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NEWS
Above: Chadwick Boseman in Spike Lee's Da 5 Bloods.
- We're extremely saddened by the news that Chadwick Boseman has died after a four-year battle with colon cancer. In a tribute to Boseman, Ryan Coogler writes, "He lived a beautiful life. And he made great art. Day after day, year after year. That was who he was."
RECOMMENDED VIEWING
- HBO's official trailer for Luca Guadagnino's We Are Who We Are, about a group of teenagers navigating their identities on an American army base outside of Venice, Italy.
- Antonio Campos's upcoming Netflix film, The Devil All The Time, stars Tom Holland, Riley Keough, Robert Pattinson, Bill Skarsgård, and more as "sinister characters" in a seedy Ohio town.
- Media City Film Festival presents Radical Acts of Care, an online series curated by Greg de Cuir Jr. that gathers poems, artworks, and films (from artists including Cauleen Smith and Simone Leigh) that interrogate care as an agent of social change.
- Lydia Cambron impressively recreates the iconic final sequence from Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey in 2020: An Isolation Odyssey, staged in the context of home quarantine.
- A trailer for the upcoming Don Siegel retrospective at La cinémathèque française. Read Lawrence Garcia's accompanying piece on Siegel's life and career, as well as his critical reevaluation, here.
RECOMMENDED READING
- For Vox, Alissa Wilkinson reflects on America's summer without Hollywood blockbusters and how much has changed since the very first American summer blockbuster, Jaws, and what comes next.
- From last year but fascinating nonetheless, Kirk Kaiser attempts to recreate Christian Marclay's installation The Clock using found videos on the web and machine learning.
- "Hers was a far larger historical project, attentive to the legacies of Black cultural production as part of a revolutionary commitment to upending systems of colonial oppression." Yasmina Price reflects on the anti-colonial, pan-Africanist, feminist work and legacy of the late Sarah Maldoror.
RECENTLY ON THE NOTEBOOK
- Marina Vuotto investigates the innovative green screen fantasies in Nobuhiko Ôbayashi’s House, which is currently showing in the United Kingdom.
- The latest of Jeremy Carr's Notebook Primers is an introduction to film noir and the general consensus surrounding its definition, along with a set of recommended viewings and readings.
- Ben Sachs and Scout Tafoya's new series, Another Decade with Takashi Miike, is a series of essays on the 2010s films of the Japanese maverick, following Notebook's earlier survey of Miike's first decade of the 21st century. Keep an eye out for new entries on films from Hara-Kiri and Ace Attorney to JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Diamond Is Unbreakable - Chapter 1!
- Xavier Dolan's Matthias & Maxime is showing exclusively on MUBI in many countries starting on August 28, 2020. In an interview with Notebook, Dolan discusses declaring love to his friends, acting in front of the camera, and the films he discovered through MUBI as a young cinephile.
EXTRAS
- The George Eastman Museum needs your help to find information about two unidentified short films, one from 1895 and the other from 1910. Reach out to the Museum with any research you may have regarding actors, production companies, locations, and more!