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Super Troopers 2 has launched a $2 million IndieGogo campaign.

Get a look at the current state of film in the short documentary After the Kodak Moment:

Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem co-director Ronit Elkabetz will serve as president of Cannes’ Critics Week, Variety reports.

LOLA Journal‘s David T. Johnson discusses the migrations of meaning in Upstream Color:

I love to be alone.

So says the character Kris to her husband Jeff, late in the film Upstream Color (Shane Carruth, 2013), as she surfaces from a local community pool where she has been swimming late at night. ‘You love what?’ he asks, but Kris has already gone under, disappearing for a moment before returning with a rock, which she places in a pile of others at pool’s edge, saying, ‘The sun is but a morning star’, before leaving again. Jeff’s voice trails after her: ‘What’d you say?’ When she comes back, she tells him, ‘The wildest sound ever heard makes the woods ring far and wide’. Jeff now no longer tries to engage but simply writes, recording whatever Kris says when she comes up for air. Eventually, he has a list which Kris reads when she is done. This leads her to a bookstore in a brief scene that follows where, thumbing through a copy of Walden, she realises the source of her nocturnal recitations, a look of nausea signalling the prick of recognition.

It Follows will officially expand to 1,200 theaters on Friday, instead of VOD. See it.

Watch Tom Hanks act out his filmography in 7 minutes:

Vanity Fair‘s Kate Erbland explores the original dark ending of Pretty Woman:

Lawton’s original script still contains many of the classic beats and scenes that people remember from the final film, including a trip to the opera, a series of bad shopping experiences, and that fancy dinner with the kind-hearted businessman whose company he is trying to raid. The characters are mostly the same, even Vivian’s best friend Kit, while the character who would become Jason Alexander’s Stuckey is simply known as William. But the tone and ending are completely different, and it’s mostly a relief when Vivian and Edward don’t end up together, even though the story ends on a decidedly down note. 3,000 ends with Kit and Vivian on a bus bound for Disneyland—that the film would eventually be produced by Disney is yet another odd bit to a complicated story—with Kit anticipating a fun day financed by Vivian’s week with Edward, as Vivian ‘stares out emptily ahead.’ That’s it. That’s all.

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