RIP Robert Duvall (1931-2026)
A lot of you might have a list of favourite Robert Duvall performances; I too have them. But the most memorable one for me is this one in "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" (1978). He features for less than 20 seconds.
The image of him in the swing playing like a kid might be inscribed in my mind probably because of this trivia. This just shows how much of a good guy he was.
The story behind the scene:
Robert Duvall, who had previously worked with Philip Kaufman on The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid (1972), happened to be in San Francisco at the time of filming, and shot his only scene for free. He plays a crazy priest playing on a swing. It's supposed to foreshadow the pod person anomie and alienation we feel later in the movie.
(Source: IMDb)
On this day, 64 years ago, Chris Marker's "La Jetée" (1962) was released in France.
Chris Marker talks about "Twelve Monkeys" (1995), how he made "La Jetée" (1962), & one thing he valued more than the Oscars:
"Marker: (...)There is too much to see on the news, on the music channels or on the indispensable Animal Channel. And I feed my hunger for fiction with what is by far the most accomplished source: those great American TV series, like 'The Practice' inspired a video by David Bowie and a film by Terry Gilliam. And there’s also a bar called “La Jetée,” in Japan.
Interviewer: How do you feel about this cult? Does Terry Gilliam’s imagination intersect with yours?
Marker: Terry���s imagination is rich enough that there’s no need to play with comparisons. Certainly, for me '12 Monkeys' (1995) is a magnificent film (there are people who think they are flattering me by saying otherwise, that 'La Jetée' is much better—the world is a strange place). It’s just one of the happy signs, like Bowie’s video, like the bar in Shinjuku (Hello, Tomoyo! To know that for almost 40 years, a group of Japanese are getting slightly drunk beneath my images every night—that’s worth more to me than any number of Oscars!), that have accompanied the strange destiny of this particular film.
It was made like a piece of automatic writing. I was filming 'Le Joli mai' (1963), completely immersed in the reality of Paris 1962, and the euphoric discovery of “direct cinema” (you will never make me say “cinema verité”) and on the crew’s day off, I photographed a story I didn’t completely understand. It was in the editing that the pieces of the puzzle came together, and it wasn’t me who designed the puzzle. I’d have a hard time taking credit for it. It just happened, that’s all.
(Chris Marker's interview to Film Comment, 2003)
Coming to Blu-ray in April from Criterion Premiers
Resurrection (2025)
INCLUDES:
Meet the Filmmakers: Bi Gan, a Criterion Channel original interview
Trailer
Notes by film critic Siddhant Adlakha
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Coming to 4K UHD in 2026
Manhunter (1986) 40th Anniversary 4K UHD
Former FBI profiler Will Graham returns to service to pursue a deranged serial killer dubbed "the Tooth Fairy" by the media.
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I Love Boosters. In theaters on May 22nd
A WIDE theatrical release- 3000 theaters
That's why I'm gonna need all the folks that ever said that Hollywood needs to make different, exciting shit, or think that my art is good, or useful-
to be there ON THAT 1ST DAY with 10 friends
Probably the most famous Cahiers film critic ever hated copyrights and supported piracy wholeheartedly.
Its a shame that Cahiers wants to gatekeep this film education from people across the world who wont be able to afford its subscription. This is anti-art.