Quite startling, almost hard to believe, in the latest Filmmaker: Lance Weiler writes that L.A.-based biotech has purchased David Cronenberg’s IP for real-life applications. Read and then click to the site where Pod Wants to Know You. 

Highly recommended.

vimeo:

euphonia by ornana films

euphonia is the newest film from Ornana, the group behind the hit animated short “(notes) on biology”. It debuted in the feature film category at SXSW last month, and they are now making it available for free exclusively on Vimeo

I am not a number. 

heidisaman:

“Mr. Hitchcock taught me everything about cinema. It was thanks to him that I understood that murder scenes should be shot like love scenes and love scenes like murder scenes.” 

— Grace Kelly

heidisaman:

“Talent is insignificant. I know a lot of talented ruins. Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck, but, most of all, endurance.” 

— James Baldwin interviewed in The Paris Review

 

Vito Acconci’s written instructions, left at the New School, in the case of his death while traveling.

momalibrary:

-ds

Jack Nicholson and Faye Dunaway practicing the kiss scene in Chinatown.

(Source: mattybing1025)

film-dot-com:

TRAILER: NICOLAS WINDING REFN’S “ONLY GOD FORGIVES” 

“you wanna fight?”

so here’s the best trailer of the year (thus far). hopefully this will undo the damage that the movies did to Thailand with “The Hangover Part II,” if such a thing is possible.

coming to theaters on July 16.

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