Online viewing tips, 8/17.

Lens on Lebanon is "a grassroots documentary initiative formed in response to the Israeli bombardment," as Anthony Kaufman puts it at the Daily Reel, recommending From Beirut to... those who love us (referred to earlier) and Dead Time. Filmmaker's Scott Macaulay has more.

Keith Olbermann: "The Nexus of Politics and Terror." Via Joe Leydon.

Onnazuri (or Men, Women and Capitalism), a finalist for the 2006 Student Academy Awards, via no fat clips!!!.

John Pilger's New Rulers of the World. Via wood s lot.

At Boing Boing, Cory Doctorow finds some very funny clips from Talking to Americans.

Tom Sutpen places The Town, "the only film directed in its entirety by Josef von Sternberg between 1941's The Shanghai Gesture and 1953's Anatahan,... alongside similarly artful propaganda evocations such as John Ford's Battle of Midway and William Wyler's The Memphis Belle."

Twitch's Todd has found a trailer for Hong Sang-soo's Woman on the Beach.

Credit sequence from Don at ScoreBaby Annex.

At AICN, Merrick points to a Japanese trailer for Clint Eastwood's The Flags of Our Fathers and Red Sun, Black Sand. That's right, two films, one trailer. Jeffrey Wells comments - and finds an English translation.

Lenny Bruce's Thank You Mask Man, via ticklebooth.

The Royal House of Hangover. Related: Thomas Logoreci's interview. In a similar vein, the Lincoln Assassination, as interpreted by "Al Pacino" and "Christopher Walken."

Posted by dwhudson at August 17, 2006 1:06 PM