Saturday Hot Links
After an absence of one week, it’s the return of Saturday Hot Links with a special assist from fellow linkmeister Shaula Evans.
Today: The Alfred Hitchcock Would Have Been 114 This Week Celebration Edition!
The New Yorker’s Richard Brody: A Birthday Tribute to Alfred Hitchcock.
Maybe Einstein was wrong about what would happen if you jumped into a black hole.
The films that influenced The Wolverine.
The very best storytelling games to light your imaginations [HT to Chuck Wendig for the link].
Lost Orson Welles film found in Italy.
How often cities appear in books the last 200 years, visualized.
What does the future hold for Pixar Animation Studios.
Legendary comics creators dismiss sexism critiques.
Do rape scenes have a place in modern cinema.
A map showing the 22 countries England has not invaded.
Did you know in the 1920s, most Hollywood screenwriters were women.
Top 10 Canadian superheroes.
Mainstream movie porn sucks: How real sex in real movies is a real distraction.
Celebrity garages of the rich and famous [infographic].
How to make women look heroic on movie posters.
Why are soccer balls made of hexagons.
The feminism of Hayao Miyazaki and Spirited Away.
Sweet dreams are made of cheese…
Ted Hope: Film culture must shift away from mass market focus.
Your iPhone uses more energy than a refrigerator.
Toronto indie video stores fight back against Netflix.
Ahhh! Baby panda meets mom for the first time [video].
Overlooked by the mainstream, queer characters thrive in webcomics.
Movie sequels nobody wants (at least in America), but Hollywood is making anyway.
The 10 best books about modern virgins.
Will Hollywood double down on more sequels and franchises after this summer.
Would Tolkien have written “The Lord of the Rings” as an academic today.
The Spectacular Now co-screenwriter Michael H. Weber on creating realistic teenagers.
Sophia MacDougall: I hate strong female characters.
15 near-misses in Hollywood history.
Blood in your eye: Why we need violent stories.
Studios’ new box office pain: Homegrown films are beating tentpoles overseas.
A Facebook app for rich and famous people.
20 Gary Oldman accents in 60 seconds [video].
Why have this year’s original sci-fi movies been so disappointing.
This adorable new species is half teddy bear, half raccoon.
An uncredited rewrite made Hit Girl less masculine for Kick-Ass 2.
11 fast food oddities nobody had asked for.
50 movie deaths that destroyed our childhood.
7 Civil War stories you didn’t learn in high school.
Tina Fey producing a new female-centric workplace comedy for NBC.
47 rejection letters, then the Booker long list.
8 TV showrunners and writers reveal the emotional hurdles in their Emmy nominated episodes.
We are very near the end of civilization.
Summer box office: Great news for Universal, bad news for Sony.
The future of storytelling: People want to befriend characters and influence their decisions.
Bill Hader and Jonah Hill among those to roast James Franco.
TIFF 2013: The complete lineup (so far).
Before Midnight is the most important cinematic love story of all time.
A brief history of men’s underwear.
Shaun of the Dead: The interactive screenplay.
ABC mulling TV shows based on Star Wars characters.
How WB’s gamble made The Conjuring one of the summer’s most profitable movies.
The 39 stats: Charting Alfred Hitchcock’s obsessions.
Screenwriting Master Class tip of the week: If you are a Quentin Tarantino fan, Tom Benedek has created an online class just for you: Tarantino Unchained: Scene Build Clinic. Here is his overview:
Scenes are the building blocks of every script. Great scenes are what Tarantino movies are all about. Yet those memorable scenes are only great because of every other scene that surrounds them in each of his scripts. We will be reading Tarantino all week — studying his scene build-outs and their structural ingredients.
The 1-week class begins Monday, August 19. For more information, go here.
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