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New York Film Festival Review “Fallen Leaves”: Two Lonely Finns Find Hope in Deadpan Master Aki Kaurismäki’s Unique Universe

Ansa and Holappa, the quiet loners in “Fallen Leaves”, are on their first date watching Jim Jarmusch’s zombie movie “The Dead Don’t Die” in the local Ritz movie theater. Coming out, someone makes an absurdly amusing comparison: “it reminded me of “Diary of a Country Priest”, Robert Bresson’s classic. Ansa gives Holappa her phone number…

Rami Malek in Talks to Play Buster Keaton in Matt Reeves-Produced Series

Photo by USA Network/Michael Parmelee/USA Network – © 2016 USA Network Media, LLC/Image courtesy mptvimages.com Discussions asre underway at Warner Bros. Television to develop a new limited series about Buster Keaton, the iconic comedian who delighted audiences a century ago during the silent-film era. If all goes as planned, Batman director Matt Reeves would direct and…

James Mangold to Direct New Buster Keaton Biopic

Indiana Jones 5 director James Mangold is reportedly set to tackle a biopic about legendary silent-screen star Buster Keaton. Industry sources say he is working with 20th Century Studios on a script based on Marion Meade’s biography Buster Keaton: Cut to the Chase. This would not be the first of Mangold’s biopics: his Walk the…