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      Michael B. Jordan: There's Always Respect and Love for Stallone Despite His Absence From 'Creed 3'

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      The Adonis Creed depicter explains why the original ‘Rocky’ actor won’t be returning for the upcoming third spin-off which will become his directorial debut.

      Apr 13, 2021

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      Sylvester Stallone won’t be in “Creed III” because the franchise wants to build the story around Adonis Creed going forward.

      Michael B. Jordan will reprise his role as the titular character and make his directorial debut in the forthcoming film and, while he admitted there will be an “essence” of Stallone and his character Rocky Balboa in the motion picture, the third movie in the series will focus on Adonis.

      “I think that Sly let it be known that he wasn’t coming back for this one but I think, you know, his essence and his spirit … there’s always going to be a little bit of Rocky within Adonis,” he told IGN.

      “But this is a Creed franchise, and we really want to build this story and this world around him moving forward.”

      While Stallone will not feature in the third film in the franchise, Jordan insisted the movie will be “something special.”

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      “So, it’s always respect and always a s**t-ton of love for what he’s built, but we really want to push and navigate Adonis forward and the family that he created,” he explained.

      “So, hopefully you guys will love what I’m thinking … what we’re cooking up. I think it’s going to be something special.”

      Last week (end11Apr21), Stallone confirmed he wouldn’t be appearing in “Creed III”, writing in an Instagram comment, “It’ll be done but I won’t be in it.”

      The 74-year-old star first appeared as the underdog fighter in 1976’s “Rocky” and starred as the character in several movies.

      He reprised the role for the “Creed” franchise, as Rocky became a mentor to Adonis ‘Donnie’ Creed, and his performance in the first “Creed” film led to an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor.

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      Sacha Baron Cohen Reveals Martin Scorsese Consulted Him on Funny 'Hugo' Scene

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      The ‘Borat Subsequent Moviefilm’ star and producer makes the revelation about the legendary director when speaking at the 36th Santa Barbara International Film Festival.

      Apr 12, 2021

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      Sacha Baron Cohen was left stunned when Oscar winner Martin Scorsese asked him for directing advice on the set of “Hugo”.

      Baron Cohen asked the legendary director if he could shadow him on the set of the 2011 movie and was shocked when Scorsese consulted him on how to shoot a funny scene.

      Speaking during the 36th Santa Barbara International Film Festival (SBIFF), where he received the Outstanding Performer of the Year Award, Sacha said, “At the time, Marty would direct from a tent because he didn’t want anyone to distract him.”

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      “It was a six-month shoot and I knew that I wanted to know more about movie-making. I was going to make a movie called ‘The Dictator’, so I asked if I could sit in the tent. Amazingly, he allowed me to sit silently in the tent and would sometimes even ask my opinion on certain shots, which amazed me.”

      Sacha, 49, went on to praise Scorsese and fellow directors Steven Spielberg and Tom Hooper for their lack of ego.

      He said, “Something that I’ve noticed with the greatest directors in the world is that there is no ego. The movie has the ego and they just wanna get the best movie. So, I remember being amazed, at one point, when Marty turned to me in front of the crew and said, ‘How do you think we shoot this joke?’ ”

      “I was like, ‘Me?! Well, I can tell you the cheesy version of shooting it.’ And he went, ‘Yeah, tell me.’ That’s the amazing thing about him or Spielberg or even Hooper. They want the best result and they don’t care where the idea comes from.”

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      Box Office: 'Godzilla vs. Kong' Passes 'Tenet' as Top-Grossing Pic of Pandemic Era

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      The epic monster film bags an estimated additional $13.4 million in North America for a current total domestic gross of $69.5 million and $357.8 million globally.

      Apr 12, 2021

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      “Godzilla vs. Kong” is unmoveable in its second week at North American box office. The Adam Wingard-directed epic monster movie stays atop the list with approximately $13.4 million, bringing its current total domestic gross to $69.5 million.

      As it’s expected to cross a $100 million marks domestically, a rare achievement for a movie in this pandemic era, the film has become the top-grossing pic of the pandemic era in North America. It passed Christopher Nolan’s “Tenet” total domestic gross of $57.9 million in 2020.

      Internationally, “Godzilla vs. Kong” has grossed $288.3 million for a current worldwide total of $357.8 million. According to Deadline, the movie is already set to make profit for Warner Bros., an estimated $96.4 million currently.

      “Godzilla vs. Kong” easily became a new hit upon its release in the United States on March 31. It set record for the biggest opening in the COVID-19 pandemic era with $32.2 million for the three-day weekend. The first week’s domestic sales were roughly double that of “Wonder Woman 1984” (also from WB), which previously held record for the best weekend opening in the pandemic era with $16.7 million.

