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NEWS

Dry Leaf (Alexandre Koberidze, 2024).

RECOMMENDED VIEWING

  • Admirers of Nathan Fielder, Benny Safdie, and Emma Stone’s collaboration on The Curse can flock to Fielder’s YouTube channel—he’s posted a rough cut of the pilot for Fliplanthropy, the fictional HGTV show hosted by his and Stone’s characters. It’s very relaxing! Watch below:

RECOMMENDED READING

Late Spring (Yasujiro Ozu, 1949).

  • “Growing up and watching his women—seeing them hurry, glance, and pause—I saw that he understood the need to delay before life takes over, knew the breath you must take before a new lap, before you lightly push off the wall and become a new person.” For the New York Review of Books, Moeko Fujii looks in delicate detail at how Yasujiro Ozu portrayed women in his films.
  • For Filmmaker, Vadim Rizov surveys all the feature films shot on 35mm in 2023 in a feature now celebrating its tenth anniversary. Among the varied works investigated this time around are Steve McQueen’s Occupied City, M. Night Shyamalan’s Knock at the Cabin, and Louis Leterrier’s Fast X—the latter of which was shot almost entirely digitally, save from one key flashback to a moment from 2011’s Fast Five, made before the franchise moved from film to digital.
  • “We all belong to a period of Tati’s cinema: the author of these lines belongs to the one that extends from Mon Oncle (1958: one year before the New Wave) to Playtime (1967: one year before the events of May ’68).” The New Left Review has shared an essay on Jacques Tati by French film critic Serge Daney, taken from Daney’s 1983 collection Footlights, newly translated by Nicholas Elliott and published by Semiotext(e). 
  • “All the crafts that I’ve practiced in my life I’ve done knowing they are either dead or dying.” In an opinion piece for the Los Angeles Times, screenwriter and projectionist Leah Saint Marie connects poetry and 35mm film projection, both of which involve being a “resurrectionist” of “dying things.” 
  • “How is it that, let’s say, even now with the situation in the United States there is always a fear that the ultra-right-wing could ultimately achieve horrible things?” For Metrograph’s Journal, Eric Kohn talks to Paul Verhoeven about RoboCop (1987), Total Recall (1990), US politics, the Second World War, the advent of artificial intelligence, and his forthcoming film Young Sinner, his first US production since Hollow Man in 2000.
  • “Yorgos Lanthimos has never shot a scene in which people make love. Plenty fuck, no question.” Going long for the Baffler, Kenneth Dillon deconstructs Yorgos Lanthimos’s Poor Things (2023), looking particularly at the film’s “very particular depiction of sex that neither rises to eroticism nor descends to pornography.”

RECOMMENDED EVENTS

The Exterminating Angel (Luis Buñuel, 1962).

RECOMMENDED LISTENING

Gasoline Rainbow (Bill and Turner Ross, 2023).

RECENTLY ON NOTEBOOK

Shin Kamen Rider (Hideaki Anno, 2023).

EXTRAS

Priscilla (Sofia Coppola, 2023).

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