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Sanaa Seif, the editor of The Square, has been sentenced to three years in prison for protesting, THR reports.
For one day only, watch Amy Seimetz‘s Shane Carruth-produced Sun Don’t Shine:
At Filmmaker Magazine, cinematographer Jeff Cronenweth extensively discusses working with David Fincher for Gone Girl:
I think in fairness, in a movie like this, in particular — and I could argue the same thing for Dragon Tattoo, in that we needed to see all these amazing places we’re at, and how isolated and alone these people were up in these cabins — I could use almost the same analogy to go: we needed to see these people in these environments to see how they’re spiraling out of control and where their non-linear separate journeys are taking them until they actually come back together again and compromise on this horrific existence they’re going to share.
Watch Peter Bogdanovich discuss Orson Welles‘ F for Fake, now on Criterion Blu-ray:
At Press Play, Max Winter on why Listen Up Philip is the kindest movie you’ll see all year:
Alex Ross Perry’s LISTEN UP PHILIP, besides featuring Jason Schwartzman’s best acting job and wrestling remarkable turns from Jonathan Pryce and Elizabeth Moss, performs an act of kindness for its viewers. This tale of an abusive, alienated, successful novelist’s spiral into loneliness lays out, in excruciating detail, the relationship between cause and effect that can govern the shape a human life takes. In showing us, painfully clearly, the results of novelist Philip Jay Friedman’s poor behavior, both within his own life and in the reactions of those around him, Perry advocates strongly against such behavior, making his film the equivalent of watching a Biblical punishment unfold on film.