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Clint Mansell will score Ben Wheatley’s High-Rise, one of our most-anticipated of the year, according to Film Music Reporter.
Watch the first film from the late Manoel de Oliveira, 1931’s Douro, Faina Fluvial:
David Bowie will co-write a new play based on The Man Who Fell to Earth, New York Times reports.
Intelligent Life‘s Tom Shone on the afterlife of Blade Runner:
So many great American movies were flops upon first release—“The Wizard of Oz”, “Bringing Up Baby”, “It’s a Wonderful Life”, “Night of the Hunter”, “Citizen Kane”, “Vertigo”—that critics are frequently tempted to put it down to that old bogeyman, the Ignorance of the Masses. In the case of “Bringing Up Baby”, certainly, the public had to catch up with the film, whose scatter-brained comedy required refraction through the age of Freud and Gloria Steinem. In the case of “The Wizard of Oz” and “It’s a Wonderful Life” it seems more a case of straightforward mistaken identity, wherein films destined for status as popular classics were, at first, denied it, a mistake soon rectified with the advent of television and reruns. Not so “Citizen Kane”, a chilly masterpiece destined to be as broadly unloved as Kane himself: one’s approach to that film should feel as lonely as a visit to Kane’s mausoleum. As for “Night of the Hunter”, well, there is a film so spooky and enchanted that it can still feel as if you are the only person ever to have laid eyes on it.
After reading our interview with director Kornél Mundruczó, watch him discuss White God below: