A number of old Art Deco movie palaces across the country still feature live organ performances 30 to 60 minutes before film screenings. Some theaters ...
Archives for January, 2009
California schoolteacher Ray Campi assembled an oral history of Hollywood. We revisit some of his best interviews More: continued here
Writer Mark Jordan Legan takes us through reviews of three new films. Underworld: Rise of the Lycans is a fantasy about the struggle between vampires ...
Tabrez Noorani was in charge of logistics, schedules and meetings while shooting Slumdog Millionaire. He tells NPR how making a film in India is different ...
British actor Andy Serkis is best known for his iconic role as Gollum in The Lord of the Rings trilogy. In the new film, Inkheart, ...
America has a new President, and he likes his Blackberry. And apparently, the press corps wants to know all about it. Also, an online ...
Although many Americans heard Barack Obama's inauguration speech, they probably weren't listening for plyptotons and catachresis — but Geoff Nunberg was. More: continued here
The movie Slumdog Millionaire has been nominated for ten Academy Awards. It's a love story set in the slums of the Indian city of Mumbai. ...
Though hailed by critics, NBC's Friday Night Lights has struggled to find an audience. Can a unique deal with DirecTV turn the game around? As ...
Co-written by Joss Whedon, the Buffy comic series picks up where the TV show ended, with Buffy leading a horde of supergirl slayers. Wolves at ...
The current state of the economy will take a long time to make it onto the big screen. But TV has a quicker reaction time, ...
It's the dawn of a new era of fashion in Washington. The camera lenses and style watchers are honing in on 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue with ...
The Dark Knight, Iron Man, and Indiana Jones were hits at the box office in 2008. But only one of those films got a ...
The Democratic Republic of Congo has for years been fraught with devastating economic and political crises, often resulting in violent conflict. Among the countless victims ...
Book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews Reborn: Journals & Notebooks, 1947 ? 1963, the newly published intimate ruminations of Susan Sontag. More: continued here
Thirteen nominations for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, but no Best Picture nod for The Dark Knight: NPR's Bob Mondello talks to Michele Norris ...
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button leads the Academy Awards with 13 nominations, including best picture, and acting honors for Brad Pitt and Taraji P. ...
Known for his portrayal of Gollum in The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, actor Andy Serkis applies his special effects acting expertise in ...
We explore an extensive archive of interviews with early Hollywood stars compiled by a California schoolteacher. This piece originally aired on Day to Day on ...
A father wreaks havoc when he brings characters from his daughter's books to life. Iain Softley's film (based on the best-selling kids' book by German ...
Director Cristian Nemescu's smart, funny film looks at America's influence worldwide through the lens of the 1999 NATO intervention in Kosovo. (Recommended) More: continued here ...
The nominees for the 81st Academy Awards were announced this morning. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button leads the pack with 13 nominations, including Best ...
Rivers Cuomo, the lead singer, guitarist, and songwriter of the rock band Weezer, has released a solo set of at-home demos called Alone and Alone ...
Critic-at-large John Powers reviews a newly-released DVD of Roberto Rossellini's 1966 film The Taking of Power by Louis XIV. Originally made for Italian television, the ...
Eric Foner, author of Our Lincoln, talks about the era following the Civil War in which former slaves were promised equal rights and citizenship. Foner ...
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