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Joel Edgerton plays a horticulturist with a secret past as a white nationalist in Master Gardener. Magnolia Pictures hide caption

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Actor Joel Edgerton avoids conflict in real life, but embraces it on-screen

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Billy Crudup plays a salesman marketing timeshares on the moon in the futuristic series Hello Tomorrow! Apple TV hide caption

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From 'Almost Famous' to definitely famous, Billy Crudup is enjoying his new TV roles

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Jasmin Savoy Brown stars in Scream 6 and Yellowjackets. photo by Robb Klassen/design by NPR hide caption

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Whose Nightmares Are We Telling? How Horror Has Evolved for People of Color

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Daniel Roher attends the Navalny New York premiere at Walter Reade Theater on April 6, 2022 in New York City. Rob Kim/Getty Images hide caption

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'Navalny' director says Russian opposition leader's spirit is unbroken

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Cate Blanchett stars as Lydia Tár in director Todd Field's Tár. Focus Features hide caption

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'Whoever holds power, it's going to corrupt them,' says 'Tár' director Todd Field

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Ke Huy Quan plays Waymond, the meta-verse traveling husband in Everything Everywhere All At Once. A24 hide caption

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In 'Everything Everywhere,' Ke Huy Quan found the role he'd been missing

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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with actor Jonathan Majors about his meteoric rise in Hollywood. Nickolai Hammar/NPR hide caption

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Watch: Jonathan Majors on his meteoric rise through Hollywood

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Ethan and Searcher Clade stare out at a strange new world. Disney hide caption

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Disney

Costume designer Ruth E. Carter won an Oscar in 2019 for her work on Black Panther. She's been nominated for another Academy Award for Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. Chronicle Books hide caption

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An Oscar-winning costume designer explains how clothes 'create a mood'

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Activists hold a banner reading "Take down the Sackler name" in front of the Pyramid of the Louvre museum in Paris on July 1, 2019. Stephane De Sakutin/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

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'All the Beauty and the Bloodshed' chronicles Nan Goldin's career of art and activism

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'Let it Be Morning' is the story of Sami (Alex Bakri), a Palestinian citizen of Israel living in Jerusalem who receives an invitation to his brother's wedding forcing him to return to the village where he grew up. Cohen Media Group hide caption

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Let It Be Morning shines light on Palestinians' unease with the status quo in Israel

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Japanese musician, composer, record producer, pianist, activist, writer, actor and dancer Ryuichi Sakamoto, photographed on June 30, 2016 in Paris. Joel Saget/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

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As Ryuichi Sakamoto returns with '12,' fellow artists recall his impact

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Spider and Director James Cameron behind the senses of the 20th century studio's Avatar: The Way of Water. Mark Fellman hide caption

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James Cameron wants everyone to see 'Avatar 2' in theaters

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Robert Gottlieb describes editing as a service job: "Our job is to serve the word, serve the author, serve the text." Thomas Victor/Courtesy of the Estate of Thomas Victor, LLC / Sony Pictures Classics hide caption

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He's edited Caro, le Carré and 'Catch-22,' but doesn't mind if you don't know his name

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Gepetto is voiced by David Bradley and Pinocchio by Gregory Mann in Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio. Netflix hide caption

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Alexandre Desplat scores 'joyous melancholy' in Guillermo del Toro's 'Pinocchio'

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Edward Norton (left) plays a tech billionaire who hosts a murder mystery party for an assortment of guests (Madelyn Cline, Kathryn Hahn, Dave Bautista, Leslie Odom Jr., Jessica Henwick, Kate Hudson, Janelle Monáe and Daniel Craig) in Glass Onion. John Wilson/Netflix hide caption

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'Knives Out' director takes a stab at tech moguls in 'Glass Onion'

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'Framing Agnes' questions the ways trans stories are told

When the world never stops questioning you, do you refuse to answer... or do you play along to get what you want? These questions are at the heart of Framing Agnes, an award-winning documentary about the legacy of a young trans woman in the 1950s who was forced to choose between access and honesty. The film uses the format of a talk show to re-enact interviews with the eponymous Agnes and five other trans people – taken from case files from a decades-old gender identity clinic at UCLA. Brittany Luse chats with the film's director, Chase Joynt, and historian Jules Gill-Peterson about the ways our society tells trans stories. They also dive into the limits of representation, the power dynamics of interviews and the nature of truth itself.

'Framing Agnes' questions the ways trans stories are told

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"I'm by nature actually a very shy person," Al Yankovic, shown here in 2014, says. "Being somewhat famous has helped me be more social and talk to people." Casey Curry/Invision/AP hide caption

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'Weird Al' Yankovic wants to 'bring sexy back' to the accordion

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"I was a fearful kid, and my parents didn't quite know what to do with that," Steven Spielberg says. He's pictured above in New York City in March 2017. Mike Coppola/Getty Images hide caption

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Steven Spielberg was a fearful kid who found solace in storytelling

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Hand-carved pumpkins are displayed at Van Cortlandt Manor on Oct. 8, 2022, in Croton-on-Hudson, N.Y. Bryan R. Smith/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

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Venture into the 'Fresh Air' crypt for a Halloween horror fest

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Danielle Deadwyler stars as Emmett Till's mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, in Till. Lynsey Weatherspoon/Orion Pictures hide caption

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Filmmaker says Emmett Till's mother deserves her rightful place in history

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Injured black kites at Wildlife Rescue, a clinic run by brothers Nadeem Shehzad and Muhammad Saud in Delhi. Over the past 12 years, they've treated nearly 26,000 of the raptors. The brothers are featured in a new prize-winning documentary, All That Breathes, which was just nominated for an Oscar and is premiering on HBO on Feb. 7. Javed Dar/Xinhua via Getty Images hide caption

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