'n 2009, Casey Pugh asked thousands of Internet users to remake "Star Wars: A New Hope" into a fan film, 15 seconds at a time. Contributors were allowed to recreate scenes from Star Wars however they wanted.'

"Where are you?" [foghorn blows] "You're on a boat..." "What's in your hand." (Look in his hand) "I have it." (You don't have it and you're not a man because I've been telling you what to do and you did it all.) -- The longer you listen, the sweeter the pitch.

"Look down." Genius. That linkage between the camera and the male looking through *his* 'female gaze' that can't help but compare himself to another man. "Look at your man." (Look at yourself via the female gaze.) "Now back to me." (Look at him via your male gaze looking at *her* looking at him via her female gaze and comparing him to you.) "Now back at your man; Now back to me." Perfect cinema.

'Countdown connects the invention of the movie projector to improvements in castle fortifications caused by the invention and use of the cannon.'

'Play imagines a not-too-distant future where video games have become indistinguishable from reality. These fully immersive games are nested inside each other like Russian dolls — each new game emerging from another and connecting backwards with increasing complexity. Synthetic experience competes with real experience as dream, fantasy, and memory begin to collapse into each other. A host of questions emerge: Who are the players? Who are the game designers? What is the purpose of these games? What is the point of winning? Where is it all leading? And if someone wants to stop playing, where in the hell is the escape button?'

"The system will be fine providing nobody panics."

"The way movies are heading is not necessarily toward realism, but toward sensory input."

My God... it's full of boxes!

"Morning chaos, evening chaos, night chaos, noon chaos, midnight chaos, eternity chaos.."

'"If you lose your eye and have a hole in your head, then why not stick a camera in there?"'

"High Maintenance"

"Comics are the new spec-scripts, and Hollywood is very amenable to a script with big pictures..."

"Xtranormal’s mission is to bring movie-making to the people. Everyone watches movies and we believe everyone can make movies. Movie-making, short and long, online and on-screen, private and public, will be the most important communications process of the 21st century and its democratization is a massive business opportunity. Our revolutionary approach to movie-making builds on an almost universally held skill—typing. You type something; we turn it into a movie. On the web and on the desktop." -- Awesomeness

"A group of film-makers have discovered a novel way of making films. You might think that to make a movie you'd need to own an expensive camera to film it, but you don't. Instead they're using some of the four million CCTV cameras around Britain."

Crazy artist people.

Naughty

Alex Rivera. Director: '"We are being sold a false bill of goods, that the more connected we become the more equal we will be." "Statistically speaking, that's not what's happening. The more connected we become, the more we are divided."'

Philips Aurea

Smart smut. "... about 100 teams already have, giving Anne Summers a very large creative department to issue briefs to, without having to pay a creative agency retainer."

"Recreating Movement makes it possible to extract single frames of any given film sequence and arranges them behind each other in a three-dimensional space. This creates a tube-like set of frames that "freezes" a particular time span in a film." LOOK!

On Ridley Scott’s 'Final Cut' of Blade Runner: "When Roy, at the end of his strength, releases the pigeon, it flies not up into a suddenly and comically clear sky, but into a dark one filled with appropriately looming megastructure."

Dystopian movies

Kurzweil: She detects a "gray goo" attack...

How the hell is Bladerunner not Number 1?! Anyway, a great list.

Cloverfield website (perhaps)

"B movies exist because it's possible to stand apart from crappy art, to laugh at it ironically. But it's impossible to play ironically. Play is the most earnest form of culture we've got."

"The Blair Witch Project is a 1999 low budget independent horror film, financed and distributed by Artisan Entertainment. The narrative is presented as a documentary pieced together from amateur footage."

Official trailer and comments, video responses, misdirections? who knows?

"Cloverfield" is the code name of an upcoming science fiction film produced by J. J. Abrams, directed by Matt Reeves, and written by Drew Goddard."

"What if this is ACTUALLY the finale of LOST ... it would be a unique way to end a television series by having it in movie theaters ... wouldn't you agree?"

"A synthespian is any synthetic actor."

More BR love: Adam Savage: "I worked on Star Wars Episodes I and II, on the Matrix films, on AI and Terminator 3; yet 25 years later there are ways in which Blade Runner surpasses anything that's been done since. "

Blade Runner Umbrella - FOR SALE!

"Paul Verhoeven will use the virtual world of Second Life to audition actors for an upcoming film. According to a press release, radio and television spots are advertising an open call for all those interested in auditioning for Black Book 2"

Scans from the magazine

Nice futuristic advertising and interface design taken from the movie: Children of Men

A bit jaded then?!

44 min about the history of blogs

Bored?

"Documentary profile of film director Ridley Scott."

"The Pervert's Guide to Cinema (2006) explores a number of films from a psychoanalytic theoretical perspective."

"Adam Curtis (born 1955) is a British television documentary producer. He is noted for making programmes which express a clear (and sometimes controversial) opinion about their subject, and for narrating the programmes himself."

"Hence games manufacturer Electronic Arts' decision to give FIFA Online away for free [and] selling enhancements which can give players an advantage over their opponents."

"After paying £25 to join, participants are allowed to vote on major decisions in the film, contribute to the actual development and production of the film through open source technologies, and are encouraged to share and sample portions of the film for

"The majority of UK homes no longer watch TV; they watch digital interactive TV and, as a result, teh way they use their televisons and what they expect from them has all changed."

"LET'S build a really cool swing and see if we can get somebody to sit on it,” says Philip Rosedale. A few clicks later, there is the swing, and quite an artful one. Onlookers have gathered to watch. One, named “mermaid”, declines to sit on the swin

"Saatchi & Saatchi in London has launched GUM, a branded content business aimed at capturing the elusive urban youth market."

All about dissident documentaries and how the Fox news won the war against reality. (Great line.)

Amazing stop-motion animations in that lo-fi having a laugh on the kitchen table sorta way.

Helvetica is a feature-length independent film about typography, graphic design and global visual culture. It looks at the proliferation of one typeface (which will celebrate its 50th birthday in 2007) as part of a larger conversation about the way type a

Big list of film endings

Film about the National Professional Staredown