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Barack Obama‘s favorite movie of the year is The Martian (and The Knick his favorite TV show), while Michelle Obama‘s pick is Inside Out, People reports.
If you’re in New York City, Punch-Drunk Love is screening with a live orchestra score this March at BAM:
BAM and Wordless Music present a special screening of Paul Thomas Anderson’s 2002 film Punch-Drunk Love, featuring Jon Brion’s original score re-orchestrated and performed live by the Wordless Music Orchestra. For this unique experience, Sony Pictures and Anderson have produced a new score-less print of the film to be screened alongside the 40-plus member orchestra, led by conductor Ryan McAdams and percussionists Yuri Yamashita-Morales and Wilson Torres.
Listen to Marc Maron‘s extensive career-spanning talk with Danny Boyle:
Blue is the Warmest Color is no longer rated under-12 in France after pressure from a Catholic group, Screen Daily reports:
The Paris Administrative Court of Appeal ruling published on Wednesday (Dec 9) said the picture’s “realistic sex scenes” were are “of a nature that could impact the sensitivity of a young public” and ordered French Minister of Culture and Communications Fleur Pellerin to re-examine the classification within a two-month period.
The ruling, some two years after Abdellatif Kechiche’s passionate lesbian love story was released theatrically in France, has sparked consternation in cinema circles and beyond.
Watch Ridley Scott discuss how Stanley Kubrick gave him footage from The Shining for the end of Blade Runner:
Flavorwire‘s Jason Bailey on the very serious war against “category fraud”:
Point is, film scribes and awards bloggers and the rest of Film Twitter have gotten all bent out of shape about category fraud — or, as I’ve seen it described with a presumptively straight face, “the spreading cancer of category fraud.” The phrase “let us not embolden category fraudsters” was bandied about during my guild’s nomination process, along with a reminder on the ballot itself that “Studios, celebrities or publicists may not dictate the placement of an actor in one category or the other.” Stern blog posts have been written, angry missives have been tweeted, and when this morning’s Golden Globe nominations placed Mara and Viklander in the “Best Actress” camp, there was widespread adulation for the integrity of an organization that, on the same ballot, handed a Best Picture nomination in the Musical/Comedy category to this year’s laugh riot The Martian.
Watch a trailer for Film Society of Lincoln Center’s Douglas Sirk series: