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Richard Linklater: 'Filmmaking Is Problem Solving'
https://www.npr.org/2025/11/03/nx-s1-5596428/richard-linklater-filmmaking-is-problem-solving
Published: November 3, 2025 20:53
Filmmaker Richard Linklater doesn't speak French, but that didn't stop him from directing a movie that's almost entirely in French. āNouvelle Vagueā focuses on the beginning of the New Wave of cinema, specifically Jean-Luc Godard and his landmark 1960ā¦
Best Of: Guillermo Del Toro / Cameron Crowe
https://www.npr.org/2025/11/01/nx-s1-5591343/best-of-guillermo-del-toro-cameron-crowe
Published: November 1, 2025 05:05
The great filmmaker Guillermo Del Toro has a new adaptation of Frankenstein. He saw the 1931 film when he was 7. āI realized I understood my faith better through Frankenstein than through Sunday Mass,ā he tells Terry Gross. āAnd I decided at age seven thatā¦
The Making Of āYoung Frankensteinā
https://www.npr.org/2025/10/31/nx-s1-5591341/the-making-of-young-frankenstein
Published: October 31, 2025 16:58
Mel Brooksās classic 1974 movie Young Frankenstein parodies the iconic Frankenstein movies of the 1930s. This Halloween, weāre featuring our interviews with director Mel Brooks and stars Gene Wilder, Peter Boyle, Teri Garr and Cloris Leachman. And filmā¦
The āShadow Presidentā Dismantling The Government
https://www.npr.org/2025/10/30/nx-s1-5591276/the-shadow-president-dismantling-the-government
Published: October 30, 2025 17:54
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. āI don't think you can take in the full sweep of whatā¦
Filmmaker Nia DaCosta Defies Categorization
https://www.npr.org/2025/10/29/nx-s1-5590087/filmmaker-nia-dacosta-defies-categorization
Published: October 29, 2025 18:25
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, mixed-race Black woman, played by Tessa Thompson.ā¦
Judd Apatow Unpacks His Comedy Memorabilia
https://www.npr.org/2025/10/28/nx-s1-5588708/judd-apatow-unpacks-his-comedy-memorabilia
Published: October 28, 2025 18:30
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 documented everything. Heās now opened up his personalā¦
For Cameron Crowe, Being 'Uncool' Is A Badge Of Honor
https://www.npr.org/2025/10/27/nx-s1-5587786/for-cameron-crowe-being-uncool-is-a-badge-of-honor
Published: October 27, 2025 20:00
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.' Crowe spoke with Terry Gross about getting access toā¦
Best Of: Malala Yousafzai / Ken Burns On The Revolutionary War
Published: October 25, 2025 09:00
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 the world. It's calledĀ Finding My Way, and in it she writesā¦
Remembering NPR 'Founding Mother' Susan Stamberg
https://www.npr.org/2025/10/24/nx-s1-5584029/remembering-npr-founding-mother-susan-stamberg
Published: October 24, 2025 16:01
As longtime co-host ofĀ 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 men, so I was lowering my voice to sound asā¦
Guillermo Del Toro Finally Makes His Own 'Frankenstein'
https://www.npr.org/2025/10/23/nx-s1-5583871/guillermo-del-toro-finally-makes-his-own-frankenstein
Published: October 23, 2025 18:02
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 when del Toro saw the 1931 filmĀ Frankenstein, his lifeā¦