sundance shorts are available on the internet. thanks to adobe and keep it free. i recommend cindy stillwell's 'high plains winter', the only one i saw so far. and yes be a little patient with dl, but everything works fine. sundance shorts 06 View full entry
The Grace Lee Project is a film focusing on the name Grace Lee, which, perhaps is representative of the entire stereotype of Asian American women. Do you know Grace Lee? View full entry
Well its not the 60s, but at least we can pretend with music video's from France circa 1960-70. Right? Tube l via View full entry
How Pixar's animated films became the best literature around. (slide show) View full entry
The latest movie by Chinese director Jia Zhangke titled The WORLD is a masterpiece which gives a unique look at contemporary Chinese culture and questions (in a broad glimpse) the condition of globalization... View full entry
RESFEST showcases a full slate of the world's most forward thinking shorts, creative music videos and streetwise documentaries. cf View full entry
Not exactly new, but you can now get the Lost Buildings DVD, previously available only through NPR pledge drives. (Still pledge, though. You hear it's in trouble ...) It's an awesome collaboration between Ira Glass and comic book artist Chris Ware about a teenage boy who became obsessed with old... View full entry
Never-seen-before footage released to the 'IoS' reveals the extraordinary discarded prologue to Stanley Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey'. The Independent View full entry
On October 14 at dusk, be a part of Pierre Huyge's film, A Journey That Wasn't, an orchestral musical in Central Park based on a journey to Antarctica. This event is both a performance and a film shoot, so that those present witness the spectacle and become extras in the resulting film.Public Art... View full entry
I came across some films that might be of interest to those watchful of our global cultural militarism, the nuances of border and surveillance issues, and the complex backlash landscapes of an emerging squatter refugee urbanism. Other than that, you know the routine. [ENTER] ---War Games by Marc... View full entry
Continuing to collaborate, Chris Cunningham recently consulted with Alex Rutterford who directed this add for Sony PSP. And yes, it is another musical morphing quasi-action-figure tango with itself this time made of chunky mechanical blocks which eventually deconstruct into the four PSP symbols... View full entry
Sydney Pollack's documentary about architect Frank Gehry opened in Toronto. TIFF Talk Blog comments the process at times is not all that different from what was shown in the episode of The Simpsons where Gehry designs Springfield's concert hall | TIFF | pictures at the talk | pre vious View full entry
"Every time I reach a Starbucks I feel like I've accomplished something," Winter said, "when actually I have accomplished nothing." As of Aug. 8, Winter had visited 4,775 Starbucks in North America and 213 in other parts of world. And Bill Tangeman has managed to join him for a few to film his... View full entry
Click Opera has a review of 'Lagos Wide & Close,' an interactive journey into an exploding city, a DVD about Rem Koolhaas' study of the Nigerian city by Bregtje van der Haak. (via) View full entry
Haaretz reviews a documentary about Moshe Safdie by Donald Winkler. Read View full entry
