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NEWS

A Different Man (Aaron Schimberg, 2024).

REMEMBERING

Diary of a Young Comic (Gary Weis, 1979).

  • Richard Lewis has died at 76. In a 2008 conversation with Kate Simon for Interview, the comedian and actor spoke about his love for the films of Buster Keaton, John Cassavetes, Jean Eustache, and others. “He had that rare combination of being the funniest person and also the sweetest,” writes Larry David, a longtime friend and collaborator. “But today he made me sob and for that I’ll never forgive him.”
  • Paolo Taviani has died at 92. With his brother, Vittorio, he wrote and directed such celebrated and politically engaged films as Padre Padrone (1977), The Night of the Shooting Stars (1982), and Caesar Must Die (2012). “The story of Paolo and Vittorio Taviani is also that of Italian cinema after the end of the Second World War,” writes Giona A. Nazzaro, artistic director of the Locarno Film Festival.
  • David Bordwell, the film theorist, has died at 76. In addition to his definitive studies of such filmmakers as Carl Theodor Dreyer, Yasujiro Ozu, and Sergei Eisenstein, Bordwell was deeply engaged with commercial Hollywood cinema, including the role of the spectator. “His legacy will clearly be vast and lasting,” writes his wife and collaborator, Kristin Thompson, “which to me provides the best consolation for his loss.”

RECOMMENDED VIEWING

  • Janus Films has released a trailer for its much-anticipated restoration of Med Hondo’s slave-ship musical, West Indies: The Fugitive Slaves of Liberty (1979), a landmark of anti-colonial African cinema.

  • Altered Innocence has released a trailer for Vera Drew’s The People’s Joker (2022), a trans coming-of-age story whose freewheeling use of intellectual property resulted in it being dropped from TIFF 2022, where our own Chloe Lizotte commended its “infectious visual anarchy.”

RECOMMENDED READING

RECOMMENDED EVENTS

Black Mama, White Mama (Eddie Romero, 1973).

RECENTLY ON NOTEBOOK

Priscilla (Sofia Coppola, 2023).

WISH LIST

God's Comedy (João César Monteiro, 1995).

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