, director of the Office of Management and Budget, as a "shadow president" with oversized influence. …
Published on 2 weeks, 1 day ago
Filmmaker Nia DaCosta Defies Categorization
DaCosta directed the box office hit horror movie Candyman and The Marvels. Her latest, Hedda, is an adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's 1891 play, Hedda Gabler. She reimagines the main character as a queer,…
Published on 2 weeks, 2 days ago
Judd Apatow Unpacks His Comedy Memorabilia
Long before Judd Apatow was directing box office hits or launching the careers of comedy superstars, he was a fan. As a kid he wrote letters to his heroes, collected autographs, and obsessively docum…
Published on 2 weeks, 3 days ago
For Cameron Crowe, Being 'Uncool' Is A Badge Of Honor
The filmmaker's new memoir, 'The Uncool,' is about his teen years in the '70s as a rock journalist for 'Rolling Stone.' His unconventional story was dramatized in the 2000 movie 'Almost Famous.' Crow…
Published on 2 weeks, 4 days ago
Best Of: Malala Yousafzai / Ken Burns On The Revolutionary War
We know Malala as the youngest Nobel Prize laureate, the girl who survived a Taliban bullet at 15 for advocating for girls' education in Pakistan. Now in a new book, she's reintroducing herself to th…
Published on 2 weeks, 6 days ago
Remembering NPR 'Founding Mother' Susan Stamberg
As longtime co-host of All Things Considered, Stamberg was the first woman to anchor a national news program in the U.S. People weren't used to hearing women's voices on the radio. "We were imitating…
Published on 3 weeks ago
Guillermo Del Toro Finally Makes His Own 'Frankenstein'
When Oscar-winning filmmaker Guillermo del Toro was a kid growing up in Guadalajara, Mexico, he would draw monsters all day. His deeply Catholic grandmother even had him exorcised because of it. But …
Published on 3 weeks, 1 day ago