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Litle White Lies premieres a new poster for a restoration of The Third Man, debuting at Cannes.
Also at Little White Lies, James Horner says The New World could have been successful as Titanic:
“Oh my golly. This is tricky so I have to give you a really good answer. Terrence Malick is an enigmatic filmmaker. He’s a brilliant photographer. He’s a brilliant cinematographer. In a way, though, he doesn’t know how to coalesce a story from beginning to end. When I first saw this movie it was an early edit. There was no reason this movie couldn’t have been as successful as Titanic. It was cut that way. It was a story of this Native American girl meeting this guy and it was really romantic. In editing, Terry, as he does in his filmmaking, made much more of a dreamworld and he disassociated the scenes. There was no through-line any more. He lost the love story. He wasn’t interested in that. He started telling a story about images and it didn’t hold together. The movie didn’t hold together for me, or for an audience.
NYC’s Rooftop Films have announced its feature line-up including 7 Chinese Brothers, Goodnight Mommy, Tangerine, The Wolfpack, and Digging For Fire.
Listen to a 1.5-talk with Ethan Hawke:
Thomas Vinterberg analyzes one of Far From the Madding Crowd‘s best scenes and talks about advice from Ingmar Bergman:
I was having issues with my script for It’s All About Love, so I called Ingmar Bergman and we ended up talking about everything but the script. He said, “Well, Festen is a masterpiece, so what are you going to do now?” At that point, I had not decided if I was going to make It’s All About Love, so I answered, “Hmmm, I don’t know. Maybe this, maybe that.” There was just a long pause, and then he said, “You’re fucked.” I said, “Well, how can you know?” “Well, Thomas, you always have to decide your next movie before the movie you’re doing presently opens.” And I said, “Why is that?” “Well, two things can happen. One thing is that you fail, and then you’ll feel scared and humiliated. It’ll get into your head. Second, and even worse, you have success, and then you’ll want more of it, or you’ll want to maintain it. But if you decide on your next film while you’re in the middle of editing, it becomes a very nonchalant choice. And then it’s shorter from the heart to the hand.”
Watch a series of toilet paper commercials directed by Bennett Miller: