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Charlie Kaufman‘s brilliant Anomalisa has been acquired by Paramount for a December 30th, 2015 limited release.
Michael Mann looks back at his career in an extensive conversation with Deadline:
Actors have this crazy rapid learning profile, particularly when it comes to eye-hand coordination. So their skills were acquired very, very rapidly and they became very, very good at this. Just like Will Smith becoming a boxer in Ali. He just became a boxer. So it was all laid out and then we shot on a sequence of weekends. Every Saturday and Sunday downtown, for six weeks. There’s an elaborate sound effect worked up by Lon Bender, but as good as that was, it was theatrical and nothing that was equivalent to the way sound bounced off those buildings. It was frightening.
Criterion have unveiled their December line-up (click titles for more details):
Retrospectives on Todd Haynes, David Lynch, Jacques Rivette, and more are coming to The Film Society at Lincoln Center soon.
See every single movie that Jimmy Carter watched at the White House at Pale of Future:
Ronald Reagan is known as the movie junkie president. He was, after all, an actor before getting into politics. But do you know who watched even more movies than Reagan while in office? Jimmy Carter. And Carter only served a single term.
After painstakingly going through the President’s daily journal, which outlined his tasks for each day, I’ve made a list of every movie Carter watched while in office from January 20, 1977 until January 20, 1981. And man, he really did watch a lot of films.
Watch a video homage to British cinema: