Shorts, 10/31.

"Hi, Caveh. I'm Darren, and this is my attempt to make sense of how and why I reacted to your film as I did."

"Films made in the era before anyone thought seriously of reducing and broadcasting them to mass audiences can feel like revelations when returned to their natural setting," writes Brian, who's catching screenings of original nitrate prints these days.

Richard Linklater's A Scanner Darkly has been previewed in Houston. Quint's got two reviews at AICN.

Dumb Distraction's Micah and Cinema Strikes Back's Blake meet Eli Wallach in Austin.

There's a "war" going on between Hollywood and South Korea, reports Barbara Demick in the Los Angeles Times. At issue is a law requiring South Korean cinemas to show homegrown films 146 days a year. Of course, some credit the law with the recent resurgence of Korean cinema both at home and abroad.

Marcello Paolillo interviews Paradise Now director Hany Abu-Assad for Ioncinema.com. Also via They Shoot Pictures, Don't They?: J Hoberman in the Voice on the Library of America's edition of James Agee's Film Writing and Selected Journalism: "Agee was not writing the history of cinema but the history of his times."

Gregg Goldstein chats briefly with Christine Vachon in the Hollywood Reporter.

Newsweek's got a Narnia package.

Interviews in the Guardian: Fred Schruers with Jake Gyllenhaal and Barbara Ellen with Keeley Hawes.

Smoking in the movies. David Thomson has some random thoughts on the subject in the Independent.

Ray Pride presents his takes on six new films and five DVDs at Movie City News.

Todd Carter at PVR Wire: "TVHarmony.com has released a new version of its AutoPilot software that supports converting TiVo-recorded shows into a format that's compatible with the new video iPod. It also works with Palm devices that can view video." Via Slashdot.

Online viewing tip. Channel Frederator: "We're packaging together some of the world's coolest and funniest cartoons and sending them straight to your iPod each week." Via Drawn!.

Posted by dwhudson at October 31, 2005 6:28 AM