#anthony-hopkins

#anthony-hopkins

What were you doing 17 years ago?Like, what were you doing 17 years ago today?Maybe you were in kindergarten.Or college.Maybe you were working a mediocre nine-to-five that you could've sworn you'd have quit by now or had already retired from one.Maybe you were but a dream in your mother's heart or spending a forgettable day that you'd give anything to remember with a grandparent who's no longer with us.

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 Ever wonder what keeps Stephen King up at night, or which movie scenes make Jordan Peele jump?For Halloween this year, Fresh Air is reaching back into the crypt (aka the archives) and pulling out some of our favorite interviews with masters of the horror genre.

Hugh Jackman, left, and Zen McGrath in "The Son." (Rekha Garton/See-Saw Films/Sony Pictures Classics) StarOutline StarOutline StarOutline (1 star) Admirers of "The Father," Florian Zeller's shattering 2020 drama about dementia and filial devotion, will no doubt be intrigued to learn that Zeller has made "The Son," a movie that shares some (literal) DNA with its predecessor, but none of the first film's subtlety, visual elegance or thematic heft.

Bill Nighy in "Living."(Ross Ferguson/Number 9 Films/Sony Pictures Classics)StarOutline (3 stars) The central character in "Living" is nearly always addressed formally, as Mr. Williams.A longtime functionary in the public works department of the London County Council - played with masterful subtlety by Bill Nighy, who evinces hints of deep feeling beneath an outward frostiness - he is sometimes informally called Williams, but only behind his back.

Banks Repeta, left, and Jaylin Webb in "Armageddon Time." (Anne Joyce/Focus Features) StarOutline (3 stars) In "Armageddon Time," James Gray's evocative portrait of his early years growing up in Queens, Banks Repeta plays Paul Graff, a boy entering sixth grade in 1980, when punk rock, disco, rap, national politics and New York City itself were changing and sometimes converging with apocalyptic force.

Danielle DowlingReporting on the arts Danielle DowlingReporting on the arts Focus Features For Armageddon Time, the filmmaker James Grey drilled deep into memories from his childhood in 1980, when he learned a searing lesson about power and prejudice in America.Here's more on that movie and other entertainment highlights this weekend  Danielle DowlingReporting on the arts Armageddon Time, a tender and lacerating film that stars Anthony Hopkins, Anne Hathaway and Jeremy Strong, is  astutely, uncomfortably and in the end tragically  about privilege, A.O. Scott writes.