Online viewing tips. The Daily Reel.

The biggest news of late in online viewing is the launch of the Daily Reel, "a new website devoted to finding the best video work online," as Anthony Kaufman describes it at his own blog, adding that the site aims to "sift, comment and highlight - which seems to me a much more useful model than just one more myspace-youtube-video-free-for-all. Since we, as a culture, continue to drift further online, I think it's time to look at this new media format in a serious way." Scan the list of contributors and you'll see they stand a damn good chance of doing just that.

Elsewhere...

DVblog posts a video letter from Beirut, "made on July 21, 2006 at the studios of Beirut DC, a film and cinema collective which runs the yearly Ayam Beirut Al Cinema'iya Film Festival" and "produced in collaboration with Samidoun, a grassroots gathering of various organizations and individuals who were involved in relief and media efforts from the first day of the Israeli attack on Lebanon. It was also broadcasted at the Biennial of Arab Cinema, organized by the Arab World Institute in Paris." More: "Beirut Letters." Also, DVblog meets Jon Jost.

Spike Lee's White Lines... starring a young Laurence Fishburne?

The Wilhelm Scream Compilation. Via Coudal Partners.

Colin Farrell and Gong Li learn how to dance for Miami Vice; watch Farrell when Michael Mann takes Gong Li for a quick spin. Thanks, Toby.

Posted by dwhudson at August 8, 2006 3:36 PM