Tony Kushner wrote the screenplay for the film Lincoln, which focuses on the 16th president’s tumultuous final months in office. Kushner read more than 20 books before writing about Lincoln, a man who had "an enormous capacity for grief that didn’t deprive him of the ability to act."
http://www.npr.org/2012/11/15/165146361/kushners-lincoln-is-strange-but-also-savvy
Stephen Spielberg’s new movie Lincoln features the authentic sounds of 1865, from Lincoln’s own pocket watch to the latch on the carriage door that carried him to Ford’s Theatre. Sound designer Ben Burtt talks about making the objects of Lincoln’s life heard.
http://www.npr.org/2012/11/10/164716611/hearing-history-in-the-sounds-of-lincoln
Sure, Bruce Wayne is a secretive guy, but from a psychological perspective, is anything really wrong with him? A psychologist considers this question.
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Rosemary’s Baby, Night of the Living Dead and Targets all came out in 1968. Theater critic Jason Zinoman says the three films redefined Hollywood horror in the aftermath of the Vietnam War â and influenced the genre for the next several decades.
A good trailer can make or break an opening weekend. Like movies, they can take years to finish, and their producers face a constant pressure to stay fresh.