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News Articles: Movies

Director Fernando Frías arrives for the screening of the HBO series <em>Los Espookys</em> on June 2019 in New York City.

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Mexico's Oscar-Winning Directors Embrace Rise Of Fernando Frías De La Parra

Director Fernando Frías de la Parra's Netflix film I'm No Longer Here is Mexico's entry for Best International Feature Film at the Oscars. "He's truly original," says Roma director Alfonso Cuarón.

January 23, 2021
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  • Mandalit del Barco
Balram (Adarsh Gourav) is a young man struggling to escape poverty in <em>The White Tiger.</em>

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  • Movie Reviews

In 'White Tiger,' A Dickensian Rags-To-Riches Story Turns Psychological Thriller

In this adaptation of Aravind Adiga's 2008 novel, a young man defies the odds by escaping poverty in a rapidly globalizing India. The White Tiger is a dark satire — with an eat-the-rich ethos.

January 22, 2021
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  • Justin Chang
Derek DelGaudio uses a little magic and a lot of storytelling to talk about identity in <em>In & Of Itself</em>.

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  • Movie Reviews

'In & Of Itself' Is A Study Of Identity And Magic

Derek DelGaudio's successful off-Broadway show has been given a marvelous film adaptation that captures the stage production's delicate and humane tone.

January 22, 2021
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  • Linda Holmes
Carey Mulligan plays Cassie in Emerald Fennell's subversive revenge thriller <em>Promising Young Woman.</em>

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  • Pop Culture

The Agony And Subversion Of The 'Promising Young Woman' Ending

Emerald Fennell's scathing revenge thriller is shocking and deliberately unsatisfying.

January 21, 2021
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  • Aisha Harris
<em>Spoor</em> is a pulpy murder story that's also a utopian fable about feminism, social justice and ecology. The film, which was released in 2017, is newly available for streaming on <a href="https://www.brattlefilm.org/">The Brattle.</a>

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  • Movie Reviews

Polish Thriller 'Spoor' Is A Pulpy Murder Story — And A Utopian Fable

Corpses pile up, but there are no human footsteps surrounding the dead bodies — only animal footprints. This strange, darkly funny film mixes feminism, social justice and ecology.

January 20, 2021
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  • John Powers
Filmmaker Ken Burns says America is "defined as much by our challenges and the dark moments as we are by our successes." You can explore U.S. history <a href="https://www.pbs.org/kenburns/unum">in scenes selected from more than 40 documentaries at Burns' UNUM site.</a> Above, the sun rises behind the U.S. Capitol in Washington.

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  • History

Ken Burns Says U.S. Has 3 Viruses: COVID-19, White Supremacy And Misinformation

Documentarian Ken Burns believed there were three major crises in the nation's past: The Civil War, the Depression and World War II. Now, he says, we are living through the fourth.

January 19, 2021
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  • Rachel Martin
Martin Luther King Jr. was a man who had a "tremendous amount of burdens he had to deal with, both politically, socially and personally," says <em>MLK/FBI</em> director Sam Pollard.

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Documentary Exposes How The FBI Tried To Destroy MLK With Wiretaps, Blackmail

MLK/FBI director Sam Pollard chronicles the FBI's campaign against Martin Luther King Jr., which included sending King a letter suggesting that he kill himself.

January 18, 2021
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  • Sam Briger
Martin Luther King Jr. in Sam Pollard's <em>MLK/FBI.</em>

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'MLK/FBI' Humanizes A Civil Rights Icon's Legacy

Sam Pollard's documentary deftly examines the FBI's intense surveillance of Martin Luther King Jr. in the final years of his life.

January 15, 2021
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  • Aisha Harris
Cassie (Carey Mulligan) is a woman bent on revenge — until she meets nice guy Ryan (Bo Burnham) in <em>Promising Young Woman</em><em>.</em>

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'Promising Young Woman' And 'Pieces Of A Woman' Examine Trauma And Revenge

Two new films center on the lingering effects of trauma and tragedy. Carey Mulligan is woman bent on revenge in Promising Young Woman; Vanessa Kirby is a mother whose baby dies in Pieces of a Woman.

January 13, 2021
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  • Justin Chang
In the long-running "Up" series, Michael Apted began with a group of British children, and checked in with them every seven years as they aged. <em>63 Up</em> came out in 2019, and <a href="https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/segments/261818-up-series-56">he said</a> he hoped to release <em>84 Up</em> at age 99. He's pictured above at the Dubai International Film Festival in December 2012.

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  • Obituaries

Michael Apted, Director Of The 'Up' Documentary Series, Dies At 79

Apted's pioneering documentary series began with a group of British children and checked in with them every seven years. He also directed Coal Miner's Daughter and The World Is Not Enough.

January 09, 2021
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  • Neda Ulaby
A 5-year-old Jeffrey Sherman is pictured with his father, songwriter Robert Sherman, in the early 1960s.

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  • National

His Vaccine Story Inspired His Father To Write A Disney Classic

As a kid, Jeffrey Sherman told his father, songwriter Robert Sherman, about his experience getting a polio vaccine. It sparked Robert to craft the now famous Mary Poppins song, "A Spoonful of Sugar."

January 08, 2021
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  • Jo Corona
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  • Movie Interviews

To Make 'The Godfather' His Way, Francis Ford Coppola Waged A Studio Battle

Coppola was 29 years old when he signed on to direct a film. "I was young and had no power," he said in 2016, "so [the studio] figured they could just boss me around." But Coppola fought back.

January 01, 2021
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  • Terry Gross
Kristen Bell, William Jackson Harper, Ted Danson and D'Arcy Carden in NBC's afterlife comedy series <em>The Good Place, </em>which ended after four seasons.

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  • Pop Culture

50 Wonderful Things From 2020

Linda Holmes' annual list of highlights from pop culture includes TV, movies, games, podcasts, TikTok videos and whatever else made the year a little easier.

December 29, 2020
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  • Linda Holmes
Composer James Newton Howard in 2008.

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  • Music Features

James Newton Howard, A Composer Who Can Do It All

James Newton Howard has composed the music for more than 100 films: thrillers, Disney animation and big fantasy series. His latest is the Tom Hanks western, News of the World.

December 29, 2020
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  • Tim Greiving
Maud (Glenda Jackson) is haunted by two mysteries in the television film <em>Elizabeth is Missing, </em>based on a novel by Emma Healey.

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  • Television

Dementia Complicates The Search For 2 Lost Women In 'Elizabeth Is Missing'

A new PBS Masterpiece psychological thriller stars Glenda Jackson as a woman desperately trying to solve two mysteries — even as her own grasp of reality is slipping away.

December 28, 2020
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  • John Powers
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