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Hideaki Anno and Shinji Higuchi will direct a new Toho-produced Godzilla film for a summer 2016 release, Screen Daily reports.
Vulture‘s Bilge Eberi interviews Martin Scorsese about shooting Taxi Driver in New York:
It was a rough period in the history of New York — as a matter of fact, the famous Daily News headline “Ford to City: Drop Dead” came out while we were editing. Although I couldn’t tell the difference. Apparently, the city felt like it was falling apart, there was garbage everywhere, and for someone like Travis, who’s come from the Midwest, the New York of the mid-’70s would be hell — [that] must have prompted visions of hell in his mind. But one thing I can tell you: We didn’t have to “dress” the city to make it look hellish.
Watch a guide to Stanley Kubrick‘s lenses:
Matt Zoller Seitz highlights 13 of Roger Ebert‘s most essential reviews:
It felt right to commemorate the second anniversary of Roger Ebert’s passing with a celebration of his work. The entire front page of the site—which makes space for 13 reviews—is hereby given over to Roger today and tomorrow. We’ve tried to select pieces that give a sense of the length of his career and the breadth of his talent.
Watch a rare interview with Frank Capra from 1982:
The Dissolve‘s Nathan Rabin revisits The Bicycle Thief:
There are some movies I will always associate with college film classes. 1948’s Bicycle Thieves (alternately known as The Bicycle Thief) is one of those movies—in part, because it’s within a college film course that many see Bicycle Thieves for the first, and often only, time. It’s the kind of movie college kids are forced to see for their edification, if not necessarily entertainment. It’s also the kind of film that so powerfully represents an artistic movement—in this case, Italian neorealism—that it essentially embodies that movement.