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Saudi film fest in Jeddah forced to cancel. -BBC

"The Nazis' rise to power in 1930s Germany led to an exodus of artists, writers, musicians and composers, many of whom found sanctuary in Hollywood's fledgling film industry." Jonathan Kirsch looks at Dorothy Lamb Crawford's book, A Windfall of Musicians: Hitler's Émigrés and Exiles in Southern California, for the Los Angeles Times.

New perspectives on Poor Cinema: one on the career of Cuban director Humberto Solas at Cubanow.net, and "Towards a Poor Cinema: A Credo of Recycled Cinema" at The Recycled Cinema.

I don't remember Gort having laser-blast eyes....Eight blatantly misleading movie posters, from Empire.