News and items of cinematic interest, brought to you by @Criterion’s online magazine, the Current.
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Anna Karina, icon of the French New Wave, director, writer, singer ... artist, has passed away. She was 79.
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“Martin Scorsese has quietly made public a very private preoccupation. More than 50 storage boxes hold thousands of VHS tapes.” Scorsese, “it turns out, was, for decades, a prolific guerrilla archivist.”
@jakemalooley @guardianfilm
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Jean-Luc Godard, one of the most vital and influential figures in the history of cinema, has died at 91.
@guardian — theguardian.com/film/2022/se…
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Poster for Pascal-Alex Vincent’s SATOSHI KON, L’ILLUSIONNISTE, premiering in #Cannes Classics.
Kon’s MILLENNIUM ACTRESS (2001) and PAPRIKA (2006) arrive @criterionchannl on Thursday.
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Jane Birkin, the singer and actress who appeared in films by Agnès Varda, Jacques Deray, Jacques Doillon, Jacques Rivette, and Michelangelo Antonioni, has died at 76.
@SkyNews — news.sky.com/story/singer-an…
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Dean Stockwell, the child actor who grew up to work with David Lynch, Wim Wenders, Robert Altman, and Jonathan Demme, has died. He was 85.
@Variety — variety.com/2021/film/actors…
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Renowned composer Ennio Morricone, who worked with Leone, Bertolucci, De Palma, Malick, and Tarantino, has died. He was 91.
@THR — hollywoodreporter.com/news/e…
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Cloris Leachman cracking up Gene Wilder on the set of Mel Brooks’s YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN (1974).
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New posters for the August 19 theatrical release in Japan of Wong Kar Wai’s IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE (2000).
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Martin Scorsese presents (and directs!) PRETEND IT’S A CITY with Fran Lebowitz. Arriving on @netflix on January 8.
Trailer (1’21”) piped.video/MClMxqD-HNA
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In 1957, François Truffaut attended #Cannes as a critic for @cahierscinema.
In 1958, deemed “the gravedigger of French cinema,” he was banned from the festival.
In 1959, he returned with THE 400 BLOWS and won the best director award.
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Piper Laurie, best known for her work in THE HUSTLER, CARRIE, and TWIN PEAKS, has died. She was 91.
@IndieWire — indiewire.com/news/obituary/…
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Actor, activist, and director Sidney Poitier has died at the age of 94.
@Independent — independent.co.uk/arts-enter…
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25 years ago today, Richard Linklater’s BEFORE SUNRISE premiered at #Sundance.
“The shifting meaning of a moment is the existential question that animates the story of Jesse and Celine.”
Dennis Lim: criterion.com/current/posts/…
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Jean-Paul Belmondo, a giant of European cinema who worked with Godard, Truffaut, Chabrol, Melville, De Sica, Ophuls, and Resnais, has died at 88.
@guardianfilm — theguardian.com/film/2021/se…
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Claire Denis, Martin Scorsese, Park Chan-wook, Kelly Reichardt, David Cronenberg, Josephine Decker, Yorgos Lanthimos, Mia Hansen-Løve, Wes Anderson, David Fincher, Richard Linklater …
The Most-Anticipated Films of 2022 — criterion.com/current/posts/…
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Cahiers du cinéma’s special October issue will devote 100 pages to the late Jean-Luc Godard.
@cahierscinema — cahiersducinema.com/boutique…
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Eleanor Coppola, writer and director (HEARTS OF DARKNESS), creative partner to her husband Francis and mother of Roman and Sofia, has died. She was 87.
@Variety — variety.com/2024/film/obitua…
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Monica Vitti, simply unforgettable in films by Antonioni, Losey, Buñuel, and Ettore Scola, has died. She was 90.
@Corriere — corriere.it/spettacoli/22_fe…
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Max von Sydow, best known for his work with Ingmar Bergman (criterion.com/current/posts/…) and once hailed as the “greatest actor alive” (criterion.com/current/posts/…), has died. He was 90.
