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It’s hard not to see this as best-film-news-of-the-year material: Cohen Media Group have acquired and will restore & release ten Jacques Rivette films — along with a trio of early shorts that recently screened at this year’s New York Film Festival — theatrically and on Blu-ray. This is a major moment for appreciation of French cinema. [Variety]
Along with an extended interview with Pedro Almodóvar that’s embedded below, read Little White Lies‘ rundown of his early works. [Empire]
Seyfolah Samadian, an associate of Abbas Kiarostami‘s, is planning a documentary about the recently deceased director’s 20 years of visits to the Cannes Film Festival. [Variety]
Watch Memory Box, a new sci-fi short starring Mackenzie Davis and Shane Carruth (via First Showing):
Read an extended interview with Ex Machina‘s production designer, Mark Digby, at MUBI Notebook.
“When I read the script, it was fantastic, but set in one house with three people, two of them talking about existentialism for two hours, and much of it is one small room. How do you make it interesting?”