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The Imitation Game leads the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival award winners. See our complete coverage here.
Penelope Cruz discusses how working with Pedro Almodovar changed her life:
Paul Thomas Anderson and Bennett Miller text each other over the inferiority of digital, Cigs & Red Vines reports.
Watch the Spike Jonze-directed music video for Karen O‘s “Ooo”:
At Flavorwire, Alison Nastasi highlights the 50 weirdest movies ever made:
A Lynchian renaissance is happening at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, where David Lynch studied painting before his surreal entry into filmmaking with 1977’s Eraserhead. The school is the site of Lynch’s first major museum exhibition in the United States. It was there that he created several short films to animate his artworks, planting the early seeds for Eraserhead — starring Jack Nance as a young father crippled by the anxiety of fatherhood. A mutant baby, industrial cityscape, and shadowy apartment building leave an indelible mark on the viewer. Criterion is re-releasing Eraserhead on Blu-ray September 16. In honor of Lynch and his surreal universe, we’re celebrating 50 other weird works on film — many that rival Lynch’s strange aesthetic.
Watch the trailer for the 75th anniversary of Gone with the Wind, arriving later this month: