Justine Triet, director of Anatomy of a Fall, spoke out against French film funding after she won the Palme d'Or at Cannes - and then her film wasn't chosen for France's nominee to the Academy Awards. - The Observer (UK)
Her 47-year career came to a close in Berlin last week. For every role, she says, "I ask myself, What do I want to say? What could I be in this role? And then I decide if I should do it, and how I’ll do it." - The New York Times
The woman said Elfman abused her while she was a young, aspiring composer. The accusations include his "exposing his genitals to her and masturbating in front of her while she slept." - Los Angeles Times
At Bobby Baker's restaging of her 1976 An Edible Family in a Mobile Home, visitors "five lifesize family members made of biscuits, meringue and cake (including, in an updating of the original, a vegan option)." - The Guardian (UK)
Green, who made The Assistant and has the new Royal Hotel out, says - only partly about her films, where women face dangers at work - "I think we need to change the entire structure and blow it all up." - The New York Times
In 1956, Australia held an international competition "to design a national performance venue on Bennelong Point that would put Sydney on the map" - an idea that certainly worked. - BBC
One gallerist says, "The quality of the work is better, things are presented more thoughtfully. And collectors like spending more time here" (despite a resurgence of Parisian bedbugs). - The New York Times
Authors are suing to get their work, and characters, out of AI programs. "OpenAI, for its part, has contended that training an AI system falls under fair use protections." - Los Angeles Times
Susan Jaffe has some questions to answer, like how can ABT reflect society, and attract younger audiences - "and how do you make a historic institution feel relevant without becoming something it is not?" - MSN (Town and Country)
That's thanks to the writers' and actors' strikes. "If the strike continues without stars on the circuit, voters may be left to their own devices again. Perhaps that’s not such a bad thing?" - Variety
Two months after a strike authorization vote, the contract ratification means the musicians play on, with a much better deal than management press releases last week would have suggested. - MSN (Philadelphia Inquirer)
But now it's back. A German curator: "Retrieving a long-lost painting 'is actually a very rare moment for us. ... It’s exciting.'" - Seattle Times (AP)
