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Sunset Song and more will screen at the 16th edition of Film Comment Selects.
Watch Thomas McCarthy analyze a scene from Spotlight:
Ennio Morricone discusses scoring The Hateful Eight soundtrack (listen here) with The Quietus:
“Generally speaking, it’s true: I prefer scoring the whole film consistently. At the same time, if a director selects old pieces of my music for his film it doesn’t mean that he doesn’t like working with a composer. It just means he likes my music and this is something I actually appreciate. So I’m not unhappy with the way he used my music in the past. It just proved his love for what I have done.”
Watch an extensive talk with Tangerine director Sean Baker and star Mya Taylor, introduced by Laverne Cox:
Jennifer Jason Leigh responds to comments that The Hateful Eight is misogynistic at Uproxx:
I think it’s the opposite of that. I really do. I feel he’s the most female-centric director around. And he writes parts for women that are just the best parts there are to be had. He’s not sexist. He doesn’t write her as some delicate victim flower. She’s a killer. She’s gutsy and her whole identity is, “Yeah, give me what you’ve got, it doesn’t mean anything to me. Hit me again, I don’t give a fucking shit.” You know? She’s not going to show any vulnerability and that’s a tactic she is using and it tells you a lot about her childhood. Quentin loves people and he loves men and he loves women and he’s not – there’s just no misogyny in him. There just isn’t. And if you don’t get that from his roles, then there’s something off.
After reading our extensive conversation, watch a talk with Andrew Haigh on 45 Years: