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NEWS
Sorcerer (William Friedkin, 1977).
- “They simply can’t afford another strike,” said Teamsters Local 399 leader Lindsay Dougherty ahead of the first bargaining session with AMPTP this week. She called the matter of driverless trucks “a priority” and promised to “claw back things that we gave away in years past.”
- After two extensions, IATSE hopes to conclude their own negotiations with AMPTP by June 27, a month before the current contract expires. Having reached tentative agreements on artificial intelligence, subcontracting, and other subjects, the parties have yet to agree on the matter of money, with wage increases and a $670 million gap in pension and health plans at stake.
- SAG-AFTRA is calling on the US Congress to pass the No Fakes Act, which would outlaw the production and distribution of unauthorized digital replicas, like the Scarlett Johansson sound-alike voice assistant OpenAI recently debuted and then quickly withdrew. BSA Software Alliance, a trade group representing companies like Oracle and Microsoft (a key investor in OpenAI), has joined that call but prefers a “narrower approach” which would exempt platforms from legal liability for their users.
IN PRODUCTION
- Kit Zauhar—writer, director, and star of Actual People (2021) and This Closeness (2023)—will adapt for the screen Sheila Heti’s 2010 novel, How Should a Person Be?, the story of “an early mid-life crisis.”
REMEMBERING
Heimat Is a Space in Time (Thomas Heise, 2019).
- Thomas Heise has died at 68. The German filmmaker’s Heimat Is a Space in Time (2019) is an epic archival documentary spanning the 21st century and four generations of his own family history. Heise wrote that he photographed the film in February “perhaps to have snow, and certainly to have no greenery and no leaves, with flat, often pale light. To have peace; to claim something, a safety that never really existed.”
- Tony Lo Bianco has died at 87. The American actor, a former amateur boxer, starred in such films as The French Connection (1971), The Honeymoon Killers (1970), and The Seven-Ups (1973).
- Egardo Cozarinsky has died at 85. The Argentinean author and filmmaker, part of a Parisian cohort of expatriates including Eduardo de Gregorio and Hugo Santiago, is known for his poetic works that marry documentary and fiction forms.
- Stan Garner has died at 83. The American train coordinator provided restored period locomotives, tracks, and stations for film and television productions, and frequently appeared on screen himself as a conductor.
RECOMMENDED READING
Otherhood (Deborah Stratman, 2023).
- “Stratman’s attention to sonic space is tuned to a ground so the otherworldly will strike it.” For Lux, Corina Copp thinks alongside the work of Deborah Stratman.
- “They created images where none existed. Therein lie their politics.” For Sabzian, Oscar Pedersen identifies a loose affiliation of post–May ’68 Parisian “ciné-adventurers,” examining in particular Marie-Claude Treilhou, Julius-Amédée Laou, and Pierre Zucca.
- “As we all know or suspect, many (most?) film careers are built on some degree of generational wealth.” For the International Documentary Association, Sue Ding analyzes the results of an anonymous survey of documentary filmmakers about their sources of income.
- “Together, Siskel and Ebert shaped a film culture in which people not only saw the same movies as their friends and neighbors but wanted to discuss what they had seen.” For the Yale Review, Annie Berke reviews Matt Singer’s Opposable Thumbs: How Siskel & Ebert Changed Movies Forever.
RECOMMENDED EVENTS
The Match Factory Girl (Aki Kaurismäki, 1990).
- New York, June 13 through 20: Anthology Film Archives presents “5 by Aki Kaurismäki,” all on 35mm.
- London, June 14: Films of Resistance presents “A Night of Palestinian Shorts” at Genesis Cinema.
- Los Angeles, June 14 through 18: Vidiots presents the new restoration of Time of the Heathen (1962), Peter Kass’s long-lost post-apocalyptic drama.
- Oslo, June 14 through September 15: Astrup Fearnley Museet presents a solo exhibition by Cauleen Smith including a new film, The Deep West Assembly (2024).
RECOMMENDED VIEWING
- MUBI presents Amos Levin’s video essay on the hybrid documentary-fictions of the Ross Brothers, as well as Maia Wyman’s interview with the filmmakers, on the occasion of the release of their latest feature, Gasoline Rainbow (2023).
- Grasshopper Film shares a 360-degree virtual-reality trailer for Eduardo Williams’s The Human Surge 3, opening in New York on June 28.
RECOMMENDED LISTENING
- “The worst thing about living with people is the possibility of it souring.” Marlowe Granados interviews Kit Zauhar about This Closeness (2023).
RECENTLY ON NOTEBOOK
Illustration by Stephanie Monohan.
- “I would say that the conventions of film criticism are what I’m criticizing.” Thomas Quist speaks to Jonathan Rosenbaum about his new collection of writing on film, literature, and jazz.
- “It’s the kind of motif and slow-breathing arrangement that makes your chest open in anticipation of emotions you have not yet had.” Sasha Frere-Jones considers Eiko Ishibashi and Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s sound-and-image collaboration on Gift and Evil Does Not Exist (both 2023).
- “There’s something about its spirit that has not aged. I’m sure there’s stuff that has aged—especially us—but the impetus was joy.” Steve Macfarlane interviews Tom Tykwer and Franka Potente on the 25th anniversary of Run Lola Run (1998).
- Adrian Curry shares his biannual “Best of Movie Poster of the Day” column.
WISH LIST
- Columbia University Press has announced Phillip Lopate’s My Affair with Art House Cinema, selected essays and criticism from the past 25 years.
- Thames and Hudson has published Prospect Cottage: Derek Jarman’s House, featuring new photographs of and essays on the filmmaker’s home in Dungeness, adjoining his famous garden.