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.’”

Here’s 4 minutes 33 seconds worth of clips of a non-speaking Nicholas Cage in which only ambient noises are audible. Created by Adam Lucas, Cage Does Cage is an homage to John Cage’s 1952 conceptual art piece 4’33”, performed by the Ghostrider star.

Just released, the Cannes 2012 lineup— “perhaps its best in years,” writes Oliver Lyttelton—includes Michael Haneke’s Amour, Abbas Kiarostami’s Like Someone In Love, David Cronenberg’s Cosmopolis, and Walter Salles’ On the Road, among others.

An image that will now be permanently (wondrously) imprinted on my memory, Still Dots #38 captures a particularly bizarre moment at the Casanova Club (or maybe it’s simply business as usual in this establishment). The Casanova Club offers a swanky refuge from the scarred postwar streets of Vienna, a sort of five-star oasis of stiff drinks and fine dining (they don’t even accept Holly’s army money…

Today’s frame puts us, for the first time thus far into our experiment, at the very end of a scene. Instants from this frame’s moment, a quick dissolve will take us out of the space of the British/Russian police headquarters and back into the seedy streets and nightclubs of black market Vienna. The old phrase has been reworked as, “It’s not over until the scowls.” As Matt deftly unearthed last…

Celluloid is no longer the world’s top movie-projector technology, and by year’s end the majority of cinemas are expected to switch to digital projection, a fact that has directors like Christopher Nolan (Memento) fearing for the fate of elegant, costly 35mm film.

With the police detainment of Anna Schmidt, she and Holly Martins became separated for the first time since they’ve joined forces (or, maybe more accurately, since Holly roped Anna into tagging along for his investigation). While Anna paces the military office of Major Calloway, cutting slightly angular paths through a succession of canted frames, Holly is once again playing the Lone Vigilante…