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The plantation from Django Unchained, The Whitney Plantation in Louisiana, has become the first slavery museum in the United States, NY Times reports.
Watch a Sam Rockwell-led music video for Flight Facilities‘ Down To Earth:
Director Paul Verhoeven — no, not that one — is suing the Cannes Film Festival for not accepting his film, The Guardian reports.
RogerEbert.com‘s Matt Zoller Seitz on watching Aliens for the first time with a bunch of kids:
For his 11th birthday, my son asked if he could have a slumber party. He invited seven other fifth-grade boys. They played video games for a couple of hours, ate pizza, then said they wanted to watch a movie. They’d seen every comic book movie multiple times. Seen all the Indiana Jones films. Star Wars. Anything with a hobbit in it. The usual 11-year old boy options, circa 2015, weren’t going to work.
So I suggested “Aliens,” thinking, “Well, it’s exciting, and even if they haven’t see the first one, the movie tells the story well enough that you won’t be confused about who Ripley is and what’s at stake for her.”
Watch a new trailer for BFI’s Rossellini War Trilogy:
The Nation‘s J. Hoberman looks at the career of Jean-Luc Godard:
As a cinephile, Godard reserves his greatest admiration for Alfred Hitchcock, singling out The Birds: “At times you’re struck, like with music, your mouth is left gaping. It’s incredibly powerful.” He has kind words for Marguerite Duras (noting with approval that “she needs to destroy in order to construct”) and “respect” for Chris Marker, as well as for one younger filmmaker: “I respect Fassbinder a little, because I think he has succeeded in achieving a certain power, or strength, which must not be easy.” He has somewhat fainter praise for two other filmmakers, Martin Scorsese and Wim Wenders, who could, like Fassbinder, be seen as disciples.
Watch a Nash Edgerton-directed music video for Bob Dylan‘s The Night We Called It A Day: