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2020 Rondo Hatton Awards
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Meet the Nominees Theatrical Feature Film Symposium 2020 - Part 2 of 3 (Ep. 250)
Jeremy Kagan moderates the 29th Annual DGA Meet the Nominees: Theatrical Feature Film Symposium featuring Sam Mendes, Bong Joon Ho, Martin Scorsese, Quentin Tarantino, and Taika Waititi on their nominated films. Part two shares the nominees' thoughts on dealing with anxiety, how they tackle pre-production issues, and the language they use to adjust an actor's performance.
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Wildlife (2018)
Directed by Paul Dano
Country: United States
Duration: 105 minutes
Language: English
Spine #1031
DVD BONUS FEATURES
New interviews with director Paul Dano, screenwriter Zoe Kazan, actors Carey Mulligan and Jake Gyllenhaal, cinematographer Diego García, production designer Akin McKenzie, and costume designer Amanda Ford
New conversation on the film’s postproduction with Dano, editor Matthew Hannam, and composer David Lang
Film at Lincoln Center conversation from 2018 between Dano and novelist Richard Ford about the film’s source material
PLUS: An essay by critic Mark Harris
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Scorsese Shorts
Country: United States
Duration: 135 minutes
Language: English
Spine #1030
DVD BONUS FEATURES
ITALIANAMERICAN (1974 • 49 minutes • Color • Monaural • 1.33:1 aspect ratio)
AMERICAN BOY (1978 • 55 minutes • Color • Monaural • 1.33:1 aspect ratio)
THE BIG SHAVE (1967 • 5 minutes • Color • Monaural • 1.33:1 aspect ratio)
IT’S NOT JUST YOU, MURRAY! (1964 • 16 minutes • Black & White • Monaural • 1.33:1 aspect ratio)
WHAT’S A NICE GIRL LIKE YOU DOING IN A PLACE LIKE THIS? (1963 • 10 minutes • Black & White • Monaural • 1.33:1 aspect ratio)New conversation between director Martin Scorsese and film critic Farran Smith Nehme
New discussion among filmmakers Ari Aster and Josh and Benny Safdie
More!
PLUS: An essay by film critic Bilge Ebiri and various materials from Scorsese’s archive
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Husbands (1970)
Directed by John Cassavetes
Country: United States
Duration: 142 minutes
Language: English
Spine #1029
DVD BONUS FEATURES
Audio commentary from 2009 featuring critic Marshall Fine
New interviews with producer Al Ruban and actor Jenny Runacre
New video essay by filmmaker Daniel Raim, featuring audio recordings of John Cassavetes in his own words, exploring the actor-director’s spirited approach to acting
The Story of “Husbands”—A Tribute to John Cassavetes (2009), a half-hour program featuring Ruban, actor Ben Gazzara, and cinematographer Victor J. Kemper
Episode of The Dick Cavett Show from 1970 featuring Cassavetes, Gazzara, and actor Peter Falk
Trailer
PLUS: An essay by filmmaker Andrew Bujalski
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Dance, Girl, Dance (1940)
Directed by Dorothy Arzner
Country: United States
Duration: 90 minutes
Language: English
Spine #1028
DVD BONUS FEATURES
New introduction by critic B. Ruby Rich
New selected-scene commentary featuring film historian Cari Beauchamp
PLUS: An essay by critic Sheila O’Malley
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The Great Escape (1963)
Directed by John Sturges
Country: United States
Duration: 172 minutes
Language: English
Spine #1027
DVD BONUS FEATURES
Two audio commentaries, one from 1991, featuring director John Sturges and composer Elmer Bernstein; the other, from 2004, featuring actors James Coburn, James Garner, and Donald Pleasence
New interview with critic Michael Sragow
“The Great Escape”: Heroes Underground, a four-part 2001 documentary about the real-life escape from the Stalag Luft III prisoner-of-war camp during World War II, including interviews with POWs held there
The Real Virgil Hilts: A Man Called Jones, a 2001 program on the United States Army Air Forces pilot David Jones, the inspiration for Steve McQueen’s character in the film
Return to “The Great Escape,” a 1993 program featuring interviews with Coburn, Garner, actors David McCallum and Jud Taylor, stuntman Bud Ekins, and McQueen’s son, Chad McQueen
Trailer
PLUS: An essay by critic Sheila O’Malley
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Meet the Nominees Theatrical Feature Film Symposium 2020 - Part 1 of 3 (Ep. 249)
Jeremy Kagan moderates the 29th Annual DGA Meet the Nominees: Theatrical Feature Film Symposium featuring Sam Mendes, Bong Joon Ho, Martin Scorsese, Quentin Tarantino, and Taika Waititi on their nominated films. Part one shares the nominees' thoughts on where they like to be on set when directing and share details about shooting the openings and closings of their film.
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Three Christs with Jon Avnet and Rodrigo García (Ep. 248)
Director Jon Avnet discusses his new film, Three Christs, with fellow director Rodrigo García. The film follows a Michigan psychiatrist as he treats three paranoid schizophrenic patients, each of whom believes that he is Jesus Christ. Please note spoilers are included.
See photos and a summary of this event below:
https://www.dga.org/Events/2020/March2020/JonAvnet_discusses_ThreeChrists_QnA_0120.aspx
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And the Winner Is...
Best Feature:
Klaus Netflix Presents A Production of The Spa Studios and Atresmedia Cine
Best Indie Feature:
I Lost My Body Xilam for Netflix
Best Special Production:
How to Train Your Dragon Homecoming Dreamworks Animation
Best Short Subject:
Uncle Thomas: Accounting for the Days Ciclope Filmes, National Film Board of Canada, Les Armateurs
Best VR:
Bonfire Baobab Studios
Best Commercial:
The Mystical Journey of Jimmy Page's '59 Telecaster Nexus Studios
Best TV/Media - Preschool:
Ask the Storybots Jibjab Bros. Studios for Netflix
Best TV/Media - Children:
Disney Mickey Mouse Disney TV Animation/Disney Channel
Best TV/Media - General Audience:
Bojack Horseman Tornante Productions, LLC for Netflix
Best Student Film:
The Fox & The Pigeon Michelle Chua, Sheridan College Students: Michelle Chua, Aileen Dewhurst, Sharon Gabriella, Viktor Ivanovski, Sang Lee, Tyler Pacana, Sikyung Kevin Sung, Morgan Thompson, Matt Walton, Steven Wang, Chelsea van Tol
Best FX for TV/Media:
Love, Death & Robots Blur for Netflix Nominees: Viktor Németh, Szabolcs Illés, Ádám Sipos, Vladimir Zhovna
Best FX for Feature:
Frozen 2 Walt Disney Animation Studios Nominees: Benjamin Fiske, Alex Moaveni, Jesse Erickson, Dimitre Berberov, Kee Nam Suong
Best Character Animation - TV/Media:
His Dark Materials BBC Studios Nominees: Aulo Licinio
Best Character Animation - Animated Feature:
Klaus Netflix Presents A Production of The Spa Studios and Atresmedia Cine Nominees: Sergio Martins
Best Character Animation - Live Action:
Avengers: Endgame Weta Digital Nominees: Sidney Kombo-Kintombo, Sam Sharplin, Kevin Norris, Tim Teramoto, Jacob Luamanuvae-Su'a
Best Character Animation - Video Game:
Unruly Heroes Magic Design Studios Nominees: Sebastien Parodi, Nicolas Leger
Best Character Design - TV/Media:
Carmen Sandiego Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing and DHX Media for Netflix Nominees: Keiko Murayama
Best Character Design - Feature:
Klaus Netflix Presents A Production of The Spa Studios and Atresmedia Cine Nominees: Torsten Schrank
Best Direction - TV/Media:
Disney Mickey Mouse Disney TV Animation/Disney Channel Nominees: Alonso Ramirez Ramos
Best Direction - Feature:
Klaus Netflix Presents A Production of The Spa Studios and Atresmedia Cine Nominees: Sergio Pablos
Best Music - TV/Media:
Love, Death & Robots Blur for Netflix Nominees: Rob Cairns
Best Music - Feature:
I Lost My Body Xilam for Netflix Nominees: Dan Levy
Best Production Design - TV/Media:
Love, Death & Robots Blur for Netflix Nominees: Alberto Mielgo
Best Production Design - Feature:
Klaus Netflix Presents A Production of The Spa Studios and Atresmedia Cine Nominees: Szymon Biernacki, Marcin Jakubowski
Best Storyboarding - TV/Media:
Carmen Sandiego Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing and DHX Media for Netflix Nominees: Kenny Park
Best Storyboarding - Feature:
Klaus Netflix Presents A Production of The Spa Studios and Atresmedia Cine Nominees: Sergio Pablos
Best Voice Acting - TV/Media:
Bob's Burgers 20th Century Fox/Bento Box Entertainment Nominees H. Jon Benjamin
Best Voice Acting - Feature:
Frozen 2 Walt Disney Animation Studios Nominees: Josh Gad
Best Writing - TV/Media:
Tuca & Bertie Tornante Productions, LLC for Netflix Nominees: Shauna McGarry
Best Writing - Feature:
I Lost My Body Xilam for Netflix Nominees: Jérémy Clapin, Guillaume Laurant
Best Editorial - TV/Media:
Love, Death & Robots Blur for Netflix Nominees: Bo Juhl, Stacy Auckland, Valerian Zamel
Best Editorial - Feature:
Klaus Netflix Presents A Production of The Spa Studios and Atresmedia Cine Nominees: Pablo García Revert
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I am hoping that maybe for the National Film Registry for this year there would be more older films from the 1890s to the 1940s. It is crucially important that these films from the early period be seen to an audience of mainstream contemporary viewers who are not familiar with these films.
