Online viewing tips, 3/22.

There's quite a hubbub going on out there regarding a set of clips featuring NSFW unpleasantries David O Russell and Lily Tomlin exchanged during the making of I ♥ Huckabees. Dennis Cozzalio has gathered them in one entry, added his astute observations and sparked probably the most fruitful discussion to be read at Sergio Leone and the Infield Fly Rule.

Updated through 3/23.

Tom Sutpen watches Sing, Bing, Sing, "one of the strangest Musicals ever made."

Chris Ware's animation for This American Life. Via Mark Frauenfelder at Boing Boing, where Xeni Jardin points to Hometown Baghdad and Shorpy: The 100-Year-Old Photo Blog and Cory Doctorow finds A Hard Day's Night of the Living Dead.

"The Ten Worst Accents in Movie History" at ScreenGrab.

Sample Takashi Miike's Happiness of the Katakuris at No fat clips!!!.

Henry Joost's Nachtmusic fur Linnea. NSFW and via TickleBooth.

Video art is very hard - but not impossible - to find online. A guide from Mia Fineman in Slate.

The Hollywood Reporter's Steve Bryant reviews Steven Bochco's "first foray into Web-only territory," Metacafe. "The videos have no script, no stars, no names. Just young faces, talking animatedly to a camera that holds steady for two minutes on their eye rolls, 'ohmigods' and other storytelling standbys as they talk about their first times, their weird families, their most embarrassing moments. Jerry Springer, you've been disintermediated."

Anthony Kaufman: "4 Years in Iraq and Counting; How Filmmakers Can Help."

Update, 3/23 For the Miami New Times, Frank Houston gets Tomlin's reaction to the leaked videos: "'I love David,' she said. 'There was a lot of pressure in making the movie - even the way it came out you could see it was a very free-associative, crazy movie, and David was under a tremendous amount of pressure. And he's a very free-form kind of guy anyway.... I know some people are more dignified in the world, that if you transgress against that kind of professionalism, that it's some kind of great sin, but I don't see it that way.'" Via Bilge Ebiri at ScreenGrab.

Posted by dwhudson at March 22, 2007 2:10 PM