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For the first time ever, Orson Welles’ Citizen Kane will screen at Hearst Castle (the inspiration for Xanadu) on March 13th, Variety reports.
At The Daily Beast, Spike Lee talks about the Selma snub:
“Join the club!” Lee chuckled, before getting serious. “But that doesn’t diminish the film. Nobody’s talking about motherfuckin’ Driving Miss Daisy. That film is not being taught in film schools all across the world like Do the Right Thing is. Nobody’s discussing Driving Miss Motherfuckin’ Daisy. So if I saw Ava today I’d say, ‘You know what? Fuck ’em. You made a very good film, so feel good about that and start working on the next one.”
Criterion Collection have announced their April line-up (click each title for more details):
For Interview, Jessica Chastain talks to Xavier Dolan:
I was a very violent kid. I think movies and writing and art have been a way of channeling this. But I have this will to defend people—it can be all sorts of people. In Laurence Anyways it was a transgender woman; in I Killed My Mother it was an adolescent who was rejecting his mother because he is going through his coming-of-age crisis; in Mommy it’s a more existential thing. These characters are expressive and they’re flamboyant, but they have nothing to do with the other characters from the other movies—it’s always about the things that marked me when I was young. Batman Returns [1992], Titanic, those are the movies that have printed something very deeply into me. I recently realized that most filmmakers start making movies when they’re 30. So they’re looking to the films that they saw when they were 17, 18, 25. Most of them have an education, and if they don’t, they spend years watching films. The only years I’ve spent watching movies were the years when I was a kid, and my father brought me to Jumanji. He didn’t tell me, “Kid, I’m going to show you Bergman and Eisenstein and Citizen Kane.” No.
Experience Boyhood in three minutes with Family of the Year‘s new video for Hero:
At The Dissolve, Jen Chaney on the slow ascents of Richard Linklater and Wes Anderson:
I know, I know. Two white guys who are beloved by a lot of white-guy film critics: Can you believe their time has finally come? But there really is something inspiring and fitting about these two—both born in Houston, Texas, both with filmmaking roots in Austin, both who began as staunchly indie filmmakers in the 1990s—receiving their first nominations for directing in the same year, for movies so emblematic of their differing sensibilities.
Watch a one-hour interview with Lena Dunham: