The Roundup is a regular column which collates (and curates) news, feature articles, podcast episodes and other online curios associated with film.
News
- Netflix is coming to Australia in March 2015 – albeit reportedly with a considerably smaller library than the US version. (The Guardian)
- Ridley Scott’s 2007 re-edit of Blade Runner will reach cinemas in 2015. (Digital Spy)
- Park Chan-wook will return to the sci-fi genre, set to direct Second Born. (Indiewire)
- Fandor now offer a selection of different Criterion Collection titles available for twelve days each, in a deal struck with Hulu Plus. (Fandor)
- The 2015 Berlinale will host a retrospective dedicated to Technicolor. (Berlinale)
Features
- Fandor has just initiated a free four-part “short alternative course in cinema” called Film 101. See part one “The birth of a medium” and part two “Silents become golden”, which focus on silent cinema. (Keyframe)
- “The problem is that she isn’t really a character, but rather an animation of a not very interesting idea about the female capacity for nastiness.” Zoe Heller on Gone Girl. (The New York Review of Books)
- This interview with Goodbye to Language cinematographer Fabrice Aragno about the pioneering use of 3D in the film. (Film Comment)
- Matt Singer on “Why Are Christopher Nolan’s Fans So Intense?” (Screen Crush)
- Mallory Andrews from online film journal cléo on Agnès Varda’s LA-set Mur Murs (1981) (MUBI Notebook)
- Brad Stevens on the art of novelisations. (Sight & Sound)
- Dorian Stuber and Marianne Tettlebaum on the significance of unexplained disappearance of a Jewish character in Lubitsch’s To Be or Not to Be (1942). (Lola Journal)
- Nick Pinkerton has been on a bit of a roll of late, with his pan of Albert Serra’s Story of My Death as well as his defence of the vaudevillian Dumb and Dumber To both making for great reads. (Reverse Shot)
Podcasts
- Isabelle Huppert talks with Kim Cattrall. (The Talkhouse)
- The Film Society of Lincoln Center’s new podcast The Close-Up is well worth a listen, with highlights so far including conversations with Paul Thomas Anderson, John Waters and Laura Poitras. (iTunes)
Other
- Watch: Patti Smith and David Lynch in conversation (08:48). (BBC Arts)
- The third MIFF-commissioned Out 1 video essay is now out, from Australians Chris Luscri and David Heslin, titled Out 1: From Conspiracy to Conspiracy, and featuring footage shot in Melbourne alongside Rivette’s Paris.
- Linklater’s screenplay for Boyhood is now freely available. (No Film School)
- Watch: Five Minutes on Film with Tara Judah. (Film Advocacy Task Force)
- Director Damien Chazelle narrates the opening scene of Whiplash. (The New York Times)
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