For you few devoted readers who haven’t seen The Third Man (though I can’t imagine that you truly exist at this point) we have carefully avoided spilling the beans up to this point, but after this frame, the cat is out of the bag. This is the face of Harry Lime. True, we have spent much of our analysis talking about Orson Welles, and you may have been wondering this whole time “Hey, isn’t Orson…

David Lynch on the role of darkness in his films: “A good movie idea is often like a girl you’re in love with, but you know she’s not the kind of girl you bring home to your parents, because they sometimes hold some dark and troubling things.”

“The movie theater is my home, and the idea that someone would violate that innocent and hopeful place in such an unbearably savage way is devastating to me,” says The Dark Night Rises director Christopher Nolan in response to the shootings in Aurora, Colorado.

From a media collective working in a Nairobi slum to film groups archiving protest videos in Cairo and Lagos: Basia Lewandowska Cummings highlights “filmmaking collectives that are reinterpreting and reinvigorating notions of collaboration and distribution.”

RRRRRRRROLL uses “photography to explore beautifully minimalist animations based on objects and people turning on a single axis.” So far, the project has 34 experimental GIFs completed and they add two new animations each week.

Rirkrit Tiravanija’s new film, Lung Neaw Visits His Neighbors, follows the daily routine of its namesake, “a global Everyman.” The film, writes Stephen Holden, “rewards concentration once you adjust to its glacial pace and its radically minimalist aesthetic.”

Scott Meslow explores the uncertain future of the trilogy in film: “Unlike trilogies, quadrilogies tend to happen by chance: Audience demand for another installment is high enough that Hollywood executives shrug and give it to us.”

Turkish art student Murat Palta has created several paintings modeled after 16th century Ottoman miniatures—all featuring scenes from Hollywood. In this work, Palta aims to “blend traditional ‘oriental’ motifs and contemporary ‘western’ cinema.”

Palestine solidarity activists interrupted a screening at San Francisco’s LGBT Film Festival Saturday. Calling on its presenter, Frameline, to cut ties to the Israeli government, the queer activists urged the group to “stand up for the human rights of Palestinians.”