Weekend online viewing.

"Due to the recent unpleasantness, Baton Rouge has eclipsed New Orleans as the largest city in Louisiana. Is the city destined for greatness?" asks Evan Mather, whose Scenic Highway is now viewable online. For Matthew Clayfield, it "remains the best I've seen this year."

At If Charlie Parker Was a Gunslinger..., Tom Sutpen introduces Max Linder's Max reprend sa liberté (Troubles of a Grass Widower): "Though never as wildly successful in the States as the pantheon comics (Chaplin, Arbuckle, Keaton, Lloyd, etc), each of these eminences nevertheless took away something from Linder's work, without which their work, indeed the soul of American screen comedy itself, would have assumed a very different, possibly less charming form."

Amid at Cartoon Brew's got YouTubery of Fleischer Studio artists at work in the 30s.

Tetris: From Russia With Love. Via Coudal Partners.

Jan Svankmajer's Food trilogy: viewable at WFMU.

At panopticist, Andrew Hearst posts "a screen test some talentless young actor sent in when Stanley Kubrick was casting Full Metal Jacket in 1984. The hubris on display here is magnificent and awe-inspiring."

Vincent Gallo, Republican. At ScreenGrab.

Meanwhile, Comedy Central takes a page from the current administration's playbook and drops its bad news bomb late on a Friday: No more CC content on YouTube. Xeni Jardin's gathering commentary at Boing Boing.

Posted by dwhudson at October 28, 2006 11:48 AM