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"What is documentary?" Little White Lies puts the question to Joshua Oppenheimer, Jeanie Finlay, Marc Isaacs, Kim Longinotto, Lucy Walker, Elizabeth Wood and Robert Green. Also in today's roundup: David Bordwell on Paolo Gioli and Jonathan Rosenbaum on American Crime Story: The People v. O.J. Simpson and Confirmation. Plus, the Time 100 includes Christopher Nolan on Kip Thorne, Rita Moreno on Gina Rodriguez, Ilana Glazer and Abbi Jacobson on Aziz Ansari, Tony Kushner on Kathleen Kennedy, Dwayne Johnson on Priyanka Chopra, Steven Spielberg on Mark Rylance, Lena Dunham on Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Paul Haggis on Oscar Isaac, David Simon on Idris Elba, Guillermo del Toro on Alejandro González Iñárritu—and more. » - David Hudson »

22 April 2016 11:36 AM, PDT

The Metrograph is screening all ten of Rainer Werner Fassbinder's favorite films: Nicholas Ray's Johnny Guitar, Howard Hawks's Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Charles Laughton's The Night of the Hunter, Vasily Shukshin's The Red Snowball Tree, Josef von Sternberg's Dishonored, Max Ophuls's Lola Montes, Michael Curtiz's Flamingo Road, Pier Paolo Pasolini's Salò, or The 120 Days of Sodom, Raoul Walsh's The Naked and the Dead and Luchino Visconti's The Damned. Also in New York: King Hu’s A Touch of Zen and work by Luis Ospina. Screening tonight in Chicago: Nathan Silver's Riot, Mike Ott's Lancaster, CA and William Greaves's In the Company of Men. And we have a few more goings on. » - David Hudson »

22 April 2016 7:31 AM, PDT

An Early Clue to the New Direction: Queer Cinema Before Stonewall, a series opening today at the Film Society of Lincoln Center and running through May 1, is "an unapologetic, unmitigated, mesmerizingly diverse assembly of 23 feature-length movies and 25 shorts that constitutes a kaleidoscopic portrait of self-discovery and shame," writes Wesley Morris in the New York Times. "This gamut covers a lot of ground, too: the winking mannerism of Alfred Hitchcock (Rope), the dimensional experimentalism of Gregory Markopoulos (Twice a Man, with a young Olympia Dukakis), the serene classicism of Vincente Minnelli (Tea and Sympathy), the icebox psycho-expressionism of Ingmar Bergman (Persona)." We're gathering previews. » - David Hudson »

21 April 2016 10:58 AM, PDT

The Associated Press has received confirmation that Prince "has died at his home in suburban Minneapolis," the city where he was born Prince Rogers Nelson and where, of course, he'd pioneer that "Minneapolis sound." We're gathering tributes. "Across a career of more than 35 years," Joe Cocsarelli for the New York Times, "Prince released 39 albums while being lauded not only for his songs, but their visual presentation both onstage and on camera. His 1984 film Purple Rain is widely considered one of the best and most influential music films ever, while its accompanying soundtrack spawned the No. 1 hits 'Let’s Go Crazy' and 'When Doves Cry.' He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2004." » - David Hudson »

21 April 2016 8:56 AM, PDT

The 59th edition of the San Francisco International Film Festival, the longest-running film festival in the Americas, opens tonight with Whit Stillman’s Jane Austen adaptation Love & Friendship and closes on May 5 with Bay Area filmmaker Jesse Moss’s documentary, The Bandit, a documentary on the making of Hal Needham’s 1977 drive-in classic Smokey and the Bandit with Burt Reynolds (who's expected to show). In between, 175 films will screen, including the Centerpiece, James Schamus's Indignation. We're previewing the two-week event, which will includes presentations of awards to Ellen Burstyn, Tom McCarthy, Mira Nair and Peter Coyote. » - David Hudson »

21 April 2016 6:54 AM, PDT

"At the age of 77, Francis Ford Coppola is attempting what may be his most ambitious project yet." Graham Winfrey reports for Indiewire. Also in today's roundup on projects in the works: Darren Aronofsky will produce the next film by Sebastian Schipper (Victoria). Nicolas Winding Refn, whose The Neon Demon will compete at Cannes, will be a showrunner on the Italian TV series Les Italiens. Azazel Jacobs (Terri) will direct Debra Winger and Tracy Letts in The Lovers. Sean Baker will follow up on Tangerine with The Florida Project. John Ridley will direct Idris Elba in Guerrilla, a six-episode limited series. And: "Star Wars: The Force Awakens breakout Daisy Ridley and producer J.J. Abrams are planning to reteam on Kolma, a fantasy thriller that Diary of a Teenage Girl filmmaker Marielle Heller is in negotiations to direct," reports TheWrap's Jeff Sneider. » - David Hudson »

20 April 2016 10:31 AM, PDT

The Cannes Film Festival has announced the lineup for this year's Cannes Classics program of restorations, revivals and documentaries about cinema. Flagged first is Bertrand Tavernier's Voyage à travers le cinéma français, a personal exploration of the history of French cinema. William Friedkin will be giving a masterclass and the fresh restorations include Andrei Tarkovsky's Solaris, Jean-Luc Godard's Masculin féminin, Marlon Brando's One-Eyed Jacks, Youssef Chahine's Adieu Bonaparte, Milos Forman's Valmont, Mario Bava's Planet of the Vampires and Arturo Ripstein's Tiempo de morir. » - David Hudson »

20 April 2016 5:26 AM, PDT

Tom Tykwer's adaptation of Dave Eggers's 2012 novel, A Hologram for the King, has premiered at Tribeca before beginning its international rollout on Friday. The New York Times' Charles McGrath talks to Eggers about Tykwer's highlighting of the books inherent comedy, with Tykwer about why Tom Hanks absolutely had to play the lead, and with Hanks about the offer he couldn't refuse. Variety's Justin Chang: "Having directed a few different versions of Hanks in his portions of Cloud Atlas (2012), Tykwer has now set himself to the task of pinning down, and gently chipping away at, the actor’s sturdy Everyman image." We're gathering more reviews. » - David Hudson »

19 April 2016 10:00 AM, PDT

With three galvanizing dramas to their credit, the Israeli brother-and-sister tandem of Shlomi and Ronit Elkabetz (creators of Gett) have joined the Dardennes, Tavianis and Coens in an exclusive club of internationally acclaimed siblings. Their latest, Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem, which won critics’ and audience prizes at the Venice Film Festival and the Best Picture Award from the Israeli Film Academy, highlights the absurdity of Israel’s divorce law (which falls under the authority of Orthodox rabbis, and requires the spouse’s consent) through an extended court case. Sharply written and wonderfully acted, it is the final chapter in the filmmakers’ Viviane Amsalem trilogy and the first to receive distribution in the U.S.>> - Michael Fox »

19 April 2016 9:31 AM, PDT

The new issue of cléo features essays on Denis Villeneuve's Sicario, Jennifer Phang’s Advantageous, Catherine Breillat’s Abuse of Weakness, Andrea Arnold's Fish Tank, Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne's Two Days, One Night and Sean Baker's Tangerine, another on Anna May Wong, plus an interview with Kirsten Johnson (Cameraperson) and a profile of cinematographer Iris Ng. Also in today's roundup: Nina Hoss on her performance in Christian Petzold's Phoenix, reviving Ivan Passer's Cutter’s Way, honoring Ellen Burstyn and remembering Ronit Elkabetz and Doris Roberts. » - David Hudson »

19 April 2016 3:10 AM, PDT

Marco Bellocchio's Sweet Dreams with Bérénice Bejo will open the 48th edition of Director's Fortnight. We've got the full lineup and we're gathering notes on new works by Houda Benyamina, Paul Schrader (Dog Eat Dog with Nicolas Cage and Willem Dafoe), Joachim Lafosse (After Love with Bérénice Béjo and Cédric Kahn), Sólveig Anspach, Paolo Virzì, Sébastien Lifshitz, Claude Barras, Nathan Morlando, Sacha Wolff, Pablo Larraín (Neruda with Gael García Bernal), Alejandro Jodorowsky, Anurag Kashyap, Laura Poitras, Rachid Djaïdani, Kim Nguyen and Shahrbanoo Sadat. » - David Hudson »

18 April 2016 12:38 PM, PDT

For Max Goldberg, Zach Iannazzi’s Old Hat was one of the highlights of this year's Crossroads festival. Also in today's roundup of news and views: "Why Nerds Are So Sexist," Locarno's homage to Mario Adorf, Roschdy Zem's Chocolat opens a French film festival in Los Angeles, a Raúl Ruiz retrospective in Paris, plus: Michelle Williams is joining Julianne Moore in Todd Haynes's Wonderstruck, José Padilha (Narcos) is creating a series based on the scandal currently bringing down Brazil's president, Sam Taylor-Johnson will direct Naomi Watts in Gypsy for Netflix, and Kevin Bacon (The Following) is set to star opposite Kathryn Hahn in Jill Soloway’s Amazon comedy pilot I Love Dick, based on the novel by Chris Kraus. » - David Hudson »

18 April 2016 3:52 AM, PDT

La Semaine de la Critique, the oldest parallel competitive section of the Cannes Film Festival known to most as Critics' Week, has announced the lineup for its 55th edition running from May 12 through 20. Valérie Donzelli heads up this year's jury, whose other members are Alice Winocour, Nadav Lapid, David Robert Mitchell and Santiago Mitre. Among the features in the Competition are Vatche Boulghourjian's Tramontane, Davy Chou's Diamond Island, Julia Ducourneau's Raw (Grave), Oliver Laxe's Mimosas, Mehmet Can Mertoğlu's Albüm, Asaph Polonsky's One Week and a Day, and K. Rajagopal's A Yellow Bird. And this year's edition will close with an intriguing trio: Laetitia Casta's En Moi, Sandrine Kiberlain's Smile and Chloë Sevigny's Kitty. » - David Hudson »

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