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Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.NEWSJia Zhangke's Ash is Purest White.Just in case you missed it, the multiple lineups for the various festivals at Cannes this year have been announced. You can find all of the announcements on Notebook: the 71st Cannes Film Festival, Directors' Fortnight, Critics Week, and Acid. Additionally, Cannes has also announced the jury tending to the official selection: Cate Blanchett (President), Chang Chen, Ava DuVernay, Robert Guédiguian, Khadja Nin, Léa Seydoux, Kristen Stewart, Denis Villeneuve, and Andrey Zvyagintsev. After a truly eventful life (which includes being kidnapped by Kim Jong-il) and phenomenal career in cinema, the Korean screen legend Choi Eun-hee has died. Screen International provides a thorough obituary.Czech New Wave luminary and New Hollywood transplant Miloš Forman has died. Duane Byrge honors the man and artist with an obituary for The Hollywood Reporter.

Damien Manivel and Kohei Igarashi's The Night I Swam (2017), which is receiving an exclusive global online premiere on Mubi, is showing from March 23 - April 22, 2018 as a Special Discovery. Translation for the film's shooting diary has been made by Maureen Gueunet.1. Takara Facing The TVAs we shot the film in chronological order, this was one of the first sequence we did with Takara. It’s the middle of the night and he watches TV in silence, engrossed in a cartoon. His face is very much one of a child, and yet we can feel the strains of insomnia, his solitude while everyone is sleeping. What surprised us was his ability to forget the camera’s presence. In this instance, all of the film’s crew is around him but Takara is elsewhere. We understood then that to obtain genuine feelings from him, he should play states of mind he...