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Khalil Gibran’s The Prophet is heading to the big screen as an animated feature, and now Salma Hayek’s passion project (she’s onboard as producer) has landed an all-star cast that includes John Krasinski, Frank Langella, Alfred Molina, Liam Neeson and Quvenzhané Wallis, along with Hayek.

The special thing about this project is that it’ll be there are a number of directors on board. Each director will adapt each of the 89-year old classic’s chapters. Roger Allers (The Lion King) is responsible for connecting all of the narrative.

Some of the directors onboard are Marjane Satrapi (Oscarnominated for Persepolis), Chris Landreth (Oscar winner for short “Ryan”), Tomm Moore (Oscar nominated for The Secret of Kells), Nina Paley (Berlin Film Festival winner for Sita Sings the Blues), Mohammed Saeed Harib (creator of hit series “Freej”), Michal Socha, Francesco Testa, Joan Gratz (Oscar winner for Mona Lisa Descending...

The new Spring 2012 issue of Cineaste is out and selections online include James L Neibaur on Kino's Blu-ray releases of Buster Keaton's work (as well as eleven more DVD/Blu-ray reviews), Andrew Horton's remembrance of Theo Angelopolous, Anchalee Chaiwaraporn and Kong Rithdee on the politics of Thai film and the opening paragraphs of Thomas Doherty's review of Nicholas Ray: The Glorious Failure of an American Director:

Generally admiring but never intoxicated, Patrick McGilligan's insightful biography is a chronicle not only of the troubled director but also of the Hollywood studio system at dusk, the vagaries of the multilateral skirmishes between French, British, and American film criticism, and the political follies roiling through twentieth-century America. The author of well-regarded biographies of Fritz Lang and Clint Eastwood and the editor of the invaluable Backstory series of interviews with Hollywood screenwriters (who all prove to be much more than...