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Me and You and Everyone We Know (2005)
Directed by Miranda July
Country: United States
Duration: 91 minutes
Language: English
Spine #1026
DVD BONUS FEATURES
New documentary about July’s artistic beginnings and the development of her debut feature
Open to the World, a new documentary by July about the 2017 interfaith charity shop and participatory artwork she created in collaboration with Artangel
July Interviews July: Deauville, 2005, a discovery from July’s archives, newly edited
Six scenes from the 2003 Sundance Directors Lab, where July workshopped the film, with commentary by July
The Amateurist (1998) and Nest of Tens (2000), short films by July
Several films from July’s Joanie 4 Jackie project, and a documentary about the program
Trailer
PLUS: Essays by artist and scholar Sara Magenheimer and novelist Lauren Groff
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The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)
Directed by Wes Anderson
Country: United States
Duration: 100 minutes
Language: English
Spine #1025
DVD BONUS FEATURES
New audio commentary featuring Anderson, filmmaker Roman Coppola, and actor Jeff Goldblum
Selected-scene storyboard animatics
The Making of “The Grand Budapest Hotel,” a new documentary about the film
New interviews with the cast and crew
Video essays from 2015 and 2020 by critic Matt Zoller Seitz and film scholar David Bordwell
Behind-the-scenes, special-effects, and test footage
Trailer
PLUS: Two pieces by critic Richard Brody
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The Cremator (1969)
Directed by Juraj Herz
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 100 minutes
Language: Czech
Spine #1023
DVD BONUS FEATURES
High-definition digital transfer of The Junk Shop, director Juraj Herz’s 1965 debut short film
Short documentary from 2011 featuring Herz visiting filming locations and recalling the production of The Cremator
New interview with film programmer Irena Kovarova about the style of the film
Documentary from 2017 about composer Zdeněk Liška featuring Herz, filmmakers Jan Švankmajer and the Quay Brothers, and others
Interview with actor Rudolf Hrušínský from 1993
Trailer
PLUS: An essay by scholar Jonathan Owen
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Destry Rides Again (1939)
Directed by George Marshall
Country: United States
Duration: 94 minutes
Language: English
Spine #1024
DVD BONUS FEATURES
New interview with critic Imogen Sara Smith
New interview with Donald Dewey, author of James Stewart: A Biography
New video essay featuring excerpts from a 1973 oral-history interview with director George Marshall, conducted by the American Film Institute
Lux Radio Theatre adaptation of the film from 1945, featuring actors James Stewart and Joan Blondell
PLUS: An essay by critic Farran Smith Nehme
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I was interested in seeing the film The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957). Because of its philosophical message and the fact that this was not the first film to delve into the topic of shrinking. That would have to go to the film Dr. Cyclops (1940)
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Of all the films that were inducted on the list, I felt that Dirty Harry is my least favorite because of it's conservative content.
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Was there any notification that there were going to be future guest programmers to TCM this month or in March or April? If so, let me know.
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Pain and Glory with Pedro Almodovar and Kenneth Lonergan (Ep. 247)
Director Pedro Almodóvar discusses his new film, Pain and Glory, with fellow director Kenneth Lonergan. This deeply personal film from Spain tells the story of Salvador Mallo, a depressed director who is thinking of leaving filmmaking because of chronic health problems. A series of encounters, both real and remembered, leads Mallo to reflect on the choices he's made. Please note spoilers are included.
See photos and a summary of this event below:
https://www.dga.org/Events/2019/Dec2019/GCS_PainYGlory_0919.aspx
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Atlantics with Mati Diop and Michael Almereyda (Ep. 246)
Director Mati Diop discusses her new film, Atlantics, with fellow director Michael Almereyda. Set in the outskirts of Dakar on Senegal's Atlantic coast, the film tells the story of a young woman who is in love with a construction worker, but is already promised to another man. After the construction worker is lost at sea and the devastated woman prepares to go through with her original wedding, strange things begin to happen that may thwart her plans. Please note spoilers are included.
