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The September 2014 Criterion Collection line-up has been unveiled.
Listen to Bret Easton Ellis and Nicholas Jarecki discuss the failure of The Informers:
At the New Yorker, Richard Brody‘s five-minute film fest:
Put in the DVD of “Vertigo” or any of the other top-ranking films in the 2012 Sight & Sound critics poll—“Citizen Kane,” “Tokyo Story,” “Rules of the Game,” “Sunrise,” “2001: A Space Odyssey,” “The Searchers,” “Man with a Movie Camera,” “Passion of Joan of Arc”—and fast-forward ahead randomly, then watch for five minutes. Those five minutes won’t show you everything you need to know about these movies, but they should suffice to do the essential thing: to arouse admiration, astonishment, and love, as well as the hunger to see the whole movie and anything else that Hitchcock, Welles, Renoir, Dreyer, and company have to offer. In fact, any five minutes of such movies would show something fundamental about movies themselves, about the essence of the art.
The world’s highest film festival will begin this month, 11,000 feet up in Himalayas, THR reports.
Filmmakers petition FAA to let them shoot movies with drones, The Verge reports:
After putting money behind the push for revamped commercial drone laws, Hollywood is officially petitioning the Federal Aviation Administration to let filmmakers fly unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) before final rules are put in place. Seven aerial production companies have requested an exemption from flight regulations, pilot licensing requirements, and airworthiness certification rules, none of which have been finalized. FAA rules allow the agency to grant exemptions for “narrowly-defined, controlled, low-risk situations,” and film and video companies hope that includes using low-cost drones for shots that would otherwise require a helicopter.