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Inherent Vice (our review) is the centerpiece at AFI Fest on November 8th.
On her personal blog, former New Beverly employee Julia Marchese shares her troubling experience since Quentin Tarantino took over, and releases her film about the theater, Out of Print, for free:
It absolutely breaks my heart to say this, but the New Beverly Cinema that have I loved and stood so ardently for – and that I believe so many of you out there love and stand up for – is gone.
Stephen Sondheim and David Ives are working on a new play inspired by Luis Buñuel‘s The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie and The Exterminating Angel, Wall Street Journal reports.
At Time, Alejandro González Iñárritu exclaims his distaste for Rope and love for Russian Ark:
There’s always this comparison with Rope, which I think is a terrible film. I don’t like it. I think it’s a very bad film of Hitchcock’s. It’s a very mediocre film. Obviously, he shot with that intention and it didn’t work — because of the film itself! It has nothing to do with the technique, it’s just a mediocre film. Russian Ark, I adore — I almost cried at the end of that film, it’s so beautiful. But more than anything, if there’s an influence here, it would be [Lola Montes and La Ronde director] Max Ophuls. Every film of Max Ophuls contains a sequence that’s long and beautifully choreographed, always serving the magic and purpose of the character, and the context. If there’s someone that needs to be watched in that sense, it’s Max Ophuls — or Robert Altman or Sidney Lumet.
Jane Campion and Gerard Lee are developing a second season of Top of the Lake, Screen Daily reports.
Watch a 100-minute discussion on Slow Cinema featuring Lav Diaz, Ben Rivers and Jonathan Romney (via The Seventh Art):
At Keyframe, Anthony Kaufman on the early films of Wong Kar-wai:
Twenty-five years after Wong Kar-wai first chronicled the languid romantic yearnings of Hong Kong’s young adults, their descendants have finally broken through their torpor and taken to the streets. What would Wong, or his cast of forever searching and unfulfilled characters, think of the “Umbrella Revolution”—so named for the umbrellas that protestors wielded to protect themselves from rainfall, police attacks and anti-democracy demonstrators?
Ken Watanabe will narrate Martin Scorsese’s The 50 Year Argument for Japanese audiences, Variety reports.