This week, we week we lost a lot of greats: A deeply principled and charismatic country singer, songwriter and movie star , a veteran of TV and film who created many indelible roles, and, far too soon, a beloved, Tony-winning Broadway performer . Here's what NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour crew was paying attention to — and what you should check out this weekend. Hearts of Darkness As I have been sorting through and enjoying the critical discourse on Francis Ford Coppola's Megalopolis , I have gone back to the fantastic 1991 documentary Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse.
This goes back to the time when Coppola was making Apocalypse Now and had already started to conceive of Megalopolis . The connections between these two runaway productions abound. This is as good a film as has ever been made about the chaos of making an ambitious film.
It is rich, complex and unvarnished. It doesn't try to rehabilitate anyone's reputation or forgive them for their excesses of the time. It's just a just a really fantastic, thorough documentary.
— Chris Klimek Interview with the Vampire I nterview with the Vampire it is an adaptation of Anne Rice's horror novel. But instead of the lead character being a slave owner who spends a lot of time on his plantation eating his slaves — which is a really vile part of the book to try to get through — on the show he's Black and it's New Orleans and he is trying to get a nice place for his family, but also he's closeted and dealing with tha.