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NEWS
- Last weekend came the news that the great experimental filmmaker of At Sea (2007) and Three Landscapes (2013), Peter Hutton, has passed away.
- Journalist and author Michael Herr has also died, at the age of 76. He is best known in the film world for co-writing Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket and the narration to Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now.
- The first complete New York retrospective in 25 years of Greek auteur Theo Angelopoulos (Landscape in the Mist) will be coming to the Museum of the Moving image in July.
- Word comes from Apichatpong Weerasethakul's Twitter account that the Palme d'Or-winning Thai director has begun work on his next film following the wonderful Cemetery of Splendour.
RECOMMENDED VIEWING
- The latest of Radiohead's multimedia promotion of their album A Moon Shaped Pool is an all-too-short short directed by The Lobster's Yorgos Lanthimos and starring the great Denis Levant.
- A great (albeit unsubtitled), 1970s-inflected trailer for Kleber Mendonça Filho's Aquarius, which competed at the Cannes Film Festival. (Watch our video interview with Mendonça Filho from Cannes.)
- Did you know the Coen brothers made a fake trailer (starring Bruce Campbell!) for Blood Simple in order to secure financing?
RECOMMENDED READING
- Now that it's summertime, let's celebrate swimsuit season with...the saucy beachwear of Éric Rohmer!
- With American independent filmmaker Robert Greene's Kate Plays Christine making the festival rounds and receiving acclaim, the director has published his ten favorite docs of the decade as well as for Sight & Sound written on fellow American documentarians, Bill and Turner Ross:
“Documentary is all things: life, adventure, music everything. All of your interests: Graphic design, photography… everything,” said Bill. “You’re out and you’re in the world, and you’re interacting with people. You’re having love affairs, and you’re climbing a mountain, and you’re jumping into water. Documentary allows you to do that. And because of the technology, it can just be with my brother. I don’t need 100 people behind me to do this. I can just say here’s the adventure I want to go on, and the camera is my ticket.
- The latest (and Cannes-themed) issue of Cinema Scope is on newsstands, and many articles are also available for free online, including editor Mark Peranson's always-anticipated take on the Cannes Film Festival:
For, to paraphrase the Brothers Coen, Cannes is by no means a film festival for the critics. Which begs the question—which for the life of me I can’t answer definitively—“Who is it for, then?”
- In an ode to actress Kristen Stewart—whom we loved in her latest (of three) 2016 film, Personal Shopper—the Village Voice's Melissa Anderson waxes:
Into the Wild (2007), directed by Sean Penn, best showcases the skill that the actress would repeatedly demonstrate in the Twilight pentalogy: a superb understanding of how to remind viewers of all ages of the chaotic churn of adolescent emotion and desire.
- "The Trouble with the Movies"...of 2016? No—1943, in this early New Republic column by America's greatest film critic, Manny Farber:
It is the use of the literary writer’s technique of storytelling (rather than a technique developed especially for movies) which results in scripts that miss the essential fact that the camera medium is enormously fluid: having a voice, eyes and legs, it is more fluid than any other medium. Like the mind, it is physically unbound and can move into all levels of experience.
RECOMMENDED LISTENS
- Cliff Martinez's throbbing electro score for Nicolas Winding Refn's The Neon Demon is now streaming on Spotify:
- Film Comments' newest podcast features scholar David Bordwell discussing his new book about 1940s American film criticism, The Rhapsodes:
EXTRAS
- "Woody's next 50": hilarious predictions by @timheidecker (a highly prolific film critic, it must be said) for the titles of the next 50 films by Woody Allen.
- The poster for Terrence Malick's long-awaited (and much-delayed) documentary, Voyage of Time. It's currently slated for an October IMAX release date.
- Gus Van Sant's diagram of the movements of his characters in Elephant. From La Cinémathèque Française's exhibition on the director.