- Those BAFTA nominees and winners in full. Go Christoph Waltz! Umm, go Kristen Stewart!
- Ever wondered what might have happened if David Lynch hadn’t been so badly burned by Dune (1984), and continued to make studio movies? Like, say… Disney’s A Goofy Movie?
- The story of Avatar has its roots in Cameron’s sylvan childhood, apparently.
- In summing the decade that’s now concluding, what do you figure we might look back as our presiding sensibility? A provocative series on ‘The Aesthetics of Stupidity’ starts here and continues here, at American Stranger…
- …which in turn led me to this. A bit old for a links log, I know, but it’s the defence of Richard Kelly’s Southland Tales I’ve been looking for ever since 2007. Laughed at in Cannes, ignored on release, I’d take an uncompromising, overburdened, chaotic shambles like this over any number of unambitious-but-able blockbuster-types.
- Logorama, a 15-minute animated film that uses only logos, is getting a lot of attention. There’s a review of the film from Mark Webster here.
