Dailies is a round-up of essential film writing, news bits, and other highlights from across the Internet. If you’d like to submit a piece for consideration, get in touch with us in the comments below or on Twitter at @TheFilmStage.
BFI reports they will re-release David Lean’s epic romance Doctor Zhivago, newly restored, for its 50th anniversary this November.
At Filmmaker IQ, read an interview with Alfred Hitchcock conducted by Andy Warhol in 1974:
Andy Warhol: Since you know all these cases, did you ever figure out why people really murder? It’s always bothered me. Why.
Alfred Hitchcock: Well I’ll tell you. Years ago, it was economic, really. Especially in England. First of all, divorce was very hard to get, and it cost a lot of money.
Watch Agnès Varda’s Les Fiancés Du Pont Macdonald starring Jean-Luc Godard and Anna Karina:
Jean-Pierre Jeunet discusses Harvey Weinstein dumping his latest film at Indiewire:
We learned about this by chance because they have a contract with Netflix. The contract says that you have to release the film in 100 theaters, no more and no less. This is the only reason they released the film, to keep that contract and keep a good relationship with Netflix. It’s also probably because Harvey Weinstein is still pissed off because I refused to reedit my film. “T.S. Spivet” is a fake American movie because it’s a movie produced in Europe and Canada, so I have the final cut. I always choose this specifically to avoid this kind of problem, but with Mr. Weinstein you never avoid this kind of problem, of course [Laughs].
Follow Michael Nyman as he revisits the locations of a newly restored Man With a Movie Camera (via Keyframe):
After listening to our discussion and reading our interview, read Farran Smith Nehme discuss the influences of Phoenix at RogerEbert.com:
As soon as I got home from seeing the film, I opened my copy of Salka Viertel’s memoir, “The Kindness of Strangers.” She grew up in a well-to-do and cultivated Jewish family in Sambor, Galicia, which is now part of Ukraine, moved to California with her family in 1928, wrote screenplays (including “Queen Christina” and “Deep Valley”) and turned her home into a magnet for people fleeing Hitler’s Europe.