Satyajit Ray. (13/25)

Agnès Varda (15/25)

Spike Lee. (16/25)

Chantal Akerman. (24/25)

Good morning, Springfield! It's election day and the polls are now open. Check out our election primer, free to all readers, before you cast your ballot. Read it: sgfcitizen.org/government/ele…

Hal Ashby's long-lost Neil Young concert film 'Solo Trans' is now online. Watch: thefilmstage.com/watch-hal-ashb…

James Cameron on the time he got to hang out with Stanley Kubrick and all Kubrick wanted to talk about was how awesome TRUE LIES is. So good.

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In 2010, Bill Hader made his first appearance on TCM as a Guest Programmer. Among his picks was FIVE GRAVES TO CAIRO. He gushed over the works of Billy Wilder and explained why the film stuck with him.

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Werner Herzog visited the set of 'The Shining' (1980), while Stanley Kubrick was filming this scene. Kubrick was concerned that the sound of Danny’s trike going over the hardwood floors & the carpet back & forth didn't sound good. Herzog convinced Kubrick that it sounded cool.

Jean-Pierre Melville's sleek French noir "Le Samouraï" set the template for everyone from Michael Mann to John Woo. Variety’s chief critic Peter Debruge explains why a new 4K restoration is essential viewing. variety.com/2024/film/colu…

Ryûsuke Hamaguchi, in April Cahiers du cinéma: "One of my great influences in the use of music is Jean-Luc Godard; he's the perfect example of a concept that we share with Eiko Ishibashi: not to use music to control the audience's emotions but to awaken its sensibility."

I ❤️ Alex Garland. Not many filmmakers with his stone cold storytelling chops use them to take risky moonshots every single time. Civil War doesn’t soft-pedal its premise but it’s the opposite of preachy or didactic - it’s a muscular horror movie with real heart. Loved it.

The Official Selection lineup of the 2024 Cannes Film Festival. (It's 3 a.m., so apologies for any typos.)

Isn't it wonderful? KINDS OF KINDNESS. Directed by Yorgos Lanthimos. Starring Emma Stone, Jesse Plemons, Willem Dafoe, Margaret Qualley, Hong Chau, Joe Alwyn, Mamoudou Athie and Hunter Schafer. In select theaters June 21st. #KindsofKindness #Cannes2024

Stop motion art where the utensils become the food x.com/tradingMaxiSL/…

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