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Hailee Steinfeld, John C. Reilly, Vanessa Williams, Geena Davis, Kathy Bates, Ellen Burstyn and Catherine O’Hara will lead the voice cast for the U.S. release of Studio Ghibli’s When Marnie Was There (trailer), arriving on May 22nd, Deadline reports.
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While Kodak has agreed to continue making film stock, Christopher Nolan further argues further for the choice of shooting on film, THR reports:
“We need film projectors and film prints — forever. If you want the choice, it’s very important to support film now. Filmmakers are going out of their way to shoot film and talk about it. We want to see a world where there’s a choice; it’s important to preserve it for future generations.”
For Out, Chuck Palahniuk picks his ten favorite films, three of which are David Fincher films and none of which are Fight Club:
“We all have our little preferences and prejudices,” says Chuck Palahniuk, author of 13 novels, including Fight Club, Choke, and Beautiful You. This spring, he publishes Fight Club 2, a comic book sequel to his best-selling dystopian novel “I, for example, vow never to resolve a plot by having a character commit suicide. In my opinion the most noble goal of any story is to depict a character facing the readers’ worst fear, better yet a fear that outstrips their worst-case scenarios, then show the character in question enduring the challenge. In fact 99 percent of writing—like 99 percent of the insurance industry and organized religions—involves informing innocent people of hideous, painful, humiliating possibilities beyond their wildest imagination, then selling those same people the hope of salvation. Therein lies my secret hypocrisy: I adore films in which the hero finds salvation through self murder. My own novel Fight Club resolves with an apparent-but-not-quite martyrdom. What follows is by no means a complete list, but to date they constitute my favorites.
Watch a video detailing Darren Aronofsky‘s tracking shots:
At Vulture, Matthew Weiner on the ten films that inspired Mad Men:
Remarkably original for its time, this film had an impact on my generation that can’t be underestimated. I saw it as I was finishing college and applied to film school soon after. Indefinable in genre, Blue Velvet moves from murder mystery to film noir to black comedy to coming-of-age story, almost from scene to scene. With stylistic richness and psychological complexity, it celebrates the horror of the mundane and is filled with reference to a kitschy and ironic “’50s” milieu. This incredible observation informed much of the 1980s and became an inspiration for the series and its attempt to equally revise our mythical perception of the period.
Little White Lies‘ David Ehrlich chronicles his journey at the first annual New York City Porn Film Festival:
As a film reporter, I abide by a pretty simple rule: Say yes to everything you have the time to do. And so, when I received an email from Pornhub last week inviting me to cover the first annual New York City Porn Film Festival, I only had one question: how does Pornhub have my email address? (I still don’t have an answer for that one, but CITIZENFOUR just got personal).