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Watch Bong Joon-ho stop by The Criterion Collection closet:
At The Village Voice, Calum Marsh on how Luis Bunuel is still jabbing at eyeballs:
The observable universe is a million million million million miles large — that’s one followed by 24 zeroes — and 13.8 billion years old. We know this. But when you’re standing in a 400-square-foot coffee shop for 10 minutes, waiting for your venti decaf latte, that staggering cosmic breadth is dwarfed by the rage of the moment. If you gave it any thought, you would recognize how trivial your impatience is compared to, say, the 380,000 years it took the universe to cool enough for hydrogen atoms to form. Cosmological time has a funny way of making our lives seem insignificant. The only consolation is that humankind remains uniquely equipped to ignore the obvious and carry on caring about things anyway. You can’t help it: The latte matters. We call this The Absurd. The tension between what we know about the universe and how we continue to regard ourselves within it — that is, the tension between knowing that everything is pointless and needing to pretend that it isn’t — is the foundation of Luis Buñuel’s cinema.
Watch Richard Linklater‘s Don’t Talk PSA for Alamo Drafthouse:
Cinema Guild has acquired Thom Andersen‘s landmark documentary Los Angeles Plays Itself for a fall release.
Watch Peter Bogdanovich discuss John Wayne in Red River and read our essay on the film: