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Criterion have announced their January releases (click titles for more details):
Watch a 30-minute interview with Jessica Chastain in which she discusses hanging out with Michael Haneke over a weekend (at around the 19:30 mark):
Rolling Stone‘s David Ehrlich wonders if prequels are killing movie franchises:
And that’s why the very concept of a prequel feels so inherently cynical: The vast majority of them unfold like reboots that have been strip-mined of their ambition, their makers aspiring to accomplish nothing more than to safely return you to where you started. That’s what you hope to achieve with a minivan, not a movie. It’s no coincidence that several of the best prequels ever made (i.e. Final Destination 5 and The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, to name two completely dissimilar examples), either ignore their place in a larger continuity or protect it like a plot twist.
Arnaud Desplechin on why he loves Notting Hill: