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Peter Jackson discusses “winging it” with The Hobbit trilogy via The Guardian:
“Because Guillermo Del Toro had to leave and I jumped in and took over, we didn’t wind the clock back a year and a half and give me a year and a half prep to design the movie, which was different to what he was doing. It was impossible, and as a result of it being impossible I just started shooting the movie with most of it not prepped at all.”
“You’re going on to a set and you’re winging it, you’ve got these massively complicated scenes, no storyboards and you’re making it up there and then on the spot […] I spent most of The Hobbit feeling like I was not on top of it […] even from a script point of view, Fran [Walsh], Philippa [Boyens] and I hadn’t got the entire scripts written to our satisfaction so that was a very high pressure situation.”
10 animated shorts (including Don Hertzfeldtz‘s World of Tomorrow) and 10 live-action shorts have advanced in the 2015-16 Oscar race.
Watch a video on films clearly inspired by David Lynch:
Birth. Movies. Death.‘s Britt Hayes on Sicario and the value of depicting rape in abstract:
It is, essentially, the best film about sexual assault that features no actual sexual assault. Instead, Villeneuve brilliantly uses the idea of rape in abstract, the entirety of Sicario permeates with that specific feeling of helplessness, despair, and suffocation. Such a nuanced approach to the concept of sexual violence is rare, yet even more rare is the film which utilizes that concept indirectly in a way that speaks to the specific horror of the act. Here, sexual assault along with its machinery of fear and resultant trauma are analogous to an FBI agent’s experience as she’s thrust into a special task force’s mission to take down the head of a cartel in Mexico.
Watch a talk with Mustang director Deniz Gamze Ergüven and the cast: