The world’s largest movie theater chain is adding open captions at 240 U.S. locations
The world’s largest movie theater chain is adding onscreen captioning to 240 locations across the U.S. in an effort to make moviegoing more accessible.
With ‘Dune,’ Denis Villeneuve has made Hollywood’s definitive post-9/11 epic
With the new 2021 movie, director Denis Villeneuve turns the novel’s meditations on race, culture and colonialism into riveting and undeniable cinema.
The film version of ‘Dune’ aims to remain true to the sci-fi author’s vision
Director Denis Villeneuve’s film Dune recreates the desert world of the 1965 sci-fi novel. He tells NPR’s A MartÃnez that Dune has lived in his imagination since he was a kid.
‘The French Dispatch’ is a love letter to ‘The New Yorker’ — and to love itself
Wes Anderson’s meticulously-constructed tenth feature adopts the format of a New Yorker-like Sunday magazine supplement to tell three very different, but equally idiosyncratic, love stories.
From Scar to James Bond enemy Safin, movie villains have long shared a harmful trope
The new James Bond film No Time To Die is providing an opportunity for advocates to push back on ways villains are portrayed with scars and other facial differences.
Velvet Underground documentary gets to the heart of the band’s radical magic
Todd Haynes’ inventive, immersive movie is full of interesting ideas. The Velvet Underground neatly sidesteps the usual rock-doc banalities as it plunges us into the Velvets and their world.
Dune (2021)
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‘Genius’ actor Cynthia Erivo opens up her voice on ‘Ch. 1 Vs. 1’
The British actor and singer played abolitionist Harriet Tubman in Harriet, and Aretha Franklin in Genius: Aretha. Now Erivo has a debut album. “I sing often with a bit of a smile,” she says.
Behind-the-scenes workers in Hollywood avert a strike
Crew members in the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees have reached a deal. A strike would have shut down much of the film and TV production across the country.
‘The Last Duel’ was inspired by a real trial by combat in medieval France
NPR’s Steve Inskeep talks to film critic Kenneth Turan about The Last Duel, directed by Ridley Scott. The story takes place in 14th century France, based on true events about a trial by combat.
IATSE vice president believes tentative deal will be ‘overwhelmingly ratified’
NPR’s Michel Martin speaks with Michael Miller, of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, about a deal they struck with Hollywood studios, averting the threat of a labor strike.
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