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NEWS
Painter Emil Kosa Jr.'s 1933 logo for 20th Century Fox. (Hollywood Reporter.)
- The Walt Disney Company has announced that it will be dropping the "Fox" brand from 20th Century Fox, rebranding the studio as 20th Century Studios.
- The exciting lineup for this year's Berlinale continues to be announced, and you can see the increasing list of titles—which includes films by Matías Piñeiro, Josephine Decker, Heinz Emigholz, and Kevin Jerome Everson—here.
RECOMMENDED VIEWING
- Our trailer for Diao Yinan's neon-soaked noir The Wild Goose Lake, coming exclusively to MUBI in the United Kingdom on February 28.
- The Sandler-Safdies collaboration continues with Goldman v Silverman, filmed during the production of Uncut Gems. The short stars Benny Safdie and a masked Adam Sandler as two silently dueling street performers in New York's Times Square.
- An adorable but compelling PSA on ocean sanctuaries by Greenpeace UK and Aardman Animations (Wallace and Gromit, Shaun the Sheep).
- Kino Lorber has released a U.S. teaser for Pietro Marcello's Martin Eden, described on the Notebook by Leonardo Goi as a "film of disquisitions, of debates and arguments, of struggles over theories and beliefs."
- After ten years, Jia Zhangke's 2010 documentary I Wish I Knew (which explores the city of Shanghai to mark the opening of the Shanghai World Expo) finally gets its U.S. release.
RECOMMENDED READING
Jane Fonda and Rod Taylor in Sunday in New York (1964)
- "Like it or not, Jane Fonda at the start of the ’60s was a paragon of the mid-century woman’s sexual and moral ambivalence." At Film Comment, Beatrice Loayza investigates Jane Fonda's 1960s films and her relationship to second-wave feminism and the sexual revolution.
- Though a belated find, the Fall 2019 online issue of Jump Cut nonetheless contains a number of essential reads, from a cross-comparison between 12 Years a Slave and Birth of a Nation, a look into Ishmael Bernal's Manila by Night, and transgender documentary subjects.
- The 2019 World Poll by Senses of Cinema gathers a mammoth amount of intriguing ballots and corresponding notes on last year's top films from critics, filmmakers, programmers, and readers alike.
- Reverse Shot has launched a series looking into the best films (as voted by their major contributors) of the 2010s. Each of the twenty films will receive its own closer look, beginning with critic Lawrence Garcia's appraisal of Kenneth Lonergan's Margaret.
- Meanwhile, Vadim Rizov of Filmmaker Magazine continues his exploration of each year's films shot on 35mm film. This year, that list contains a wide spectrum that includes Detective Pikachu and The Rise of Skywalker, Ash Is Purest White, and Ad Astra.
RECOMMENDED LISTENING
- Karina Longworth's podcast Make Me Over, a companion series to You Must Remember This, focuses on stories about Hollywood's historical intersection with the beauty industry. The first episode follows actress Molly O'Day and a very dangerous "weight loss surgery."
RECENTLY ON THE NOTEBOOK
- Adrian Dannatt provides an overview of cinematographer and sculptor Adam Barker-Mill's career, from his collaboration with filmmaker James Scott to his light-filled installation work, the subject of a retrospective at Kunstmuseum Ahlen, Germany.
- In an interview with Beatrice Loayza, Lulu Wang discusses The Farewell, the tensions of growing up in an immigrant family, fractured identities, and new perspectives on American cinema.
- "A Hidden Life transforms us, but only if we care to notice. Its movement propels us from a lesser to a greater perfection." Josh Cabrita reviews Terrence Malick's sublime A Hidden Life.
- Eric Allen Hatch's latest entry for the Infinite Fest column probes and questions the structuring of two very different film festivals—the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) and Maine’s Camden International Film Festival (CIFF).
EXTRAS
- The official Chinese poster for Stephen Nomura Schible's Ryuichi Sakamoto: CODA.