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      “We’re thrilled that ‘Godzilla vs. Kong’ is bringing audiences back into theaters where they are open around the world, and also delivering for our HBO Max subscribers in their homes here in the U.S.,” Warner Bros. Pictures Group chairman Toby Emmerich said in a statement.

      Back to this week’s box office, Bob Odenkirk’s “Nobody” bounces back to No. 2 with an estimated addition of $2.6 million. It pushes last week’s new release “The Unholy”, which bags approximately $2.4 million, to the third place.

      “Raya and the Last Dragon” stays put in the fourth spot with approximately $2.1 million. Rounding up the top five this week is new release “Voyagers”, a sci-fi film written and directed by Neil Burger and starring Tye Sheridan along with Lily-Rose Depp. The movie opened to an estimated $1.35 million as it received mixed reviews from critics.

      Top 10 of North America Box Office (Apr. 09-11, 2021)

      “Godzilla vs Kong” – $13.4 million
      “Nobody” – $2.6 million
      “The Unholy” – $2.4 million
      “Raya and the Last Dragon” – $2.1 million
      “Voyagers” – $1.4 million
      “Tom & Jerry” – $1.1 million
      “The Girl Who Believes in Miracles” – $576,744
      “The Courier” – $436,560
      “Chaos Walking” – $265,000
      “The Croods: A New Age” – $245,000

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      Michael B. Jordan Looks Back at His Navy SEAL Training for 'Without Remorse' Preparation

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      Comparing his new action thriller to ‘Black Panther’, the ‘Creed’ star additionally reveals that he wanted it to pay tribute to the ‘Mission: Impossible’ and ‘The Bourne Identity’ franchises.

      Apr 12, 2021

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      Actor Michael B. Jordan put his fitness to the ultimate test by enduring Navy SEAL training to prepare for his new action thriller “Without Remorse”.

      The “Black Panther” star is no stranger to keeping in shape for movie roles, like his Marvel super villain Killmonger, but he had to step up his workout regimen for the adaptation of the Tom Clancy novel to stay true to his character John Kelly’s military background as a former Navy SEAL-turned-CIA agent.

      He said, ” ‘Black Panther’ was action but it was a different type of action. This was… I don’t know man, it’s so specific. There’s going to be a whole community of military that are going to be watching this thing for all the little details and I wanted to make sure we get them all right.”

      “It was Navy SEAL training,” he explained to Total Film. “I worked with Buck Doyle, who’s a Marine Special Forces guy. I spent a lot of time with him on his ranch, gun training and tactical training. And I worked with James Dever, who’s an ex-Marine as well, [doing] weapons training, explosives, diving, skydiving, plane crashes…”

      There was another reason Michael, who also served as a producer on the project, wanted to make his character and the film’s action sequences as authentic as possible, because he wanted “Without Remorse” to pay tribute to the “Mission: Impossible” and “The Bourne Identity” franchises.

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      “I loved these type of movies growing up y’know?” he shared. “And to be able to build the action sequences… to go from a plane crash to diving underwater to jumping to the side of a burning car to jumping through glass to gunfights and hand-to-hand combat…”

      “For me, it was my ideal movie and I wanted to pull from a lot of movies that I loved growing up, like ‘Bourne’ and ‘Mission: Impossible’.”

      And Michael is relishing his new role as a producer, “I want to have a bigger voice and I’m starting to have one now and it’s fun.”

      “Without Remorse” is set for release on the Amazon Prime Video streaming service on April 30.

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      'Nomadland' Director Chloe Zhao Becomes First Female to Win DGA Award in Over a Decade

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      The female filmmaker makes history with her big win at the 2021 Directors Guild of America Awards, more than 10 years after Kathryn Bigelow took home the prize.

      Apr 12, 2021

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      “Nomadland” filmmaker Chloe Zhao has inched ever closer to Oscars victory after making history by securing the top prize at the 2021 Directors Guild of America Awards.

      Zhao has been racking up the accolades during the current awards season, and on Saturday (10Apr21), she added the Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film honour to her resume for her work on the Frances McDormand drama.

      She becomes only the second female director to claim the prestigious award, following in the footsteps of Kathryn Bigelow, who was saluted for 2008’s “The Hurt Locker”.

      Zhao beat out “Minari” ‘s Lee Isaac Chung, “Promising Young Woman” ‘s Emerald Fennell, “Mank” ‘s David Fincher, and”The Trial of the Chicago 7″ ‘s Aaron Sorkin to take home the title, and she used her acceptance speech during the virtual ceremony to heap praise on her fellow nominees.

