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The Turin Horse

“A rich, deeply moving story, a movie of incredible mystery and power that ranks among the director’s finest works.” —Indiewire The latest film from Béla Tarr (Werckmeister Harmonies, Sátántangó, and the subject of a 2007 Walker Regis Dialogue and Retrospective) is also his last, claims the master filmmaker himself. The title stems from an apocryphal… More

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Matt Levine and Jeremy Meckler

Beyond Real: Wim Wenders and 3-D Film’s New Day

“3-D is the greatest revolution ever since the talkies, only most people [don’t] realize it because we [think it is] just a gimmick for national blockbusters,” says Wim Wenders, whose new film, Pina, reflects the technology’s newest wave. “Now some movies come out that show the true potential of 3-D, which is… More

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Matt Levine and Jeremy Meckler

Beyond Real: Wim Wenders and 3-D Film’s New Day

“3-D is the greatest revolution ever since the talkies, only most people [don’t] realize it because we [think it is] just a gimmick for national blockbusters,” says Wim Wenders, whose new film, Pina, reflects the technology’s newest wave… More

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Eric Crosby and Dean Otto

Nathalie Djurberg’s The Parade

Primal and chaotic, Nathalie Djurberg’s art “doesn’t look like anything else out there,” says Eric Crosby, co-curator of the artist’s first major US museum show. In an interview, he and the Walker’s Dean Otto discuss how Djurberg’s… More

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Paul Schmelzer

Chaos and Creativity

Jumping from the ’80s activism of ACT UP to the oil fields of Iraq, the death camps of World War II to 9/11, The Smiths to The Golden Girls, Jim Hodges’ World AIDS Day film offers striking context for both Felix Gonzalez-Torres’ art and the continuing struggles for… More

• 2012 Oscar Race

  Via colorlines.com Who votes on the Oscars? White men, mostly. A new study finds that the membership of the awards’ body, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, is nearly 94 percent white and 77 percent male. Blacks and Latinos each make up 2 percent or less.

• Diegetic Cinematography

  Via rhizome.org Diegetic sound is the part of a film score that characters can hear: background music in a car, as opposed to music that adds suspense for audiences. So what exactly is digetic camerawork? John Powers looks at the film Chronicle to explain.

• Cat Break

  Via laughingsquid.com A Russian cat wearing paper spectacles stars in a series of amazing shorts by filmmaker Denis Borisovich. Behold: Skifcha the cat!

• Green Screen Bike Lane

  Via latimes.com Here’s an unexpected consequence of a new bike lane along LA’s Spring St.: It’s painted garish green, the exact hue that makes it disappear when videotaped. Once a top site for film and ad shoots, productions have now moved one street over.

• Tracking Shots

  Via nytimes.com A former track star, Shola Lynch brought lessons from sports to her film career (her Chisholm ’72 screened at the Walker in 2004): “In sports, you learn that progress is not linear. You don’t train for the Olympics in two weeks.”

• A Bourgeois Job

  Via indiewire.com“A filmmaker is a nice bourgeois job,” says Béla Tarr, whose The Turin Horse screens at the Walker in March. “But I really don’t want to do it… During these 34 years of filmmaking, I’ve said everything I want to say.”