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  • Guillermo Del Toro Finally Makes His Own 'Frankenstein'

    Guillermo Del Toro Finally Makes His Own 'Frankenstein'
    Oct 23 2025
    When Oscar-winning filmmaker Guillermo del Toro was a kid growing up in Guadalajara, Mexico, he would draw monsters all day. His deeply Catholic grandmother even had him exorcised because of it. But when del Toro saw the 1931 film Frankenstein, his life changed. "I realized I understood my faith or my dogmas better through Frankenstein than through Sunday mass." His new adaptation of Mary Shelley's classic book drops on Netflix Nov. 7. He spoke with Terry Gross about getting over his fear of death, the design of Frankenstein's creature, and his opinion on generative AI.
    Also, Justin Chang reviews the Palme d'Or-winning film It Was Just An Accident.

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  • Best Of: Malala Yousafzai / Ken Burns On The Revolutionary War

    Best Of: Malala Yousafzai / Ken Burns On The Revolutionary War
    Oct 25 2025
    We know Malala as the youngest Nobel Prize laureate, the girl who survived a Taliban bullet at 15 for advocating for girls' education in Pakistan. Now in a new book, she's reintroducing herself to the world. It's called Finding My Way, and in it she writes about the messy, funny, and flawed experiences that come with age, while carrying both the honor and the weight of being an activist for women’s rights.
    TV critic David Bianculli reviews a new documentary series about Martin Scorsese. And Ken Burns talks about his new PBS documentary on the Revolutionary War. It includes the perspectives of women, Native Americans, and enslaved and free Black people–the people initially excluded from the declaration “all men are created equal.”

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  • For Cameron Crowe, Being 'Uncool' Is A Badge Of Honor

    For Cameron Crowe, Being 'Uncool' Is A Badge Of Honor
    Oct 27 2025
    The filmmaker's new memoir, 'The Uncool,' is about his teen years in the '70s as a rock journalist for 'Rolling Stone.' His unconventional story was dramatized in the 2000 movie 'Almost Famous.' Crowe spoke with Terry Gross about getting access to rockstars before he could drink, being mentored by Lester Bangs, and his interviews with David Bowie.
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    Also, David Bianculli reviews the new season of 'The Diplomat.'

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  • Judd Apatow Unpacks His Comedy Memorabilia

    Judd Apatow Unpacks His Comedy Memorabilia
    Oct 28 2025
    Long before Judd Apatow was directing box office hits or launching the careers of comedy superstars, he was a fan. As a kid he wrote letters to his heroes, collected autographs, and obsessively documented everything. He’s now opened up his personal archive: decades of photographs, letters, scripts, and journals for a new book that reveals how his childhood inspirations led to the creation of works like '40-Year-Old Virgin,' 'Knocked Up,' and 'Trainwreck.' It’s called 'Comedy Nerd: A Lifelong Obsession in Stories and Pictures.'


    Also, John Powers reviews the new museum heist film 'The Mastermind,' starring Josh O’Connor.


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  • Filmmaker Nia DaCosta Defies Categorization

    Filmmaker Nia DaCosta Defies Categorization
    Oct 29 2025
    DaCosta directed the box office hit horror movie Candyman and The Marvels. Her latest, Hedda, is an adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's 1891 play, Hedda Gabler. She reimagines the main character as a queer, mixed-race Black woman, played by Tessa Thompson. DaCosta spoke with Tonya Mosley about navigating white spaces in Hollywood, why she loves horror, and her time as a production assistant.


    Also, jazz critic Martin Johnson reviews bassist Linda May Han Oh’s album Strange Heavens.



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  • The ‘Shadow President’ Dismantling The Government

    The ‘Shadow President’ Dismantling The Government
    Oct 30 2025

    In a New Yorker article co-published with ProPublica, reporter Andy Kroll describes Russell Vought, director of the Office of Management and Budget, as a "shadow president" with oversized influence. “I don't think you can take in the full sweep of what this administration has done in less than a year and not come away with thinking that chaos is a goal, and certainly an outcome that serves Vought and his team’s larger agenda of putting cracks in the federal government, shaking the stability of this typically rock-solid steady institution that is the federal bureaucracy,” Kroll says.




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    43 m
  • The Making Of ‘Young Frankenstein’

    The Making Of ‘Young Frankenstein’
    Oct 31 2025

    Mel Brooks’s classic 1974 movie Young Frankenstein parodies the iconic Frankenstein movies of the 1930s. This Halloween, we’re featuring our interviews with director Mel Brooks and stars Gene Wilder, Peter Boyle, Teri Garr and Cloris Leachman.

    And film critic Justin Chang reviews the new film Bugonia.


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  • Richard Linklater: 'Filmmaking Is Problem Solving'

    Richard Linklater: 'Filmmaking Is Problem Solving'
    Nov 3 2025

    Filmmaker Richard Linklater doesn't speak French, but that didn't stop him from directing a movie that's almost entirely in French. ‘Nouvelle Vague’ focuses on the beginning of the New Wave of cinema, specifically Jean-Luc Godard and his landmark 1960 movie ‘Breathless.’ "I know that sounds insane," Linklater says, "but me not having the language wasn't even in my top 10 concerns about if I could pull off the movie." Linklater spoke with Terry Gross about the impact of the French New Wave, and his other new film, ‘Blue Moon.’ It’s about Broadway lyricist Lorenz Hart, the former creative partner of Richard Rodgers.

    Also, Maureen Corrigan reviews the novel Heart the Lover by Lily King.


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