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      After sharing her admiration for each peer’s work, she added, “Thank you for teaching me so much and showing me your support.”

      Her latest victory is a promising indicator for Zhao’s chances of earning the Best Director gold at the Oscars, as DGA officials have previously only chosen a different winner on eight occasions in the organisation’s 73-year history.

      Last year (20) was one of the few anomalies – Sam Mendes picked up the DGA’s top prize for “1917” while Bong Joon Ho was named Best Director for “Parasite” at the Academy Awards.

      Meanwhile, “Sound of Metal” director Darius Marder was recognised in the First-Time Feature Film category, as “The Flight Attendant” ‘s Susanna Fogel, “Homeland” ‘s Lesli Linka Glatter, and “The Queen’s Gambit” director Scott Frank led the TV prizes, with Don Roy King winning his seventh DGA award for his work on longrunning U.S. comedy show “Saturday Night Live”.

      The full list of winners is:

      Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Theatrical Feature Film: Chloe Zhao, “Nomadland”
      Outstanding Directorial Achievement of a First-Time Feature Film Director: Darius Marder, “Sound of Metal”
      Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Documentary: Michael Dweck & Gregory Kershaw, “The Truffle Hunters”
      Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Movies for Television and Limited Series: Scott Frank, “The Queen’s Gambit”
      Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Dramatic Series: Lesli Linka Glatter, “Homeland” (Prisoners of War)
      Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Comedy Series: Susanna Fogel, “The Flight Attendant” (In Case of Emergency)
      Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Variety/Talk/News/Sports – Regularly Scheduled Programming: Don Roy King, “Saturday Night Live” (Dave Chappelle; Foo Fighters)
      Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Variety/Talk/News/Sports – Specials: Thomas Schlamme, “A West Wing Special to Benefit When We All Vote”
      Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Reality Programs: Joseph Guidry, “Full Bloom” (Petal to the Metal)
      Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Children’s Programs: Amy Schatz, “We Are the Dream: The Kids of the Oakland MLK Oratorical Fest”
      Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Commercials: Melina Matsoukas, “You Love Me, Beats by Dr. Dre – Translation]”
      Robert B. Aldrich Award: Betty Thomas
      Frank Capra Achievement Award: Brian Frankish
      Franklin Schaffner Award: Joyce Thomas
      Lifetime Membership Award: Paris Barclay

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      'Nomadland' Wins Big at 2021 BAFTA Film Awards, Full Winners Are Revealed

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      The Chloe Zhao-directed movie takes home the Best Film title, Best Director, and Best Leading Actress for Frances McDormand at the EE British Academy Film Awards.

      Apr 12, 2021

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      Chloe Zhao has become the second female moviemaker in 12 years to win the Best Director gong at the 2021 EE British Academy Film Awards (BAFTAs).

      Her film “Nomadland”, which stars Frances McDormand as a woman who loses everything in the Great Recession and embarks on a nomadic journey through the American West, also beat out Sarah Gavron’s “Rocks” to take home Best Film, after both movies were tied at seven nominations apiece ahead of Sunday’s (11Apr21) ceremony.

      In addition, McDormand was named Best Leading Actress as “Nomadland” was also celebrated for its cinematography.

      Zhao became the first female to win the best director title at the event since Kathryn Bigelow who took home the prize in 2009 for war drama “The Hurt Locker”. She was one of four female directors nominated at the 2021 awards.

      Zhao dedicated her Best Film award to “the nomadic community who welcomed us into their lives,” adding, “Thank you for showing us that ageing is a beautiful part of life, a journey that we should all cherish and celebrate. How we treat our elders says a lot about our society and we need to do better.”

      Elsewhere, Sir Anthony Hopkins claimed the Best Leading Actor prize at the virtual ceremony in London, triumphing over awards season favourite, late actor Chadwick Boseman.

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      Supporting honours went to Daniel Kaluuya, for “Judas and the Black Messiah”, and 73-year-old “Minari” star Yuh-jung Youn, who expressed her delight that the typically “snobbish” Brits had given her work the seal of approval.

      Emerald Fennell was left flustered after her script for “Promising Young Woman” landed the Best Original Screenplay title, but recovered to accept a second award for Outstanding British Film.

      Meanwhile, Christopher Hampton and Florian Zeller’s “The Father” was named Best Adapted Screenplay, and Thomas Vinterberg’s “Another Round”, starring Mads Mikkelsen, triumphed in the Best Film Not in the English Language category.

      A glamorous Priyanka Chopra Jonas presented the first award of the night, for Best Animated Film, which went to Disney and Pixar’s “Soul”, which also won for Best Original Score.

