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Cannes Protest
Via guardian.co.uk
May 21
Beard-wearing protesters from the feminist group La Barbe are angered that of the 22 directors up for a Palme d’Or at Cannes, none are women. “Men love their women to have depth, but only when it comes to their cleavage,” they argued in a letter.
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Passings: Amos Vogel
Via frieze.com
May 18
Amos Vogel—founder of Cinema 16 and, later, the New York Film Festival—felt that “in a democracy it was crucial to offer the public a range of films that would question, enlighten, and enervate with the goal of undermining previous ways of thinking and feeling.”
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Cat Break
Via juxtapoz.com
May 18
Maybe we’re missing the point of this cats+internet thing—cuteness counts, right?—but we couldn’t pass on Lee Hardcastle’s spot-on, but grisly remake of Gareth Evans’ ultra-violent Indonesian film The Raid (2011), using claymation cats.
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John Waters, Hitchhiker
Via gawker.com
May 16
While driving in Ohio recently, members of the band Here We Go Magic noticed a familiar-looking hitch-hiker on highway on-ramp. Circling back, they picked up none other than filmmaker, artist, and curator of our Absentee Landlord show John Waters.
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NIMBY Filmworks
Via movies.com
May 14
Long opposed by neighbors, George Lucas’ plan to build a 300,000 s.f. studio complex in Marin County, CA, has been ditched. Noting that the community indicated it’d prefer housing over commerce, the director now aims to use the land for low-income housing.
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Mekong Hotel
Via indiewire.com
May 10
Apichatpong Weerasethakul—whose web-only film will screen exclusively on the Walker Channel from July through December—screens Mekong Hotel at Cannes next week. Stills of the Palme d’Or winner’s latest have been released, although some mystery persists.
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Rosler & Representation
Via artinfo.com
May 10
“I’ve been obsessed by questions of representation,” Martha Rosler says of her antiwar and feminist art. “It’s one of the guiding themes of my work, an interest in representation itself as a way in which our world is formed for us.”
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Godard 3-D
Via thefilmstage.com
May 9
French New Wave pioneer Jean-Luc Godard is going where Wim Wenders, Martin Scorsese, and James Cameron have gone before: into the realm of 3-D film. Currently in production, his Farewell to Language uses the technology.
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Dean’s Quietude
Via thedailybeast.com
May 8
The “quietude” in Tacita Dean’s film Five Americans—which includes meditative footage of artists including Claes Oldenburg, Merce Cunningham, and Julie Mehretu—”is hard-won, achieved with as much labor as any oil by Vermeer,” writes Blake Gopnik.