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Wes Anderson, Joel Coen, Frances McDormand, William Friedkin, Paolo Sorrentino and more will give talks at this year’s Rome Film Festival, Variety reports.
25 years later, the Goodfellas cast reminisces at NY Times:
Ray Liotta (who played Henry Hill): I was on the second floor of the Excelsior Hotel [at the Venice Film Festival]. I looked down, and there was all this commotion and in the middle of it was Marty. He was there with “The Last Temptation of Christ.” I guess he was getting a lot of death threats. I beelined down there. He was surrounded by bodyguards. I started walking toward him. All the bodyguards pushed me off. I just want to say hi to Marty. I think my initial reaction was, “Get your hands off me,” acting like a tough guy, which I’m not. He said that’s when he knew.
Bill Hader discusses his love for Mad Max: Fury Road with Collider (and shares some experiences shooting The BFG with Steven Spielberg at /Film):
Movie Mezzannine‘s Bilge Ebiri revisits Orson Welles‘ The Trial:
“It has been said that the logic of this story is the logic of a dream, or a nightmare,” says Orson Welles in the opening narration of his 1962 adaptation of Franz Kafka’s The Trial. He seems to be talking specifically about a brief parable he’s just related from the novel—an allegorical tale about a man who spends his life futilely waiting at the gates of the law. But Welles could easily be speaking of The Trial itself, both book and film. He cuts from this observation to a close-up of his protagonist, Joseph K (Anthony Perkins), slowly waking up—as if to underline, in can’t-miss fashion, the dreamlike quality of the story that’s about to unfold.
Watch a conversation with Roger Deakins on shooting Sicario (our review and more):
Abel Ferrara discusses the actor-director relationship at The Talkhouse:
Well, my name is Abel Ferrara, and I am of a genre and a generation, and I have obviously accepted Nick’s invitation and the 150 USD. The Kickstarter campaign has ended, and that’s another story that will take more than 1200 words to explain, but we will leave that for another day. Though I do not have anything against Insidious Chapter 3 or critics — or the art of criticism, other than my fear of actually enjoying doing it if I started (although at these prices I seriously doubt it) — I will try bringing some smart and notable thoughts to the second suggestion, the relationship between actor and director and why I keep returning to the well of familiarity.
Little White Lies highlights 10 films directed by Alan Smithee:
As David O Russell’s nothing-to-do-with-me comedy originally made in 2008, Nailed (aka Accidental Love), finally limps to the big screen, LWLies take a look at some other recent occasions when film directors have – for one reason or another – decided that they absolutely, positively do not want this work to appear on their CV.