July 2008 Archives

STUDENTS: Tell the world the way it should be. Is open sharing of ideas and information important to you? Form a team or go it alone and make a video to demonstrate the value of information sharing as you see it.

EDUCATORS: A great assignment for your fall courses. Teacher’s guide coming soon.

Learn more at http://www.sparkyawards.org

at UbuWeb
"A guided tour of the "Andy Warhol / Supernova: Stars Death and Disasters, 1962-1964" exhibit at the Art Gallery of Ontario, conceived and narrated by renowned filmmaker David Cronenberg. Cronenberg says,

"Andy was making underground films when I was making underground films. And I was more inspired by him than by Hollywood. He created himself: He was an outsider, a Slovakian, Catholic, gay, an artist, poor; an outsider in his own family, a triple outsider like Kafka, with his nose pressed against the New York window. And, he became the ultimate insider, the center of his own world, and drew people to him. He became a huge example of the invention of an identity."

Thought long lost since 1927 -- a full eighty years ago -- an almost completely intact 16mm print of the original full-length premiere version of Fritz Lang's Metropolis has surfaced in the archives of the Museum of Cinema in Buenos Aires.

Read more about here at Film.com...