In honor of its designation as a 2012 European Capital of Culture, Guimaraes, Portugal, built Centipede Cinema, “16 tubes that funnel into an enclosed screening room.” It’s the brainchild of architect Colin Fournier, artist Marysia Lewandowska, and London firm NEON.

Today’s still presents us with one of a surprising perspective. Looking out over the semi-deserted street, bombed out buildings and—as Matt discussed in detail last week—the Cafe Marc Aurel, where Holly lies waiting at the center of a spider’s web, we are looking out from Harry’s point of view. The previous shot situated Harry reaching […] Today’s still presents us with one of a surprising…

“Arguably the year’s most visionary film with true indie cred,” as Graham Fuller puts it, Beasts of the Southern Wild was nominated for two Gotham Independent Film Award awards Friday, but inexplicably not for best feature.

Calloway, Paine, and Holly have set the trap that’s meant to apprehend Harry Lime; now, they simply have to wait for their pest to step into it. In this case, the ambush has been prepared at the Vienna Hoher Markt, the oldest square still extant in the city and a prominent marketplace during the Middle Ages. (A popular set of gallows were also located at this site, an unsettling association that…

As the New York Film Festival closed, Criticwire polled critics on their festival favorites. While Michael Haneke’s Palme d’Or–winning Amour continued to fare well, Leos Carax (subject of our 2000 Regis Dialogue) was the top vote-getter, for Holy Motors.

Calloway and Paine, our never-separate team of British detectives, skulk in the shadows of a fountain waiting for Harry Lime to walk into their trap, their faces unrecognizable in the mass of darkness of today’s frame. Holly has finally agreed to help “tie the noose” for his friend’s capture, and a veritable noose of British […] Calloway and Paine, our never-separate team of British detectives, skulk…

London’s National Gallery director Nicholas Penny shares some thoughts about art he doesn’t like: “The art form I don’t relate to – I’d put it more strongly actually – is video because it seems to me so often merely to be an incompetent form of film.”

Austrian avant-garde filmmaker Peter Kubelka discusses his works, cinema history, and the current status of film. His new project, Monument Film, will screen at the London Film Festival’s Experimenta weekend, which showcases artists’ film and video.

Filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul‘s newest work, the Walker-commissioned short video Cactus River (Khong Lang Nam), makes its debut October 13, 2012, on the Walker Channel. The six-month exclusive run of the work marks the Channel’s first artist commission. A filmmaker with a long relationship with the Walker, Weerasethakul is the first filmmaker from Asia to win a Palme d’Or at Cannes since…