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Paul Schrader is planning a 10-episode webseries inspired by La dolce vita, Variety reports.
Watch Mike Nichols and Jason Reitman talk Carnal Knowledge in a 2011 conversation:
Flip through the gorgeous-looking Criterion Designs, which is now available:
At Screen Crush, Matt Singer on how to make an Oscar-winning biopic in five easy steps:
Watch enough of these movies in a row, and a formula begins to emerge. It might not be deliberate on anyone’s part, but over and over again Oscar-winning biopics return to the same ideas and images. So if you, Hollywood actor who is reading this right now, want to win an award with your biography, here is how to do it. No need to thank me now for the advice; just make sure you mention me in your acceptance speech.
Watch the re-release trailer for Mario Monicelli‘s The Passionate Thief, arriving at Film Forum on December 5th: