The opening of Jem Cohen’s Occupy Wall Street newsreels—shot through the window of a Brooklyn subway car—uncannily echo a series of videos from two years earlier. Cell phone footage of an Oakland train platform documents the 2009 shooting death of Oscar Grant III by transit police. For Ben Stork, this citizen videography captures the spirit of works in the Walker’s Cinema of Urgency series.

Inspired by Intercat ’73, the 2nd International Cat Film Festival held at the Elgin Theatre nearly 40 years ago, the Harvard Film Archive launches Intercatnet ’12, a blog series which debuts with, among others, Cassandra Cat, Vojtech Jasný’s 1963 film.

What we are looking at today is a visual conflation of modern-era technologies–we are looking at a train on film. As Holly and Anna wait in this deserted station cafe (you can see the edge of a poster in the upper left), we watch Anna’s train depart without her on it. But for this post, […] What we are looking at today is a visual conflation of modern-era technologies–we are looking at a train on…

Natalia Almada—who introduced her film El Velador at the Walker on Friday—is among 23 new MacArthur Fellows named Monday. The $500K prize also goes to documentary filmmaker Laura Poitras and photographer Uta Barth.

Casablanca is “a product of its time, yes, but it’s a great film because it is also a product of all times,” writes The Atlantic’s D.B. Grady, who ponders why the cinema classic resonates with viewers seven decades after its premiere.

“Our aspiration is to educate mature filmmakers who think responsibly, with the spirit of humanism,” says Bela Tarr of his new PhD-level program at the Sarajevo School of Science and Technology. Applications open Oct. 1 for the $19,000/year course.

Two weekends ago, the Walker Cinema was host to a marathon screening of Mark Cousins’ expansive 15-hour documentary The Story of Film: An Odyssey. Adapted from Cousins’ own 2004 tome of the same name, The Story of Film seeks to do no less than offer “a refresher course in movie language,” spanning more than 120 […] Two weekends ago, the Walker Cinema was host to a marathon screening of Mark Cousins…

On September 17, 2011—the day the Occupy movement was born—Jem Cohen was there filming what would become his Gravity Hill Newsreels: Occupy Wall Street, which screened at New York’s IFC Center. A day after the movement’s one-year anniversary, Cohen discussed the project and how these “newsreals” served as a “bulwark against … erasure” by mainstream news outlets intent on declaring Occupy dead.

A harsh truth is dawning upon Anna: suspicious as to why Major Calloway would suddenly bend the rules to help her out, and subsequently by her discovery that Holly is covertly seeing her off from a train station cafe, she quickly puts two and two together and discerns the questionable trade that has been orchestrated in order to capture Harry Lime. As we’ve mentioned before, Holly has offered…