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Bigelow’s Switch
Via vulture.com
Jan 25
Kathryn Bigelow (Zero Dark Thirty) tells Time that a chat with Andy Warhol influnced her move from art to film: “Andy was saying that there’s something way more populist about film than art— that art’s very elitist, so you’re excluding a large audience. ”
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Licking Lautrec
Via artinfo.com
Jan 23
In all-caps, stream-of-consciousness writing, Luther Price (whose experimental films screen at the Walker in February) tells ArtInfo about museum ladies, his cat (Mr. Grey), and the time he licked a Toulouse-Lautrec painting.
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8-Ball: Bill Morrison
Crosscuts
Jan 23
Bill Morrison, experimental film director and miner of archival moving images, arrives Thursday for a three day, nine film program in the Walker Cinema as part of this year’s Expanding the Frame. Bill will be on hand at all screenings to discuss his work, but he was kind enough to answer a few questions that inquire just a […]
Bill Morrison, experimental film director and miner of archival moving images…
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Catdance
Via twincities.com
Jan 22
It was inevitable: after our first-ever Internet Cat Video Festival last summer, cats are showing up at the Sundance Film Festival. 90201 star AnnaLynne McCord hosted five films Saturday in an event dubbed “Catdance.”
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Articles

A Poetic Archaeology of Cinema: The Films of Bill Morrison
Matt Levine
Jan 18
In Bill Morrison’s films, time appears as both a historical process and as an autonomous, existential force to which all matter falls prey. Whether treating the march of time as fodder for a narrative of human events or as an irreversible process of flux and decay, he utilizes traces of found footage from our cinematic past, attempting to grapple with the ambiguous concept of “time” itself.
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Passings: Nagisa Oshima
Via fandor.com
Jan 15
“Japan’s greatest living filmmaker,” Nagisa Oshima, has passed away at age 80. Subject of a 2008 retrospective at the Walker, Oshima’s films include In the Realm of the Senses (1976) and Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (1983), which starred David Bowie.
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Beasts in the Gallery
Via artinfo.com
Jan 15
Among items to appear in an exhibition at Contemporary Art Center New Orleans is Hushpuppy’s boat from Beasts of the Southern Wild. Opening after the Oscars, the show will feature the creative work of director Benh Zeitlin and his Court 13 Pictures colleagues.
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Under Influences
Via artinfo.com
Jan 14
Artist Chris Sullivan, whose hand-animated Consuming Spirits screens at the Walker February 8-9, discusses his diverse influences, from Mike Kelley and the Brothers Quay to Pieter Bruegel, William Kentridge, and Cartoon Saloon.
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Still Dots: Top Ten
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Jan 14
Still Dots, our year-long plunge into Carol Reed’s The Third Man is over, with an upcoming free screening of the film on 35mm serving as a cap on the thirteen months we have spent thinking about this film. While writing a long form article to sum up our experience working on the project, we couldn’t help […]
Still Dots, our year-long plunge into Carol Reed’s The Third Man is over, with an upcoming free…