One of The Third Man‘s most iconic images, Still Dots 98 petrifies Harry Lime on the brink of life and death: after killing Calloway’s partner-in-arms and loyal companion, Sergeant Paine, Harry is himself plugged by Calloway and scrambles up this iron walkway, only yards away from the chilly open air of Vienna and, perhaps, yet another narrow escape from certain death. (Harry’s affinity with…

Here he is, finally standing before us as an honest-to-God human being. Harry Lime is no longer a glossy, larger-than-life übermensch staring down upon his domains, but now a human body, wet and cold in Vienna’s sewers, terrified and running for his life. Harry’s rehumanization is, of course, a combination of carefully crafted stylistic and […] Here he is, finally standing before us as an honest-to-God…

Filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky’s personal manuscripts, notebooks, and letters will be auctioned off by Sotheby’s in London. Along with papers, the archives include photographs of the artist’s later life. The archives have an estimated worth of $160,000.

The swath of darkness and shadow we see above is courtesy of two Austrian policemen, whose unsubtitled German commands echo along the sewer tunnels to an increasingly frenzied Harry Lime. Montage editing conveyed an ensemble of nameless military policemen in Still Dots 95 — nameless but, as Jeremy noted on Tuesday, not faceless, as their momentary close-ups bestow upon these unknown men an air…

James Richards won the 2012 Jarman Award for innovative film-based work, but shortlisted artists Brad Butler and Karen Mirza, who come to the Walker next year, won something too—a commission for a piece to be broadcast on British television.

Deep in the subterranean world beneath Vienna, be it the city’s unconscious mind or the ancient Greek border between life and death, we are completely submerged in this nearly wordless world with a partially new cast of characters. Before us today stands one of them, one of nearly a dozen shots of nameless, wordless characters […] Deep in the subterranean world beneath Vienna, be it the city’s…

Karen Mirza and Brad Butler—who bring their Museum of Non Participation to the Walker in 2013—are shortlisted for the 2012 Jarman Award, which celebrates UK-based artists who use film/video in innovative ways. The winner will be announced Monday night.

The inspiration for Day at the Fight, Stanley Kubrick’s debut film, was a photo-essay the then-20-year-old shot for Look two years earlier. Alex Singer, Kubrick’s collaborator on the film about boxer Walter Cartier, discusses the newly released contact sheets.