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Coming to theatres (in a limited release) on December 23rd is Wim Wenders’ documentary about Pina Bausch, the German-born modern dancer and choreographer who has influenced modern dancing since the Seventies. I've seen the film and I can testify to this: Pina is quite simply gorgeous to watch. Bausch, as expected, is a bit of an eccentric bird but it’s all good. She delivers the goods and her Tanztheater, the performance style that she created as artistic thrust

A pretty crazy bit of news this week: we might get to see the very last movie River Phoenix was shooting when he died of a suspected drug overdose in front of a nightclub in Los Angeles in 1993, during production. The movie is called Dark Blood and the director, George Sluizer, has recently announced that the movie will be completed in time for a 2012 release. To supplement the footage Sluizer plans on asking Joaquin Phoenix to overdub his brother’s voice, as reported in The Hollywood Reporter. Starring alongside Phoenix are Jonathan Pryce and Judy Davis.

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Richard Peña will be stepping down from his post as programmer-in-chief at the Film Society of Lincoln Center, it was recently announced. The Society’s executive director, Rose Kuo, has said, "Richard has been a shining light for more than two decades at the Film Society, guiding us in the discovery of artists like Pedro Almodovar, Mike Leigh, Lars Von Trier, Hou Hsiao-hsien, Hong Sang Soo and many more.”

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