      Bukky Bakray, 19, won the public-voted EE Rising Star Award, and Ang Lee was honoured with the prestigious BAFTA Fellowship, which was presented to him by “Paddington” star Hugh Grant.

      The virtual proceedings, hosted by Edith Bowman and Dermot O’Leary from the Royal Albert Hall, began with a tribute to British royal Prince Philip, who passed away on Friday (09Apr21). He was also later remembered in the In Memoriam section alongside Chadwick Boseman, Sean Connery, Christopher Plummer, Ennio George Segal, Irrfan Khan, Nikita Pearl Waligwa, Ben Cross, Sir Ian Holm, Yaphet Kotto, Max Von Sydow, Cicely Tyson, Dave Prowse, Kirk Douglas, Dame Barbara Windsor, Sir Alan Parker, and Dame Olivia De Havilland, among others.

      Musical entertainment was provided by British stars Liam Payne and Celeste, who sang her song “Hear My Voice” from “The Trial of the Chicago 7”, and Leslie Odom Jr. perform a transatlantic duet from Los Angeles, with Corinne Bailey Rae, who was at the Royal Albert Hall.

      The full list of BAFTA winners is as follows:

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      'Rocks' Star Bukky Bakray Wins Rising Star Award at 2021 BAFTAs

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      The actress who shot to stardom with her role in Sarah Gavron’s movie beats Conrad Khan, Kingsley Ben-Adir, Morfydd Clark, and Sope Dirisu to win the coveted title.

      Apr 12, 2021

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      “Rocks” actress Bukky Bakray has won BAFTA’s EE Rising Star Award.

      The 19-year-old actress from East London took home the prestigious accolade after appearing in BAFTA-nominated film “Rocks”, directed by Sarah Gavron, triumphing over fellow nominees Conrad Khan, Kingsley Ben-Adir, Morfydd Clark, and Sope Dirisu.

      Gavron discovered Bakray at school, aged 15, and cast the youngster in her first-ever acting role.

      Her win was announced by James McAvoy, winner of the first ever BAFTA Rising Star Award in 2006, the only publicly voted award, who appeared on stage at London’s Royal Albert Hall in front of the virtual audience.

      The teenager looked stunned at her win as she accepted a kiss from her mother on her live Zoom link, amid loud cheering from friends and family at home.

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      “Thank you so much Bafta and EE, I appreciate this so much,” she said. “The highlight of this awards journey has been recognition in a category with my fellow nominees, I can’t describe how humbling and what a blessing it is to be put on the same boat as those talented human beings.”

      “I’ve got a special appreciation for the Rocks family as well. Thank you for seeing something in me that I never saw in myself. Thank you EE for continuing to spotlight new and emerging talent.”

      As well as her EE Rising Star Award, Bakray has received nominations from the British Independent Film Awards (BIFA) and London Critics Circle, and was also shortlisted in BAFTA’s Leading Actress category, losing out to Frances McDormand for “Nomadland”.

      She is currently enrolled in Theatre Peckham’s Originate Acting Course, where young performers receive specialist training from top-tier drama institutions, such as Guildhall School and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts.

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      Benita Raphan, Maker of Lyrical Short Films, Is Dead at 58