See photos and a summary of this event below:
https://www.dga.org/Events/2019/Dec2019/GCS_Atlantics_1019.aspx
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Martha Graham Early Dance Films
("Heretic," 1931; "Frontier," 1936; "Lamentation," 1943; "Appalachian Spring," 1944) Universally acknowledged as the preeminent figure in the development of modern dance and one of the most important artists of the 20th century, Martha Graham formed her own dance company in 1926. It became the longest continuously operating school of dance in America. With her company's creation, Graham codified her revolutionary new dance language soon to be dubbed the "Graham Technique." Her innovations would go on to influence generations of future dancers and choreographers, including Twyla Tharp and Merce Cunningham. This quartet of films, all silent and all starring Graham herself, document four of the artist's most important early works. They are "Heretic," with Graham as an outcast denounced by Puritans; "Frontier," a solo piece celebrating western expansion and the American spirit; "Lamentation," a solo piece about death and mourning; and "Appalachian Spring," a multi-character dance drama, the lyrical beauty of which is retained even without the aid of Aaron Copland's famous and beloved music.
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Brokeback Mountain (2005)
Courtesy of River Road / Focus Features/NBCUniversal
"Brokeback Mountain," a contemporary Western drama that won the Academy Award for best screenplay (by Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana) and Golden Globe awards for best drama, director (Ang Lee) and screenplay, depicts a secret and tragic love affair between two closeted gay ranch hands. They furtively pursue a 20-year relationship despite marriages and parenthood until one of them dies violently, reportedly by accident, but possibly, as the surviving lover fears, in a brutal attack. Annie Proulx, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the short story upon which the film was based, described it as "a story of destructive rural homophobia." Haunting in its unsentimental depiction of longing, lonesomeness, pretense, sexual repression and ultimately love, "Brokeback Mountain" features Heath Ledger's remarkable performance that conveys a lifetime of self-torment through a pained demeanor, near inarticulate speech and constricted, lugubrious movements. In his review, Newsweek's David Ansen wrotes that the film was "a watershed in mainstream movies, the first gay love story with A-list Hollywood stars." "Brokeback Mountain" has become an enduring classic.
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13 Lakes (2004)
James Benning's feature-length film can be seen as a series of moving landscape paintings with artistry and scope that might be compared to Claude Monet's series of water-lily paintings. Embracing the concept of "landscape as a function of time," Benning shot his film at 13 different American lakes in identical 10-minute takes. Each is a static composition: a balance of sky and water in each frame with only the very briefest suggestion of human existence. At each lake, Benning prepared a single shot, selected a single camera position and a specific moment. The climate, the weather and the season deliver a level of variation to the film, a unique play of light, despite its singularity of composition. Curators of the Rotterdam Film Festival noted, "The power of the film is that the filmmaker teaches the viewer to look better and learn to distinguish the great varieties in the landscape alongside him. [The list of lakes] alone is enough to encompass a treatise on America and its history. A treatise the film certainly encourages, but emphatically does not take part in." Benning, who studied mathematics and then film at the University of Wisconsin, currently is on the faculty at the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts).
The expanded essay is below this description.
https://www.loc.gov/static/programs/national-film-preservation-board/documents/13_lakes.pdf
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Fog of War (2003)
In "The Fog of War," idiosyncratic documentary filmmaker Errol Morris interrogates one man, Robert Strange McNamara, who served under presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson as secretary of defense. Educated and trained as a systems analyst for large organizations, McNamara at age 85 reexamines his fateful role as one of the prime U.S. architects of the Vietnam War. Recounting as well the U.S. incendiary bombing campaign during World War II against 67 Japanese cities that resulted in mass civilian deaths, his role at the Ford Motor Company in implementing safety features to reduce the number of deaths, and the defusion of the Cuban Missile Crisis through an empathetic understanding of the enemy, "The Fog of War" is structured by 11 lessons Morris has drawn from McNamara's remembrances and ruminations. Historians and reviewers have both praised "The Fog of War," winner of the 2003 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, for revealing in a riveting manner the moral complexities and unresolved nature of McNamara's understandings and criticized the film for its selective presentation of the events discussed.
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Meet the Nominees Theatrical Feature Film Symposium 2020 - Part 3 of 3 (Ep. 251)
Sam Mendes, Bong Joon Ho, Martin Scorsese, Quentin Tarantino, and Taika Waititi engage in a conversation with Jeremy Kagan for the 29th Annual DGA Meet the Nominees: Theatrical Feature Film Symposium on their nominated films. Part three shares the nominees' thoughts on working with actors and the lessons they learned on their movie.