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Scott Tafoya shares a perfect 50-week film school curriculum.
The Sundance hit Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (review) will hit theaters on July 1st in limited release.
After a fake teaser, watch a fake 90s-esque commercial for the Birdman action figure as the film will now be re-released in over 1,000 theaters this weekend:
The Michael Fassbender-led Slow West (our review) will hit theaters on May 15th via A24.
Movie Mezzanine‘s Greg Cwik compares Sunset Boulevard to Maps to the Stars:
Maps to the Stars, David Cronenberg’s first film shot in the U.S., is an unapologetic slap in the face of Hollywood. Replete with star-fucking, stalking, suicide, murder, and incest, it’s essentially the smarter, meaner twin that ate The Canyons in utero. Starring Julianne Moore and an impressive collection of former and current A-listers (many of whom have felt the burn of the studio system), the film depicts Hollywood as a syndicate of self-serving leeches and liars, a capitalistic circle-jerk that spawns banality en masse. This is a place where an aging actress celebrates the drowning of a child when she hears she’ll gain something from the tragic accident.
People, Places, Things (review) with Jemaine Clement will arrive this summer via The Film Arcade.
Listen to Nicolas Jaar‘s new score for Sergei Parajanov‘s The Color Of Pomegranates (via Stereogum):