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It's time [it's always time] to load up your queue with everything that Hal Ashby has ever directed. While you're doing that read this to understand why [via GreenCine.]
The Sopranos alum Terence Winter has been hired to work on not one but three projects for Scorsese including a new HBO series based on the book Boardwalk Empire: The Birth, High Times, and Corruption of Atlantic City. [Hat tip to BSLS]
The recently released Blu-ray version of the Dirty Harry box set gets rid of all that ugly, ugly film grain. Bleghh. Bad film grain, bad.
The title says it all. This week there are three NYC events to check out.
Read this interview about James Gray's new film at Cannes this year [podcast also available.]
Any film I do is not going to change the way black women have been portrayed, or black people have been portrayed, in cinema since the days of D.W. Griffith.
— Spike Lee

