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Samberg, joining me for a conversation about the film with Milioti and producer Becky Sloviter at Deadline’s Contenders Film awards-season event, said it was just similar enough in tone to his Lonely Island output, but just different enough to get him excited. There were obvious comparisons with others in the time-loop genre like Groundhog Day and The Edge of Tomorrow, “but then just as we were about to do it five other time loop movies came out and we almost dropped it. It has its own lane and thank god we stuck with it,” he says. … [Read more...] about ‘Palm Springs’ Star Andy Samberg On How Time-Loop Comedy “Has Its Own Lane” – Contenders Film

The film generates feelings that it also resists. Rossi’s clear hand in guiding us through those feelings — his unwavering gaze anchoring all of it in the feelings and realities of his subjects — are what give Notturno a sense of care and accomplishment. One sequence of motorbikes on a street a night — some headed one way, others barreling in the opposite direction — feels like a readymade précis of at least one of his methods here, in which crosscurrents of experience push against each other, with no one line emerging victorious because war has already won. The stillness of his images feels like the resulting standstill of those competing forces. It also demands that the viewer sit, eyes open, with everything that we see, and try to make sense of lives that are not neither explaining themselves to us nor proceeding with a poignant sense of normalcy. Notturno’s attitudes are too slippery for that; the film does not make you feel any one, easy … [Read more...] about ‘Notturno’ Is Not Journalism, But Gianfranco Rosi’s Movie Investigates the Heart of the Middle East

"I have about 90 minutes' worth of material with Django [that] hasn't been seen. My idea, frankly, is to cut together a four-hour version of Django Unchained... But I wouldn't show it like a four-hour movie. I would cut it up into hour chapters. Like a four-part miniseries. And show it on cable television. Show it like an hour at a time, each chapter. We'd use all the material I have and it wouldn't be an endurance test. It would be a miniseries. And people love those." The current theatrical version of Django Unchained runs 2 hours and 45 minutes. An additional 90 minutes puts its run time at 4 hours and 15 minutes. It isn't clear when this miniseries event will happen, and if its to stay in tact, with its harsh language and violence, it would most likely have to premiere on a premium cable channel, like Showtime or HBO. … [Read more...] about Quentin Tarantino Plans 4-Hour Django Unchained TV Miniseries