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Following news earlier this year that 12 Years a Slave will become part of public high school curriculum in the United States, teachers can now register for a toolkit with the film, book, study guide, and letter from Steve McQueen.
Watch a video essay exploring Tarsem‘s The Fall:
Reverse Shot has now announced they are an official publication of Museum of Moving Image with a new site design.
At Vulture, Terry Gilliam tells Bilge Ebiri the 13 most difficult scenes he’s ever shot:
Sometimes it’s a wonder he gets any movies made at all. Over the course of his legendary career, Terry Gilliam (Brazil, Time Bandits, 12 Monkeys) has built a reputation as a director who likes to try for the impossible — be they shots, scenes, or entire movies. This is, after all, a man who made a romantic comedy about homeless people, madness, and death (The Fisher King). A man who made a microbudget, absurdist, effects-laden coming-of-age fantasy (Tideland). A man who made a film of Hunter S. Thompson’s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas that’s just as nutty, if not more so, as the original book.
Watch a one-hour masterclass on The World of Apu from Mamoun Hassan: