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After a handful of video essays, watch another on Terrence Malick‘s The Tree of Life, this time from Richard Brody:
Abel Ferrara has issued a cease-and-desist letter over IFC Films’ release of a recut Welcome to New York (via THR):
“As a filmmaker and a human being, I detest the destruction of my film. Behind all these entities are individuals, in this case Arianna Bocco, Jonathan Sehring and Vincent Maraval, who feel they can deny my contractual right of final cut, which is simply my freedom of expression. Some people wear hoods and carry automatic weapons, others sit behind their desks, but the attack and attempted suppression of the rights of the individual are the same. I will defend the right of free speech till the end and I ask all who believe, as I do, that they not support the showing of this film, on their networks, in their theaters, or wherever.”
Watch Alejandro Jodorowsky‘s The Dance of Reality, courtesy of the director (via Las Horas Perdidas):
.@panchoabrigo “La Danza de la Realidad”. https://t.co/Q0KjVrkDmd contraseña: poesiasinfin
— Alejandro Jodorowsky (@alejodorowsky) March 20, 2015
Watch a recent one-hour conversation with Force Majeure director Ruben Östlund:
Grantland‘s Mike Powell on the true story behind Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter:
The new movie ‘Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter’ tells the story of a Japanese woman on a quest for riches who was lured to the brutal cold of the Midwest by a Coen brothers film. The woman was real, even if the story isn’t entirely true. And it’s been told before, by a documentarian. So where is the line between fact and fiction, and just how strong is it?