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Does it matter if a television show tops the best-film lists? | Simran Hans

Twin Peaks has crowned a prestigious film poll. This is what happens when the lines between cinema and TV are blurred

Long before the shouty, opinionated nerds of Twitter, the French film magazine Cahiers du cinéma had already perfected the art of trolling. Its annual list of the year’s 10 best films is always my most anticipated, if only to see what its contrarian critics will name as their wildcard choice. Personal favourite provocations include Vincent Gallo’s The Brown Bunny (2004), M Night Shyamalan’s The Lady in the Water (2006) and Ang Lee’s $40m flop Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk (2017).

Rounding up the decade in cinema, Cahiers declared David Lynch’s 18-part TV series Twin Peaks: The Return its best film of the 2010s. The inclusion of a television show in this kind of list isn’t exactly unprecedented; Cahiers named the original Twin Peaks joint fourth best
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‘Long Day’s Journey Into Night’ Film Review: Haunting Memory Play Culminates in Bravura 3D Sequence

‘Long Day’s Journey Into Night’ Film Review: Haunting Memory Play Culminates in Bravura 3D Sequence
Not to be confused with Eugene O’Neill’s play or any of its subsequent screen adaptations, Chinese box office phenomenon “Long Day’s Journey Into Night” is a mesmerizing hallucination of a film, a journey through one man’s memories for a truth that may not exist. Tang Wei and Huang Jue play a doomed romantic pair in Bi Gan’s languid thriller, which owes a tremendous debt to the likes of Tarkovsky, Malick and Wong Kar-wai even as it forges its own indelible, impressionistic path.

Huang (“The Hidden Sword”) plays Luo Hongwu, a man returning to his hometown of Kaili after the death of his father. Besieged by memories of his past — including a relationship with gangster’s moll Wan Qiwen, who disappeared many years ago on the eve of them running away together — Luo revisits old acquaintances and reflects on the impact of the people he has lost.
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Steve Bannon, Dropped By New Yorker, Is Attending Film Festivals — But They Aren’t Inviting Him

Steve Bannon, Dropped By New Yorker, Is Attending Film Festivals — But They Aren’t Inviting Him
At the Telluride Film Festival, one familiar face was nowhere to be found: Errol Morris, a member of Telluride’s board, whose documentaries tend to screen at the Colorado festival like clockwork. Morris’ latest project will instead premiere on Wednesday at the Venice International Film Festival, where it’s creating a bit of a stir. In “American Dharma,” the filmmaker confronts Steve Bannon, and the former Trump senior advisor is expected to attend the festival for the first public screening.

The news of Bannon’s arrival in Venice came on the heels of a controversy surrounding his scheduled appearance at the New Yorker Festival, which dropped a public conversation with Bannon after other participants threatened to pull out. However, Variety reports that Bannon arrived at Venice on his own, and was not a part of the festival’s official delegation. It remains unclear if he’ll attend the Toronto or New York film festivals,
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A24 Delayed ‘Under the Silver Lake’ Until December — and It’s Another Smart, Radical Move for the Distributor

On Friday morning, with little fanfare, A24 announced that David Robert Mitchell’s sprawling film noir, “Under the Silver Lake,” would no longer be released June 22. Instead, it’s been pushed to December 7. Nor was the company interested in discussing the six-month time shift. A24 spokeswoman Nicolette Aizenberg only responded to our query with a cryptic email: “Indeed we moved the date.”

However, in a company known for smart and radical moves, this appears to be another one. Here’s why.

1. Cool Cannes reception

Mitchell had plenty of reasons to be grateful to the festival for supporting his first two films, “The Myth of the American Sleepover” and “It Follows,” which both played Critics Week. Positive reaction for his debut gave Mitchell the confidence to quit his editing job and focus on getting “It Follows” made. The festival “helped to make that happen,” he told me at an American Pavilion panel at Cannes.
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A24 Delayed ‘Under the Silver Lake’ Until December — and It’s Another Smart, Radical Move for the Distributor

A24 Delayed ‘Under the Silver Lake’ Until December — and It’s Another Smart, Radical Move for the Distributor
On Friday morning, with little fanfare, A24 announced that David Robert Mitchell’s sprawling film noir, “Under the Silver Lake,” would no longer be released June 22. Instead, it’s been pushed to December 7. Nor was the company interested in discussing the six-month time shift. A24 spokeswoman Nicolette Aizenberg only responded to our query with a cryptic email: “Indeed we moved the date.”

However, in a company known for smart and radical moves, this appears to be another one. Here’s why.

1. Cool Cannes reception

Mitchell had plenty of reasons to be grateful to the festival for supporting his first two films, “The Myth of the American Sleepover” and “It Follows,” which both played Critics Week. Positive reaction for his debut gave Mitchell the confidence to quit his editing job and focus on getting “It Follows” made. The festival “helped to make that happen,” he told me at an American Pavilion panel at Cannes.
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Cheryl Tiegs Recalls 'The Brown Bunny's' Infamous Sex Scene: "I Wish He Hadn't Included That"

Cheryl Tiegs Recalls 'The Brown Bunny's' Infamous Sex Scene:
Vincent Gallo's Nc-17 The Brown Bunny debuted 15 years ago in Cannes, shocking some with an oral sex scene featuring the filmmaker and 2018 Cannes Critics’ Week jury member Chloe Sevigny. In an interview to commemorate the anniversary, Cheryl Tiegs, 70, tells THR that she knew all about the graphic display but agreed to be in the movie anyway.

“I got a message that Vincent wanted to talk to me about a movie. I didn’t call him back right away because I didn’t know who he was,” explains the former supermodel. “But after a month, I ...
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The Best of Movie Poster of the Day: Part 18

Above: 1986 Japanese poster for She’s Gotta Have It (Spike Lee, USA, 1986).In the ten months since I last did a round-up of the most popular posters on Movie Poster of the Day, two things have happened. I’ve slacked off a bit: after running the site since November 2011 and posting one poster every single day for years, in the past year I’ve let my self-appointed task slide a little and have been posting more sporadically. And at the same time it seems that Tumblr is starting to atrophy. At its height my site had over 300,000 followers—it still does officially, but I would guess that a large percentage of those people are no longer still on Tumblr or rarely check their feed. I’m often asked why I don’t up sticks and move to Instagram instead, but while I love Instagram for personal stuff, Tumblr is still
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Cannes Chief Thierry Fremaux on Booing, Walkouts, Selection ‘Mistakes’

Cannes Chief Thierry Fremaux on Booing, Walkouts, Selection ‘Mistakes’
Cannes Film Festival director Thierry Fremaux isn’t bothered if audiences express their disapproval, and admits he sometimes makes mistakes in his selection. “I don’t care about people booing. It is part of the game,” he says, speaking at r7al, an event in Lausanne, Switzerland that is devoted to classic movies.

Fremaux and his team receive about 1,800 feature film submissions a year, of which 300-400 are “good” or “very good,” he says. From these, only 20 films can enter competition. The Cannes team have to accept “responsibility for our choices,” he says. “I know we make two or three mistakes a year.”

Cannes is dependent on the quality of the films available to it, and that varies from year to year. “You have good years, and bad years, like wine. If you have good sun in spring, you have good wine in October. It’s the same with films,
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Vincent Gallo Defends ‘The Brown Bunny,’ Unloads On Roger Ebert, And Wants To Kill 6 Billion People

To say filmmaker Vincent Gallo is a controversial figure in the industry is a vast understatement. As an actor, he appeared in many films. However, it’s his work as a writer-director that really got his name in the conversation. After a successful debut film, “Buffalo ’66,” Hollywood was ready for the emergence of Gallo as a great filmmaker. Then, in 2004, Gallo released “The Brown Bunny.” That’s when everything started to go downhill for him.
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Vincent Gallo Calls Himself the ‘Donald Trump of Cannes,’ Bashes Roger Ebert For Starting ‘Brown Bunny’ Outrage

Vincent Gallo Calls Himself the ‘Donald Trump of Cannes,’ Bashes Roger Ebert For Starting ‘Brown Bunny’ Outrage
The upcoming Cannes Film Festival will mark the 15th anniversary of the infamous world premiere of Vincent Gallo’s “The Brown Bunny.” The arthouse drama, starring Gallo opposite Chloë Sevigny, competed for the Palme d’Or in 2003 and caused outrage for an explicit sex scene between the actors. Roger Ebert notoriously panned the movie and called it the “worst film in the history of Cannes,” and now Gallo is bashing Ebert in a personal essay written for Another Man.

According to Gallo, the inappropriate way Ebert behaved during the Cannes screening affected the entire festival reaction to “The Brown Bunny.” Ebert allegedly started “ranting” aloud in the screening room within the first 20 minutes of the movie and never gave it the chance to win him over.

“It is outrageous that a single critic disrupted a press screening for a film chosen in main competition at such a high profile festival
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From Nymphomaniac to Stranger By the Lake, is sex in cinema getting too real?

As Lars Von Trier's controversial and explicit sex odyssey opens in cinemas this weekend, we ask actors what they think about being asked to perform in increasingly graphic sex scenes

The script, Christophe Paou says, was even more sexually explicit, so the French actor knew what he was getting himself into when he signed up for Alain Guiraudie's film, Stranger By the Lake. Paou plays Michel, a handsome and charismatic man – with an extremely sinister side – who meets Franck, a younger man, at a cruising spot. Stranger By the Lake is one of two sexually-explicit films released this weekend, the other being Lars von Trier's much-hyped Nymphomaniac, in which Charlotte Gainsbourg plays Joe, a sex addict. Both films use body doubles for the genital close-ups and the explicit scenes.

Nymphomaniac's producer Louise Vesth said: "We shot the actors pretending to have sex and then had the body doubles,
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Hatchet jobs, anonymity and the internet: being a film critic in the 21st century | Mark Kermode

In this extract from his forthcoming book, the Observer's new film critic, Mark Kermode, examines how the internet has changed the role of the professional reviewer. When everyone has an opinion, what value does the critic retain?

"Forrest Gump on a tractor." Those five words are probably my favourite film review ever. More importantly, they constitute the most damaging hatchet job I ever encountered, managing to do something I had often argued was impossible – to kill a movie stone dead. I didn't read them in a newspaper or on a blog, I didn't hear them on the radio or television; rather, they were whispered in my ear by a trusted friend and colleague, David Cox, as the house lights went down on a screening of David Lynch's The Straight Story.

I'd been really looking forward to that movie. I've been a huge Lynch fan ever since being blindsided by
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Robert Pattinson Admits To Pleasuring Himself On Screen In Film

Yikes, talk about an over share! In a candid new interview, Rob admits that for his self loving scene in his 2008 film ‘Little Ashes,’ he wasn’t exactly acting…

Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart may have had many groundbreaking sex scenes in Breaking Dawn, but Rob’s best on screen sex partner was in fact, himself. In a bizarre and totally over revealing interview, Rob revealed that when playing Salvador Dali in Little Ashes, he “pleasured” himself in front of the camera, so his sex scene would look authentic! Read on for all the details.

Robert Pattinson Masturbated In ‘Little Ashes’

Rob, 27, starred in the little watched film in 2008, right around the time that Twilight exploded onto our screens, and he took method acting a little too seriously.

Speaking about how he feels overexposed, Rob revealed a surprising secret.

“If you Google something about long enough you will know everything
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‘Lovelace’ Trailer: Amanda Seyfried Sparks a Revolution With Her Throat

“We’re all gonna win Oscars.” Linda Lovelace’s life is ripe fruit for the biopic plucking, and with this first trailer for Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman’s Lovelace, it looks like Amanda Seyfried truly owns the role and the spotlight as the porn star turned icon turned anti-porn advocate. You see, Lovelace’s life is filled with some truly heinous stuff (including films called Peeverted and Dog Fucker), that could be brutal on screen given the context of her relationship with the abusive Chuck Traynor (played by Peter Sarsgaard). The problem is that if the cut is the same as it was at Sundance, it could still be a pretty bland affair. Seyfried looks kind of adorably stupid here, but there’s no doubt her Lovelace will wise up once the flash bulbs are all thrown away. The question is how well this particular take will portray a story so full of potential. Check
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Roger Ebert: 10 great reviews from the legendary movie critic

Roger Ebert: 10 great reviews from the legendary movie critic
News of Roger Ebert's death prompted an outpouring of emotion, tributes and fond memories from some of Hollywood's finest. Ebert may never have been an above-the-line movie star himself, but his importance to the film industry cannot be underestimated.

In a five-decade career spanning newspapers, TV and the internet, Ebert mastered every medium he turned his hand to with reviews of wit, intelligence and eloquence. In short, he was the master where most other film critics were mere apprentices.

Digital Spy takes a look at 10 great Ebert reviews below.

