Olympia Dukakis, Oscar-Winning ‘Moonstruck’ Star, Dies At 89
Olympia Dukakis, who won an Oscar playing Cher’s mother in the romantic comedy Moonstruck, has died. She was 89.
WHO Film Festival: Starring Matchsticks As Burnt Out Health Workers
“Phosphôros,” made in El Salvador, is on the shortlist for a World Health Organization short film competition. Winners will be named May 13. Until then, the public can tune in — and weigh in.
Eric Andre’s ‘Bad Trip’ Is Unlike A Lot Of Prank Comedies You Might Have Seen
Sam Sanders, host of NPR’s It’s Been A Minute, talks with comedian Eric Andre about making a prank movie while Black, pranking mostly people of color, and how it differs from, say, Johnny Knoxville.
Double Feature: Refugees In ‘Limbo,’ And Spies And Subterfuge In ‘Cliff Walkers’
Chinese director Zhang Yimou tells an epic tale of subterfuge and spies in Cliff Walkers. And in the Scottish dramedy Limbo, a young musician is stranded in a starkly beautiful no-man’s-land.
Kate Winslet On The Roles That Scare Her And How ‘Titanic’ Shaped Her Career
Winslet stars in the new HBO series, Mare of Easttown. She spoke to Fresh Air in 2020 about her breakout turn in Titanic when she was in her 20s. “I was learning on the fly,” she says.
Bittersweet Film ‘About Endlessness’ Highlights Life’s Humor And Despair
A priest loses his faith. A woman breaks the heel of her shoe. A couple visits their child’s grave. Life unfolds as a series of stylized, bone-dry comic sketches in Roy Andersson’s sublime new film.
A Look At Tyler Perry’s Complicated Legacy
Tyler Perry’s acceptance of a special Oscar for humanitarian work reveals his complicated legacy as a filmmaker, who is credited for uplifting Black people while stereotyping and profiting from them.
In ‘The Mitchells Vs. The Machines,’ A Dysfunctional Family Gets A Hard Reboot
A very funny machine uprising forces an estranged daughter (Abbi Jacobson) and father (Danny McBride) to save the world — and rebuild their relationship.
‘Citizen Kane’ Has A Rotten Day
For years, Orson Welles’ Citizen Kane has been widely viewed as the greatest film ever made. But now an 80-year-old negative review has resurfaced, bringing its Rotten Tomatoes score down from 100%.
Collection Showcases 20 Years Of Louis Armstrong’s Studio Work
A CD set from Mosaic, full of singles and albums made between ’46 and ’66, confirms the variety of Armstrong’s studio sides — and shows how much work went into making them sound casual.
Cliff Walkers (2021)
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