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After reading Peter Labuza‘s wrap-up of this year’s Cannes Film Festival, listen to him and other colleagues review selections on the latest episode of The Cinephiliacs.
Eric D. Snider remembers friend and critic Jeff Vice, who passed away this week:
In 1999, when I started reviewing movies regularly for the Daily Herald in Provo, it was Jeff Vice of the Deseret News in Salt Lake City who showed me the ropes. He gave me publicists’ contact information and helped me get on the right lists. He gladly and patiently let me coordinate my schedule with his, to make sure I hadn’t missed any screening announcements. I felt intimidated to be joining an already established group of Utah critics — Jeff; Sean Means at the Salt Lake Tribune; Scott Renshaw at City Weekly; Steve Salles at the Ogden Standard-Examiner — but Jeff made me feel welcome.
Artist Juan Luis Garcia has formally sued Spike Lee for copyright infringement over Oldboy posters, THR reports.
At Fandor, Calum Marsh reflects on Werner Herzog‘s Stroszek:
There’s something about that chicken. Stroszek concludes with its hero’s life in ruins: flat broke, newly homeless, his stolen pickup left ablaze and smoking in a small-town diner parking lot. We last see the hapless Bruno Stroszek looping up and down a dinky mountain lift, a ten-pound frozen turkey in one hand and a rifle in the other. After making a go of a new life abroad he’s found himself stranded in a country where he doesn’t speak the language, his modest American dream left in tatters around him. The future looks dire; he has no plans, no options, no recourse. In his desperation he follows an old trope: he turns to crime. The last fifteen minutes of Stroszek are like a demented version of Bonnie and Clyde: Bruno and his senile neighbor become idiots on the run, robbing a barber for petty cash before fleeing next door to spend their spoils. The neighbor ends up arrested. Bruno ends up dead by his own hand. Werner Herzog brings this comic tragedy to a close with a shot of farm animals performing tricks for quarters—a duck that bangs a drum, a dancing chicken. It’s inexplicable. It’s also devastating. What is it about that damn chicken?
The 68th Edinburgh International Film Festival has announced its line-up, including Snowpiercer, Manakamama, Cold In July, and more.
The Sting will be coming to Broadway, Deadline reports.
Watch a video tribute to the cinematography of Wally Pfister: