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Snowpiercer is the first Oscar screener sent to voters, Deadline reports. Listen to our discussion of Bong Joon-ho‘s sci-fi feature.
At Criterion, Hilton Als‘ essay on All That Jazz, released this week:
Ladies and gentlemen, may I present for your delectation the American director Bob Fosse, dead for more than twenty-five years now but living on in a series of works that are so remarkable in their individuality and vision that it is not unusual to feel, while watching any number of the shows he conceived for the stage, or any number of his deeply imaginative motion pictures, that one is, still, in the presence of an actual living, breathing person, restless and contemporary, a body that is like one long sentence filled with ideas about sex, ideas about women, ideas about cinema and entertainment and guilt—a sentence that could have gone on and on were it not for Bob Fosse’s actual body betraying the artist one day in 1987, when he was in Washington, D.C., working on a revival of Sweet Charity, a musical he had choreographed and directed on Broadway twenty years before.
David Chase is now entering pre-production on his sophomore feature Little Black Dress, VOX reports.
Todd Haynes‘ Safe is coming to The Criterion Collection:
BAFTA will host a conversation with David Fincher next month, Cineuropa reports.
Sophia Loren will have a tribute at AFI Fest this year, Variety reports. See the poster below.
