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At Vulture, Jesse David Fox appreciates the career of the late Christopher Evan Welch, who is last seen in Silicon Valley:
A couple of weeks ago, I was talking with one of my editors here about potential interviews with cast members of the new HBO comedy Silicon Valley. “We got to get the weirdo angel investor,” he said. I agreed. In a hilarious pilot full of standout characters, Peter Gregory was maybe the most dynamic, or at least the strangest. And, having seen the next few episodes, I can attest that the show triples-down on his oddness. I was excited to talk to the actor who plays Gregory. That was until Friday, when I got a series of IMs from my editor. It started with, “So, the guy that plays Peter Gregory in Silicon Valley” and included a link to his IMDb page. There it was: Christopher Evan Welch died on Monday, December 2, 2013 at age 48, after a three-year battle with lung cancer.
David Lynch will appear at BAM for a conversation on April 29th.
Alejandro Jodorowsky discusses how he lured Orson Welles to his Dune project:
Judy Berman writes on the myth of misogyny in Lars von Trier’s films at Flavorwire:
Any other bride would panic if the stretch limo carrying her to her wedding got stuck en route, too long to make a tight turn on a narrow country road. Not Justine, though. Her face lights up with perverse glee. She laughs. And we have our first sign that the heroine of Lars von Trier’s Melancholia does not respond to the world around her in precisely the way she’s supposed to.
Tribeca Film Festival 2014 have announced their jury, including Jeff Goldblum, Toni Collette, Lake Bell, Whoopi Goldberg, Heather Graham, Anton Yelchin and Paul Wesley.
At Movie Mezzanine, Corey Atad reassesses William Friedkin’s Sorcerer:
In his 1977 review, critic Andrew Sarris said of William Friedkin’s Sorcerer, “What I can swear to is the total pointlessness of the picture. What Friedkin has managed to fabricate with all his enormous resources is a visual and aural textbook on everything that is wrong with current movies.” It’s a reaction typical of the contemporary response to Friedkin’s massive folly, if a tad hyperbolic. The decades have been kind to Sorcerer, though. The film was recently given a full 4K digital restoration, bringing it back to life and facilitating its continued reassessment. That restoration can soon be seen on Blu-ray, but first it’s doing a theatrical run, including stops at the TIFF Bell Lightbox during their Special Screenings series this month.