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Brian De Palma's Passion has been confirmed for this year's Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF), according to The Border Mail. The three-week festival runs from July 25 through August 11. Other titles confirmed so far include Park Chan-wook's Stoker, Sally Potter's Ginger And Rosa, and Giuseppe Tornatore's The Best Offer. The complete program will be announced July 2nd.
Phantom Of The Paradise has topped a list of top 10 Brian De Palma films at Arrow Video's "Video Deck" blog. The eleven voters included Kim Newman, whose book Nightmare Movies analyzes De Palma's work in its "Auteurs" section. Here's the full list (visit the Arrow blog to read their blurbs for each film)--Arrow's Blow Out Blu-Ray is out tomorrow, and DVD Beaver's Gary Tooze has provided a very helpful comparison between it and the Criterion edition that came out two years ago. He says the picture is a little brighter on the Arrow edition, which definitely holds its own against Criterion's. However, as each one has its own bevy of wonderful extras, it seems more than worth it to own both.
Meanwhile, Tomas Lucien has posted an audiovisual remix of Carlito's meeting with Lalin from Carlito's Way that gets pretty crazy towards the end.
Brazil's Clovis Salgado Foundation (FCS) is currently hosting a film festival called "Renegades" at the Cine Humberto Mauro. The fest, which began yesterday and continues through May 30th, features films that were poorly received in their time, but that "have achieved a new position in the reflective and critical overview of cinema, after receiving a range of reinterpretations," according to the official description. Included in the series are two Brian De Palma films: Snake Eyes and Mission To Mars. According to Diverta-Se, FCS cinema manager Rafael Ciccarini argues that the series provides "an opportunity to promote new readings of these films, an attempt to get out of the commonplace regarding such works, provoking the public." The other films included are Paul Verhoeven's Showgirls, Tim Burton's Mars Attacks, Abel Ferrara's Dangerous Game, Michael Cimino's Desperate Hours, M. Night Shyamalan's Lady In The Water, and Clint Eastwood's True Crime.
Bill Pankow was interviewed for the latest episode of Movie Geeks United. Pankow talks about the process of editing when working on a film with De Palma, saying that De Palma lets the editors work on their own, then comes back when the assembly is done to sit and watch with them, review, discuss, and then let them work on their own again, etc. Pankow said he found this to be a very productive process. He said if scenes were storyboarded (as they usually were with De Palma), he liked to edit without looking at the storyboards, and then check afterward to see how close he got to them. After a while, he got very good at matching up with the storyboards without using them. This is a very interesting discussion conducted by Jamey DuVall, with Bobbie O'Steen, author of The Invisible Cut. Pankow and Jerry Greenberg, who is discussed in the interview, as well, will take part in a panel with O'Steen as part of an event called "Inside The Cutting Room," at the French Institute in New York City on June 8.
Le Monde blogger Isabelle Regnier posted this photo of Brian De Palma after a Cannes screening of Claire Denis' The Bastards yesterday. And it looks like today, De Palma attended a screening of Stephen Frears' Muhammad Ali’s Greatest Fight, to judge by the tweets of Edouard Austin.
Meanwhile, there is a new Passion video, in English, with some extended scenes, at Entania, although it doesn't seem to be available to watch in America. (Thanks to Patrick!)
