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Watch Matthew McConaughey‘s audition for Dazed and Confused:
Fox Searchlight has picked up Noah Baumbach‘s Mistress America for a 2015 release ahead of a Sundance premiere.
Watch the trailer for Christopher Doyle‘s Hong Kong Trilogy: Preschooled Preoccupied Preposterous, which he has launched a Kickstarter for:
At Flavorwire, Jason Bailey on what David Cronenberg doesn’t get about online film criticism:
There’s a lot to take apart here. But let’s begin by defanging Cronenberg’s central premise: that only the scribes labeled “Top Critics” by Rotten Tomatoes are working for “legitimate websites,” and everyone else is a sub-literate fanboy, tanking poor Cronenberg’s Tomatometer score at blogger.com/loki-movie-badass19942. In fact, “Top Critic” is one of the most befuddling elements of Rotten Tomatoes, and the pro-vs.-amateur free-for-all the filmmaker describes is patently false.
From The New Yorker, watch Richard Brody’s video essay on Michelangelo Antonioni‘s The Eclipse: