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- The great maestro Ennio Morricone died on Monday at the age of 91. Morricone was best known for his acclaimed compositions in films like The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, The Untouchables, The Battle of Algiers, and so many more. His self-written obituary begins: “I, Ennio Morricone, am dead.”
- The 2020 invitees of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences include a wide range of international artists, from Garrett Bradley and Terence Davies to Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers and Zhao Tao.
RECOMMENDED VIEWING
- This year, Japan Cuts, the annual festival organized by the Japan Society of New York City, is commemorating the life and work of the late Nobuhiko Obayashi. An exclusive video tribute to Obayashi by Shinya Tsukamoto, who describes seeing Obayashi's films for the first time as a student, can be found for free at the festival's online platform.
- Ja'Tovia Gary has made The Giverny Document (Single Channel) (winner of the Locarno Film Festival's Moving Ahead award) available online. The film, Gary states, is "about Black womens' safety." Read our review of The Giverny Document (Single Channel) here.
RECOMMENDED READING
- The newest issue of Cinema Scope is out, and features an interview with C.W. Winter and Anders Edström, Erika Balsom on the complex search for the "female gaze", Kit Duckworth's review of Never Rarely Sometimes Always.
- Vulture's deep dive into Quibi (Jerry Katzenberg's ten-minute-or-less television streaming network) is a cautionary tale of pitching and sustaining new concepts in an increasingly competitive market.
- "What defines a film essay is that you are at ease with including your doubt." Ultra Dogme interviews experimental documentary filmmaker Lynne Sachs.
- The New York Times' new profile of Charlie Kaufman features both filmmaker and journalist overwhelmed and tossed about by the ongoing crises of today, discussing his upcoming Netflix film I'm Thinking of Ending Things and thoughts on embarrassment and unpredictability.
RECOMMENDED LISTENING
- A throwback set from Radio Jiro on NTS: Two hours of Ennio Morricone.
RECENTLY ON THE NOTEBOOK
- Following its virtual premiere on July 3, Werner Herzog's Family Romance, LLC is showing exclusively on MUBI in the many countries in the series Luminaries. Read Herzog's introduction to the film, which he refers to as a return to his early filmmaking, and Kelley Dong's examination of the film's dissection of what is rented and what is real.
- Aaron E. Hunt interviews Charles Burnett, who discusses his 1994 police drama The Glass Shield, making TV movies, and the cultural obligation and formal influence of representation.
- In his latest entry for The Action Scene, a column exploring the construction of action set pieces, Jonah Jeng delves into the rejection of tradition and portrayals of the body in Tsui Hark's The Blade.
EXTRAS
- Ennio Morricone and Sergio Leone as children in 1937. Morricone would go on to score all of Leone's films after A Fistful of Dollars.