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Listen to an excerpt from the Francis Ford Coppola-narrated audiobook version of The Godfather Notebook (via Deadline)
On the heels of the announcement that Hayao Miyazaki will return to features, GKIDS have announced that Spirited Away will return to U.S. theaters nationwide for its 15th anniversary. Screenings will be on Sunday, December 4th at 12:00p.m. (dubbed in English) and Monday, December 5th at 7:00p.m. (English language subtitles). See more information here.
See Cate Blanchett in the teaser for the short film RED:
David Bordwell has announced a collaboration with FilmStruck:
Coming up are Kristin on Kiarostami, and me on L’Avventura and Sanshiro Sugata. We hope to post about one per month.
Our discussions are analytical, focusing on particular techniques of style and narrative. They don’t contain crucial spoilers, so most can be watched before the film as well as after.
Of course we’re tremendously excited to get our ideas out there in a new platform. We conceive the series as like our blog—applying our research into film form, style, and history to films in a user-friendly way. We hope that we’ll find an audience among cinephiles as well as among more casual viewers who simply want to get more out of the films they see.
Watch Scout Tafoya‘s video essay on Spike Lee‘s radical erotic vampire tale Da Sweet Blood of Jesus:
Alton Brown shares his top 10 Criterion films:
Sure, Seven Samurai is the best known of Kurosawa’s canon, but I say Yojimbo takes the cake because it’s got one thing that Samurai doesn’t: a sense of humor. It’s also Toshiro Mifune’s best outing, bar none.