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NYFF has announced its Projections sidebar with new films from Ken Jacobs, Jodie Mack, Ben Rivers, Stephanie Barber, Deborah Stratman, and more.
The Berlin International Film Festival will give Wim Wenders a Golden Bear award for his life’s work, THR reports.
At Little White Lies, Paul Risker on the geography of Werner Herzog:
Werner Herzog is a truly global filmmaker. His cinema has spanned continents, his camera taking in the sights and sounds of the desert, jungle, frozen wilderness, as well as urban spaces. If cinema should not be defined by boundaries or borders then Herzog’s is a cinema of the world, touching the majority of our continents.
But place and space are not just lethargic backdrops for his narratives or cast of players. The space and locations are a building block in creating a construction link to the filmmaker’s psyche as well as his characters thereby creating a triangular relationship between filmmaker, character and space.
Paramount has picked up the home video rights for Boyhood, which likely means the confirmed Criterion release will be coming later down the line.
Watch Deakins: Shadows in the Valley, a tribute to the cinematographer:
Some Chinese movie theaters are projecting text messages on screen, /Film reports.
At Criticwire, Max O’Connell pleads to stop judging movies off production stills:
We’re already at a point where there are too many teasers, promo photos, and previews of event movies, to the point where it’s hard not to get sick of them before you even see them. I want to see Peyton Reed (the talented director behind “Bring It On” and “Down with Love”) succeed as much as the next person, even if he’s working in the Marvel Machine, but the early still for “Ant-Man” doesn’t give much of any indication about anything. Ditto for the early shots that confirm that, yes indeed, J.J. Abrams’s “Star Wars” sequel will have an X-Wing in it. Neither of these cases have told us anything cogent about the shape the films are in (especially difficult given that they’re not done shooting and not coming out this year), so arguing that a movie that’s not playing the same pre-release overkill game might be in trouble is absurd.