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We’ve lost Teri Garr (YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN, ONE FROM THE HEART, TOOTSIE, AFTER HOURS). She was 79.
@Variety — variety.com/2024/film/news/t…
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#HBD, Saoirse Ronan!
As Agatha in Wes Anderson’s THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL (2014).
M. Gustave: “I must say, I find that girl utterly delightful.”
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Anna Karina (#BOTD) and her copy of @cahierscinema #133.
Jean-Luc Godard’s VIVRE SA VIE (1962) @criterionchannl — criterionchannel.com/vivre-s…
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Ray Liotta, the star of Martin Scorsese’s GOODFELLAS (1990) who also worked with Jonathan Demme, James Mangold, and Andrew Dominik, has died at 67.
@DEADLINE — deadline.com/2022/05/ray-lio…
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Kiyoshi Kurosawa is having quite a year:
CHIME #Berlinale
CLOUD #Venezia81 #TIFF24
SERPENT’S PATH #72SSIFF
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#HBD, Brigitte Lin!
Wong Kar Wai’s CHUNGKING EXPRESS (1994) @criterionchannl — criterionchannel.com/chungki…
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LA Film Critics:
Best picture and screenplay: Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s DRIVE MY CAR
Director: Jane Campion, THE POWER OF THE DOG
Nonfiction: SUMMER OF SOUL
Animation: FLEE
New Generation (tie): TEST PATTERN and PRAYERS FOR THE STOLEN
@LAFilmCritics — lafca.net/Years/2021.php #LAFCA
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Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s DRIVE MY CAR has been awarded best picture, director, screenplay, and actor (Hidetoshi Nishijima) by the National Society of Film Critics: @NatSocFilmCrix
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Peter Bogdanovich, who directed THE LAST PICTURE SHOW (1971) and PAPER MOON (1973) and wrote books on Welles, Hawks, and Hitchcock, has died. He was 82.
@THR — hollywoodreporter.com/movies…
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Playwright and screenwriter John Logan (THE AVIATOR, HUGO) will adapt Cormac McCarthy’s BLOOD MERIDIAN for John Hillcoat (THE ROAD) to direct.
@DEADLINE — deadline.com/2024/04/john-lo…
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We’ll meet again,
Don’t know where,
Don’t know when
But I know we’ll meet again some sunny day
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“I am an actor. I am a writer. I am a producer. I am a director. I am a magician. I appear onstage and on the radio. Why are there so many of me and so few of you?”
Orson Welles, May 6, 1915 – October 10, 1985.
#BornOnThisDay
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Satyajit Ray’s son discovers 100 negatives of previously unseen photos taken by his father, over 1000 unseen stills, and letters and telegrams from Capra, Kurosawa, Attenborough ... @timesofindia — timesofindia.indiatimes.com/…
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#Venezia80
Yorgos Lanthimos’s POOR THINGS wins the Golden Lion!
Grand Jury: Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s EVIL DOES NOT EXIST
Director: Matteo Garrone (IO CAPITANO)
Actress: Cailee Spaeny (PRISCILLA)
Actor: Peter Sarsgaard (MEMORY)
Complete list @Cineuropa — cineuropa.org/en/newsdetail/…
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#HBD, Naomi Watts!
A 20th anniversary 4K restoration of David Lynch’s MULHOLLAND DR. is on its way from @STUDIOCANAL + @Criterion!
@Variety — variety.com/2021/film/global…
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Bill Nunn (#BOTD) on the set of Spike Lee’s DO THE RIGHT THING (1989).
@criterionchannl — criterionchannel.com/do-the-…
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Maggie Smith, the phenomenally accomplished star of stage and screen (THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE, A ROOM WITH A VIEW, GOSFORD PARK) has died. She was 89.
@guardianfilm — theguardian.com/film/2024/se…
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#HBD, Song Kang Ho!
“For someone who was never formally trained as an actor, his work brims with self-confidence.”
Ed Lin (@robertchow) criterion.com/current/posts/…
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Elsa Lanchester (#BOTD) in a publicity photo for James Whale’s BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN (1935).
@criterionchannl — criterionchannel.com/bride-o…
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Quincy Jones, the producer, songwriter, composer, and arranger who worked with Frank Sinatra and Michael Jackson, Norman Jewison and Steven Spielberg, has died at 91.
@guardian — theguardian.com/music/2024/n…
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#HBD, Robert De Niro!
With Catherine Deneuve in Agnès Varda’s ONE HUNDRED AND ONE NIGHTS (1995).
@criterionchannl — criterionchannel.com/one-hun…
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George A. Romero’s NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD premiered 50 years ago today at the Fulton Theater in Pittsburgh.
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Lelia Goldoni, who starred in John Cassavetes’s SHADOWS and also worked with Martin Scorsese (ALICE DOESN’T LIVE HERE ANYMORE) and John Schlesinger (THE DAY OF THE LOCUST) has died. She was 86.
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PUNCH-DRUNK LOVE premiered #OTD 20 years ago in #Cannes, where Paul Thomas Anderson won the best director award.
PTA and his cast had a little more fun at the press conference than they did posing for photographers (37’52”) piped.video/YUVXl0Gp510
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Anouk Aimée, the radiant star of films by Fellini, Demy, Lelouch, Cukor, Bertolucci, Bellocchio, Becker, and Skolimowski, has died at 92.
@lemondefr — lemonde.fr/disparitions/arti…
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In 1966, Monica Vitti looked back on the disastrous premiere screening of L’AVVENTURA in Cannes in 1960. But it’s a story with a happy twist at the end (2’03”) criterion.com/current/posts/…
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“It’s essential New York speech, and it feels so close to what I was always trying to do in my own pictures.”
Martin Scorsese on Lou Reed: theguardian.com/music/2019/o…
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“Charlie Chaplin and I would have a friendly contest: Who could do the feature film with the least subtitles?”
Buster Keaton, October 4, 1895 - February 1, 1966.
#BornOnThisDay
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Setsuko Hara (#BOTD) in films by Ozu, Kurosawa, Naruse, and Kinoshita @criterionchannl — criterionchannel.com/starrin…
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HOUSE (1977), directed by Nobuhiko Obayashi (#BOTD), is “a predigital maelstrom of cinekinetic visual ingenuity.”
Chuck Stephens — criterion.com/current/posts/…
@criterionchannl — films.criterionchannel.com/?…
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“I love grotesque poetry, and I think my films have that style, which combines humor and drama, irony and cynicism, comedy and tragedy.”
Lina Wertmüller has died. She was 93.
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“Shocked and sad … The rain fell and I didn’t shed tears. I just remembered the morning when the hurricane was blowing. We had breakfast together in the swaying tall building by the sea.
Goodbye, Mr. Sakamoto.”
Tsai Ming-liang — facebook.com/TsaiMingLiangOf…
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Composer Krzysztof Penderecki, whose music can be heard in THE EXORCIST (1973), THE SHINING (1980), CHILDREN OF MEN (2006), and TWIN PEAKS: THE RETURN (2017), has died. He was 86.
@theQuietus — thequietus.com/articles/2804…
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#HBD, Irène Jacob!
Krzysztof Kieslowski’s THREE COLORS: RED (1994) @criterionchannl — criterionchannel.com/three-c…
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Buster Keaton, born 125 years ago today, in THE CAMERAMAN (1928).
“He was by far the most cinematic of the silent clowns, the most artful with his camera.”
Imogen Sara Smith: criterion.com/current/posts/… #BOTD
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NOTORIOUS premiered at Radio City Music Hall 75 years ago today.
“Arguably Hitchcock’s most perfect movie, in which every shot, every look counts, and Grant and Bergman achieve sublimity.”
Robin Wood — criterion.com/current/top-10…
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