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Richard Linklater will be guest programmer on TCM tonight presenting Fanny and Alexander, The Asphalt Jungle, and more.
Watch The White Russian, a new short film starring Jeff Bridges and directed by Ivan Zacharias:
NYFF has announced their Opening Acts series, featuring films from David Fincher, Paul Thomas Anderson, Mia Hansen-Løve, Olivier Assayas, and more.
At New York Times, Manohla Dargis and A. O. Scott discuss the improving representation of female characters in film:
Girls grow up on big and little screens, and sometimes the thinking about girls and girlhood grows, too. Inspired by Richard Linklater’s “Boyhood” — a magnificent film that tells the story of a boy’s life from 6 to 18 — we are taking a look at how girls are growing up in the movies. American mainstream cinema, a timid enterprise dependent on formulas and genres, can be mind-blowingly retrograde when it comes to women and girls. And while an occasional woman or girl rules the box office, too many of their on-screen sisters are sidelined or just left out of the picture.
Watch a new ad for Destiny directed by Oblivion‘s Joseph Kosinski: