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AFI Fest have added James White, Mustang, Evolution, and more to their line-up, Screen Daily reports.
Watch Tilda Swinton, a short film by Christopher Doyle:
Be suspicious of online movie ratings, especially Fandango’s, Five Thirty Eight reports:
Online movie ratings have become serious business. Hollywood generates something on the order of $10 billion annually at the U.S. box office, and online ratings aggregators may hold increasing sway over where that money goes. Sites like Rotten Tomatoes that aggregate movie reviews into one overall rating are being blamed for poor opening weekends. A single movie critic can’t make or break a film anymore, but maybe thousands of critics, professional and amateur together, can.
Watch Brad Bird discuss Jafar Panahi‘s Taxi:
Criterion‘s Carrie Rickey discusses David Cronenberg‘s recently released The Brood:
If you are reading this, then odds are that you are a movie geek, and that there has been a time when you rewatched a beloved film and found it so different as to be a stranger. The film, of course, remains the same. It’s you and/or the times that have changed, and that makes the movie seem altered.
This occurred to me when I revisited David Cronenberg’s The Brood for the first time since 1979. Back when I initially saw it in my singleton, childless twenties, I was certain that it was a black-comic satire of the role experimental psychotherapy played in a take-no-prisoners custody war. Roger Ebert dismissed it as an “el sleazo exploitation film,” but I took it as a sign that the filmmaker was something more sophisticated than a horrormeister. I remember the squirm-to-laughter ratio as roughly one to one. Revisiting it now, as a wife and mother, I saw an emotionally realistic horror movie about the collateral damage of divorce. And I found it infinitely more squirm-inducing than laugh-provoking.
Watch Scout Tafoya‘s video tribute to Chantal Akerman: