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Martin Scorsese will direct Benicio Del Toro in an HBO series about Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés, Deadline reports.
TV On The Radio frontman Tunde Adebimpe tells Stereogum his Rachel Getting Married role was originally intended for Paul Thomas Anderson:
Jonathan [Demme] was telling me: he said, “Yeah, you know, originally we tried some people out for the part, and before you P.T. Anderson was going to do it but he got caught up in a project he had to do.” I think the project ended up being something like There Will Be Blood, or something. [laughs] We just started talking about him and how much we both liked him and Jonathan was like “Yeah, that guy knows more about film than I do! I was [working] in the ’70s and I was making some of the movies that he was talking around. I had no idea what was going on around me. He’s like a living library of film.” It was like a double-edge thing where it’s like, “I’m glad I got this role, I don’t know how I feel about that, though.” I don’t know how I feel about [filling in for] P.T. Anderson. [laughs]
The February 2015 Criterion line-up has been revealed (click covers for more details):
The use of red in the films of Stanley Kubrick:
At NY Times, an article on Shoah‘s long route to the web:
IFC Films acquired the North American rights to “Shoah” in 2010, when it sponsored a digital restoration with the Criterion Collection and re-released the film for its 25th anniversary. “We poured our hearts and souls into that re-release and we were really disappointed by the lack of interest from the audience,” said Jonathan Sehring, president of IFC Films. “I think people consume movies in a different way now. But it has performed extremely well as a Criterion DVD. Had my mind gone out to, ‘Should I take this to Hulu or Netflix or someplace else?’ No, I wanted the DVD to have its life.”
Watch Angel Olsen‘s latest music video, directed by The Comedy‘s Rick Alverson: