Total Film: Jared Harris discusses Sherlock Holmes 2's villain Moriarty — "He doesn’t believe in heaven and hell."
The Hathor Legacy: Why film schools teach screenwriters not to pass the Bechdel test
Vanity Fair: Robert Smigel on His Unmade Script for a Green Lantern Comedy Starring Jack Black
Dangerous Minds: Director cameos in their own and others' films
Guardian: BBC to dramatise unholy row over Monty Python's Life of Brian — Holy Flying Circus to focus on comedians' struggle with church, councils and critics in runup to release of controversial film.
Speaking of which ... BBC via Boing Boing: Monty Python members reunite for Graham Chapman film — The surviving members of Monty Python's Flying Circus have reunited to voice an animated adaptation of Graham Chapman's incredibly funny, very weird memoir A Liar's Autobiography. The film will include recordings of Chapman reading from the book as well. Regrettably, the movie will be in 3D, but with luck I'll be able to find a screen where it's showing without the need for dark, greasy, migraine-inducing prosthesis.
Jon Favreau found a nice variation on the EPK with these Cowboys & Aliens promotional interviews. He gives Harrison Ford (who notoriously hates the PR end of the film business) an amusing level of crap. (Hat tip: Mike Russell)
Augmented Reality Cinema is a conceptual iPhone app that would recognize your location, then play a scene from a movie that took place in that location.
Parallax View: 'Shrinking Man' reputation grows — As a fan of the film, I find this one personally gratifying.
Boing Boing: Lalo Schifrin and the Marquis de Sade
According to The Telegraph, these are the five best Monty Python sketches.
113 seldom seen Star Wars photos
Via The New Yorker