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The Devil on Wheels, a documentary about Steven Spielberg‘s Duel, has launched a Kickstarter.
Watch a recent 20-minute interview with Inside Out and Up director Pete Docter:
Film Comment‘s Violet Lucca interviews longtime Brian De Palma editor Bill Pankow:
Usually when they’re shooting, what I try to do is try to get the scenes cut as quickly as possible in some sort of shape. Obviously, films are very often and usually shot out of order. What I do is take the first scene that’s been completed and try to edit that down into some rough version, and then continue from there, scene after scene. I don’t really look at it all together until we get to the end of the shooting process.
Watch Richard Brody‘s video essay on Max Ophüls’ Letter from an Unknown Woman:
The Dissolve‘s Charles Bramesco on Kanye West as a filmmaker:
Like David Bowie, Kanye West has made the act of being himself into his magnum opus. Kanye is the text, and all the other stuff—the music, fashion line, interviews, headline-commanding public appearances, constant persona swaps—are just facets. This isn’t some masturbatory, LaBeoufian exercise in performance art. But there’s no denying that when a dude steps up during a telethon for hurricane relief and calls out the sitting president on charges of hardcore racism, he’s probably got more on his mind than making hits and playing nice.
The extreme long-shots of David Lean's 'Lawrence of Arabia' http://t.co/nf6MtbIbum pic.twitter.com/dtSCwK7JC2
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