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At NPR, Kenneth Turan highlights 54 films that are not to be missed.
At The Dissolve, Sam Adams interviews Neil deGrasse Tyson on not hating movies:
I love movies, but they didn’t influence my interest in the universe. A lot of these science-fiction movies typically go beyond what we know into where the imagination takes over, and that has proven to be an extremely fertile mode of storytelling. In my life, however, I was primarily influenced by what is real in the universe. There was the first visit to my local planetarium, the Hayden Planetarium. But I am old enough to remember some films from the ’60s, and there’s no doubt that 2001 and the vision that that offered—entering orbit and space in general being a routine thing that a person could do, showing private enterprise, participating in that adventure—that was a stunning vision of what our future could be.
At Slackerwood, Richard Linklater looks back at early 80’s film recommendations.
Watch Gradiva, a new two-minute short film by Leos Carax.
A sequence from Ingmar Bergman’s Scenes from a Marriage will be staged and shot this month in Sweden, Screen Daily reports.
When Harry Met Sally will play simultaneously in all five NYC boroughs on June 24th.
Watch a video on the charm of 2001: A Space Odyssey: