Send Out The Doves: 'Noah' Lands On Solid Ground
The story of Noah's Ark is getting blockbuster treatment in Hollywood's new biblical epic Noah. Darren Aronofsky's film about the Old Testament shipbuilder has been sparking controversy — but there's...
View ArticleMickey Rooney, All-American Boy For More Than 90 Years, Dies
Transcript MELISSA BLOCK, HOST: Mickey Rooney, who lived a long life on stage and screen, died last night at his home in Los Angeles. He was 93.
View ArticleIn 'Belle,' A Complex Life Tangled In Class And Commerce
Here's a unique specialty for a movie studio: slavery films. Last year, Fox Searchlight brought us an Oscar winner about a free black man hauled into 12 years of slavery.
View ArticleSeeing The New 'X-Men'? Take Along A Teenager To Explain
The final "X" in the 20th Century Fox logo glows for an extra second as X-Men: Days of Future Past gets started, but what follows is darker than dark — a bleak, dire future in which all of Manhattan is...
View ArticleMultiplexes Heat Up For Summer Blockbuster Season
Transcript MELISSA BLOCK, HOST: This is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News. I'm Melissa Block. The long Memorial Day weekend usually marks the start of Hollywood blockbuster season. But it's been well...
View ArticleSci-Fi Kid Flick 'Earth To Echo' Broadens The 'E.T.' Formula
Movie theaters were swarming with Transformers this past weekend, and that'll also be true over the July 4 weekend. So this may not seem to be the best moment to bring out a sci-fi flick made on a...
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A Farewell To Robin Williams, Whose Antics Never Hid The Tenderness Beneath
Copyright 2014 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.Transcript BOB MONDELLO, BYLINE: He talked faster than the rest of us, he thought faster than the rest of us and now he has lived faster than...
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Renowned Theater And Film Director Mike Nichols Dies
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Philae Comet Landing Reminiscent Of 'Armageddon,''Deep Impact'
Copyright 2014 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.Transcript AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: NPR film critic Bob Mondello is always looking for an excuse to watch old movies - sometimes classics,...
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'Selma' Manages To Be Both Passion-Inspiring And Measured
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View ArticlePeter O'Toole, Exuberant From 'Lawrence' To His Last Role
Blond, blue-eyed and wearing blazing white robes in Lawrence Of Arabia, Peter O'Toole was handsome enough — many said beautiful enough — to carry off the scene in which director David Lean...
View ArticleA Century Ago Today, Chaplin Made His Film Debut — In A Dud
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View ArticleOn Philip Seymour Hoffman, And His Many Appearances
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View ArticleAlain Resnais, Director And Master Of Disorientation, Dies At 91
Transcript MELISSA BLOCK, HOST: This is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News. I'm Melissa Block.AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: And I'm Audie Cornish.The French filmmaker who shook up European cinema and offered...
View ArticleReview: 'The Grand Budapest Hotel'
Transcript MELISSA BLOCK, HOST: Filmmaker Wes Anderson makes movies that are eccentric, pointedly artificial and, to his fans, very funny. From his early comedies "Rushmore" and "The Royal...
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