Apichatpong Weerasethakul is prepping his first feature film since winning the Palme d’Or at Cannes 2010 for Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recount His Past Lives. Set in northern Thailand, Cemetery of Kings tells a tale of soldiers struck by a strange sleeping sickness.

The next time Hito Steyerl sees a 16mm projector in a gallery she vows to “take the poor thing to a pensioners home.” “It made sense to use Bolexes in 1968 […] but today people use cellphones, Kinnect sensors and After Effects to deal with the present and shape it.”

Scott Foundas, the former Village Voice film critic who leads our dialogue with Noah Baumbach April 5, has been named chief film critic for Variety. He starts just as the publication relaunches as a redesigned weekly edition on March 26.

“Ai Weiwei is the Tom Hanks of Chinese cinema,” says cinematographer Christopher Doyle (Chungking Express, In the Mood for Love), who’s working with the artist on a new project. Ai is “so fucking beautiful on film because he’s so solid, he doesn’t give a shit.”

In his films, Noah Baumbach (The Squid and the Whale, Kicking and Screaming) punctuates “cruelty with tenderness, always taking pains to make sure his characters remain visibly human,” writes Village Voice critic Scott Foundas, who interviews Baumbach at the Walker April 5. Here he reflects on Baumbach works that tend to focus on issues of “intellectual one-upmanship and questionable parenting.”

On weekends when the Walker Cinema is empty, Walker Staff will point you to other films pulled from a headline in the week’s news in a series called Headline Rewind. News Event: Pfc. Bradley Manning and WikiLeaks Appearing before a military judge yesterday for more than an hour, Pfc. Bradley Manning confessed to supplying a […] On weekends when the Walker Cinema is empty, Walker Staff will point you to…

On weekends when the Walker Cinema is empty, Walker Staff will point you to other films pulled from a headline in the week’s news in a series called Headline Rewind. News Event: The Oscars As the 85th Academy Awards loom only days away (they’ll air on ABC this Sunday night, starting at 6pm), a flurry […] On weekends when the Walker Cinema is empty, Walker Staff will point you to other films pulled from a…

In a new mini-documentary, David Lynch visits Idem Paris, a French lithography shop that’s worked with artists from Matisse to Duchamp to Raymond Pettibon. Shot in black-and-white, the wordless short serves as a meditation on the analog mechanics of printing.