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Arnaud Desplechin is one of the most acclaimed directors in world cinema, whose new film, <a href="https://kinolorber.com/film/two-pianos" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Two Pianos</a>, starring François Civil and Charlotte Rampling, is in theaters through Kino Lorber from May 1. He became the cen­tral fig­ure of young French cin­e­ma thanks to sev­er­al of his early films, includ­ing My Sex Life… or How I Got Into an Argu­ment (1996) and Esther Kahn (2000). In 2004, Desplechin com­plet­ed Kings &amp; Queen with Emmanuel Devos and Math­ieu Amal­ric, both a crit­i­cal and com­mer­cial hit, with Math­ieu Amal­ric notably win­ning the César for Best Actor. In 2008, he cast Cather­ine Deneuve and Jean-Paul Rous­sil­lon in his dra­mat­ic com­e­dy A Christ­mas Tale and in 2013 went to the Unit­ed States to shoot Jim­my P.: Psy­chother­a­py of a Plains Indi­an, reunit­ing with his favorite actor Math­ieu Amal­ric, along­side Beni­cio del Toro. In 2016, he won the César for Best Direc­tor for My Gold­en Days. Desplechin went on to stage a suc­cess­ful pro­duc­tion of August Strindberg’s The Father at the Comédie-Française, fol­lowed by Tony Kushner’s Angels in Amer­i­ca. (Photo by Marie Rouge / Unifrance.)

Arnaud Desplechin

Film

Three Great Things: Arnaud Desplechin

Peter Greenaway’s debut feature, the flamboyant, lavish and inventive period piece <a href="https://zeitgeistfilms.com/film/draughtsmanscontract" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Draughtsman’s Contract</a>, is out now in theaters in a 40th anniversary 4K restoration. A visual artist turned filmmaker, Greenaway has established a career making bizarre, intensely personal films, with his talents and obsession finding a platform in films such as A Zed &amp; Two Noughts, Drowning by Numbers, The Cook, The Thief, His, Wife and Her Lover, Prospero’s Books and The Pillow Book and The Tulse Luper Suitcases.

Peter Greenaway

Three Great Things: Peter Greenaway

Mac McCaughan is a co-founder of Merge Records and the singer and guitarist of Superchunk.

Mac McCaughan

Music

Steve Keene and Mac McCaughan (Superchunk) Talk The Steve Keene Art Book and More

Rebecca Hall is an acclaimed British-American actress whose career encompasses the multiplex, the art house cinema, and the world’s most respected theaters. She can currently be seen in The Night House, a psychological horror film also starring Sarah Goldberg and Evan Jonigkeit, and her debut feature as writer-director, Passing – an adaptation based on Nella Larsen’s 1920s Harlem Renaissance novel starring Ruth Negga and Tessa Thompson – is out later this fall. Hall was recently seen in Godzilla vs. Kong, opposite Alexander Skarsgård, Millie Bobby Brown and Brian Tyree Henry. Her other memorable films include Antonio Campos’ Christine, Woody Allen’s Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Steven Spielberg’s The BFG, Ben Affleck&#8217;s The Town, Shane Black&#8217;s Iron Man 3, Stephen Frears&#8217; Lay the Favorite, Nicole Holfcener’s Please Give and Christopher Nolan’s The Prestige. Her TV credits include Mark Romanek’s Tales from the Loop, Susanna White’s miniseries Parade’s End , Julian Jarrold’s Red Riding: 1974 (for which she won a BAFTA TV Award for Best Supporting Actress), Stephen Poliakoff’s Joe’s Palace and Peter Hall’s The Camomile Lawn. (Photo via Todd Williamson / January Images.)

Rebecca Hall

Three Great Things: Rebecca Hall

Graham Swon is an American producer and director. He has worked with many independent filmmakers, including Matías Piñeiro, Ted Fendt, Joanna Arnow and Ricky D’Ambrose. In 2016, he was named one of Filmmaker Magazine’s “25 New Faces of Independent Film.” His first film as a writer-director, The World is Full of Secrets, played in BAMCinemaFest in 2019 and was released by Kino Lorber. In 2023 he won the Independent Spirit John Cassavetes Award for his production of The Cathedral, and in 2024 was nominated from the Independent Spirit Producers Award. An Evening Song (for three voices), his second film as writer-director, <a href="https://movingimage.org/event/evening-song/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">screens on Sunday March 17</a> at First Look 2024 at the Museum of the Moving Image. (Photo by Vincent Courtois / Belfort Entrevues Film Festival.)

Graham Swon

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