A Russian cat wearing paper spectacles stars in a series of amazing shorts by filmmaker Denis Borisovich. Behold: Skifcha the cat!

Here’s an unexpected consequence of a new bike lane along LA’s Spring St.: It’s painted garish green, the exact hue that makes it disappear when videotaped. Once a top site for film and ad shoots, productions have now moved one street over.

A former track star, Shola Lynch brought lessons from sports to her film career (her Chisholm ’72 screened at the Walker in 2004): “In sports, you learn that progress is not linear. You don’t train for the Olympics in two weeks.”

“A filmmaker is a nice bourgeois job,” says Béla Tarr, whose The Turin Horse screens at the Walker in March. “But I really don’t want to do it… During these 34 years of filmmaking, I’ve said everything I want to say.”

“When we really act up, we have a big impact and we get what we’re demanding. When we’re silent we don’t,” says an ACT UP activist in the new documentary premiering at MoMA February 16 that chronicles the birth of the HIV/AIDS activist movement.

Harrison Ford is reportedly in discussions to return as Rick Deckard in the sequel to Blade Runner. For three decades director Ridley Scott has denied rumors there’d be a follow-up to the 1982 sci-fi classic.

In Europe, Google is celebrating the 80th anniversary of the late French New Wave director François Truffaut’s birth with a Google Doodle. The director and critic died in 1984 at age 52 from a brain tumor.

Béla Tarr says The Turin Horse, his film about the “heaviness of the being” for a horse-cart driver, will be his last work as a director. The black-and-white film won a Silver Bear at the Berlin Film Festival.

“I protest the omission of Blackie the Doberman from the first Golden Collar nominations,” writes Martin Scorsese of the dog in Hugo. Noting a prejudice against big dogs, he’s pushing for a write-in campaign to make editors at Dog News Daily reconsider.