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Watch Alex Ross Perry‘s debut Impolex until June 17th, thanks to No Budge.
Radius-TWC tells Deadline that Snowpiercer will not be opening on VOD the same day as its theatrical release in 10 theaters on June 27th.
At Roger Ebert, Glenn Kenny on art, freedom, and the Bechdel Test:
Over the past couple of years there has been a good deal of lively debate in print and on line about the so-called Bechdel Test. Just as Shakespeare did not himself demand that art hold up a mirror to nature, so too did the cartoonist and writer Allison Bechdel demand that in order to be deemed acceptable, every narrative work of art, particularly cinematic, that she encountered had to contain a conversation between two women in which the subject of men was not broached. Bechdel had one of her characters make this requirement/stipulation, and the punchline was that, in the specific instance described by the character, Ridley Scott’s “Alien” ended up being the way to go, but the irony was that the two female characters in that film discuss the title monster.
Watch Abbas Kiarostami and Richard Peña discuss The Wind Will Carry Us (via Criterion Cast):
At THR, Zhang Yimou discusses his upcoming tentpole The Great Wall.
The Dissolve discusses their favorite crime-fighting duos:
With 22 Jump Street coming out this weekend, The Dissolve staff started thinking aloud about some of our favorite films where two people work together to solve mysteries, fight crime, or just generally beat back evil. At first, our ragtag crew didn’t get along; but then we realized how much we needed each other, and we worked together to produce this list.