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HBO Documentary Films will air Adam Benzine’s documentary about the making of Shoah titled Claude Lanzmann: Spectres of the Shoah in 2016, THR reports.
Read a celebration of Akira Kurosawa‘s screenwriters:
If you do an IMDb search for “Akira Kurosawa”, he is identified by the system as “writer, Yojimbo”. Similarly, when you look at his filmography on the website, it is his 72 writer’s credits that you see first, and not the 30 films that are considered his directorial canon. Kurosawa was indeed an accomplished and award winning screenwriter, yet when it came to his own films, he usually preferred to write with a team. Only the first four and the last three of his films were written solo, while the rest featured a rotating group of screenwriters.
Mark Cousins lists his top 10 Criterion films.
At Blackbook, Anjelica Huston on the 10 films that changed her life:
Movies run in Anjelica Huston’s blood. The daughter of an Oscar-winning director and granddaughter of an Oscar-winning actor, she scored her own Oscar in 1985 for Prizzi’s Honor, a Mafia comedy directed by her dad. Why Anjelica Huston didn’t also win for Stephen Frears’s brilliant 1990 neo-noir, The Grifters, is anyone’s guess. Her body of work, including a permanent place in the Wes Anderson canon and two of Woody Allen’s better movies (Crimes and Misdemeanors and Manhattan Murder Mystery) represents one of Hollywood’s most eclectic careers. Here, the actress picks her ten favorite movies and explains what they mean to her.
Watch a tribute to the films of Spike Jonze:
We’re all killing all the movies, according to Film School Rejects‘ Scott Beggs:
Enter Netflix and other streaming services. The difficulty in judging Netflix’s success (and thus, the potential for something like Beasts of No Nation) is that their numbers are all internal. They won’t release their figures, but they have a huge advantage in profiting from showcasing other studios’ movies. They have another product to create a safety net (and it’s a big one) while they experiment with producing their own, original art and develop their own talent. It’s easy to lament the death of movies, but it’s completely plausible that Beasts of No Nation will find greater audience and monetary success online than it would have in theaters. So who’s the real loser there?
According to @Criterion‘s latest tease, David Lynch’s ‘Mulholland Drive’ is coming to the collection. pic.twitter.com/EbgC7qfu3S