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.

The Anna Schmidt we see before us now is one in transition; the dolled-up blonde fluttering her false eyelashes at the camera is all but gone. Her relatively seamless blonde wig is left as a crumpled rodent-like mass on her vanity and in seconds a closer shot will show Anna removing her large eyelashes, the last vestige of the character she has been performing. But this is of course not only…

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.

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

Today’s still has captured Anna Schmidt (Alida Valli), former lover of Harry Lime, at her most bewitching: meeting Holly Martins in her dressing room after a show at the Josefstadt Theater, Anna is both skeptical and intrigued, guarded yet increasingly frank. In other words, she’s somewhere between the role that she plays in the German-language comedy that Holly has just walked out of—we only see…

In the spirit of the Walker’s new Death Metal Logo T-shirt, we’d like to introduce you to your new rock ‘n’ roll wardrobe: Hungarian filmmaking legend, Béla Tarr is known for his extremely long takes and slow-moving camera, but Black Flag made short fast songs. This punk legend made a huge impact, and was even covered by indie-rock wunderkinds Dirty Projectors for an entire album. Tarr has a long…

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.

This moment, one of our first sights of Anna Schmidt, shows her dolled up in a bizarre German comedy. The camera swings left following the frenzied German dialogue which has the audience (except for Holly) in stitches. Holly still feels a stranger in a strange land, looking around uncomfortably at the cackling audience. Like a non-German movie theater audience, Holly can see little of the humor in…

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.”