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NEWS
- The U.S. poster for Albert Serra's provocative Liberté, which will make for some very pleasant at-home viewing when it opens at Film Society of Lincoln Center's Virtual Cinema on May 1st. Read our interview with Serra here.
- The Venice Film Festival has announced plans to proceed with this year's festivities in September despite health concerns, and that further plans will be unveiled in May.
RECOMMENDED VIEWING
- The official international trailer for Gerardo Naranjo's Oaxaca-set Kokoloko, which follows "a would-be girl soldier ready to do anything to escape reality, and her lover who would kill for her." It is Naranjo's first film since 2011's Miss Bala.
RECOMMENDED READING
Above: Oscar Isaac, Willem Dafoe, and Paul Schrader on the set of The Card Counter.
- In a new interview with Vulture, Paul Schrader (whose latest film, The Card Counter, halted production due to the coronavirus) shares his thoughts on the future of movies, re-connecting with old colleagues, and the possibility of creating a "simulation" of The Card Counter.
- The contributors of 4Columns are revisiting films that are both significant and easy to find online, starting with Melissa Anderson on Clint Eastwood's paradoxical directorial debut, Play Misty for Me.
- Disney Plus was recently caught using CGI to cover Daryl Hannah's naked body (in the 1984 film Splash) with fake hair. Verge investigates the implications of this baffling case in the ongoing issue of digital re-edits and corporate interference. For more on CGI disasters, the nightmarish experience of the VFX crew who worked on Tom Hooper's now-infamous production of Cats.
- From The Chiseler, Jonathan Rosenbaum writes on the "populist/fatalist cinema" in the fiction of Thomas Pynchon.
- A gem from the Film Comment archives: Bruce Baillie discusses his editing process, his relationship to death and life, and how to know if one is on the right or wrong way.
EXTRAS
- For those working from home, Studio Ghibli has provided 12 backgrounds to use for your next virtual meeting, including the forest in My Neighbor Totoro, the bakery in Kiki's Delivery Service, and the little hat shop in Howl's Moving Castle.