Weekend online viewing.

Ryan McFaul's promo for Rooftop Films. Via Coudal Partners, reminding us to check into Ryantown every so often. Related: Bad Lit's got news of Rooftop at Sundance.

Reel Pop's "Guide to the Top Ten Dystopia Films." With clips.

Nick Robinson's Celluloiphilia.

The video demo accompanying Adam L Penenberg's piece in Fast Company: "In this Googly age, it only takes a random genius or two to conceive of a technology so powerful that it can plow under the landscape and remake it in its own image. People are already betting that Jeff Han is one of them." Via Mark Frauenfelder at Boing Boing.

The trailer for Danny Boyle's Sunshine; via Erik Davis at Cinematical.

Animated commercials from Italy, France and Germany, all via Cartoon Brew.

The best from December at No fat clips!!!

Ira Deutchman talks at Zoom In about the ways Emerging Pictures aims to solve a slew of problems facing truly independent films.

At Alternet's Peek, Barry Lando, author of the forthcoming book, Web of Deceit: The History of Western Complicity in Iraq from Churchill to Kennedy to George W Bush, introduces a couple of clips: "A documentary I reported, along with French journalist Michel Despratx, for Canal+ in France, has been broadcast in much of the world, but never in the United States. It details Western - and particularly US - complicity with the crimes of Saddam Hussein - such as his use of chemical weapons first against Iranian troops, then against his own Iraqi Kurds."

Paul Robeson.

And Jennifer Sharpe's posting again.

Posted by dwhudson at January 20, 2007 4:58 PM