- The lovely Ms. Dargis finally falls in love with one of the films at the New Director/New Films Festival

 “Reprise,” one of the most passionately and intellectually uninhibited works from a young director I’ve seen in ages. Directed by Joachim Trier, who wrote the tender, funny, narratively ambitious screenplay with his fellow Norwegian Eskil Vogt, this galvanizing first feature traces the parallel adventures of two best friends whose twinned literary aspirations and everyday lives take the shape of a punk-rock bildungsroman.

-American Messiah has been selected to Kensington Real Independent Film Fest.

- A Transformers screenwriter on why Megatron won't change into a gun: "That would be the equivalent of Darth Vader turning into his own lightsaber and someone else swinging him around." Good point! ( via Defamer)

- online viewing: David Lowery's first of three parts of a work that used to be called Upheave.