The audience, along with the British military police, has followed Harry Lime into his dank natural habitat: the sewers that underlie Vienna, a twisty and cavernous network that enables Harry’s covert maneuvering through (and beneath) the city. Jeremy noted on Tuesday the recurrence of sewers as a pop-culture motif from The Time Machine to Teenage […] The audience, along with the British military…

Scott Foundas is returning to criticism after three years as a programmer at the Film Society of Lincoln Center. Most recently at the Walker to moderate Regis dialogues with Harry Belafonte and Lawrence Kasdan, he’s the new film writer at the Village Voice.

And now we find ourselves in The Third Man‘s last significant setting, the surreal subterranean space of Vienna’s ancient and magnificent sewer system. While nearly all of this movie has been shot on location in the city of Vienna, and a good deal of these sewer scenes were shot in Vienna’s real sewers, it also […] And now we find ourselves in The Third Man‘s last significant setting, the surreal…

How do we ascribe value to an object? Filmmaker Miranda July’s event The Auction examined this process as she prodded audience members about their seemingly useless objects. Following the show and tell, July auctioned the objects off to the highest bidder.

Artist Tacita Dean is concerned about the current state of film: “Fuji has announced that it will stop producing film in March, and Kodak is in Chapter 11 for insolvency. I have been campaigning for Unesco to make film a heritage protected site.”

The European Parliament is honoring two Iranians—banned filmmaker Jafar Panahi (This Is Not a Film) and jailed (and hunger-striking) human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh—with the Sakharov Prize, praising them for putting “the fate of their country before their own.”

Once again, we’re treated to an image that The Third Man has already made familiar: rubble, devastation, barrenness, the ravages of war. As Jeremy noted on Tuesday, the film, “shot on location in Vienna, is almost documentary in nature, its intent to show the scars and pockmarks that plague Vienna’s post-war streets.” The preceding four minutes of screen time have particularly emphasized this…

Run Wrake, the talented British animator whose Rabbit was part of our Expanding the Frame series in 2007, has passed away at age 47 after a battle with cancer. A BAFTA nominee who worked with U2 and Oasis, Wrake was the father of two.

Think Kickstarter is the sole domain of up-and-coming creators? Think again: Oscar-winning director David Fincher (Fight Club, Seven) has taken to the funding platform in hopes of raising $150,000 to make a showreel for his latest project.