Diane – Broken Saintliness

?When you serve me?, I feel sanctified.? In Diane, from writer/director Kent Jones, we watch the title character (Mary Kay Place) spend her days selflessly trying to help others. Diane is constantly in motion, driving between visits to her dying cousin Donna (Deidre O?Connell), trying to help her drug addicted son Brian (Jake Lacy), and…

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Hitchcock/Truffaut

French New Wave director Fran?ois Truffaut wrote the book on Alfred Hitchcock?literally. In 1962 he did a series of interviews (through a translator) with Hitchcock over six days with twenty seven hours of tapes discussing each of Hitchcock?s films. He later put gleanings from those interviews into one of the definitive books on filmmaking. In…

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