After five decades as the reigning champion of cinema, Orson Welles’ Citizen Kane (1941) is no longer the greatest film of all time according to Sight & Sound magazine. Taking it’s place: Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo (1958), which won by a mere 34 votes.

Designer Ole Shereen’s “Archipelago Cinema” will be showcased as one of the 18 Collateral Events at this year’s Venice Biennale Architecture Exhibition. Shereen calls his raft-like auditorium “a floating revival of classic American drive-in theatres.”

In commemoration of the death of Chris Marker, artist Paul Chan reads the French filmmaker’s “The Rest is Silent,” a cryptic essay on silent film written for the catalogue of Marker’s 1995 Wexner installation Silent Movie.

Author and cultural icon Gore Vidal died Tuesday at age 86. His 60-year career spanned from film and television to theater and literature—most notably Ben Hur and his openly gay 1948 novel The City and the Pillar.

In 1963, Arthur Fellig—aka Weegee—found his way behind the scenes at the shooting of Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove, where he captured on film scenes that ended up on the cutting-room floor, including a reportedly epic food fight.

The Iranian government is threatening to boycott this year’s Venice Film Festival, reportedly in response to recent European sanctions on Iran’s oil industry, which were instigated as a result of the country’s nuclear program.

Chris Marker, the French filmmaker best known for 1962’s La Jetée, has passed away at age 91. He’s credited as the inventor of the essay film, a “form pitched between documentary and personal reflection, exploring the subjectivity of the cinematic perspective.”

Via Flavorwire we learn that Holly Gilliam has started a blog to share material from the archive of her dad, Minneapolis-born Monty Python illustrator and filmmaker Terry Gilliam. She hopes to turn the cache of scripts, doodles, and cut-outs into a book.