Cinediscourse

Thor: Ragnarok - Why Taika Waititi is Just What Marvel Needs | Collider

The Oscar nominations are so predictable. I know, because I predicted them. - The Washington Post

Does Fury Road follow this set pattern, or does it change it?

The Magnificent Memory of Norman Lloyd - The New Yorker

One morning last May, I walked up a driveway in Mandeville Canyon, on the west side of Los Angeles, and stepped back nearly eight decades in time. I had entered the home of the actor and director Norman Lloyd, who turned a hundred and one on November 8th. Staggeringly undiminished by age, Lloyd has the appearance of a robust eighty-year-old, his voice booming forth in stage-ready tones. He still finds occasional work as an actor, and has a small role in Judd Apatow’s recent film “Trainwreck.” I had come to interview him on the subject of Orson Welles, whom I write about in this week’s issue. “It’s about your old friend Orson,” I said, when I first called him. Lloyd let out a loud, round laugh, and asked, “Oh, is he still working?”

With release of 'Hitchcock/Truffaut,' 5 essential film books | Daily Mail Online

NEW YORK (AP) — The new documentary "Hitchcock/Truffaut" delves into one of the most beloved movie books there is. Few match the conversations between Alfred Hitchcock and Francois Truffaut, but there are others, from interview-based books like "This Is Orson Welles" by Peter Bogdanovich, to great biographies like Elia Kazan's "A Life." And there are more being written all the time, like last year's "Five Came Back," an account of post-World War II Hollywood by Mark Harris.

Here are five others that should find a place on any cinephile's bookshelf:

On a crisp October afternoon hours before his latest film, "Bridge of Spies," premiered to a standing ovation at the New York Film Festival, Steven Spielberg walked two miles through Central Park to an interview and shared a story about his father.