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At The Washington Post, Russell Adams explores the money-making machine that is The Shawshank Redemption:
Bob Gunton is a character actor with 125 credits to his name, including several seasons of “24” and “Desperate Housewives” and a host of movie roles in films such as the Oscar-winning “Argo.” Vaguely familiar faces like his are common in the Los Angeles area where he lives, and nobody pays much attention. Many of his roles have been forgotten. But every day, the 68-year-old actor says, he hears the whispers—from cabdrivers, waiters, the new bag boy at his neighborhood supermarket: “That’s the warden in ‘Shawshank.'”
Watch the full Cannes jury press conference following the closing ceremony:
At Vulture, Bilge Ebiri highlights 17 things to know about Palme d’Or winner Nuri Bilge Ceylan:
The Turkish film Winter Sleep (or, in Turkish, Kış Uykusu, which technically means “hibernation”) won the Palme d’Or at Cannes yesterday. It was a major victory for its writer-director Nuri Bilge Ceylan, who has been winning all the other awards at Cannes for some years now. Unfortunately, many in the U.S. — even among cinephiles — are unfamiliar with his work. Since I have been (for perhaps obvious reasons) obsessively following his career for well over a decade, here are some things you may want to know about this year’s winning director.
A 97-year-old woman has attended 66 out of 67 Cannes Film Festivals, Time reports.
At Nonfics, Christopher Campbell asks if filmmakers change their mind about their own documentaries:
Over the weekend, I read Michael Moore‘s tweets in response to the UCSB killings and was surprised that the filmmaker came across so anti-gun above anything else. “For you who are scared of a guy breaking in to hurt you,” he wrote in one of the last from Saturday night, abbreviating most of the words, “trust me, you aren’t going to fire a gun half asleep at 3am and hit your target. Get a dog.” It seemed like a simplification of the issue he explores in his Oscar-winning doc Bowling for Columbine, if not a change of mind.