Cannes Jury Unveiled, Rose Byrne’s One-Hour Interview, Silent Era Underdog, and More

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Listen to Marc Maron‘s one-hour interview with Rose Byrne:

Little White Lies‘ David Jenkins interviews Roy Andersson:

I’ve made many commercials, and when you do those, they last 30 seconds or so. I would always find that with every cut you lose time. If you move the camera too much, you lose time. Fixed camera, no cuts means more time for the spectator to analyse and hopefully find something interesting. I’ve made a lot of commercials for insurance companies. They’re often about accidents, with people falling or dropping or crashing cars. Everything is dependent on gravity. Gravity is a problem for us. I don’t want to help gravity by cutting. I want people to see the real impact of gravity. That’s one reason I have kept this one-shot style. Because you cannot deny gravity.

Keyframe‘s Dennis Harvey on the silent era’s underdog, Harold Lloyd:

Posterity may have proclaimed Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton the greater artists by a narrow margin. But amongst comedians of the silent era, no one more purely identified the American spirit for contemporary audiences than Harold Lloyd.

His persona was a parody but also an embrace of that classic type popularized by pulp novelist Horatio Alger and myriad others: The “underdog” who struggles to overcome adversity by sheer industry and self-improving zeal, winning the American Dream of prosperity.

Watch Ryan Gosling analyze a scene from Lost River:

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