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Although there’s been an fervent search party, Thomas Pynchon never actually had a cameo in Inherent Vice, according to Harry Morgan, who acted in the film:
Morgan told Scharpling that not only was he not Thomas Pynchon, but that Thomas Pynchon wasn’t in Inherent Vice. Morgan, who described Anderson as a “friend” and told Scharpling that he had “discussed” the cameo with him, seems trustworthy, so I suppose that it’s time to finally call off the search.
Uwe Boll goes on a verbal rampage of his own after his latest film didn’t get crowdfunded:
Angelina Jolie talks to Domhnall Gleeson about filming The Revenant at Interview Magazine:
Yes, that was insane. Alejandro [González Iñárritu] told us at the beginning, “I want you to be in pain.” Everyone held up a glass of wine. We thought we were going to cheer the journey ahead of us. And Alejandro started by saying, “I want you all to be in pain.” So then it was, “Oh, cheers?” Like, a cheers with a question mark is never a good way to start a film. And he just put us through the shit. But it looks beautiful, and that ended up being a beautiful experience.
Watch Alex Garland and Rob Hardy’s music video for KAEB‘s When We Fall:
At The Talkhouse, David Lowery discusses Roy Andersson’s A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence:
Like all of Andersson’s feature films to date, A Pigeon… is composed of a series of canted tableaus, each one encompassing an entire scene and lasting anywhere from one minute to 10. Andersson’s camera never moves; he finds just the right angle for each scene, generally from the corner of his beautifully designed sets, and from that vantage observes as his various scenarios play themselves out. There’s a rigidity to his style, and a pace which, when combined with the vague surrealism at play, made this the perfect work to reflect upon over the 12 or so hellish hours that I found myself sick in bed.
Watch a teaser for the 2015 New York Asian Film Festival: