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Terry Gilliam and Jim Jarmusch have movie deals with Amazon, according to Deadline.
Paul Verhoeven, seen above on the Elle set with Isabelle Huppert, talks to Variety about their upcoming film, set to be completed early next year:
“I had a strong feeling with this one that I was doing something that I’d never done before, which applied when I made RoboCop.” He adds it’s “a mystery story. Part of the film consists in Isabelle Huppert’s character finding out if the rapist is somebody she knows. But there are other elements in the story, about her mother and father, her son, her lover, her best friend.”
Watch a vintage featurette from the set of Dog Day Afternoon:
At Nonfics, Bobcat Goldthwait picks his 6 favorite documentaries:
“Filmmaker Mark Borchardt’s drive and imagination are truly inspiring. His relationship with his best friend Mike Schank makes [American Movie] an alcohol-fueled Don Quixote.”
Watch a new video essay on the cycles of behavior in Shame: