Online viewing tips. strike day + more.

You can hear other things, for example, this week's IFC News podcast.

Updated: Following more online viewing tips, the latest on the writers strike.

Bet you haven't seen this scene from Blade Runner before. Thanks, Doug!

"Two weeks ago, critic Robert Horton and I discussed [David] Cronenberg's work as part of Robert's Magic Lantern Series at the Frye Art Museum in Seattle," writes Jim Emerson. "This short film, conceived as a self-contained critical essay/appreciation, has been expanded and refined from the seven-minute version I assembled the night before that occasion, tracing Cronenberg's thematic obsessions and the development of his artistic vision across 40 years of filmmaking."

At Drawn!, a trailer for Tara Wray's Cartoon College, a doc on the Center for Cartoon Studies.

"Hello, Olafur Eliasson's studio has a YouTube channel," notes Greg Allen.

Craig Keller's got some Orson Welles.

And a couple of listening tips. Rory Bremner (and others) on Jacques Tati. Thanks, Jerry!

Sound Opinions #101. Jim DeRogatis and Greg Kot discuss Ian Curtis and Joy Division. Also via Coudal Partners, for diehard fans with $170 to spare for a poster, a purchasing tip. Love will tear us apart again.

Updates: For the Baltimore Sun, Rick Pearson reports that Barack Obama's on the writers' side. Via Chris Barsanti. No word yet, far as I can tell, from Hillary Clinton.

Blogging for the Guardian, David Thomson argues that the strike "is being fought to preserve and enrich the lives of rather less than 2,000 members. Over the decades of its existence, the Guild and the membership have elected to fight for more money. They have therefore determined not to fight for the one thing that screenwriters lack, the thing that might improve their long-term fortunes in remarkable ways, and which might improve the standard of American movies. That is copyright."

Erik Davis snaps pix of picket lines in NYC; also at Cinematical, Patrick Walsh lists his favorite screenplays of the decade.

David Poland tries his hand at the math in all this: "[T]he search for some clear financial answers is rather frustrating. The main reason is that the surface is accessible, but the depth on both sides is quite elusive."

One of the complications, as David points out, is that some writers are also producers. But as Bonnie Goldstein notes at Slate, they're putting their pencils down. And she's got the full-page ad in Variety to prove it.

Ongoing roundups: the Writers Guild, of course; Variety; the Los Angeles Times; and an update from the New York Times.

Posted by dwhudson at November 5, 2007 12:33 PM