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      Her dreamlike “genius” films about figures like Emily Dickinson and Buckminster Fuller hovered between documentary and experimental cinema.Benita Raphan made short experimental films about eccentric and unusual minds — like John Nash, the mathematician; Buckminster Fuller, the utopian architect; and Edwin Land, who invented Polaroid film. Her “genius” films, as they were known, are dreamlike, lyrical and suggestive. Not quite biography, they hover between documentary and experimental filmmaking. Ms. Raphan described herself as a cinematic diarist and an experimental biographer.“Up From Astonishment” (2020), her most recent film, is about Emily Dickinson. In it, ink blooms on a page; butterflies pinwheel; there are empty bird nests, an abacus and various inscrutable shapes. Susan Howe, a poet, and Marta Werner, a Dickinson scholar, are the film’s narrators, but not really. Ms. Raphan had sampled clips from her interviews with them and used their words strategically and evocatively.In one sound fragment, Ms. Howe says: “I can’t be called just a poet. I always have to be called an experimental poet, or difficult poet, or innovative poet. To me all good poetry is experimental in some way.”Ms. Raphan was a poet in her own right. She died at 58 on Jan. 10 in New York City. Her mother, Roslyn Raphan, confirmed her death, which had not been widely reported at the time, but did not specify a cause.Ms. Raphan’s films are in the permanent collection of the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis and have been shown at the Sundance and Tribeca festivals, as well as on the Sundance Channel, HBO, PBS and Channel Four in Britain. She was a Guggenheim fellow in 2019.“Benita had a wonderful way of flipping the way we think about a biographical film,” said Dean Otto, curator of film at the Speed Art Museum in Louisville, Ky. When he was a curator at the Walker Art Center, Mr. Otto acquired four of Ms. Raphan’s films, and she donated an additional two.“She conducted oral history interviews with people who knew the person or were moved by the work and then took that soundtrack and, using her background in graphic design, created these abstract images,” Mr. Otto said. “What she wanted to do was take you into the mind of these geniuses, imagine their thought processes and present that visually.”Ms. Raphan told an interviewer in 2011, “I am interested in revisiting a life or a career from the very start, from the beginning; the basic concept as initial thought, as an impulse, as an ineffable compulsion, an intuition; to reframe and reinvent an action as simple as one pair of hands touching pencil to paper.”Moments from “Absence Stronger Than Presence,” Ms. Raphan’s 1996 film about Edwin Land, the inventor of Polaroid film.via Raphan familyvia Raphan familyMs. Raphan was born on Nov. 5, 1962, in Manhattan. Her mother, Roslyn (Padlowe) Raphan, was an educator; her father, Bernard Raphan, was a lawyer.She grew up on the Upper West Side and graduated from City-as-School, an alternative public high school at which students design their own curriculums based on experiential learning, mostly through internships. (Jean-Michel Basquiat was an alumnus, as is Adam Horovitz of the Beastie Boys.) Ms. Raphan interned with Albert Watson, the fashion photographer.Her mother described Ms. Raphan as an “irregular verb.”“She saw things through a different lens,” she said. “Benita could take something ordinary and find beauty in it. She was the real deal. No artifice about her. The heart was right out there.”Ms. Raphan earned an undergraduate degree in media arts from the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan — where she also taught for the last 15 years — and an M.F.A. from the Royal College of Art in London. She spent 10 years in Paris, working as a graphic designer for fashion companies like Marithé & François Girbaud, before returning to New York in the mid-1990s.In addition to her mother, she is survived by her sister, Melissa Raphan.“While the rest of us were stealing from our instructors and other design luminaries,” said Gail Anderson, a creative director and former classmate of Ms. Raphan’s, “Benita was on her own journey, working with delicate typography and haunting images, creating collages and photo-illustrations that were uniquely Benita.”Ms. Raphan was, in her own estimation, more of a collage artist than a filmmaker. “Her films are really collages of ideas,” said Kane Platt, a film editor who worked on many of her projects. “Working with her you had a lot of freedom, and if you had ideas that were weird and wacky, she was like, ‘Go, go, go!’”She was also, Mr. Platt said, the consummate hustler. “I’ve never met anyone like her,” he said. “It was all on a shoestring. She would trade, she would barter, whatever was necessary.”He and others donated their work on her films, though she always offered to pay. (For “Absence Stronger Than Presence,” her film about Edwin Land, she persuaded the actor Harvey Keitel to provide the voice-over, and sent a chauffeur-driven limousine to pick him up for the recording session.) She found ways to be generous in return.Ms. Raphan in 2019, the year she was named a Guggenheim fellow. Declan Van Welie“She was able to bring together some very talented people,” said Marshall Grupp, one of her mentors, a sound designer and co-owner of Sound Lounge, an audio postproduction company. “Even though she had no money, she did whatever she needed to do to make it happen. I think people are attracted to that. I adored her.“She thanked me for everything,” he continued; “I don’t think people do that in this industry. Her thank-you notes came wrapped in beautiful envelopes, in a bag with colored paper. The idea of her showing appreciation in small and significant ways meant a lot. She had a lot of humanity, and that came through in her work.”At her death, Ms. Raphan was working on a film about animal behavior. Since adopting a behaviorally challenged dog from a shelter years ago, she had been fascinated by the workings of the canine mind.“Benita was a gleaner,” the filmmaker Alan Berliner said. “She was very much an urban anthropologist. She had a knack for finding things — or letting things find her. She walked her dog several times a day and knew her neighborhood very well; she knew who threw things out and where. Her films are filled with many of the strange and surprising objects she often found — the carved head of a dog; an old typewriter; a teapot; an old notebook. They lent her films a kind of unpredictability and surreal quality.”Mr. Berliner added: “Her films were not so much about their subject as they were about the issues they evoked. They’re filled with hints of things, synaptic touches that trigger thoughts. Sometimes I thought of her as a scientist in an artist’s body. She was always interested in the mystery of things.” More