Mad Men set photos. Someone really ought to do a gallery of ‘laptops from the future’ in stages and film sets. Previously. (via Boing Boing)

If you fail, says Watanabe, you will stay in limbo, which means spending the rest of your life developing dynamic solutions for leveraged market-driven global enterprise frameworks across downstream cross-platform industry. If you succeed, I will help you return to your former career as an independent boutique retailer of imported artisanal tapenade.

— So funny in a strange way, even though I loved Inception: Christopher Nolan’s Implementation

Up to a point, John. These things matter as long as you don’t pretend your tastes are achievements. Any idiot with a bank account can buy Criterion Collection DVDs at the local Fnac or, even better, a book containing select quotes from the French New Wave… (via Filmquotes)

I usually don’t like it when people ask me questions such as “Who’s your favourite film director?”, or “Who’s your favourite writer?”, or “What’s your favourite band?”. I usually respond by barking some kind of “Meh.” meaning “I am an adult person capable of liking multiple authors and artists at the same time - and being a person, not a robot, means my love and respect are not quantifiable”.

However, if you ask me who’s my favourite movie star, my answer is robot-like prompt:
Cate Blanchett.

So allow me to indulge myself and put up this picture. No further comments. (via Pedro Quintas)

A Continuous Lean on Alexander Mackendrick’s Sweet Smell of Success, my favourite movie of the 50s.

Now these are short films: A bundle of twenty 5-second films. Many are indeed funny and poignant. But come on: how much ADD do you expect of you viewers to rush things like this?

Quentin Tarantino himself curated an exhibition of alternative posters for Inglourious Basterds.

While working in After Effects, I moved the location of some files, and while they were unlinked I got this result: I love it. It’s a shame I can’t render it like this…

Amazed by the color pictures of London in the 1940s I posted the other day? Here’s
London in color film, 1927.

Shooting the MGM Lion Logo (1924). (via Newsweek at Tumblr)