Shorts, 3/13.

The CR Blog has an exclusive excerpt from Black Dog Publishing's new collection, Tarkovsky. "Film and Painting" is an essay by Mikhail Romadin, Tarkovsky's art director on Solaris.

"Rachel Weisz and Max Minghella will star as astrologer mistress and enamored slave in Ancient Egyptian epic Agora, the next film by Alejandro Amenábar," report Emiliano de Pablos and John Hopewell for Variety.

Jed Armstrong talks with Aaron Katz for Conversational Ball. Via Sujewa Ekanayake.

Noel Murray talks with Parker Posey for the AV Club.

You'll have heard about David Mamet's "election-season essay" for the Voice, "Why I Am No Longer a 'Brain-Dead Liberal.'" Comments: Glenn Kenny and Jennifer Schuessler.

Poor Boy's Game "relies on a story that's too contrived to be completely convincing, but the acting is uniformly fine," writes Neil Genzlinger in the New York Times.

A ScreenGrab list: "Apocalypse Now and Then: Ten Great End-of-the-World Movie Scenarios. Parts 1 and 2.

Here comes 3D. Reports from Dan Glaister (Guardian) and David M Halbfinger (NYT).

Online listening tip. Mike Figgis and Robert Benton talk about Bonnie and Clyde on the BBC. Thanks, Jerry!

Online viewing tip. Take a look at that panel of judges for Moveon.org's "Obama in 30 Seconds" ad contest.

Posted by dwhudson at March 13, 2008 3:09 PM