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Everest will open the 2015 Venice Film Festival on September 2nd while Peter Mullan will be a guest of honor at their Critics’ Week.
The Dissolve has, sadly, closed its doors:
For the past two years—well, two years this Friday—it’s been our pleasure to put up this site, a site founded on and driven by a love for movies, alongside a company with passion and talent for creating thoughtful, important work. Sadly, because of the various challenges inherent in launching a freestanding website in a crowded publishing environment, financial and otherwise, today is the last day we will be doing that. We’ve had this opportunity thanks to Pitchfork, which has been incredibly supportive of our vision. We couldn’t have asked for a better partner.
The Wolfpack brothers raid The Criterion Collection closet and it is joyous:
Michael Cimino will receive a lifetime achievement award at Locarno, Screen Daily reports.
Wired‘s Bryan Gardiner goes inside the nuclear bunker where America preserves its movie history:
If the film is rare, highly flammable, and was made before 1951, there’s a good chance it’ll end up on George Willeman’s desk. Or more specifically, in one of his vaults. As the Nitrate Film Vault Manager at The Library of Congress’ Packard Campus for Audio-Visual Conservation, Willeman presides over more than 160,000 reels of combustible cinematic treasure, from the original camera negatives of 1903’s The Great Train Robbery to the early holdings of big studios like Columbia, Warner Bros, and Universal. And more barrels keep showing up every week.
Watch Luis Buñuel discuss the first film he saw and the first one he made:
See a poster for Brad Bird‘s The Iron Giant: Signature Edition, remastered with new scenes, which will return to theaters this fall:
