Oscar-winning screenwriter Frank Pierson has died at age 87. Known for penning Dog Day Afternoon and Cool Hand Luke, his 5-decade career spanned film and TV—most recently including producer duties for AMC’s Mad Men.

As the Olympics begin in London, Ai Weiwei comments on his experience of the 2008 games: “My memory of the Beijing Olympics has not changed. It is a fake smile, an elaborate costume party with the sole intention of glorifying the country.”

A new bill before the Ukrainian Parliament hopes to criminalize all positive depictions of homosexuality in art, film, and television. Supporters of the proposal say, “Our goal is the preservation of the moral, spiritual, and physical health of the nation.”

The Indian government has asked the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing to remove a video installation discussing the 2002 communal Gujarat riots. Officials from the Ministry of External Affairs claim the video had “politically controversial overtones.”

Vito Russo is the subject of a new HBO documentary, Vito. The film scholar and activist is best known for his profound contributions to the gay rights movement and his groundbreaking book on LGBT visibility in early Hollywood cinema, The Celluloid Closet.

David Lynch on the role of darkness in his films: “A good movie idea is often like a girl you’re in love with, but you know she’s not the kind of girl you bring home to your parents, because they sometimes hold some dark and troubling things.”

“The movie theater is my home, and the idea that someone would violate that innocent and hopeful place in such an unbearably savage way is devastating to me,” says The Dark Night Rises director Christopher Nolan in response to the shootings in Aurora, Colorado.

From a media collective working in a Nairobi slum to film groups archiving protest videos in Cairo and Lagos: Basia Lewandowska Cummings highlights “filmmaking collectives that are reinterpreting and reinvigorating notions of collaboration and distribution.”

RRRRRRRROLL uses “photography to explore beautifully minimalist animations based on objects and people turning on a single axis.” So far, the project has 34 experimental GIFs completed and they add two new animations each week.