

Rosel Zech, best known as Fassbinder's Veronika Voss, was 69 … Met with decent but not great reviews, George Clooney's The Ides of March has opened the Venice Film Festival … Later on today, we should see the lineup for the Telluride Film Festival, which has just received a $50,000 grant from the Academy … Berlinale director Dieter Kosslick's contract will likely be extended beyond 2013 … New issues: Cineaste and Artforum … Old issues: Kinema, 1913 - 1919 … Paul Dano will play a young Karl Rove in Richard Linklater's College Republicans … We now know a bit more about Joel and Ethan Coen's next project, Inside Llewyn Davis, set in the 60s folk scene in Greenwich Village … Screenwriter David Koepp is revamping The Thin Man for Johnny Depp, with Rob Marshall directing … Sam Mendes is taking James Bond to India … An avid reader, Frederick Wiseman's been on an Emily Dickinson kick lately (via Girish).
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