Grand Theft Auto: Beirut, Meets A Scanner Darkly

+ 0
expand close

Summary: Waltz With Bashir, the first official trailer from cinemascopian.com on Vimeo . Jeff Wells points to Cinemascopian , where blogger Yair Rave has posted the Vimeo trailer for Cannes competition entry Waltz With Bashir . This film wasn’t on...  Click to expand...


Waltz With Bashir, the first official trailer from cinemascopian.com on Vimeo.

Jeff Wells points to Cinemascopian, where blogger Yair Rave has posted the Vimeo trailer for Cannes competition entry Waltz With Bashir. This film wasn’t on my tentative must-see schedule (which I’ll be posting here before I get on a plane tomorrow), but I might find a place there, thanks to my Sita Sings the Blues-rekindled love of grown-up animation. Cinemascopian calls it an “animated quasi-documentary”; style-wise it looks a lot like A Scanner Darkly meets Persepolis, with an element of, like, Grand Theft Auto: Beirut. An aside: does any location for the next GTA seem *more* logical than the Holy Land?

read more

 
close

This Week in Rojo [The best of the blogosphere every week.]

Rojo: Digg Stars; Google Matrix; ObamaSpace

 Diggbait anyone? The Wall Street Journal surveyed who’s who when it comes to influencing social-networking sites like digg and Reddit, and finds just 30 of 900,000 registered digg users are responsible for a third of stories on its home page, blogs Business 2.0.

» Subscribe to the This Week in Rojo newsletter