In 1969, a 14-year-old Beatle fanatic named Jerry Levitan snuck into John Lennon’s hotel room in Toronto and convinced him to do an interview. I Met The Walrus is an animation created on top of this interview, which was nominated for the 2008 Academy Award for Animated Short. (Hi-res version here).

A nice short movie by Miranda July starring John C Reilly.

Swedish DICE has something different up their sleeves. A game called ‘Mirror’s Edge’ where the plot is taking place in the near future where a William Gibson-esque city, heavily controlled, depend on ‘runners’ or ‘couriers’ to carry underground or rebel information, because this has become safer than any electronic transaction. You play a female protagonist [...]

‘Spectre’. Photo by Derek Frey
Derek Frey took a trip back to the abandoned set of the small town ‘Spectre’ from the movie ‘Big Fish‘ (he worked as Tim Burton’s assistant on the movie). Usually such sets are taken down after shooting, but according to John August it stayed there by request from the owner of [...]

The Danish movie-company Zentropa has announced that they have created a fund for financial support of experimental films, called “The Four-eyes Fund” (Brilleabe Fonden). The purpose of this fund is to

…ensure the survival of the elitist cinema, in a world of an increasing number of result-oriented and audience-craving tv-stations and film institutes.

A small handful [...]

This is so not like the European Union at all – but (ha ha ha – *cough*) this is brillant! (Thanks David)

Saul Bass rules. From The Man with the Golden Arm. Beautiful!

Teasing, teasing, teasing, teasing
Teasing day and teasing night
Teasing, teasing, teasing, teasing
Teasing everything in sight
- Lars Von Trier

(Translated from Danish: Drille, drille, drille, drille / Drille dag og drille nat / Drille, drille, drille, drille / Drille hund og drille kat)
It is exemplary to read in the newspaper Information that French media is thrilled by the [...]