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Jonathan Demme is currently making a Justin Timberlake concert film, EW reports.
Listen to Oscar Isaac‘s recent one-hour talk with Nerdist:
The Globe and Mail‘s Calum Marsh on the enduring allure of Out 1, an obscure 13-hour long French film from 1971:
The most anticipated movie of the year is from 1971. It’s called Out 1: Noli me tangere, and among cineastes it’s long been regarded as something of a holy grail – coveted but maddeningly out of reach. However, the lost epic is poised to reappear.
Watch a video essay on the Catholic imagery in the films of Martin Scorsese:
THR on Marlon Brando‘s never told story on his secret A-list acting school:
The legendary actor showed up in drag at his 2001 acting workshop, and it only got weirder from there. THR talks to those who were present and learns what the world’s greatest actor taught Robin Williams, Michael Jackson, Sean Penn and more — and why Brando’s executor, Mike Medavoy, wants to keep the whole thing, filmed by director Tony Kaye, under wraps.
Watch a video essay comparing Persona and Frankenstein:
Birth Movies Death‘s Siddhant Adlakha on the search for meaning in Inside Llewyn Davis:
There’s something ethereal about Bruno Delbonnel’s cinematography. A dream-like haze that envelopes the characters and the 1960s New York setting. A constant emotional and intellectual fog that we have to cut through, day by day, as we try and understand both the world around us, and ourselves.