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.”

If film images act as the modern world’s hieroglyphics, then Still Dots 70 must clearly be the pictogram for sadness: from Robert Krasker’s silky black lighting to the neglected old-world beauty of Dario Simoni’s set decoration to Alida Valli’s spectral presence as Anna, this shot glimmers softly with heartache. Of course this impression is affirmed by what has come immediately beforehand…

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.

Sight and Sound Magazine unveiled the highly anticipated results of their ambitious survey of the Top 50 Greateat Films of All Time last week with much hubbub. What started in 1952, and has been published every ten years since, has built into a critical mass of film glory that’s hard not to revel in. Tallying 846 top ten lists from critics worldwide representing votes for 2,045 different…

This frame marks a sea change in the character of Major Calloway, a man whose brusque and callous nature has painted him as Holly’s antagonist throughout this film. We have occupied Holly’s gaze for much of this film, seeing Calloway as a suit, a figure that stands for an authoritarian view of society. Calloway has been Holly’s personification of “the man,” even if he is a particularly friendly…

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 experience of watching films, wrote critic Jules Romains in 1912, is a “group dream.” Inspired by the theme of the 2012 edition of Summer Music and Movies, In Dreams, Walker Film/Video intern Matt Levine examines the dreamlike nature of film and the notion of dreams in cinematic history, from the Lumière Brothers and Méliès through film noir to Stalker, The Matrix and Inception.

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.