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TIFF has announced their 2015 speakers, featuring Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Stephen Frears, Jia Zhang-ke, Bill Hader, and more.
For Criterion’s release of Day for Night, Dudley Andrew talks Godard vs. Truffaut and David Cairns discusses the film:
By 1973, François Truffaut was no longer the iconoclastic critic turned director of 1959’s The 400 Blows, the man who’d caused a sensation at Cannes and overturned the old order. For better or worse, as he began his thirteenth feature as director, he was the new mainstream, a paid-up member of the moviemaking establishment. His films had movie stars and were often genre yarns, or else quasi sequels to his first hit.
Little White Lies‘ David Jenkins has a long hard talk about movie sequels with Stuart Henderson:
In the early days of cinema, there was no real incentive to have continuing plots because no one would watch a film again. It would be playing for a week or two and that would be the only time you got to see it, as you didn’t have a TV and you didn’t have a video. Basically, movies were more ephemeral because we didn’t have an ability to jog our memories to things that had happened in previous events so films had to be more self sufficient.
Watch a talk with Walter Murch at Locarno, courtesy of Mubi:
The Guardian‘s Jordan Hoffman reports from the launch of the Christopher Nolan-curated Quay retrospective:
This is no ordinary Q&A. This is a session with a man, usually hammered by fanboy-ish questions, getting a chance to do a little geeking out. Christopher Nolan, director of Memento, The Prestige, Inception, Interstellar and the Dark Knight Trilogy is using some of his considerable industry clout to promote a programme of newly scrubbed-up 35mm short films by stop-motion animators the Brothers Quay. In addition to In Absentia (2000), The Comb (1991) and Street of Crocodiles (1986), the collection includes Quay, an eight-minute mini-documentary of the brothers in their cramped, magical London studio filled with decaying doll parts, screws, wigs chewed by bugs and old cameras. This men-behind-the-curtain peek is directed, shot, edited and scored by Nolan, and is essentially the movie version of a fan winning Wonka’s golden ticket and poking around the factory.
Watch a video essay on identity in the films of Yorgos Lanthimos: