美国国家公共电台 NPR Documentary Giant Albert Maysles' Last Film, 'In Transit,' Is Still In Limbo

ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: The last film by documentary giant Albert Maysles is getting a rare screening this week in New York. It's called In Transit. It was finished more than two years ago just before the award-winning director of Grey Gardens and Gimme

美国国家公共电台 NPR Germany's 'In The Fade' Flips The Script On The Terrorism Film

ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: In recent years, films about terrorism have become a kind of genre. They're often geopolitical thrillers or espionage dramas. Well, a new film from Germany takes a different and more intimate approach. It's called In The Fade. It

美国国家公共电台 NPR Action Film Director Park Chan-Wook Transports Erotic 'Handmaiden' To 1930s Korea

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美国国家公共电台 NPR After 'Green Room' and 'Blue Ruin,' The Brothers Blair Keep Film Music In The Family

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: The Netflix film I Don't Feel At Home In This World Anymore mixes the gruesome and the goofy. How do you score a movie like that? For help, the directors turned to two of his oldest associates, his brothers. Tim Greiving has the st

美国国家公共电台 NPR Gary Lucas Uses Film Music 'To Shed Light On Obscure Corners Of Culture'

MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: Now let's hear about the man The New Yorker magazine calls, quote, the thinking man's guitar hero, unquote. Gary Lucas has played just about everywhere with just about everyone from Captain Beefheart to DJ Spooky to John Sebastia

美国国家公共电台 NPR Massacre Of Teens In Norway Retold As A Feature Film

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: As the teenage survivors of last week's high school shooting in Parkland, Fla., speak out and demand tighter gun control regulations, the young victims of the 2011 massacre in Norway still struggle to find their voices. A new movie

美国国家公共电台 NPR In 'Downsizing,' A New Addition To The Large History Of Tiny People In Film

MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: A financially strapped couple is taking steps to make a big change. (SOUNDBITE OF FILM, DOWNSIZING) UNIDENTIFIED ACTRESS #1: (As character) Please state your full legal names. MARTIN: Actually, it's a very small change. (SOUNDBIT

美国国家公共电台 NPR Why Do So Many Rock Stars Die At 27? Argentine Film Explores One (Insane) Theory

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: If you've seen most of the Oscar nominees and you can't find anything else interesting at your local movie theater, you're not alone. Critic Bob Mondello says Hollywood has always used January as a dumping ground. And today he argu

美国国家公共电台 NPR The 'Wrinkle In Time' Movie Began As A Fifth-Grader's Dream

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: I have this distant memory of one of the places where I read A Wrinkle In Time. It was an elementary school desk toward the left side of the classroom, I think near the window. Of course, the action in the novel happened in no pa

美国国家公共电台 NPR Political Subtext In Wes Anderson's 'Isle Of Dogs' Is More Bark Than Bite

AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: Wes Anderson's new animated puppet movie is called Isle Of Dogs. I'm saying that carefully because if you say Isle Of Dogs quickly, it comes out sounding a lot like I love dogs. And of course I only feel OK about dogs, but Wes An

美国国家公共电台 NPR In 'Avengers: Infinity War,' The Superheroes Have Their Work Cut Out For Them

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: The Marvel movie Avengers: Infinity War opens this weekend. Advance ticket sales are topping even those for Black Panther. The film brings together storylines from all over the Marvel Universe, and it's being advertised with a cert

美国国家公共电台 NPR A Body-Switching Teen Romance Anime Disaster Flick With 'Your Name.' On It

KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: Let's take a break from the news and go to the movies. For the first two months of this year, a teen romance called Your Name was the biggest film of 2017, bigger even than Lego Batman. It's a Japanese anime film that made more t

美国国家公共电台 NPR What's The Issue With Nitrate Film Stock? It's Combustible

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Audiences had an unusual opportunity over the weekend to see classic movies the way they were originally projected. The TCM Classic Film Festival in Hollywood played movies on old-style nitrate film. It's very rare and beautiful

美国国家公共电台 NPR 40 Years On, A Controversial Film On Islam's Origins Is Now A Classic

40 Years On, A Controversial Film On Islam's Origins Is Now A Classic RAY SUAREZ, HOST: We're going to switch gears now and look at an unusual movie with a long history. Depictions of the Prophet Muhammad have led to violence, most recently last year

美国国家公共电台 NPR We've Seen This Election Before, In Classic Movies

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Thom Yorke On Scoring The New 'Suspiria'

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: The new film Suspiria is a remake of a cult 1977 Italian horror film. An elite dance company in Berlin might just be a front for a coven of witches. For the film's score, the director, Luca Guadagnino, reached out to one of the hig

美国国家公共电台 NPR 'Savior Of Film,' Henri Langlois, Began Extensive Cinema Archive In His Bathtub

(SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC) RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Today, our series The Keepers continues with the story of a man and his obsession - preserving films - all films, any films. The Kitchen Sisters introduce us to Henri Langlois and the Cinematheque Francaise.

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Reporter: It is perhaps inevitable that someone would mention A Bite of China, or She Jian Shang De Zhong Guo (舌尖上的中国) in Chinese, when talking about the new trends in Chinese documentary development. The culinary documentary A Bite of Ch

美国国家公共电台 NPR The Fierce Female Characters Of Film In 2018

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Strong female characters seem to have had a pretty good year in Hollywood. (SOUNDBITE OF FILM, BLACK PANTHER) DANAI GURIRA: (As Okoye) Drop your weapon. SHAPIRO: Black Panther had several, Danai Gurira's war general for one. (SOUND

美国国家公共电台 NPR In 'Roma,' A Director Re-Creates The City — And The Caretaker — Of His Youth

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: The Oscar-winning director who stranded us in space and transported us to Hogwarts now invites audiences into his childhood home. Alfonso Cuaron's new film Roma is named for the middle-class neighborhood in Mexico City where he g