Apichatpong Weerasethakul is prepping his first feature film since winning the Palme d’Or at Cannes 2010 for Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recount His Past Lives. Set in northern Thailand, Cemetery of Kings tells a tale of soldiers struck by a strange sleeping sickness.

The next time Hito Steyerl sees a 16mm projector in a gallery she vows to “take the poor thing to a pensioners home.” “It made sense to use Bolexes in 1968 […] but today people use cellphones, Kinnect sensors and After Effects to deal with the present and shape it.”

Scott Foundas, the former Village Voice film critic who leads our dialogue with Noah Baumbach April 5, has been named chief film critic for Variety. He starts just as the publication relaunches as a redesigned weekly edition on March 26.

“Ai Weiwei is the Tom Hanks of Chinese cinema,” says cinematographer Christopher Doyle (Chungking Express, In the Mood for Love), who’s working with the artist on a new project. Ai is “so fucking beautiful on film because he’s so solid, he doesn’t give a shit.”

In a new mini-documentary, David Lynch visits Idem Paris, a French lithography shop that’s worked with artists from Matisse to Duchamp to Raymond Pettibon. Shot in black-and-white, the wordless short serves as a meditation on the analog mechanics of printing.

Kara Walker on Django Unchained: “As a child, I was subjected to a lot of spaghetti Westerns and hated them. I wanted the Indians to win—or just not be so sad! It’s nice to have a badass black hero, though I left telling a friend I wished Django had been a women.”

The Sundance Film Festival announced its 2013 prizes Saturday, with Ryan Coolger’s Fruitvale and Steve Hoover’s Blood Brother winning top honors. A special jury prize went to Mike Lerner and Maxim Pozdorovkin’s doc Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer.

Kathryn Bigelow (Zero Dark Thirty) tells Time that a chat with Andy Warhol influnced her move from art to film: “Andy was saying that there’s something way more populist about film than art— that art’s very elitist, so you’re excluding a large audience. ”