TIFF12 Red Band-Trailering SEVEN PSYCHOPATHS (2’19″)

Michael Cimino Introduces HEAVEN’S GATE in Venice [pic only]

“My first reaction was: ‘I don’t want to revisit Heaven’s Gate‘. I’ve had enough rejection for 33 years. Being infamous is not fun. It becomes a weird occupation in and of itself.Because of the digital technology that did not exist at the time, I was able to make editorial changes, colour changes…. Seeing it through the digital equipment, it was like a new movie.” A professional flash photo, from Agence France Presse, with quotes (like the above) that sound translated and re-translated, is here.

[Via Le Monde.]

Clint Eastwood addresses the empty chair (11’15″)

Barry Levinson: It’s A Revolution, We Have To Think of Film Differently (1’06″)

TIFF12 Trailering THE ACT OF KILLING, presented by Herzog & Morris (3’08′)

Killers are invited to act out their memories of murder in Indonesia: “In this chilling and provocative documentary, executive-produced by Errol Morris and Werner Herzog (who said he’d “not seen a film as powerful and frightening in at least a decade”), a collection of unrepentant, genocidal thugs are given the chance to re-enact some of their many crimes—in lurid Hollywood style. When the Indonesian government was overthrown in 1965, small-time gangster Anwar Congo and his friends went from selling movie tickets on the black-market to leading anti-communist death squads in the mass murder of over a million people. Anwar boasts of killing hundreds with his own hands, but he’s lived in his country as a hero ever since, never forced by history to accept that he had perpetrated crimes against humanity. When approached to make a film about their role in the genocide, Anwar and his friends eagerly comply—but their idea of being in a movie is not to provide reflective testimony but to dance their way through musical numbers, twist arms in film noir gangster scenes, and gallop across the prairies as yodeling cowboys. A surreal cinematic journey, THE ACT OF KILLING presents a gripping conflict between moral imagination and moral catastrophe.”

TIFF12 Teasing: Harmony Korine’s SPRING BREAKERS (0’33″)

FIRST PEEK: Spring Breakers from MUSE Film on Vimeo.

“Gingham Check” for AKB48 by Joseph Kahn (6’50″)

AKB48 PV 2012.08 – Gingham Check… by yic17

Neil Armstrong Interviewed in March, 2012 (video)

In March, Neil Armstrong gave one of his few interviews to Alex Malley, head of the Certified Practicing Accountants of Australia. The complete interview is here.

And: Armstrong responds to conspiracy theories.

These small pieces were chopped by The Daily Beast, source of the embeds.

Landing On The Moon, July 20, 1969: RIP Neil Armstrong (9’54″)

ET Canada On The Set Of Schrader-Ellis-Deen-Lohan’s THE CANYONS (3’05″)

TIFF12 Trailering: Klip (MNSFW)

“Serbia!” “Jasna is a beautiful girl in her mid-teens, leading a crude life in postwar Serbia. With a terminally ill father and dispirited mother, she is disillusioned and angry with everyone and everything, including herself. Having a huge crush on a boy from school, she goes on a spree of sex, drugs and partying, constantly filming with her mobile phone. Still, in that very harsh environment – love and tenderness emerge. Starring Isidora Simijonovic, Vukašin Jasnic, Sanja Mikitišin, Jovo Makisc and Monja Savic.”

TIFF12 Trailering: BOY EATING THE BIRD’S FOOD

So what’s up in Greek filmmaking? This. “A 22-year-old boy in Athens has no job, no money, no girlfriend and no food to eat. He has only a canary bird and a beautiful singing voice. When he finds himself without a home, he must seek shelter for his bird. Starring Yiannis Papadopoulos.”
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John Berger Draws Tilda Swinton (4’43″)

Hung in Time from London Consortium TV on Vimeo.

Jost Vacano: Why Do People Use Video Cameras? Ego. (1’03″)

Teasing McAdams-Rapace-DePalma’s PASSION (1’05″)