Apocalypse Now

"Years and years from now, when Coppola's budget and his problems have long been forgotten, Apocalypse will still stand, I think, as a grand and grave and insanely inspired gesture of filmmaking - of moments that are operatic in their style and scope, and of other moments so silent we can almost hear the director thinking to himself.
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5 Reviews Roger Ebert Got Horribly Wrong

  • 05 April 2013
  • by Shaun Munro
  • Obsessed with Film
The film world was left in mourning today with the loss of Roger Ebert, easily the planet’s most respected and well-known film critic, passing away after a long battle with cancer at the age of 70.

He was a figure of inspiration for many journalists wanting to get into the industry (myself included; from a young age I’d read his reviews every week without fail), and had that uncanny ability to completely enthrall you with his reasoned wit even when you didn’t agree with his opinions.

That is the sign of a great critic, and unsurprisingly as a result, Ebert is distinguished as the first film critic to win a Pullitzer Prize. The respect held for him is evident from the outpour of tributes from figures as prominent as Steven Spielberg and Barack Obama.

It’s a testament to the man’s stature and talent that we’d

'Roger was the movies', says Obama

Twitter is abuzz with recollections and thanks as president, peers and the movie world pay tribute

Actors, directors, fellow critics and the Us president have paid tribute to the eminent American film reviewer Roger Ebert, who has died aged 70.

Ebert, who began writing for the Chicago Sun-Times in 1967 and became the first film critic to win the Pulitzer Prize eight years later, died early on Thursday afternoon at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago after revealing a day earlier that he was undergoing radiation treatment for a recurrence of cancer. Many tributes mentioned the critic's famous "thumbs up, thumbs down" verdicts or the familiar "the balcony is closed" sign-off from the long-running Us television film review show At the Movies, which Ebert presented for many years.

Us president Barack Obama said in a statement: "Roger was the movies. When he didn't like a film, he was honest; when he did, he
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Roger Ebert: share your favourite quotes

Tell us your favourite lines and reviews from the much-loved film critic, who died this week

To say that film Roger Ebert, who has died from cancer aged 70, had a way with words would be an understatement. In a career spanning five decades, the Chicago Sun-Times film reviewer won a huge international following thanks to his brilliant, often acerbic, but always engaging criticism. Admirers have been sharing some of their favourite lines of his on Twitter with the hashtag #EbertQuotes – below are a few highlights, but what else would you add? Are there any Ebert film reviews that stand out for you as favourites?

For the uninitiated, there's a wealth of Roger Ebert quotes here and here, and for a mnore comprehensive look at his work visit rogerebert.suntimes.com.

"To say that George Lucas cannot write a love scene is an understatement; greeting cards have expressed more passion." #EbertQuotes

— Lo!
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No One Took Down A Movie Like Roger Ebert

No One Took Down A Movie Like Roger Ebert
No one loved movies like Roger Ebert. But perhaps more importantly, no one panned movies like Roger Ebert. He turned taking the piss out of a reprehensible film into an art form, leaving you giggling days later.

While we're heartbroken at his passing, we'll always remember him for his big heart, his humanity, his passion, his fortitude, and, most of all, his incredible wit in the face of so many terrible, terrible cinematic train wrecks.

Here are a few of the funniest Ebert take downs of movies. Let us know which one's your favorite.

North, 1994

"I hated this movie. Hated, hated, hated, hated, hated this movie. Hated it. Hated every simpering stupid vacant audience-insulting moment of it. Hated the sensibility that thought anyone would like it. Hated the implied insult to the audience by its belief that anyone would be entertained by it."

Stargate, 1994

"The movie Ed Wood, about the worst director of all time,
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Lovelace | Sundance 2013 Review

Deep Throat’s Journey: Epstein & Friedman’s Porn Star Biopic By-the-Numbers

In their first outing not placing significant focus on the recuperation of queer subjects or thematics, filmmaking duo Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman turn to one of the most salacious historical moments concerning heteronormative sex with Lovelace, a biopic on the star of the infamous Deep Throat. While this sophomore feature effort from the documentarians feels far less experimentally pieced together than their 2010 Allan Ginsberg piece, Howl, their approach feels a tad static this time round and, perhaps in effort to be tasteful, almost too sterile. Despite its trappings of the generic biopic dressing, some engaging lead performances tend to outshine its standardized format.

Linda Lovelace (Amanda Seyfried), born Linda Boreman, became the first pornographic celebrity superstar with her one and only film, Deep Throat in 1972. A kind of good girl, an unexpected pregnancy as a teen caused her working class parents (Sharon Stone,
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