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NEWS
- HBO Max has announced plans to release the "Snyder Cut," a highly demanded director's cut of Zack Snyder's Justice League. Hollywood Reporter delves into the development of the project and the fan-based movement behind bringing Snyder's vision to life.
- Venice's governor has announced that the film festival will proceed as planned this September.
- Meanwhile, Cannes is unveiling plans for its unprecedented "virtual film market," which will have to mediate different time zones and a lack of premiere buzz.
RECOMMENDED VIEWING
- David Lynch has released his 2015 short film Fire (Pozar) for free online. The animated film, a collaboration with Polish musician Marek Zebrowski, is a nightmarish vision of formless beings and houses on fire.
- For Deadline's new series The Film That Lit My Fuse, Francis Ford Coppola discusses Sergei Eisenstein's October (Ten Days That Shook the World) and its influence on his filmmaking career.
- The official teaser trailer for the Ross Brothers' Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets, which depicts a Las Vegas bar on its last day before closure. Read our review of the film by Ela Bittencourt here.
- Christopher Nolan's Tenet has a new trailer, which gives a few more hints about its time-bending world and the mysterious mission undertaken by John David Washington and Robert Pattinson. Notably, the trailer premiered live on the video game Fortnite, where some gamers even threw virtual tomatoes at the screen.
RECOMMENDED READING
- An expansive, career-spanning profile of Steve Buscemi for GQ finds the actor reflecting on grief and disaster, working as a firefighter, and a lessening tolerance for violence.
- Sentient.Art.Film has announced My sight is lined with visions, an upcoming online screening series focusing on seminal Asian-American films (with an emphasis on experimental and avant-garde works) from the 1990s, including those by pioneering filmmakers Rea Tajiri, Shu Lea Cheang, and more. Prepare for the screenings by reading the accompanying essays by critics available on the website, and an interview with programmers Abby Sun and Keisha Knight.
- Vulture's Friday Night Movie Club features Bilge Ebiri's reappraisal of the underrated, Chaplinesque 1998 film The Mask of Zorro.
- The latest translated chapter of Luc Moullet’s Politique des acteurs by the Seventh Art is all about John Wayne as a late-blooming star, whose career demonstrated "a tremendous unity [...], or at least in his best films: old age, decrepitude, the passage of time."
RECENTLY ON THE NOTEBOOK
- For the column Act Like a Man, which examines male performers of past and presence, Christina Newland investigates the "lifelong brilliance" of Jeff Bridges.
- Darya Zhuk introduces her film Crystal Swan, which is receiving its exclusive digital premiere on MUBI, and is showing May 23 - June 22, 2020 in most countries. In her Close-Up on Crystal Swan, Savina Petkova writes that the film "makes an existential claim: even when the end of an odyssey overlaps with its beginning back home, one never returns the same person that has left."
- Jorge Suárez-Quiñones Rivas's new video essay is an exploration of how violence is uniquely confronted in films by Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet: By abandoning the screen.