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A lost Sherlock Holmes film from 1916 has been discovered, Variety reports.
At Yahoo, watch a previously unseen, newly restored scene from Once Upon a Time in America, now out on Blu-ray:
Peter Labuza discusses the director’s cut of Nymphomaniac:
Lars Von Trier has made a career out of stunts: explicit material, crass juxtapositions between the high and low, casting of unexpected actors, and outlandish statements. This makes Von Trier at once a nuisance in contemporary cinema—someone who thinks he is telling the Real Truth when it’s just a satirized form of regular ideology—and perhaps a necessity. It’d be great if the American vision of contemporary Euro-Art cinema was, say, more Alain Guiaurdie or Thomas Arslan, but instead we have Von Trier and Herr Haneke, mostly because the way they directly invoke and challenge the expectations of Hollywood cinema. In a way, they urge us to balance our diet of Hollywood cinema with their “cultural vegetables.” Von Trier’s cinema wouldn’t exist without someone to gasp at it.
Watch Richard Gere and Oren Moverman discuss Time Out of Mind (our review) at NYFF:
Gothamist lists the best movie theaters in NYC:
Okay, so Film Forum isn’t the snazziest movie theater in the city, or the cleanest, or the most comfortable. But this venerable cinematic institution, which has existed in some form or another since 1970, deserves fealty for its solid mix of old school films it continues to serve up— right now you can catch the tail end of a Tennessee Williams series, and films like Vertigo and The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari are next on tap. Film Forum’s also the city’s only autonomous nonprofit cinema, so taking in a flick here helps keep its curated film selection top notch. Become a member, and get a significant discount on all your movie tickets.