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Asghar Farhadi‘s incredible About Elly will finally be released in the U.S., specially on April 8th by Cinema Guild, Variety reports.
Watch Woody Allen‘s 8-minute 1969 short film Cupid’s Shaft:
At The New Inquiry, Jesse Baron on Inherent Vice:
It is 1970, and the ’50s are fighting the ’60s for the soul of the country. In one corner is Larry “Doc” Sportello, Joaquin Phoenix’s hippie private investigator, representing live and let live, free love, and weed. In the other is Josh Brolin’s cop with a buzz cut, Christian “Bigfoot” Bjornsen, standing for the family, sobriety, and stability. It’s swinging dicks versus Nixon, the groovy against the square. margin-ad-rightSuburbs versus bungalows, call it. In the first few minutes of P.T. Anderson’s adaptation of Thomas Pynchon’s Inherent Vice, we see Doc lighting up in his beach house, the waves crashing behind him. In another few, we see Bigfoot on Doc’s TV. Dressed in a flared collar and an afro wig, Bigfoot is supplementing his policeman’s wages by starring in some kind of infomercial. Doc squints with recognition and displeasure, and we know these two have been at it before.
The typewriter that Joseph Stefano wrote Psycho on is being auctioned for at least $25,000, Paste reports.
At Badass Digest, Devin Faraci on how perception and reality combine in the story and in the filmmaking of David O. Russell‘s The Three Kings:
“Are we shooting?”
The opening line of David O Russell’s Three Kings is a meta wonder; Mark Wahlberg runs into the frame as the camera glides across a flat, baked desert, and then he stops and looks to the side and yells, “Are we shooting?” with a look of genuine confusion on his face. From offscreen someone answers with a muffled “What?”