With IFP Minnesota since ‘89, Jane Minton has been dismissed as executive director of the film group. A champion of indie film, she mentored Sweetland director Ali Selim and actor Patrick Coyle, who calls her dismissal “shocking.”

In a documentary short for ESPN, Errol Morris (Gates of Heaven, Mr. Death) looks at sports fans for life (and beyond), including a football fan laid in state under a Steelers blanket in his favorite game-day recliner.

Director David Cronenberg and actor Robert Pattinson rang the NY Stock Exchange bells Tuesday—ironically, perhaps?—to promote Cosmopolis, a film adaptation of the Don DeLillo novel that offers an acerbic critique of the ultra-wealthy.

Aiming to make a film in just five weeks, Lars Von Trier is turning to the public for help. He’s asking for filmed interpretations of six artworks, from Joyce’s Ulysses to Nazi architect Abert Speers’ Nuremberg grandstand.

A look at the studio behind ParaNorman—a new film that aims to change animation: “When you look at a stop-motion film,” says Phillip Knight of Laika, “you’re not looking at a bunch of ones and zeros. You’re looking at and feeling the artist’s hands at work.”

The upcoming Quay Brothers retrospective at MoMA features meticulous dioramas, hundreds of figures, and numerous films. A dark and imaginative exhibition, it reveals a “joint life story mingling nigh-mythic self-creation with restless creative adventuring.”

Film critic and legendary journalism instructor Judith Crist has passed away at the age of 90. “One of the most admired and feared critics from the 1960s to the 1980s,” she will be remembered for training generations of influential art critics.

Chris Marker fans are no doubt familiar with Guillaume-en-Egypte, the filmmaker’s cartoon cat and alter ego. To commemorate Marker’s passing this week, here’s a 1994 Marker short featuring the real-life Guillaume vegging out to a piano sonata by Federico Mompou.

The Atlantic offers a look at two very different Londons through film: from rare travel footage of the city shortly after WWI to high-tech aerial photos by Jason Hawkes from the weeks leading up to this year’s Olympics.