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NEWS
Luther Price's Sodom (1989)
- Experimental filmmaker Luther Price, best known for his reappropriation of found footage into vivid, often graphic and controversial painted images, has died. A number of available films, as well as a Q&A with Price, can be found here.
- Kirill Serebrennikov is set to direct a limited series based on the life of Andrei Tarkovsky.
- Due to the impact of the ongoing health crisis, the dates for next year's Oscars and BAFTA ceremonies have been pushed to April of 2021.
RECOMMENDED VIEWING
- The official trailer for House of Hummingbird, Kim Bora's portrait of youth in 1990's Korea. Read our interview with Kim here.
- For GQ, martial artist Scott Adkins thoroughly breaks down fight scenes from movies like Ip Man, The Bourne Supremacy, and Rush Hour.
- A new short by David Lynch, The Story of a Small Bug, starring a small bug (and an even bigger snake).
- In memory of Luther Price, we're revisiting this video from the 2012 Whitney Biennial in which he discusses his distinct, "one of a kind" process of making handmade 16mm films.
RECOMMENDED READING
One of Denise Cronenberg's costumes for Dead Ringers (1988).
- In tribute to the late costume designer Denise Cronenberg, Barry Hertz provides an overview of her oft-overlooked career and contributions to the films of her brother, David.
- The Peter Blum Gallery is now showing Nathaniel Dorsky: Film and Film Stills, an online exhibit of the filmmaker's work through select film stills from the 1960's to the 2010's.
- Coinciding with the release of Da 5 Bloods, Spike Lee answers questions from a wide variety of insightful readers including Halle Berry, Michael Mann, and Mike Leigh, and discusses matters of race and racism, working with actors, and which of his films will be more appreciated in 20 years.
- BFI's Lockdown Diaries continue with Roger Corman, whose recent viewings include Pulp Fiction and High Noon, and whose daughters have started creating their own movie posters.
- Will DiGravio, Cydnii Wilde Harris and Kevin B. Lee have created a list of video essays on racial justice and other topics related to the Black Lives Matter movement, from discussions on white savior films to TikToks filmed at protests.
RECOMMENDED LISTENING
- Ron Geesin's Pot-Boilers (Ron Geesin Soundtracks To Stephen Dwoskin Films 1966-1970) is available for purchase on Boomkat.
- From writer Kier-La Janisse (author of House of Psychotic Women: An Autobiographical Topography of Female Neurosis in Horror and Exploitation Films), a playlist of vocal theme songs from 1960's and 1970's cult film soundtracks.
- A new episode by Team Deakins (Roger and James Deakins' podcast) features Criterion’s Technical Director of Restoration, Lee Kline, in a discussion on film restoration.
RECENTLY ON THE NOTEBOOK
- "Da 5 Bloods sometimes flounders under Lee’s classically heavy hand, but without a doubt it belongs among the most vigorous of his corpus." Read Kelli Weston's review of Spike Lee's latest.
- For the series One Shot, James Slaymaker discusses No Home Movie (2015) is showing on MUBI in the United States in the series Remembering Chantal Akerman.
- Florence Scott-Anderton's newest addition to the Notebook Soundtrack Mixes is a dedication to the lost worlds of Wendy Carlos.