Joe Sabia Walks 3 Miles In Darkened Downtown In NYC (8’15″)

[Via Boingboing.]

“Darth Vader… Now That You’re Part Of The Disney Family…” (1’08″)

(With no small thanks to John Williams.)

2012 FYC Screenplay Season Continues With Focus Features

Paranorman and Moonrise Kingdom. Earlier: Universal.

Lucas and Kennedy Roundtable the Future of STAR WARS Movies (3’26″)

Picturing “PIXAR Wars” (by Andrew Chesworth)

[Via. Click twice for largest.]

Humor From Michael Moore: “A Message From The Greatest Generation” (NSFW, 2’20″)

As credited: “Produced by Michael Moore with Daron Murphy & David Ambrose of ART NOT WAR. Written by Michael Moore & Jonathan Schwarz. Directed by Laura Dawn.”

Joss Whedon On The Necessity of Mitt Romney (2’13″)

Paul Thomas Anderson On Australia APP: THE MASTER, Penises And Carly Rae Jepsen (7’51″ audio)

[Via Cigarettes and Red Vines.]

“Staircases To Nowhere: Making Stanley Kubrick’s THE SHINING” (17’17″)

Staircases to Nowhere: Making Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining” from Howard Berry on Vimeo.

“Midtraffik: We Will Drive You” (1’28″)

Take this bus. (via @cameroncollie)

“Paul Thomas Plainview,” by Leandro Copperfield (0’46″)

“Lena Dunham: Your First Time” (1’03″)

A sense of aggravation and grievance has been registered on the internet.

What Hath Gondry Wrought!: A Sweet Single-Shot IKEA Holiday Ad

Run, Lana, Run: Lana Wachowski’s HRC Visibility Award Acceptance Speech (31’09″)

The complete transcript is here. About public life vs. anonymity: “Several months ago we were sitting in this Berlin club amid beer soaked haggardness in a space not intended to be inhabited by people and sunlight trying to decide if we should shoot this introduction to a trailer for our movie that was supposed to be posted online. Tom Hanks was supposed to do it but became unavailable, Andy and I have not done press or made a public appearance including premieres in over 12 years. People have mistakenly assumed that this has something to do with my gender. It does not. After The Matrix was released in ‘99, we both experienced this alarming contraction of our world and thus our lives. We became acutely aware of the preciousness of anonymity—understanding it as a form of virginity, something you only lose once. Anonymity allows you access to civic space, to a form of participation in public life, to an egalitarian invisibility that neither of us wanted to give up. We told Warner Bros. that neither one of us wanted to do press anymore. They told us, “No. Absolutely not. This is non-negotiable. Directors are essential to selling and marketing a movie.” We said, “OK, we get it. So if it’s a choice between making movies or not doing press, we decided we’re not going to not make movies.” They said, “Hang on. Maybe there’s a little room for negotiation.” So this position in that negotiation was being examined in Berlin three months ago. All of us are conscious of the fact that not only will it be Andy and my first public appearance in a long time, but it will also be the first time that I speak publicly since my transition. Parenthetically this is a word that has very complicated subject for me because of its complicity in a binary gender narrative that I am not particularly comfortable with. Yet I realize the moment I go on camera, that act will be subject to projections that are both personal and political…” [Much more from the admitted "talker" on the video and at the link.]

Trailering Shane Black’s IRON MAN 3