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NEWS
- Next year's Sundance Film Festival has received permission from the Park City Council to be seven days rather than 11. The festival will also have limited capacity in theatres to address public health concerns.
RECOMMENDED VIEWING
- Every Thursday in August, MoMa is streaming selections of historic films from its collection in a series titled Film Vault Summer Camp. In episode 1, collection specialist Ashley Swinnerton introduces The Flying Train and Great Actresses of the Past.
- In a new video essay for Little White Lies, Luís Azevedo explores the role of kitchens in the films of Pedro Almodóvar.
- From Netflix, the official trailer for Charlie Kaufman's psychological thriller I'm Thinking of Ending Things, adapted from the bestselling novel by Iain Reid.
RECOMMENDED READING
Above: Ja'Tovia Gary by JerSean Golatt for the New York Times.
- For the New York Times, Ja'Tovia Gary discusses her film The Giverny Document and the reclamation of Black women's subjectivity.
- The Seventh Art has translated a 1982 interview with Satyajit Ray by Serge Daney, which of course mentions the filmmaker's towering height, among other topics like Louis Malle's portrayal of Calcutta, the Bengali language, and the accessibility of cinema.
- From earlier this year, an interview with film critic Jonathan Rosenbaum on Jacques Tati and Elaine May, his intellectual principles, and the new cinephilia of today.
- Over at Sight & Sound, a look at the oft-suppressed and overlooked history of Black British protest film and television by Ashley Clark.
- Moviemaker Magazine recently asked a group of moviemakers, critics, and programmers for some summer reading recommendations. Choice picks include Whatever Happened to Interracial Love? by Kathleen Collins (suggested by Kelly Reichardt) and Fierce Attachments by Vivian Gornick (suggested Marie-Louise Khondji).
- Critic Beatrice Loayza revisits two tales of the apocalypse, Signs and War of the Worlds, and the existential fear of a total loss of control.
RECENTLY ON THE NOTEBOOK
- MUBI's series The Inimitable Image: An Amit Dutta Retrospective is showing summer and autumn 2020 in India. Mantra Makim provides an expansive overview of Dutta's films, pointing out their distinct cinematic rhythm.
- In his latest entry for the The Action Scene, a column exploring the construction of action set pieces, Jonah Jeng investigates the harrowing centerpiece of Alfred Hitchcock's Torn Curtain.
- Paulo Rocha's The Green Years and Change of Life are currently streaming at Film at Lincoln Center's virtual cinema in new restorations. Ela Bittencourt examines both films, and their respective approaches to troubled love.
- For our One Shot series, Danielle Burgos writes on Johnnie To's kinetic musical Office (2015), which is showing July 26 – August 24, 2020 on MUBI in the United States.
- "What happens when marginalized people are depicted through a marginalized form?" Elissa Suh interrogates this question through Bill Gunn's Ganja & Hess and Personal Problems, now showing in the series Double Bill: Bill Gunn from July - December, 2020 in the United States.
EXTRAS
- Artist Jason Shulman's series Photographs of Films features dreamy images (like this one of Andrei Tarkovsky's The Mirror) captured at an exposure rate that matches each movie's duration.
