'Wretches and Jabberers'
This story originally aired on The Takeaway. Use the player above to listen to the interview with the stars of Wretches and Jabberers."Wretches and Jabberers" is a buddy movie, a road trip movie and a...
View ArticleDescribing the score: Berklee students help find music for films
This story was originally covered by PRI's Here and Now. For more, listen to the audio above.Music can have a huge effect on the tone of a film. During production, filmmakers frequently use scores from...
View ArticleHigh school students in the Tribeca Film Festival
The Takeaway spoke with two high school students whose films were included in this year's Tribeca Film Festival.--------------------------------------------------------------"The Takeaway" is a...
View Article"The Loving Story" that decriminalized interracial marriage
This story was originally covered by PRI's The Takeaway. For more, listen to the audio above.Hours after tying the knot, Mildred and Richard Loving were woken up in the middle of the night by police...
View ArticleIndigenous people dress like Avatar, protest deforestation
Indigenous groups in Cambodia say their sacred Prey Lang forest is being torn down. So many took to the streets in the capital Phnom Penh to...
View ArticleBetty White: In My Experience
This story was originally covered by PRI's The Takeaway. For more, listen to the audio above.Comic, movie star and seven-time Emmy Award winner, Betty White, will turn 90 next January, but she has no...
View ArticleEwan McGregor and Christopher Plummer star in Mike Mills'"Beginners"
This story was originally covered by PRI's Here and Now. For more, listen to the audio above.A story about a son coming out to his father is not so uncommon. A father coming out to his son, especially...
View ArticleThe great Indonesian movie crisis deprives people of Hollywood
This story was originally covered by PRI's The World. For more, listen to the audio above.At one of Jakarta's biggest movie theaters, Richard Olsen, an Indonesia-based filmmaker, runs down what's...
View ArticleNew details about Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, expored in new documentary
This story was originally covered by PRI's Here and Now. For more, listen to the audio above.When the shy Alabama native, Harper Lee, had her first and only book published, nobody had high...
View ArticleThe Whistleblower: Military contractors, human rights and sex trafficking
The new film "The Whistleblower" is based on Kathryn Bolkovac's book by the same name and tells her story.DynCorp International's responded to The World's interview with author Kathryn Bolkovac...
View ArticleDirector Seth Gordon on 'Horrible Bosses'
This story was originally covered by PRI's Here and Now. For more, listen to the audio above.A sexual-harassing dentist, a manipulative manager of a financial firm and a cocaine-addicted chemical plant...
View ArticleThe 'Beats, Rhymes and Life' of A Tribe Called Quest
Story from The Sound of Young America. Use audio player above to listen to full interview.Michael Rapaport has an extensive list of acting credits, from Woody Allen films to roles on Boston Public,...
View Article'The Clock' a 24-hour film about time
Story by PRI's Studio 360. For more, listen to the audio above.The new film, "The Clock" is a mash up of scenes from over 1,000 films -- from classics, to obscure, to flops. Almost all of the scenes...
View ArticleNew movie releases explore relationships, cowboys, aliens and Smurfs
Story from The Takeaway. Listen to audio above for full report.After passing the climax of the summer blockbuster season with the realeases of "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2" and "Captain...
View ArticleThe Coen Brothers: 'Pranksters' of cinema
Story from To the Best of Our Knowledge. Listen to audio above for full report.A playwright with writer's block. A lazy hero who prefers White Russians and bowling over sharpshooting and whiskey. A...
View ArticleEmma Stone, Octavia Spencer discuss 'The Help'
Story from Here and How. Listen to audio above for full report.When Kathryn Stockett published "The Help" in 2009, the novel's premise caused some reviewers to pause: the novel's heroine, Skeeter, is a...
View ArticleKen Kesey's Magic Bus and the tour of The Merry Pranksters
Story by PRI's Studio 360. For more, listen to the audio above.Imagine Manhattan's "Mad Men"-style golden age full of businessmen, classy secretaries and martinis. It's a cool, collected and very...
View ArticleCapturing the ape revolt in 'Rise of the Planet of the Apes'
Story from Here and Now. Listen to audio above for full report."Rise of the Planet of the Apes" -- the prequel to "Planet of the Apes" -- explains how apes evolved into the intelligent beings portrayed...
View ArticleHigh profile art heists on the rise around the world
Story from The Takeaway. Listen to audio above for full report.In the past month and a half, a $200,000 Picasso sketch titled "Tete de Femme" was stolen from a San Francisco gallery, a $350,000 Fernand...
View ArticleComedian Harry Shearer's serious work: 'The Big Uneasy'
Story by Living on Earth. Listen to audio above for full interview.Six years ago, Katrina devastated New Orleans and the surrounding region, in what the National Weather Service called "the deadliest...
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