In all-caps, stream-of-consciousness writing, Luther Price (whose experimental films screen at the Walker in February) tells ArtInfo about museum ladies, his cat (Mr. Grey), and the time he licked a Toulouse-Lautrec painting.

It was inevitable: after our first-ever Internet Cat Video Festival last summer, cats are showing up at the Sundance Film Festival. 90201 star AnnaLynne McCord hosted five films Saturday in an event dubbed “Catdance.”

“Japan’s greatest living filmmaker,” Nagisa Oshima, has passed away at age 80. Subject of a 2008 retrospective at the Walker, Oshima’s films include In the Realm of the Senses (1976) and Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (1983), which starred David Bowie.

Among items to appear in an exhibition at Contemporary Art Center New Orleans is Hushpuppy’s boat from Beasts of the Southern Wild. Opening after the Oscars, the show will feature the creative work of director Benh Zeitlin and his Court 13 Pictures colleagues.

Artist Chris Sullivan, whose hand-animated Consuming Spirits screens at the Walker February 8-9, discusses his diverse influences, from Mike Kelley and the Brothers Quay to Pieter Bruegel, William Kentridge, and Cartoon Saloon.

In a new short presented by the New York Times, filmmaker and 2012 MacArthur Fellow Laura Poitras documents the return of Adnan Latif’s body to Yemen from Guantanamo, where he was imprisoned without charge for 11 years.

The 2013 Oscar nominations held few big surprises, save one: provocateur Michael Haneke’s Amour received nominations in five categories, including best director. It’s only the third film to be nominated both in Best Foreign Language and Best Picture catgeories.

Despite implicating violent media in the recent spate of mass killings, the NRA has for two years run an exhibition called Hollywood Guns, which features 125 guns from films including Machete, Dirty Harry, and Lethal Weapon.

Kickstarter reports that more than $100 million has been pledged to independent film projects through the crowdfunding site since its 2009 launch. Of that amount, around $85 million has been collected, more than half of which went to documentaries.