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Watch Criterion’s Eyes of Hitchcock:
The sequel to Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon will be released simultaneously on IMAX screens and Netflix next summer, Deadline reports.
At The Dissolve, Noel Murray revisits McCabe & Mrs. Miller:
Director Robert Altman had a perverse streak that kept him from expressing any particular fondness for his best-loved, most successful work. When asked which of his films was his favorite, he’d puckishly pick one of his least-popular, while aiming a faux-modest shrug toward movies like Nashville, The Player, and McCabe & Mrs. Miller. And yet outside of California Split’s insider’s perspective on gambling addiction, Kansas City’s depiction of the city and era where Altman grew up, and The Company’s and A Prairie Home Companion’s considerations of artistic communities and legacies, McCabe & Mrs. Miller feels closest to a direct, personal statement from Robert Altman. He made it after spending a decade fighting with television executives, and before spending a decade fighting with movie executives. There’s something simultaneously knowing and prescient about McCabe & Mrs. Miller’s portrait of a gambler whose personal weaknesses and clashes with powerful men prevent him from realizing his ambitions.
Watch Don Hertzfeldt‘s introduction for The Simpsons:
Rope of Silicon pleads we stop worrying about Gone Girl‘s Oscar chances:
It’s gotten to the point now that, if a movie premieres any time between September 1 and December 31, the Internet community won’t afford it the opportunity to breathe in the marketplace or stand on its own merits for even a weekend before tearing it apart and determining how it will play with the Academy voting bloc. What’s more, the Oscar-worthiness of most films now is determined before they are even seen by the masses, which means weeks or months of prognosticating before truly knowing what a film has going for or against it.