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A Mike Nichols documentary, Dazed and Confused with live commentary by Richard Linklater and Jason Reitman, and more have been added to the Sundance 2016 line-up.
As Heat turns 20, Michael Mann discusses the making of a crime drama classic with Rolling Stone:
One of the biggest scenes was the shoot-out at the end, and one of the big challenges about it is that we couldn’t do it consecutively. We could only get downtown on Saturday and Sunday. So it was six days of shooting, but we had to do it on a Saturday and Sunday, then do something else and then come back the following Saturday and Sunday to do the next section. It had to be very, very well planned, and very modular. We knew exactly where in the shootout I was going to progress to by the end of Sunday, then we’d have Monday and Tuesday off. Our work week would begin again on Wednesday; we’d shoot something else Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. Saturday and Sunday we were right back there, picking up on the robbery again.
John Michael McDonagh‘s War on Everyone, Rebecca Miller‘s Maggie’s Plan, and more films have been added to the Berlin 2016 line-up.
Watch John Landis‘ extensive discussion of Jason and the Argonauts:
Rolling Stone‘s David Ehrlich on why Eyes Wide Shut is a bizarro holiday classic:
Once upon a time, Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman were supposed to be Jewish. Bill and Alice Harford, the decidedly gentile married couple that the actors portrayed in 1999’s Eyes Wide Shut, are about as kosher as a bacon milkshake. But when Stanley Kubrick first conceived of adapting Arthur Schnitzler’s 1926 novella Traumnovelle in the Seventies, the filmmaker allegedly envisioned the male lead as Woody Allen, a man so Jewish that Shabbat practically observes him.
Listen to Roman Polanski discuss his experience during the Holocaust:
Terminator 2: Judgment Day is being digitally remastered for worldwide 3D re-release in 2016, THR reports.
Filmmaker Magazine interviews The Hateful Eight production sound mixer Mark Ulano:
Filmmaker: What would you estimate is the ratio between your production sound and ADR on The Hateful Eight?
Ulano: Zero. Quentin and I have done movies for twenty years, and our scorecard together is that we have not replaced a single word of dialogue in all the movies we’ve done together over the last twenty years. Zero. Check it. [laughs] It sounds bizarre when I hear it out loud, even from me, but it’s the truth.
Watch a brief teaser for Denis Côté‘s Boris Without Béatrice: