Once again, we can’t get through a Still Dots post without mentioning, at least briefly, Freud and the uncanny: a man thought dead has been found, not only alive but beaming a mischievous smirk, on the streets of Vienna. Has Harry Lime–who might be described as the personification of the Id, driven by the pleasure principle, unresponsive to the demands (or ethical interpretations) of reality–truly…

After five decades as the reigning champion of cinema, Orson Welles’ Citizen Kane (1941) is no longer the greatest film of all time according to Sight & Sound magazine. Taking it’s place: Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo (1958), which won by a mere 34 votes.

Chris Marker has always had perfect timing: Born on July 29, 1921, he passed away on July 29, 2012, exactly 91 years later. Dubbed “the prototype of the twenty-first-century man” by Alain Resnais, he seemed to be everywhere at the right time, hitting every political hot spot of the later 20th century and creating innovative films wherever he went.

Designer Ole Shereen’s “Archipelago Cinema” will be showcased as one of the 18 Collateral Events at this year’s Venice Biennale Architecture Exhibition. Shereen calls his raft-like auditorium “a floating revival of classic American drive-in theatres.”

In commemoration of the death of Chris Marker, artist Paul Chan reads the French filmmaker’s “The Rest is Silent,” a cryptic essay on silent film written for the catalogue of Marker’s 1995 Wexner installation Silent Movie.

Author and cultural icon Gore Vidal died Tuesday at age 86. His 60-year career spanned from film and television to theater and literature—most notably Ben Hur and his openly gay 1948 novel The City and the Pillar.

We have often brought up the topic of doppelgangers, doubling, and even quantum mechanics but today’s still brings us into another frame of reference. That of multiple dimensionality. Take a look, for instance, at last Thursday’s still: Here we are presented with a doubling or doppelganger again, in the form of the monolithic object around which our action circles. Holly has drunkenly pursued the…

In 1963, Arthur Fellig—aka Weegee—found his way behind the scenes at the shooting of Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove, where he captured on film scenes that ended up on the cutting-room floor, including a reportedly epic food fight.