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NEWS
Above: Jean-Luc Godard at the 2018 press conference for The Image Book.
- From longtime collaborator Fabrice Aragno on Facebook comes word of a new Jean-Luc Godard project. We don't know much, but it appears that the movie will be shot on film, perhaps Godard's first since Notre Musique in 2004 and a shift from his 2018 digital essay film, The Image Book.
- Park Chan-wook's new film will be a romantic murder mystery starring Tang Wei (Lust, Caution) and Park Hae-il (who previously starred in The Host), entitled Decision to Leave. The film is said to be the story of a police officer who suspects a dead man's wife of his murder.
RECOMMENDED VIEWING
- The Wexner Center for the Arts' series Cinetracts '20 is now available for free online. Artists from around the world including Charles Burnett, Cauleen Smith, Tony Buba, and Apichatpong Weerasethakul were invited to capture “the zeitgeist in your own backyard." Synopses for each film can be found here.
- Netflix's official teaser for David Fincher's Mank, which follows alcoholic screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz (played by Gary Oldman) as he "races to finish the screenplay for Citizen Kane."
- The latest of Don Hertzfeldt's World of Tomorrow animated, science-fiction short film trilogy, World of Tomorrow Episode Three, has premiered on Hetzfeldt's Vimeo page.
- A trailer for Leap of Faith, a Shudder exclusive documentary on William Friedkin's The Exorcist.
- From executive producer David Gordon Green comes a baffling trailer for Fatman, an action-packed dark comedy starring none other than Mel Gibson as a gun-toting Santa Clause who must face off against an assassin.
- PCS (Professional Children's School) Literary Magazine recently interviewed David Lynch, who discussed loving isolation, working on his YouTube channel, and the possibility of a new project.
RECOMMENDED READING
Above: Fritz Lang's Metropolis (1927).
- The first part of The Seventh Art's translation of Luc Moullet's book on Fritz Lang introduces Lang's "pessimistic period," which explores the peril of man dominated by the world (and his attempt to dominate the world).
- Upon its 40-year anniversary, Alejandro Jodorowsky reflects on The Incal, his influential comic book science fiction collaboration with Moebius, newly available in a special edition.
- For Criterion, Imogen Sara Smith interviews veteran French journalist Philippe Garnier, whose Scoundrels & Spitballers: Writers and Hollywood in the 1930s is newly available in English and takes a historical look at the place of writers in Old Hollywood.
- Clément Chéroux explores the continuing relevance of Lebanese filmmaker Ghassan Salhab's Terra Incognita, which features "a series of dialectical counterpoints such as history and the present, ruin and reconstruction, leaving or staying."
RECOMMENDED LISTENING
- Notebook contributor Florence Scott Anderton has created a tribute mix featuring the sounds and music of Iranian cinema, from Forough Farrokhzad's The House is Black to Abbas Kiarostami's Taste of Cherry.
RECENTLY ON THE NOTEBOOK
- Indian director Chaitanya Tamhane discusses his Venice award-winning sophomore feature The Disciple.
- From the New York Film Festival, Ela Bittencourt interviews Ephraim Asili, who shares the "totally nerve-wracking" process of writing a script based on his own life for his film The Inheritance.
- For his column The Action Scene, Jonah Jeng investigates the "systems logic" of Buster Keaton's self-reflexive film Steamboat Bill, Jr.
- Sasha Frere-Jones explores the otherworldly sounds and images of Jóhann Jóhannsson's End of Summer, which is exclusively showing on MUBI from September 30 - October 30, 2020.
EXTRAS
- From the creators of Cinephile: A Card Game comes A is for Auteur, an alphabet book for "cinephiles of all ages"!