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NEWS
It's 7.5 cm x 7.5 cm x 2 mm, and Superman is in there!
- The American Justice Department is planning to ask a New York federal court to terminate the "Paramount antitrust decrees," or agreements made in the late 1940s and 1950s to protect movie theatres from studios. The decrees include restrictions on studios owning theatres, selling multiple films to theatres as a package, and rules for minimum pricing of tickets.
- Microsoft and Warner Bros. have stored a copy of the 1978 film Superman on a little glass disc. The project serves as "a first test case for a new storage technology that could eventually help safeguard Hollywood’s movies and TV shows, as well as many other forms of data, for centuries to come."
RECOMMENDED VIEWING
- Ahead of its online premiere, Martin Scorsese's The Irishman gets a final, mournful trailer.
- This one caught us off-guard—the trailer for an unexpected biopic of the great actress of Breathless fame, Jean Seberg (as played by Kristen Stewart!).
- Earlier this year we found ourselves completely enveloped by House of Hummingbird, a coming-of-age drama set in Seoul circa 1994 (read our interview with the filmmaker, Kim Bora, here). We are relieved that it is now finding it's way to the U.S., by way of Well Go.
- The awards season is about to commence, and with it comes roundtable season. Variety has begun sharing an eclectic series of freeform dialogues solely between actors. Ranging from Shia LaBeouf & Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson & Jennifer Lopez, Eddie Murphy & Antonio Banderas, Tom Hanks & Renée Zellweger, Sterling K. Brown & Laura Dern, and Brad Pitt with Adam Sandler:
RECOMMENDED READING
- From Harpers, a new illustrated series by Michael Kupperman on iconic moments in cinema history, starting with Thomas Edison's invention of the kinetograph.
- You may have seen stars like Ben Affleck and Gal Gadot recently tweet the ominous phrase, #ReleaseTheSnyderCut, in reference to Zack Snyder's original vision for Justice League. The New York Times reports on the tumultuous making of the film, which includes reshoots and recuts following the replacement of Snyder with Joss Whedon: "Corporate indifference is a foe against which few superheroes can hope to prevail."
- Toronto-based online feminist film publication cléo recently shuttered due to funding cuts by the Ontario Arts Council. Ahead of its final release, a best-of print issue, The Globe and Mail has provided an oral history of the journal's formation and its rise as an influence on global film culture.
- Nicolas Rapold of Film Comment interviews Shannon Murphy, whose feature film debut Babyteeth is "a funny and formidable chronicle of the moment-to-moment negotiations in a family making the most of a closing window." (Read our review of the film here.)
RECOMMENDED LISTENING
- The latest Film Comment podcast focuses on work and class in the movies, and features filmmaker John Sayles, whose Matewan (about striking miners) has just been added to the Criterion Collection.
RECENTLY ON THE NOTEBOOK
- Patricia Mazuy's film Paul Sanchez Is Back! made the Cahiers du cinéma Top 10 list of last year, and with a recent retrospective in New York, Evan Morgan introduces this under-known French filmmaker.
- Pablo Martin kicks off his new column MUBI Design, which spotlights the behind the scenes of art direction here at MUBI.
- Jonathan Rosenbaum sorts through the unusual legacy of artist Robert Frank's filmmaking.
- Olaf Möller provides a wide survey of this year's Venice Film Festival, narrowing in on the weaknesses and strengths of its curation.
- Daniel Kasman gives an overview of the Viennale's expansive retrospective devoted to European partisans struggles against fascism.
EXTRAS
- A welcome glimpse inside Martin Scorsese's endless sense of detail (via Tribeca Film Festival).
- Where can we get the album, Lav?
