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The earliest surviving footage from a feature film with a black cast has been uncovered, NY Times reports.
Former Focus Features CEO James Schamus on the future of Hollywood, THR reports:
“Hollywood is not American. Its revenues are only 30 to 40 percent American. Its primary purpose right now is to make movies that 20-year-old Chinese people want to see. That’s really the future.”
The story of Stanley Kubrick‘s missing footage from A Clockwork Orange (via Refocused Media):
Martin Scorsese will executive produce the directorial debut of Martha Pinson, his long-time script consultant, titled Tomorrow, Variety reports.
Listen to Kent Jones discuss this year’s NYFF on the latest episode of Filmwax Radio.
At Grantland, James Hughes reports from Jonny Greenwood‘s live performance at a There Will Be Blood screening:
Once bows were raised and the opening Dramamine notes swirled over the Miramax logo, Greenwood’s presence onstage was notably understated. At the helm was conductor Ryan McAdams, who shared top billing with the Wordless Music Orchestra, a New York–based collective doing heroic work recapturing the thrill of moviegoing through a series of live accompaniments in nontraditional venues. It took a moment to spot Greenwood, whose lantern jaw was barely visible from the back row, where he was stationed at the ondes martenot, an early electronic instrument familiar to Radiohead completists for providing the ghostly gloss over “Pyramid Song” and “How to Disappear Completely.”