- Tom Cuise & Terry Semel talk about Stanley Kubrick – via @mattzollerseitz
- ’The Hobbit:’ Inside Peter Jackson and Warner Bros.’ $1 Billion Gamble – Panting, exhausted and action. That could be the motto of the making of The Hobbit.
- Why George Lucas Is the Greatest Artist of Our Time – The Chronicle Review – The Chronicle of Higher Education – ho is the greatest artist of our time? Normally, we would look to literature and the fine arts to make that judgment. But Pop Art's happy marriage to commercial mass media marked the end of an era. The supreme artists of the half century following Jackson Pollock were not painters but innovators who had embraced technology—such as the film director Ingmar Bergman and the singer-songwriter Bob Dylan. During the decades bridging the 20th and 21st centuries, as the fine arts steadily shrank in visibility and importance, only one cultural figure had the pioneering boldness and world impact that we associate with the early masters of avant-garde modernism: George Lucas, an epic filmmaker who turned dazzling new technology into an expressive personal genre.
- Dollygrippery: Some Thoughts On Handheld –