Rushes: New Trailers, "Suspirium" by Thom Yorke, "The Other Side of the Wind"

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NEWS

  • We are deeply saddened by the news that Village Voice, home to an abundance of film criticism over the past six decades, "is suspending all editorial content and will lay off half its staff effective immediately." For the Criterion Collection, David Hudson has provided a spotlight of the Voice's foremost critical voices, including Bilge Ebiri, whose last review for the publication is on the "communal consciousness" of Robert Greene's Bisbee '17.

RECOMMENDED VIEWING

  • A gorgeous trailer for photographer RaMell Ross's directorial debut Hale County This Morning, This Evening, the tale of "two young African American men from rural Hale County, Alabama, over the course of five years."

  • The official trailer for Yorgos Lanthimos's The Favourite, currently in competition at the 75th Venice International Film Festival, provides a closer look into its evidently wicked sense of humor, and the fish-eye lenses of cinematographer Robbie Ryan.

  • Actor-director Jiang Wen (Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, Let the Bullets Fly) makes what looks to be a glorious return to the directors chair going off this globetrotting, genre-swapping trailer for the forthcoming Hidden Man.

RECOMMENDED READING

  • Reporting from Venice, David Bordwell reviews Orson Welles's posthumous The Other Side of the Wind, a "jaundiced satire of Hollywood [that] seems to me a bad idea of what a bad movie looks like." Conversely, The Guardian's Peter Bradshaw is mostly ecstatic, calling it "an enthralling portrait and a study of work destined always to be in progress."
  • Support the Girls director Andrew Bujalski has provided Le CiNéMa Club with a list of "five films he loves," from his mentor Chantal Akerman's Je Tu Il Elle to Ron Sheldon's White Men Can't Jump.
  • Here's an unexpected one: Francis Ford Coppola is a significant proponent (and donor) to women's baseball and, moreover, the integration of baseball so that women and men play together. Jeva Lange discussed the matter with Coppola for The Week.

Steve Sterner at Film Forum.

  • The Wall Street Journal offers an inspiring news story regarding the influx of young people supporting silent and early cinema, in conjunction with a brief portrait of the New York pianist Steve Sterner, well known for his sublime live silent film scores.
  • For The New York Review of Books, J. Hoberman gracefully contextualizes the synchronous politics of George A. Romero's landmark cult film Night of the Living Dead in relation to the tumultuous moment in American history which it was released.

RECENTLY ON THE NOTEBOOK

  • Laura Davis provides an overview of Laura Huertas Millàn's ethnographic fiction series, and how "narrative creation can liberate the single, fixed colonial viewpoint."
  • Russian-born Australian filmmaker Alena Lodkina discusses her feature debut Strange Colours, "a melancholic fiction rooted firmly in a study of place."
  • Accompanying the release of Peter Berg's latest Mile 22, Elena Lazic reviews Peter Berg's latest Mile 22 in relation to the troubled, often slippery politics of his career: "Look a little closer, however, and interesting cracks and inconsistencies begin to appear."

RECOMMENDED LISTENING

  • A hypnotic track from Thom Yorke's Suspiria (Music for the Luca Guadagnino Film), available for pre-order now.

EXTRAS AND RE-DISCOVERIES

  • A necessary reminder: aside from having previously created his own infamous video game to end all video games, Takeshi Kitano also stars in Sega's Yakuza 6 for the PlayStation 4.

 


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