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“I hope we’re going to see more of me in comedies,” Marion Cotillard tells ABC. “I wish I can find my way into comedies. Sometimes it’s hard to live with dark … characters all the time.”
Emmanuel Lubezki briefly talks to ASC about Iñárritu’s The Revenant:
Lubezki confessed he was a bit exhausted by awards season, noting that he’d flown to Los Angeles from the set of Iñárritu’s The Revenant, a 19th century Western thriller shooting in Alberta, Canada. “We’re doing a lot of exterior work with natural light and Steadicam,” he said. “The lenses are very wide and close to the actors. It’s extremely visceral. The temperature has dropped as low as -30°C [-22°F], and we’ve been experiencing some difficulties with the equipment. At one point, it got so cold our monitors froze!”
Watch a rare interview with Paul Newman from 1964:
The Dissolve‘s Keith Phipps on the scarred New York City skyline in films:
When Kong gazes at Manhattan in the Dino De Laurentiis-produced 1976 remake of King Kong, he latches onto the image of the World Trade Center’s twin towers, illuminated on the evening of his New York rampage by a full moon. He’s drawn to them by forces more powerful than a gorilla’s aversion toward immersion in water. He wants nothing more than to grab Dwan (Jessica Lange), the doomed human object of his desire, and climb them, thanks to their resemblance to a pair of towering rocks on his native Skull Island. They hold a power over him they didn’t have over others most at the time. New, huge, but little-loved, the twin towers impressed New Yorkers with their size—at the time of their completion in 1970 and 1971, they were the tallest buildings in the world—but not their beauty. (If nothing else, they screwed up TV reception.) But their absence from the New York skyline in the years since 9/11, and their replacement by the new, single One World Trade Center, gives the towers a new power when they turn up in old movies. Kong would understand it. “Déjà vu,” Jeff Bridges’ scientist says, drawing on his time on Skull Island as he starts to put together Kong’s plan, “I don’t know where, but I’ve seen this view before.” Like Kong, the old World Trade Center is a reminder of a place we can now reach only in memory.
Watch a video on the use of red and yellow in the films of Wes Anderson: