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Cary Fukunaga‘s highly anticipated Idris Elba-led Beasts of No Nation will hit Netflix and limited theaters through Bleecker Street on October 16th.
After not reaching their crowdfunding goal, Orson Welles‘ final film, The Other Side of the Wind, might not be released until next year, NY Times reports:
“We had the foresight to plan other options,” Filip Jan Rymsza, the project’s lead producer, said by telephone on Monday. “We’d still love to finish it by the end of the year, but if we flip into 2016, so be it. We’re not going to rush it.”
Watch a tribute to the films of Michael Mann:
The Dissolve‘s Andreas Stoehr on why Tangerine could be a turning point for transgender actors:
Over the past 40 years, at least one actor has been Oscar-nominated for playing a trans character every decade. The trend includes actors like Chris Sarandon (Dog Day Afternoon), John Lithgow (The World According To Garp), Felicity Huffman (Transamerica), and Hilary Swank (Boys Don’t Cry). While the caliber of their performances may vary, every one of them has helped determine how trans stories get told onscreen, to the exclusion of those whose stories they’re telling. Opposition to cis actors playing trans characters has been growing during the past decade, however, as online platforms have let activists’ voices snowball. Recently, the discrepancy has even begun to draw attention from the actors it benefits. “I think transgendered [sic] people have been marginalized for a long time,” Huffman told The Huffington Post last year. “And I think you see that in people who are not trans playing them.”
Watch The Tribe director Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy analyze a scene from the film: