The longest single rail line, connecting Lisbon to Laos, is the setting for a bio-thriller in Sachin Benny’s new world-building series
The Cult of the Imperfect by Umberto Eco
October 28, 2019 – Umberto Eco on the merits of imperfect works of art, including ‘The Count of Monte Cristo,’ ‘Hamlet,’ and ‘Casablanca.’
Nakatomi Space
[Image: From Die Hard, directed by John McTiernan based on the novel Nothing Lasts Forever by Roderick Thorpe].While watching Die Hard the other night—easily one of the best architectural films of …
The Imperfectionist: Navigating by aliveness
I’m amazed and very pleased to say that the UK paperback of Meditations for Mortals entered the Sunday Times bestsellers at number 9 this week, after being selected as a Waterst...
Bret Victor - Stop Drawing Dead Fish
Safe Haven by Kirill Semenovich | Verse
*Safe Haven* is a video-essay series that develops themes first introduced in *The Old Man*. Built from fragments of memory and sensation, it assembles a recurring state, moments kept and revisited. The work considers a sustained relationship with time and the idea of eternity. It offers quiet indications of that presence and brief instances of living alongside it. The process is incremental and reconstructive: layer by layer, each surface opens to another space. Each opens onto a further interior, leaving room to pause and reflect without closure.
The InterBrain - How Collective DreamWeaving Can Heal the World
Forget it, Kinbote, it’s Chinatown: A Blade Runner 2049 reference guide
Forget it, Kinbote, it’s Chinatown: A Blade Runner 2049 reference guide
The Breeders - Live in Big Sur
Walled Haven
《Walled Haven》An open world action-adventure set in the Walled City, a dystopian metropolis where Kung Fu decides all.
The Fantasy of Space Colonization: The Spaceship We're Already On with Tom Murphy & DJ White | RR 24
In Japan - 2015
This film is a collection of audiovisual moments and memories of a 3-week railway journey through Japan in 2015. We were whizzing through the country with the Shinkansen visiting Tokyo, Osaka, Hiroshima and Kyoto as well as lots of wonderful little places along the way, meeting the most friendly people and experiencing a culture that somehow balances its rich tradition with a very futuristic present. Directed by: Vincent Urban facebook.com/vincenturbanfilms instagram.com/vincenturban Filmed by: Vincent Urban, Alex Schiller, Alex Tank Edit & Sounddesign by: Vincent Urban Grading by: Alex Schiller Thanks to: Ryan Emond (thanks for Karaoke and filming some drone-stuff with us)), Oliver Würffell, Laia Gonzales, Diether Kerner, Hideyuki Yoshizawa Filmed with Sony a7s and Canon 5D Mark III RAW Music: PORC #1 performed by MODERAT Musik: Sascha Ring, Gernot Bronsert, Sebastian Szary © Random Noize Musick, Monkeytown Music Courtesy of Budde Music und der Sony/ATV Music Publishing (Germany) GmbH PORC #2 performed by MODERAT Musik & Text: Sascha Ring, Gernot Bronsert, Sebastian Szary © Random Noize Musick, Monkeytown Music Courtesy Of Budde Music und der Sony/ATV Music Publishing (Germany) GmbH
First trailer released for western starring AI version of Val Kilmer
Footage of As Deep As the Grave screened in the US, featuring an authorised visual deepfake of the actor who died in 2025
The Wild Story Behind Sergei Bondarchuk’s Epic War and Peace
The shoot went on for five and a half years, with brutal winters, actors threatening to quit, and the director suffering a heart attack.
