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Cineuropa has offered up their Cannes 2015 predictions with new films from Miguel Gomes, Joachim Trier, Yorgos Lanthimos, Thomas Vinterberg, Alexander Sokourov, Matteo Garrone, Paolo Sorrentino, Todd Haynes, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Hou Hsiao Hsien, and many more.
Watch a recent 105-minute conversation with Sam Rockwell:
The Guardian‘s Eva Wiseman asks why creative women are described as quirky:
I’m reading a book that I love. It is heartbreakingly sad, and thoughtful, and disgusting and hilarious, but it’s Miranda July’s first novel, so the word most regularly being used to describe it in reviews is “quirky”. And what that word does, as it falls on the work like a piano from a great height, is crush it.
Watch a visual analysis of the iconic shower scene from Psycho: