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Pedro Almodóvar‘s Silencio has been picked up by Sony Pictures Classics for a likely 2016 release.
Watch a 70-minute discussion of Hou Hsiao-hsien‘s films by David Bordwell:
Paste Magazine‘s Jeremy Mathews highlights the 100 best silent films of all-time:
The era of silent cinema was one of the most creative periods in human history. In not much more than 30 years, a new visual vocabulary was invented, explored to the fullest and even deconstructed. Genres formed as the medium was used for entertainment, politics, education, propaganda and experimentation. The challenge of visual storytelling without sound pushed filmmakers to find new ways to tell stories and communicate ideas.
Watch a 30-minute video essay on the essential Japanese New Wave films.
Terry Gilliam reveals his upcoming Don Quixote film will be part of his Amazon Studios deal in an interview with The Playlist:
“I’m intrigued by their way of doing it. They go into the cinemas first and then a month or two afterwards they go into streaming. And I think that’s good because you get a chance to see it on the big screen, and yet I know that more people have seen my films on DVD than they have in the cinemas and that’s the reality of life now.”
Watch the trailer for Maurice Pialat‘s restored Loulou with Isabelle Huppert and Gerard Depardieu: