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Ethan Hawke says Criterion is securing the rights to Richard Linklater‘s Before trilogy (hinted at last week), Collider reports.
At Vulture, cinematographer Robert Yeoman discusses how he pulled off nine great shots in Wes Anderson films:
There are few directors with a visual style as distinctive as Wes Anderson’s, and to find out just what goes into his carefully composed shots, you’ll want to talk to Robert Yeoman. The 63-year-old cinematographer has shot every one of Anderson’s films (save for the stop-motion Fantastic Mr. Fox); though, astoundingly, he’s never been nominated for an Academy Award. Still, with The Grand Budapest Hotel in the hunt for multiple Oscar nods next week, what better time to talk to Yeoman about his storied career, using nine of Anderson’s most famous scenes and shots as prompts?
Also at Vulture, Bilge Ebiri on Oscar films and the prison of historical accuracy:
You know it’s Oscar season when the historical-accuracy hit squads show up. Over the past several weeks, it seems that almost every major awards contender has had some kind of high-profile accusation flung at it over its misappropriation of the truth. It happens every year, of course (remember the late Christopher Hitchens laying into The King’s Speech back in 2011?), but this time, it’s reached comically epidemic levels — in part because so many of the Oscar contenders are either biopics or otherwise historical in nature. Recently, some have taken issue with the depiction of Lyndon B. Johnson in Selma (despite the fact that LBJ actually comes off reasonably well in the film). Last week, Foxcatcher got a body blow from its own main subject, Olympic wrestler Mark Schultz, who started screaming at director Bennett Miller over social media about the liberties the film took with his life. Before that, it was The Imitation Game coming under scrutiny for its not entirely accurate depiction of scientist Alan Turing and his work as a code-breaker during WWII. And if you think things have already gotten too heated, wait till the whole was–American Sniper’s–Chris Kyle–actually-a-monster? debate starts to rage in full. After that, I can only presume that Stephen Hawking will start a Twitter war with his Theory of Everything director James Marsh.
The Stanley Hotel is hosting a contest to design a 10,100 sq. ft. hedge maze inspired by Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining.
Watch a recent discussion with Edward Norton and Michael Keaton for Birdman:
At The Dissolve, Nathan Rabin discusses Some Like It Hot:
Before today, I would never have ranked Some Like It Hot among my favorite Billy Wilder movies. Heck, I’m not even sure I would have ranked it among my top 10 favorite Wilder movies. Part of this is attributable to my snobbish aversion to cross-dressing humor, which has to rank somewhere among puns, prop comedy, sound effects (sorry, Michael Winslow), and flatulence-based ribaldry in my personal hierarchy of humor, despite the rarified places Some Like It Hot and Tootsie (and Monty Python and Kids In The Hall, for that matter) hold in the comedy canon. I think I also held the film’s popularity against it as well. As a proper film snob, I preferred crowd-alienating Wilder masterpieces like Ace In The Hole and One, Two, Three to the crowd-pleasing wackiness of Some Like It Hot, which regularly scores high on those pandering AFI lists.