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Still Dots #73
Crosscuts
Aug 2012
We find Anna, again, in the clutches of the British military’s investigations, though this time she has been pulled in as a potential witness. Calloway begins his interrogation with a characteristically brusque interruption, “Now then, Miss Schmidt, I’m not interested in your forged papers – that’s purely a Russian case. When did you last see Lime?” With this vaguest hint of absolution with regards to…
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Lady Vanishes, Again
Via artinfo.com
Aug 2012
The BBC is remaking Hitchcock’s 1938 classic The Lady Vanishes. This latest film follows a resurgence in interest surrounding Hitchcock, but will be “closer to crime writer Ethel Lina White’s 1936 novel The Wheel Spins than to the Hitchcock film.”
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The Gilliam Theorem
Via smart.co.uk
Aug 2012
Greenlighted to do his first feature since 2009—The Zero Theorem begins shooting in Bucharest in October—Terry Gilliam discusses directing his first nude scene, a 36-day shoot, and how he’s using Google Earth to do location scouting.
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Minton Out at IFP
Via startribune.com
Aug 2012
With IFP Minnesota since ‘89, Jane Minton has been dismissed as executive director of the film group. A champion of indie film, she mentored Sweetland director Ali Selim and actor Patrick Coyle, who calls her dismissal “shocking.”
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The Sporting Death
Via youtube.com
Aug 2012
In a documentary short for ESPN, Errol Morris (Gates of Heaven, Mr. Death) looks at sports fans for life (and beyond), including a football fan laid in state under a Steelers blanket in his favorite game-day recliner.
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Still Dots #72
Crosscuts
Aug 2012
At military headquarters, Anna is being ushered up a desolate staircase by a throng of officers as Holly spots her approaching. Anxiously, he tries to break through their protective entourage in order to divulge what she still does not know: Harry Lime is alive. “I’ve just seen a dead man walking!,” Holly says to her incredulously. “I saw him buried, and now I’ve seen him alive!” The uncanny thus…
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Still Dots #71
Crosscuts
Aug 2012
In 1939, 10 years before the release of The Third Man and six months before the beginning of the war that would shape its setting, papers were being signed that would change American cinema forever. Alfred Hitchcock was coming to Hollywood. At the time, his fame in England was frantic (newspapers were calling him “Alfred the Great”) and his international reputation was growing in leaps in bounds. A…

