The Noteworthy: 13 May 2015

• Above: the trailer for Miguel Gomes's new films, Arabian Nights, premiering soon in Cannes.

• For those lucky enough to attend the Venice Biennale, aside from a chance to see an exhibit by Albert Serra, curator Okwui Enwezor's show All the World's Futures includes work by Chris Marker, including Crush Art, Untitled 06, above.

• We'll be in Cannes and therefore miss the Museum of Modern Art's essential "Japan Speaks Out! Early Japanese Talkies" series, but Nick Pinkerton at Artforum has it covered.

• "Actors appeared on the screen as if molded out of a liquid silver set aflame": Femina Ridens has a lovely report from the first ever Nitrate Picture Show.

• Above: the trailer, with English subtitles, for Johnnie To's new musical, titled Office.

• A tantalizing but also frustrating tease for Quentin Tarantino's upcoming The Hateful Eight arrives in the form of some behind the scenes and publicity images.

• IndieWire was at Hot Docs and listened in on documentary master Frederick Wiseman and his executive producer offering advice to filmmakers.

• Pippin Bar has designed a game based on The Shining you can play in your browser.

• Great news for U.S. audiences: Distrib Films has acquired the rights to Philippe Garrel's In the Shadow of Women before its premiere in Cannes.

• Vdrome is showing Ben Russell's 2014 short film Atlantis now through May 19.
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  • Via the essential Tumblr Ozu Teapot, director Yasujiro Ozu's stopwatch:This is the stopwatch which Ozu had specially built. He used it all through the years. With this watch, he recorded the times for every scene, including inserts. The red line shows how much film stock has been shot in the standard 35 millimeter format. The middle line give the seconds. And the third one here indicates the footage for the 60-millimeter format. This stopwatch was important for Ozu in order to precisely measure time in seconds and in frames.
  • At the Brooklyn Rail, Phil Coldiron has interviewed filmmaker, critic and editor Gina Telaroli about her fantastic 2015 short film, SILK TATTERS, “NEC SPE NEC METU”.
  • The New York Film Festival will host complete, dual retrospectives of Nathaniel Dorsky and Jerome Hiler.
  • Jennifer Reeder has released online her 1999 short, Lullaby.

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