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Ida has been selected as Poland’s Oscar entry, Screen Daily reports. Listen to our review.
Read Kent Jones‘ conversation with Wes Anderson about Pedro Almodóvar at The Criterion Collection:
I think Bergman and Almodóvar may be the two best examples of great filmmakers who are writers at least as conspicuously, who have worked regionally, in their own country and their own language, over and over again, and have never particularly left them, at least so far, to go make a Hollywood movie or any other kind of international thing—except we know Bergman had some tax problems, and he had to do a couple in Germany or Norway or somewhere—and who have been completely true to their own particular, idiosyncratic, refined kind of filmmaking, with their own group of collaborators, working over and over again with their own stock company of actors, who we’ve gotten to know well, their own director of photography, designer, composer, things like that.
Watch a video essay on texting and the Internet in film, which might need to be updated after today:
Michel Hazanavicius‘ The Search (our review) has been re-edited since Cannes, The Wrap reports.
Leonard Maltin’s Movie Guide will end publication after the 2015 edition, Criticwire reports.
Watch Mark Romanek‘s latest project, a video for Taylor Swift: