“I really wanted to transmit something of what those years had been, because they have been so terribly misunderstood. It was both crazier and more serious than it had been made out to be”: In this SundanceNOW original video interview, Olivier Assayas talks about revisiting 70s youth activism in his autobiographical new film, Something in the Air.
“I think he took a journey, and I think he came to some realizations that he wasn’t expecting to come to”: Joe Berlinger talks about Paul Simon, “Graceland” and Under African Skies in this exclusive interview from Doc NYC 2012.
Watching a movie is an intimate thing that we do with strangers; we put our trust in the people around us not to kick our seats or text on their phones or bring crying babies into the theater, not to ruin our shared experience or endanger our safety. We rely on these unspoken rules. We rely on each other.
If you’re of the casual not-so-traditional dual Judeo-Christian faith like myself, then in a few days, you’ll be celebrating the rare occasion that is Passover and Easter falling on the same weekend. Peastover.
We’ve made it through one-quarter of 2012 (take that, Mayans!) and the box office is up an encouraging 20% from this time last year. Though big films like The Avengers and The Dark Knight Rises are still to come, the year has already been marked by unanticipated hits that have raked in the dough for studios and theaters, as well as some spectacular misses.
