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All nine scripts for Twin Peaks, co-written by David Lynch and Mark Frost, have been turned in and negotiations are continuing, Variety reports.
Watch a one-hour conversation between Francis Ford Coppola and Martin Sheen on Apocalypse Now (via Refocused Media):
Little White Lies presents Force Majeure‘s Ruben Östlund with five moral conundrums:
Ruben Östlund uses his films to depict characters in the throes of social and moral dilemmas as a crafty way of engaging audiences in those same slippery matters. His latest, Force Majeure, is a deadpan drama that looks at what happens to a family after a father fails to fulfil the stereotypical role of hero in a crisis. LWLies gave the Swedish writer/director a taste of his own medicine when we posed five fiendish moral conundrums to him.
Watch Richard Brody‘s video essay on Satyajit Ray‘s The Big City:
BAM‘s C. Mason Wells on the obsession of Vertigo:
In 1958, Alfred Hitchcock’s 45th feature Vertigo was released to largely mixed reviews. This story of acrophobic San Francisco detective Scottie (Jimmy Stewart) hired to trail mysterious blonde Madeleine (Kim Novak) was tagged “basically only a psychological murder mystery” by Variety. Writers ranging from the Young Turks of Cahiers du Cinéma to Andrew Sarris to James Wood had begun to make the case for Hitchcock as a consummate film artist during the 1960s, but critical consensus took far longer; Vertigo failed to place in Sight and Sound’s once-a-decade critics’ poll until 1982. In 2012, it climbed to the number one slot and the title of Best Film of All Time, knocking Citizen Kane (1941) from its 50-year reign atop the belltower.