Set in the distant future, Connected is a story about survival and greed with a post apocalyptic wasteland as its backdrop. Survivors of an unknown disaster shuffle through a desolate landscape, as it quickly becomes clear that not everybody has the strength to survive.
Really, just a pretty cool short.
Filmmaker Ramin Bahrani ‘traces the epic, existential journey of a plastic bag (voiced by Werner Herzog) searching for its lost maker, the woman who took it home from the store and eventually discarded it.‘
No, your eyes do not deceive you. Werner Herzog.
via Ebert
Lately, Roger Ebert has been riding a streak of phenomenal—and extremely personal—writing (see: his struggles with alcoholism, the bygone London of his memories, a love letter to a Chicago bar, how he hasn’t been able to eat food since he lost his jaw).
It is, as Chris Jones writes in his brilliant new Esquire article on the subject of Ebert, evidence of a man who has made his peace with lethal time.
An oldie but a goodie: Salman Rushdie interviews Terry Gilliam at the 2002 Telluride Film Festival.
SR: [...] When I was writing Midnight’s Children, I used to work two days a week at an ad agency and five days a week writing my book, and I thought of it, kind of, as industrial sponsorship.