Putney Swope is a 1969 film written and directed by Robert Downey Sr. and starring Arnold Johnson as Swope. The comedy by a white writer / director satirizes, criticizes and plays with black militant rhetoric, the portrayal of race in Hollywood films, the white power structure, and nature of corruption in any struggle for power.

Note to self: concatenate 'n' Instapaperise.

"Tyneside Cinema, the oldest surviving newsreel cinema in the country and one of the UK's leading cultural venues, is exploring cinema's potential in the new digital world, using the latest digital projectors, high-speed networks, games consoles and mobile devices to help us uncover ways in which we can make cinemas (and perhaps other arts and cultural spaces) as relevant in the 21st century as they were in the 20th."

"Take snapshots of a movie at one-second intervals. Stitch them into one image. What can you see? Pacing. Color palate. Maybe story"

"The original version of the Fritz Lang movie was considered lost. Now the ZEITmagazin has discovered the missing scenes." Wow. Can't wait to see the restored full version.

My overview of the Black Box section of the EIFF.

"Harrison Ford and Cate Blanchett are second-rate actors serving as the running dogs of the CIA"

Lots of stuff

Really looking forward to this bit of the EIFF. (Note to web designers: make your video embeddable.)

Resources for budget film-makers/short film competitions.

For whatever reason, it's always the docs I see at the EIFF that stick in my mind. (And I'll see way more this year - fuck August!)

Congratulations Luke!

Great idea, this. Shame the website is lagging behind the newspaper.

Documentary (not very good) about 1960s Nazi-themed porn popular in Israel in the 1960s.

Subject of one of the retrospectives at the EIFF this year.

Photos from the wonderful Apocalypse Optimo by me and Guy (and others?).

"A National Preserve of Documentary Films about American Roots Cultures streamed with essays about the traditions and filmmaking"

It's like Fake Steve Jobs for cinema geeks.

I watched this last night. It is completely fucking breathtaking.

Site for the forthcoming Cremaster Cycle documentary.

Polish film posters. Some absolute stunners.

Download from the Grey Lodge. (I think I may be the only person in the world who hasn't seen it yet.)

Interesting cinema column from a sound design perspective.

Finally signed up for this. Seems a wee bit lacking in the arthouse ultrawank dept.

Short introductions to various cinematic genres.

This is much, much funnier than it should be: Lord Of The Rings scenes with simpleton groans in place of dialogue.

Han in Cannes, unsurprisingly she don't like the Da Vinci Code: "...every conversation thunks along like it's been badly translated from a language without enough verbs in it."

A bunch of good film stuff from what is, as far as I know, the best website on the web.

A short film shot entirely using a still camera's 'burst mode'.

Links on 'How It Happened Here', a film imagining a Nazi occupation of the UK.

JG Ballard on Michael Powell.

Bareney 'n' Bjork collaborate at last. Is there any possible way that this can be anything other than fucking amazing? I mean, it's a Japanese Cremaster divided by the square root of Medulla... gnnk.