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Starting today, Film Society of Lincoln Center outdoes itself. Israeli production company Cannon films flavored the 1980s with some of the best genre pics of the decade. Producers Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus worked with filmmakers like Woody Allen (acting only), John Frankenheimer, Nicolas Roeg, Jean-Luc Godard, John Cassavetes, Jerry Schatzberg, Barbet Schroeder and even Norman Mailer, all of whom will be on display in this retrospective.

Lifelong cynics will most certainly love the plan that Fox Searchlight just hatched. Call this a marriage made in dark comedy heaven, names Alexander Payne and Dan Clowes are being mentioned in the same sentence as Searchlight appears to be giving Payne a vote of confidence once again by looking to move him from The Descendants to Wilson -- the Dan Clowes graphic novel. Payne's Ad Hominem will produce with Josh Donen, on behalf of Sam Raimi's Stars Road.

Muniz and Walker have stories of all of their screenings across the globe, and the different reactions each audience had, from the special red carpet and then standing ovation for the actual pickers who came to the Rio Film Festival, to the a screening in what they described as an amphitheater in a swamp in the south of France, quite appropriate for a film that takes place predominantly in a landfill, to a screening in Tokyo with an audience who held in all of their emotions until the end, at which point they all proceeded to cry hysterically.

Hello! How are you? is the film that helmer Alexandru Maftei hopes will represent a new era in Romanian cinema: an era of the films for the general public. Maftei sophomore film follows his debut pic, Fii cu ochii pe fericire. A decade has passed since his debut and follow up picture and during all this time, Maftei worked mostly in advertising until he felt the need to come back to his first love: making movies.

Centurion is a perfectly passable historical adventure film, with the battles and tension and grandiose cinematic visuals that go along with it. It's just that Marshall's two best films were his first two. Perhaps he should re-visit his horror roots soon and give his legion of fans what they really want.