Updates, 5/27.

Two updates to Shorts, 5/19. First, Fraser Lewry has uncovered the identity of those ASCII cats. And collected 99 more stellar performances.

Second, Outlook India has decided that it was a good year at Cannes for Indian cinema after all. True, there were no highlights in competition, but the government and the Confederation of Indian Industry took important steps for both Indian films and India as a "top-drawer international location."

Shorts, 5/8. Ed Finn has been attending that Films From Along the Silk Road: Central Asian Cinema series and writes in Slate, "We get the impression that the people of Central Asia live with a sense of displacement, as if their lives on the fringe of the Soviet empire have ended but life on the fringe continues."

And finally, two updates on all things Matrix now that it's opened in nearly 50 more countries around the world. In a short bit for the London Review of Books, Thomas Jones draws a few interesting parallels between the trilogy and another one: Star Wars. And Slashdotters are sorting through the moral and legal morass following a BBC story on a "high-quality" copy of the film now available via P2P network BitTorrent.



Posted by dwhudson at May 27, 2003 8:16 AM