The Death of Film?

I agree with Scott Tobias' fears about the death of celluloid and attachment to it as a material.

Via The Onion AV Club

Leonardo da Vinci Exhibition Shown in Cinemas

This is among the dumbest things I have ever heard of.

Via the BBC

Pauline Kael vs. Joan Didion

More Pauline Kael gossip... this time the inside scoop about her feud with Joan Didion.

via The Awl

Pauline Kael Revisited

Pauline Kael is one of my heroes. She was the one who helped me fall in love with film, and when I was 20 I used to leave screenings and walk home alone holding imaginary conversations with her in my head. I had a plan to go down to New York and meet her but she died in 2001 before I could put it in motion.

Nathan Heller has written an excellent piece about her and why she still matters in the New Yorker an you should read it. Go out and by some of her books too while you are at it.

Evil People in Modernist Buildings in Popular Films

The best idea for a zine I've seen in ages, if any loyal NYC readers find a copy of this please mail it to me.

"Evil People in Modernist Buildings in Popular Films" via Architizer Blog

David Hockney's New Video Still Composites

David Hockney: still one of the youngest, most innovative painter out there? Yes indeed.

An article about Hockney's new video still composites. Too few artists actually question the nature of seeing anymore.

Wim Wenders + Dance

Wim Wenders shot a 3D dance film. I want to see it.

Frank Lloyd Wright and Bladerunner

Interesting comparison of shots of Frank Lloyd Wright's Ennis house in LA and film stills from the Bladerunner scenes shot there.

Pauline Kael Revisited

As far as I am concerned there can never be enough posthumous love letters to my favorite film critic, Pauline Kael.

Fwd: Update on my Life

My friend and fabulous filmaker Nicky Tavares is showing her experimental biography Fwd: Update on my Life at MoMA's New Directors New Films series this week. Check it out! (Sat. April 2, 8 PM @ MoMA)

Frazzle Ice

A really beautiful video about ice.

Interview Project

I find David Lynch's new interview project genuinely moving. It is meant to be seen on the web and you can see the whole thing here:

http://interviewproject.davidlynch.com