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NEWS
Above: George Segal and Elliot Gould in California Split (1974).
- Actor George Segal, a "defining face of 1970s Hollywood" known for his roles in films like Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and Robert Altman's California Split, has died.
- The 2021 Jury and Special Award winners of the 28th SXSW Film Festival have been announced, with winners including Megan Park's The Fallout and Jeremy Workman's Lily Topples the World.
RECOMMENDED VIEWING
- For the series A One-Woman Confessional: Eight Films by Cecilia Mangini, Another Gaze's streaming project Another Screen has also made available a video of Mangini and Agnès Varda's first meeting in 2011.
- Metrograph's official trailer for Claire Denis' L'Intrus, her 2004 adaptation of an essay by philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy. The film will be available at the cimema's virtual theatre from March 26 to April 8.
- A fan-made "official teaser trailer first look special" for Clint Eastwood's Cry Macho, made up of what few promotional clips we've been offered by HBO Max.
- Raoul Peck's four-part documentary series, Exterminate All the Brutes, deconstructs "the exploitative and genocidal aspects of European colonialism – from America to Africa and its impact on society today." The series will premiere April 7 on HBOMax.
- Grasshopper Film's official trailer for Sky Hopinka's Malni – Towards the Ocean, Towards the Shore. Read our interview with Hopinka here.
- Prismatic Ground is a new film festival founded by Inney Prakash and dedicated to experimental documentary. Its inaugural edition, presented in partnership with Maysles Documentary Center and Screen Slate, features films by Anita Thacher, Travis Wilkerson, Christopher Makoto Yogi, and Christopher Harris.
RECOMMENDED READING
Above: Wong Kar-wai's Fallen Angels (1995).
- John Powers introduces Criterion's new box set, World of Wong Kar Wai, with a sweeping career overview that charts Wong's rise as "one of the coolest and most beloved filmmakers in the world."
- "Why waste time searching for narrative cohesion when it’s clear Denis is playing at another game entirely?" For 4Columns, Erika Balsom reflects on Claire Denis' L'Intrus.
- Alison Willmore explores pandemic movies made during lockdown that range from dreary to uninventive. Exceptions include Pedro Almodóvar’s The Human Voice, Jonathan Glazer’s Strasbourg 1518, and Mati Diop's In My Room.
- We highly recommend digging into the elegantly designed page dedicated to Another Screen's programme on the films of Cecilia Mangini, where you can find not only the films but also an essay by Allison Grimaldi Donahue and an interview with Mangini by Livia Franchini.
- In a new interview with Sight and Sound, John Gianvito discusses Her Socialist Smile, film's role in affecting change, and teaching as an art practice.
- Critics Catherine Bray and Guy Lodge have launched Film of the Week, which provides weekly recommendations of "films we thought were noteworthy, enjoyable, worth watching, talking points, entertaining, [and] significant." This week, Lodge reviews Lili Horvát's Preparations To Be Together For An Unknown Period of Time.
RECENTLY ON THE NOTEBOOK
- The series In Love. The Cinema of Wong Kar Wai is now playing on MUBI in many countries. In celebration of the new series, Wong Kar Wai answers 5 questions about restoration, curation, and the compassion and solidarity we all need.
- In a new video essay, Manuela Lazic and Alessandro Luchetti explore how the films of Antonioni invite viewers to take responsibility for their own understanding of reality.
- For the series Independent Women: The Pioneering Cinema of Márta Mészáros, available on MUBI in many countries, Kat Sachs has written an essential Notebook Primer on the singular Hungarian filmmaker and her extraordinary blend of the personal and political.
- Danielle Burgos explores the storied history of Makoto Tezuka's vibrant cult classic The Legend of the Stardust Brothers (1985), which is playing exclusively on MUBI in many countries in the series Rediscovered.
- The latest Movie Poster of the Week dives into a new online database and a comprehensive new book of film posters by the great German designer Hans Hillmann.
- We're pleased to announce a collaboration with the Deuce Film Series, a monthly event at Nitehawk Williamsburg that "excavates the facts and fantasies of cinema's most infamous block in the world: 42nd Street between 7th and 8th Avenues." For its first entry, the Deuce Film Series take us on a tour of New York's Harris Theatre where Robert Butler’s Night of the Juggler premiered in 1980.
EXTRAS
- From Studio Stella, a limited edition oil painting of Maggie Cheung as Su Li-zhen in In the Mood for Love.
