Michel Gondry’s new film, the French-language The Foam of Days, features Audrey Tatou as a woman suffering a strange illness that involves water lilies growing in her lungs. How these weird cars, spotted on the set of the project, fit in is anyone’s guess.

Today’s frame finds our elusive Romanian friend Popescu skulking away from the center of this frame as if afraid that the limelight might shine out the dark secrets hidden beneath his thick mustache. Maybe he fears being the center of attention but maybe a shadowy figure like Popescu simply fears the symmetry that his central presence would instigate. Were Popescu standing front and center…

William Klein says he’s long worked alone. “I’m an outsider, I guess. I wasn’t part of any movement. I was following my instinct.” Reactionary politics is why he never moved back to the US from Paris, he says: “I’d be dead from a heart attack by now.”

Holly Martins has finally met Mr. Popescu, the mysterious Romanian who was allegedly at the scene of Harry Lime’s death, along with Baron Kurtz and the unknown “Third Man.” (Not to mention Harry’s own driver, behind the wheel of the truck that struck him.) One wonders if Holly is starting to catch on that none of Harry’s “associates” can really be trusted. He greets Baron Kurtz civilly enough at the…

The cinematic experience is in turmoil, caught between the push to the future—an industry-wide switch to all-digital projection—and the pull of the past. The Walker Cinema’s renovation allows us to play it both ways: advancing the art of film, while also showcasing its rich history.

Starting a blog, David Simon (The Wire, Treme), defends internet pay models: “Journalism, literature, film, music—these endeavors need people operating at the highest professional level and they need to make a living doing what they do. Copyright matters. Content costs.”

Last week, Matt divined an unbreakable connection between this nightclub, the “Casanova Club,” and the famous “Rick’s Café Américain” in Casablanca (1942). The similarities do not end at the similarity of names–Casanova to Casablanca–nor at the decor, style or position. Indeed, these nightclubs are in some ways direct mirrors of one another, settled on opposite sides of World War II. Casablanca is set…

The lineup for the 65th Festival de Cannes was announced last week with a number of names familiar to Walker Film/Video. As Curator Sheryl Mousley prepares for her annual trip to Cannes to forge new connections, we thought we would highlight Walker appearances and screenings connected to this exciting slate of directors and films. : After The Battle (Baad el mawkeaa), directed by Yousry Nasrallah…

Laura Poitras, part of a surveillance teach-in at the Whitney Friday night, tells WNYC how she’s been detained dozens of times by US customs officials while making documentaries about “the suspension of the rule of law in the ‘war on terror.’”