Movie Interviews

Ke Huy Quan plays Waymond, the meta-verse traveling husband in Everything Everywhere All At Once.

Arts

In 'Everything Everywhere,' Ke Huy Quan found the role he'd been missing

2:30pm February 27, 2023

by Ann Marie Baldonado

As a kid, Quan appeared in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom and The Goonies. But he quit acting when he couldn't land good roles. He's nominated for an Oscar for his first performance in decades.

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Costume designer Ruth E. Carter won an Oscar in 2019 for her work on Black Panther. She's been nominated for another Academy Award for Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.

Arts

An Oscar-winning costume designer explains how clothes 'create a mood'

2:11pm February 14, 2023

by Tonya Mosley

In the last 30 years, Ruth E. Carter has produced some of the most iconic looks in the Black film canon and beyond. She won an Academy Award for Black Panther and is now nominated for Wakanda Forever.

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Sports

Director Sam Pollard on 'Bill Russell: Legend'

6:18pm February 12, 2023

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with director Sam Pollard about his new documentary Bill Russell: Legend, which is now streaming on Netflix.

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Activists hold a banner reading "Take down the Sackler name" in front of the Pyramid of the Louvre museum in Paris on July 1, 2019.

'All the Beauty and the Bloodshed' chronicles Nan Goldin's career of art and activism

3:46pm February 09, 2023

by Terry Gross

Filmmaker Laura Poitras and Goldin discuss their Oscar-nominated documentary about efforts to remove the Sackler family name from prominent museums amid the opioid epidemic.

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'Let it Be Morning' is the story of Sami (Alex Bakri), a Palestinian citizen of Israel living in Jerusalem who receives an invitation to his brother's wedding forcing him to return to the village where he grew up.

World News

Let It Be Morning shines light on Palestinians' unease with the status quo in Israel

1:44pm February 03, 2023

NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with Israeli filmmaker Eran Kolirin and Palestinian actor Alex Bakri about the film 'Let it Be Morning'.

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'Farha' tells the story of a Palestinian girl in 1948

5:08pm January 29, 2023

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Darin Sallam, the director of the Netflix film Farha, about a Palestinian girl's experience when her village is attacked during the foundation of Israel in 1948.

Japanese musician, composer, record producer, pianist, activist, writer, actor and dancer Ryuichi Sakamoto, photographed on June 30, 2016 in Paris.

As Ryuichi Sakamoto returns with '12,' fellow artists recall his impact

4:56pm January 26, 2023

The composer has been lauded for decades over his deeply affective music; director Alejandro González Iñárritu, composer Hildur Guðnadóttir and more join us to explain why.

National

Encore: Actress Andrea Riseborough on her new movie, 'To Leslie'

5:08pm January 24, 2023

NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer talks with actress Andrea Riseborough about her new movie, To Leslie. It's about a single mother who wins the lottery but quickly loses the money.

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Music & Culture

Building the score for 'Glass Onion'

4:43pm January 17, 2023

by Robin Hilton

Composer Nathan Johnson speaks with NPR's All Songs Considered podcast about his score for the film Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery.

James Cameron on the delicate balance of making sequels

6:36am January 16, 2023

NPR's A Martinez speaks with Director James Cameron about "Avater: The Way of Water," the long-awaited sequel to his 2009 science-fiction blockbuster, "Avatar."

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