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Hollywood relies on China to stay afloat. What does that mean for movies?

Red Carpet author Erich Schwartzel says that film studios increasingly need Chinese audiences to break even — which can result in self-censorship. Originally broadcast Feb. 21, 2022.

September 15, 2023
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  • Terry Gross
Jones says her instructions to <em>Freaks and Geeks</em> stars James Franco, Jason Segel, Linda Cardellini and Seth Rogen were simple: "Do less, do less, do less."

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  • Movie Interviews

From 'Freaks and Geeks' to 'Barbie,' this casting director decides who gets on-screen

Allison Jones is known for casting actors who look like real people — and who are naturally funny. One of her hardest conversations? Telling Bob Odenkirk he didn't get Michael Scott in The Office.

September 12, 2023
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  • Terry Gross
<em>Barbie</em>, starring Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling, is the top grossing movie of 2023, generating more than $1.3 billion at the international box office so far.

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  • Music Interviews

'Barbie' music producer Mark Ronson opens up about the film's 'bespoke' sound

Ronson spent a year creating Barbie's music, with the help of artists like Nicki Minaj, Sam Smith and Billie Eilish. "Everyone ran with it and did something different," he says.

September 08, 2023
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  • Tonya Mosley
Helen Mirren, Rami Heuberger, Lior Ashkenazi and Dvir Benedek in Bleecker Street/ShivHans Pictures' <em>Golda</em>. The movie, which follows Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir through the 1973 Yom Kippur War, hits theaters Friday.

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  • Movie Interviews

'Golda' depicts a key moment in Israeli history. Its director sees parallels to today

The biopic Golda stars Helen Mirren as Israel's first female prime minister, leading the country through the pivotal, 19-day Yom Kippur War in 1973. Its director says it's especially relevant today.

August 25, 2023
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  • Rachel Treisman
Cillian Murphy plays physicist Robert Oppenheimer in Christopher Nolan's new film.

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  • Movie Interviews

'Like it or not, we live in Oppenheimer's world,' says director Christopher Nolan

Nolan's film tells the story of Robert Oppenheimer, the man who spearheaded the development of the atomic bomb. "Of all of the subject matter I've dealt with, it's certainly the darkest," he says.

August 15, 2023
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  • Terry Gross
Kansas City Monarchs pitching great Satchel Paige warms up at New York's Yankee Stadium Aug. 2, 1942 for a Negro League game between the Monarchs and the New York Cuban Stars.

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The Negro League revolutionized baseball – MLB's new rules are part of its legacy

In his film The League, Sam Pollard tells the story of the Negro National League: "They brought a different kind of style ... a kind of baseball which Major League Baseball is trying to bring back."

July 10, 2023
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  • Dave Davies
GPB News NPR

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  • Movie Interviews

Remembering Alan Arkin, an Oscar- and Tony-winning actor/filmmaker

Arkin, who died June 29, got his start creating characters with the comedy troupe Second City and later won an Oscar for his role in Little Miss Sunshine. Originally broadcast Sept. 29, 1989.

July 07, 2023
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  • Terry Gross
Intersex activists Sean Saifa Wall, Alicia Roth Weigel and River Gallo share their stories in the documentary <em>Every Body.</em>

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For the intersex community, 'Every Body' exists on a spectrum

Alicia Roth Weigel is one of three activists profiled in Julie Cohen's new documentary. She says intersex is an umbrella term for people whose "anatomy doesn't fit super neatly into a binary box."

July 05, 2023
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  • Terry Gross
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  • Movie Interviews

Remembering Oscar-winning actor and British Parliament member Glenda Jackson

Jackson, who died June 15, won Oscars for her performances in the 1969 movie Women in Love and the 1973 comedy A Touch of Class. She was elected to Pariament in 1992. Originally broadcast in 2019.

July 03, 2023
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  • Terry Gross
Nimona and and Ballister Boldheart on the lamb.

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  • Movies

ND Stevenson on how he's changed alongside his 'Nimona' series

The wildly successful webcomic is now an animated film on Netflix. Has anything been lost in translation?

June 30, 2023
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  • Manuela López Restrepo
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  • Arts & Life

Thinking she had just months to live, Laura Dern's mother 'spilled the beans'

Actor Laura Dern and her mother Diane Ladd have always shared a profession. But when Ladd was diagnosed with lung disease, the two started sharing so much more. Their new book is Honey, Baby, Mine.

June 26, 2023
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  • Terry Gross
Concept art for Disney and Pixar's <em>Elemental</em> by the director Peter Sohn.

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  • Arts & Life

Earth, air, fire, water — and family — are all 'Elemental' for Pixar's Peter Sohn

In science class, Sohn saw the periodic table as an apartment building. The son of Korean immigrants, he felt the elements were a "beautiful metaphor" for cultures mixing in his New York hometown.

June 15, 2023
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  • Elizabeth Blair
Grammy Award-winning musicians Marcy Marxer and Cathy Fink sing about the unexpected humor they encountered during Marxer's seven-year fight with breast cancer in the concert film, <em>All Wigged Out</em>.

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  • Music Features

'All Wigged Out' is about fighting cancer with humor and humanity

The movie follows partners in music and life as they battle through breast cancer — while holding onto their sense of the comically absurd

May 29, 2023
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  • Barry Gordemer
Julia Louis-Dreyfus plays a writer whose husband hates the novel she's working on in <em>You Hurt My Feelings.</em>

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  • Movie Interviews

Julia Louis-Dreyfus recalls the first laugh she got — and the ER trip that followed

She was about 3 years old and had stuck raisins up her nose — but she made her mom laugh so she calls it a win. The Veep star plays a writer whose husband hates her new novel in You Hurt My Feelings.

May 23, 2023
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  • Dave Davies
Joel Edgerton plays a horticulturist with a secret past as a white nationalist in <em>Master Gardener.</em>

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  • Movie Interviews

Actor Joel Edgerton avoids conflict in real life, but embraces it on-screen

Edgerton stars as a horticulturist with a secret past as a white nationalist in Master Gardener. He says director Paul Schrader challenged him be "less of an actor" in the role.

May 16, 2023
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  • Terry Gross
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