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Alejandro González Iñárritu explains why The Revenant (first look here) is taking nine months to shoot (via Deadline):
“We don’t finish until the end of April or May, and we are shooting very small hours,” he said. “It was planned this way, to be little by little jewel moments, that’s the way I designed the production. That was both to create intensity in this moments, as well as the climate conditions. We are shooting in such remote far away locations that, by the time we arrive and have to return, we have already spent 40% of the day. But those locations are so gorgeous and so powerful, they look like they have never been touched by a human being, and that’s what I needed. The light is very reduced here in winter, and we are not shooting with any electrical lighting, just natural light. And every single scene is so difficult, emotionally, technically. I’ve gotten myself in trouble again but I’m trying my best.”
Watch the Spike Jonze-directed video for Kanye West‘s Only One:
The Tribe director Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy has announced his next drama, Luxembourg, Twitch reports.
Watch Harmony Korine‘s new documentary The Legend Of Cambo:
At The New Yorker, Richard Brody on how critics have failed female filmmakers:
I heartily agree with Manohla Dargis that there must be more female filmmakers, but her recent piece in the Times calling for changes to the industry buries the lead. Midway through, she acknowledges that, in the independent realm, female filmmakers are plentiful—not plentiful enough, I’d say, but certainly more present and more prominent than in the industry at large.
Ang Lee‘s next film Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk is to be shot in 60fps 4K 3D, Post Perspective reports (via Film Divider).
Watch the trailer for a restored version of Powell and Pressburger’s The Tales of Hoffmann:
Michaël R. Roskam’s The Faithful with Matthias Schoenaerts is planning to shoot later this year, Screen Daily reports.
At Badass Digest, Britt Hayes on No Country for Old Men and making sense of the senseless:
No Country For Old Men brings senseless violence to a small Texas town, pitting the coin toss and chance-driven logic of sociopath Anton Chigurh with the good ol’ Sheriff Ed Tom Bell, one of those traditional strong and silent types who defends his tiny corner of the south with a gun and a badge. Bell figures he can hardly understand the violence that’s emerged in recent years and the irrational quality of it, but there’s a falsity to that reasoning and a sense of denial. In hindsight we make sense of what’s happened and what’s happened to us by repeating those stories to ourselves and other people, almost as if rehearsing a lie – but who are we trying to convince? In the moment – in the film’s version of now – Bell can’t grapple with what’s been put in front of him. Like Bell, Chigurh is also rationalizing, using his coin tosses and concepts of fate and chance to justify the chaos he manufactures. Without men like Chigurh, life would run in a straight line.
Watch Anton Corbijn‘s Natalie Portman-led Dior ad: