Someone’s posted Jorgen Leth’s A Sunday in Hell on youtube. Not sure it’ll be up there for long… take a look, classic stuff!!

Logorama from Marc Altshuler – Human Music on Vimeo.

Logorama, French Agency H5‘s film that we reported on previously, won an oscar this year. Congratulations!

Logorama is 17 minutes of Hollywood blockbuster action, rife with car chases, natural disasters, and hostage-taking, but created entirely out of real world logotypes and brand characters.  In it, you’ll see the Michelin Man, the Haribo kid, Bob’s Big Boy, Mr. Pringle and Ronald McDonald, but in some very unfamiliar roles playing the classic movie archetypes of good guys, bad guys and foils. Ultimately, Ronald’s antics bring the city to a state of chaos, but nothing like what Mother Nature herself can do – proven by the film’s climax.

I’m clearly late on this one, but BattleStar Galactica is properly genius. Just watched Series 1.

Monotheism vs Polytheism, Military vs Politicians, Machine vs Man, and plenty of paranoia, schizophrenia, terrorism and sex – it’s all there. You probably all know the changes they made from the original series (e.g: Starbuck’s now a girl), but often the themes were already there, but less overt.

Written in the aftermath of September 11th, the new version could be taken as a critique of US foreign policy – the cast and producers were invited to speak to the UN on human rights, terrorism, children in conflicts and more. Time magazine rate it as “a gripping sci-fi allegory of the war on terror, complete with monotheistic religious fundamentalists (here, genocidal cyborgs called Cylons), sleeper cells, civil-liberties crackdowns and even a prisoner-torture scandal.”

Sit down to watch the 3 hour mini series that preceeds Series 1, and then settle in for some very good TV. Up there with The Wire, Sopranos and the like, I’ll be recommending this to everyone. It’s Sci-Fi but not as you knew it.

Remeber those old crappy BBC-esque films that you watched at school when the teachers forgot the lesson plan? Look Around You satirises them perfectly. Nostaliga done with humour.

Check all the videos here or here and read more about Look Around You on the BBC site.

City of God’s Son is an incredible synesthesic montage and re-working of a story that never really happened, but did for anyone who’s ever listened to 90s beats, watched gangster flicks and explored a city at night. Featuring “Nas“, “Jay” and “Ghost” as themselves, but not really, and narrated by Joe Bataan, director Kenzo Digital has created a world of magical realism for his a coming of age story. Set in a city much like New York but hidden deep within a jungle, the City is the other star of this musical/soundscape/movie for the blind/art installation.

More than a mere remix or mash-up, City of God’s Son explores the icons of “the gangster” through the media’s obsession as well as hip hop’s itself, using sounds, samples, original contextual quotes and references in an homage to arguably hip-hop’s most culturally potent era. It is as multilayered and as subtle as it is compelling. Huffington Post puts it thus:

COGS is part Sin City, part Orson Welles’ War of the Worlds radio programming, and part Nas’ Illmatic.

It features reworkings and quotes from Nas, Jay-Z and Ghostfce Killa, but also Samuel L Jackson, Delroy Lindo, Biggie Smalls, Raekwon and more, and can be experienced in full this Summer as Kenzo Digital presents a new form of cinema, theater, and opera, based on City of God’s Son, in New York’s Chelsea art district.

There, the listener will be able to experience City of God’s Son in the form it was initially intended — as a psychedelic, abstract combination of visual and audio sensory over-stimulation and deprivation in a unique outdoor setting.

Meanwhile, watch the trailer above, and download the “aural” experience here.

With thanks to The Huffington Post

For me, this is one of Hitchcock’s best. Doesn’t need a description, just take my word for it, you will not be disappointed!

SnagFilms is an online documentary site, streaming hundreds of full length films for free. Covering everything from Super Size Me and Heavy Metal in Baghdad to obscure international films by unknown filmmakers, the site has plenty of content for anyone who enjoys sitting down and watching a good documentary.

We should get the guys from SRK up there too.

What’s really nice is how the films are each linked to a charity relevant to the film.