Can you guess the movie just from the first letter? Take The Empire Poster Quiz.

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Burn After Reading.

Zevs, PARIS.

Inside Outside is a documentary about graffiti evolving. In an interview with PingMag, director Andreas Johnsen said that graffiti is no longer confined to hip-hop culture and tagging.

“A lot of young folks have started to express themselves by writing deeper messages instead of simply tagging.”

Johnsen adds that graffiti also represents how the world is changing.

“There are more kids who want to speak up and maybe they feel that they can’t really do it through regular media. They might be feeling that our leaders keep people down by not telling us the truth. The increase of ads we see on the streets could be another reason too…”

Featuring: ZEVS (Paris), SWOON, KR, EARSNOT (New York City), OS GEMEOS, PIGMEUS (Sao Paulo), RON ENGLISH (Jersey City), ADAM & ITSO (Stockholm, Copenhagen).

Following Helvetica, Gary Huswit is set to release Objectified, a documentary feature about “industrial design; … the manufactured objects we surround ourselves with, and the people who make them”.

Merchandise for the film (tee and limited edition screen printed poster) is now available at the Objectified Shop.

Here’s the trailer. The movie is set for a 2009 release.

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Alfred Hitchcock, 1958. Design by Saul Bass.

“James Marsh’s Man On Wire plays like the best heist movie, with Philippe Petit and his co-conspirators plotting for months to pull off the impossible (and the truly terrifying).”

Man On Wire is a documentary about a young Frenchman named Philippe Petit who stepped out on a wire illegally rigged between the World Trade Center, then the world’s tallest buildings.

After six and a half years of dreaming about it and eight months in planning, Petit finally executed his plans in August 1974. With the assistance of a team of accomplices, Petit overcame the numerous challenges involved: bypassing security; smuggling heavy steel cable and rigging equipment into the towers; passing the wire between the two rooftops and anchoring it to withstand the winds and the swaying of the buildings.

All this was done under the cover of night. At 7:15am the following morning, Petit took his first step on the high wire 1,350 feet above the sidewalks of Manhattan pulling off what some dubbed “the artistic crime of the century”.

… that we’re led by complete boneheads?

Film still from They Live (John Carpenter, 1988)

Much lighter fare than No Country For Old Men, Burn After Reading is set for release this September. It stars stars John Malkovich, George Clooney, Frances McDormand, Tilda Swinton and Brad Pitt. The title of this comedy is an allusion to former CIA director Stansfield Turner’s book Burn Before Reading: Presidents, CIA Directors, and Secret Intelligence. If you are a Coen Brothers fan, this may interest you too.

via designobserver and golden fiddle.

An old trailer which I bookmarked sometime last year. NSFW and not in front of the children for that matter.

Pangea Day on May 10 came and went but the films will leave a lasting impression. Two animated short films left a mark on me. This one is More by Mark Osborne (the other is Papiroflexia). It touches on the human condition on so many levels - from alienation to our longing to find meaning and inspiration in our lives and surroundings. By the way, the great soundtrack is by New Order. Watch the other Pangea Day films here.

Update: Someone obviously doesn’t feel like sharing anymore, but you can still watch it here.

Shown on Pangea Day, Papiroflexia is a whimsical tale of a man who changed the world with the art of paper folding. Seemingly rendered with paper cut outs, Baldwin masterfully narrates the state of our existence and our unspoken longing for a better world. Watch another excellent Pangea Day film, More by Mark Osborne here.

“Pangea Day is a global event bringing the world together through film. Why? In a world where people are often divided by borders, difference, and conflict, it’s easy to lose sight of what we all have in common. Pangea Day seeks to overcome that - to help people see themselves in others - through the power of film.”

Go to pangeaday.org to find out how you can be a part of this event.