screen links

---Bonobo: "Cirrus"

---The Screen Poetry of Terrence Malick

---The Apocalypse

---the NRA stands and fights

---the Pulp Fiction oral history

---"Was it helpful to read Pauline Kael’s work when I was growing up? Absolutely. For a teenager who was beginning to look at movies as something other than just entertainment, her reviews were really interesting. But at a certain point, it’s not useful anymore. I stopped reading reviews of my own films after Traffic, and I find it hard to read any critics now because they are just so easily fooled. From a directorial standpoint, you can’t throw one by me. I know if you know what you’re doing, and, “Wow, critics”—their reading of filmmaking is very superficial. Look, nothing excites me more than a good film. It makes me want to make something good. But I have certain standards, and I don’t grade on a curve. If you want to be a director, I’m going to treat you like I treat everybody. So it’s frustrating when critics praise things that I feel are not up to snuff." --Steven Soderbergh

---"I played a prostitute who died.  Her life was sad and awful." (via @nathanielr)

---Google's "human right's activism disguised as mapmaking"

---Shortest Film

---John Belushi's screen test

---"Most action movies stink. They’re the back porch of filmmaking, and they’re not very well done at all." --Walter Hill

---Voice Over

---Christoper Nolan's and Rian Johnson's top 10

---PBS on the untouchable Wall Street leaders and drones

---trailers for Mood Indigo, Upside Down, Inside Llewyn Davis, Reality, War Witch, The Power of Few, and The East

---"It turns out, the film was just too controversial. With pundits and bloggers debating Zero Dark's stance on torture — does it make a correlation between 'enhanced interrogation' and the discovery of bin Laden, or is it simply realistically depicting something that did happen somewhere, at some point? — the praise for the film's artistic merits began to get lost. People either forgot that they liked the movie on technical grounds or simply were afraid to say it, at risk of wading into the heated political debate and being excoriated for liking a problematic movie. It became significantly less trendy to like Zero Dark Thirty in the weeks leading up to the Golden Globes, and the film has suffered because of it. No one is turning tail and saying that it's a bad film, it's just become something vaguely taboo. You can like it, but not too much."

---the origins of Gangster Squad

---Eric Schmidt discusses "The Next Five Billion"