At an age when many actors are slowing down or long retired, Anthony Hopkins has kept up a feverish pace, with recent roles including Pope Benedict XVI in “The Two Popes” and Odin in Marvel’s “Thor” movies. In his new film, “The Father,” Hopkins’s character, Antony, is beginning to suffer from dementia, but he doesn’t want to accept a caregiver when his daug ... Show More
Apr 10
Sam Altman’s Trust Issues at OpenAI
At the end of February, OpenAI’s C.E.O., Sam Altman, made headlines by swiftly cutting a deal with the Pentagon for his company to replace Anthropic, which had balked at the Trump Administration’s bid to use its A.I. technology to power autonomous weapons and aid in mass surveill ... Show More
49m 32s
May 2024
Write On: 'Ezra' Writer Tony Spiridakis
<p data-pm-slice="1 1 []">"From Robert De Niro, I learned not to force anything. Not to force your idea of how something should be and then go from there. Not, 'Oh, this should be funny,' or 'Oh, I'm going make you cry.' That's the wrong thing. You just need to think about the th ... Show More
38 m
Mar 2023
Ethan Warren, "The Cinema of Paul Thomas Anderson: American Apocrypha" (Columbia UP, 2023)
Paul Thomas Anderson’s evolution from a brash, self-anointed “Indiewood” auteur to one of his generation’s most distinctive voices has been one of the most remarkable career trajectories in recent film history. From early efforts to emulate his cinematic heroes to his increasingl ... Show More
1 h
Jan 2024
Poor Things with Tony McNamara
Today on the show – a movie in which Emma Stone attempts to punch a baby, by a playwright and screenwriter whose stories never fail to pack a punch. Yes, Tony McNamara is here, talking all things Poor Things, his latest collaboration with director Yorgos Lanthimos. Having previou ... Show More
46m 58s
Oct 2021
Andrea Elliott on ‘Invisible Child’
<p>In 2013, the front page of The New York Times devoted five straight days to the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/projects/2013/invisible-child/index.html#/?chapt=1" target="_blank">story of Dasani</a>, an 11-year-old Black girl who lived in a homeless shelter in Brooklyn. Now, ... Show More
57m 39s
Jun 2017
'The Godfather’ Made Sofia Coppola Protective of Actors
<p>Before Sofia Coppola could talk, she was in movies, famously playing an infant in her father Francis Ford Coppola’s masterpiece <em>The Godfather. </em>She’d appear in the next one too, as an immigrant girl, but it was her role in <em>The</em> <em>Godfather: Part III</em> that ... Show More
36m 49s
<p>By the time Emilio Estevez was 23, he'd starred in <em>The Outsiders</em>, <em>Repo Man</em>, <em>The Breakfast Club</em>, and <em>St. Elmo’s Fire</em>. As the son of Martin Sheen, he was Hollywood royalty, and as a member of the "brat pack" group of early-80s stars, he was a ... Show More
