Weekly Rushes. 23 September 2015

• Above: Xiao Kang, a new short film by Tsai Ming-liang starring Lee Kang-shen, made as a trailer for the 2015 Viennale.

• Fall festival season is about to begin, and our local favorite Mill Valley Film Festival (October 8 - 18) has revealed its lineup, which includes such Notebook favorites as 45 Years, The Assassin, and Taxi.

• Speaking of festivals, the New York Film Festival is set to begin this weekend, and Notebook contributor Ricky D'Ambrose is premiering a new short there.

• Above: terrific fan posters for films by Hong Sang-soo made by Choi jee-woong. (Coincidentally, in the US we're currently showing Hong's In Another Country and The Day He Arrives.)

• We love it when A.O. Scott and Manohla Dargis dig into the contemporary movie climate at the New York Times. And we love even more Dargis's review of Johnnie To's brilliant 3D musical, Office.

• Some announcements have been made about the much-anticipated Museum of Modern Art retrospective dedicated to Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet.

• El Topo director Alejandro Jodorowsky recounts his meeting with Kanye West.

• Above: a clip from Terence Davies' new movie, Sunset Song, which we wrote about, enraptured, from Toronto.

"I would say Showgirls is more anti-erotic than erotic."

• Over at Rolling Stone, that's Paul Verhoeven, above, reflecting on the 20th anniversary of his masterpiece, Showgirls. (Speaking of Showgirls, Adam Nayman, author of the excellent recent monograph on the film, It Doesn't Suck: Showgirls, has a new book coming out from the Critical Press, Ben Wheatley: Confusion and Carnage.)

• Via Keyframe Daily, one of Abbas Kiarostami's earliest and best films, the short Two Solutions to One Problem, is on YouTube with English subtitles.

• Above: the Hong Kong Free Press explores the Shaw Brothers Studios as the location faces the threat of demolition.