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NEWS
Above: Al Pacino and Francis Ford Coppola on the set of The Godfather: Part III.
- A new edit and restoration of Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather: Part III will have a limited theatrical release in December. The film, entitled Mario Puzo’s THE GODFATHER, Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone, includes a "a new beginning and ending."
- New inclusion requirements for the Oscars will take full effect in 2024, requiring films to meet standards for on-screen representation (in cast or theme) and creative leadership in order to be eligible for Best Picture.
- This year's lineup for the London Film Festival includes Ben Sharrock's Limbo (which will be distributed in the U.K. and Ireland by MUBI!).
- The Fondation Cartier will be presenting the world premiere of Artavazd Peleshian's first film in 27 years, La nature. The film, according to the exhibition's website, consists of images gathered from the internet depicting the "superiority of nature."
- The poster for Pedro Almódovar's short film The Human Voice, starring Tilda Swinton and adapted from the play by Jean Cocteau.
RECOMMENDED VIEWING
- Below you can find the first full trailer for Abel Ferrara’s new film, Sportin’ Life. Premiering last Saturday at the Venice Film Festival, Sportin' Life is the sixth incarnation of the art project SELF, which is curated by Saint Laurent's creative director Anthony Vaccarello. Ferrara's film marks another collaboration with Willem Dafoe (Siberia, their last feature, premiered at Berlin earlier this year), and is shot by ace cinematographer Sean Price Williams, subject of a recent MUBI retrospective. The film's official synopsis:
“The documentary is an exploration into the sources and personal history of creativity, the essential life of an artist. Raw and sharp—it has the feeling of a moment in time that is still happening.Abel Ferrara’s intimate and lush look at his own life, his world refracted through his art—music, filmmaking, his collaborators and inspirations such as Ferrara’s early works and his creative partnerships with Willem Dafoe, Joe Delia, Paul Hipp and the musicians who inspired this work.”
- In conjunction with the ongoing Venice Film Festival, a batch of trailers for this year's fall releases. Andrei Konchalovsky 's Dear Comrades! follows a 1962 workers' strike in the USSR town of Novocherkassk. Reporting from the Lido, Leonardo Goi writes that the film is filled with "rebellious fury and present-day urgency."
- The official trailer for the The Best is Yet to Come, the Jia Zhangke-produced directorial debut from his assistant director, Wang Jing (A Touch of Sin, Mountains May Depart, Ash is Purest White).
- A stirring and elegant teaser trailer for Chloé Zhao's Nomadland, which follows Frances McDormand as a modern-day nomad looking for work across the American West.
- Ann Hui, the recipient of a Lifetime Achievement Award at this year's Venice Film Festival, has returned with Love After Love, an adaptation of an Eileen Chang short story (and filmed by Christopher Doyle).
RECOMMENDED READING
Chloé Zhao by Joe Pugliese for the Hollywood Reporter.
- Ahead of the multiple festival premieres of Chloé Zhao's Nomadland, a profile of the filmmaker that explores her love for fanfiction, fresh approach to Marvel's upcoming Eternals, and childhood growing up watching American TV.
- For The Baffler, A.S. Hamrah reviews Y2K's best films, including Lee Chang-dong's Peppermint Candy, Takashi Miike's Audition, and Peter Watkins' La commune.
- Srikanth Srinivasan, author of the Seventh Art blog, has penned a new, essential book on Indian experimental filmmaker Amit Dutta, Modernism By Other Means: The Films of Amit Dutta.
- "Is there a correlation between box office receipts and a high (or low) score on the Tomatometer?" Ben Lindbergh and Rob Arthur of The Ringer dig deep into the data of Rotten Tomatoes and its potentially loosening grip on the box office.
- Doreen St. Felix on the public-affairs magazine show Black Journal (1968-1977) and its focus on "oracular, anti-colonial time" and "the avant-garde of Afrocentricity."
RECENTLY ON NOTEBOOK
- In an interview with Christopher L. Inoa, Marcell Jankovics discusses his classic feature Son of the White Mare, which has been restored and re-released.
- An overview of Taiwan's New Cinema of the 1980s by Sean Gilman accompanies MUBI's series Edward Yang, Hou Hsiao-hsien, and New Taiwanese Cinema. The series is showing September - December, 2020 in the United States.
- "How do we understand captivity today, especially those prisons with no walls?" An interview with Cao Fei, whose Prison Architect (2018) is now showing on MUBI in collaboration with Serpentine Cinema.
- Leonardo Goi's coverage of this year's Venice Film Festival continues with his latest reviews of Andrei Konchalovsky's Dear Comrades!, Majid Majidi’s Sun Children, and Małgorzata Szumowska and Michał Englert’s Never Gonna Snow Again.
EXTRAS
- Tony Stella's poster for Hopper/Welles, a new documentary (which premiered at Venice) following the two filmmaking titans in passionate, drunken conversation.
