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...according to Coffey include film stills, negatives, pressbooks, posters, slides and transparencies, and text documents—span all the way back into silent films and include international movies. Notably, the collection includes shots from films whose footage has been partially or wholly destroyed—such as Josef von Sternberg’s The Case of Lena Smith and Orson Welles’ The Magnificent Ambersons. The film collection is immense; “it took over [the Justs’] whole townhouse—except for the kitchen and bathroom,” said HFA Director Haden Guest...
...Germany. The political game is much more open, with at least five parties vying for power and reflecting the much broader spectrum of political opinion in the population. This seemingly unstable coalition system is the new normal. "The trend for the future is a stabilization of instability," says Ulrich von Alemann, a political scientist at the University of Düsseldorf. (Read "Busting Out: German Pol Plays the Cleavage Card...
...preening self-regard. Known as the Jew Hunter, he calls himself a detective, trying to stop a war crime. Among his suspects are a French Jewess, Shosanna Dreyfus (Mélanie Laurent), who has escaped Landa's grasp and now runs a movie theater in Paris; and Bridget Von Hammersmark (Diane Kruger), a leading lady of German cinema who is secretly in league with British intelligence. Many Tarantino movies are female revenge fantasies, in which strong women plot the deaths of men who wronged them. In Shosanna and Bridget, the writer-director has fashioned two of his steeliest, most principled...
...heavy lifting, providing all the needed passion, heartache and poetry. The romantic comedy (500) Days of Summer, with a sound track ranging from Wolfmother to Carla Bruni, hits all the right notes, with a few surprising ones thrown in. (Hall & Oates?) TIME talked to (500) Days music supervisor Andrea von Foerster about what it takes to build the perfect romantic mix tape. (Read TIME's (500) Days of Summer review...
...TIME: In talking to friends about this interview, they all agree: you have the best job in the world. Von Foerster: There's no debating that. This is one of the best jobs in the world. I get about 200 music downloads a week and 500 CDs delivered at home, but it's not just about listening to music all day. There's a lot of paperwork and politics that people don't understand because it's less tangible. Being the music supervisor doesn't mean you have final say about what gets into the film - the director...