Morris has seized headlines at Sundance this year with the premiere of his first feature film, “Four Lions,” an outrageous farce about a quartet of numbskull Islamic terrorists in the north of England.

Morris’ characters spend more time arguing about which of them is “the most al-Qaida” — two have actually attended a training camp in Pakistan, where they rapidly flunked out after a gruesome but hilarious plot twist I dare not reveal — and cooking up fourth-rate jihadi rap numbers than they do making serious plans to strike a blow for Islam

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New York Governor David Paterson on Tuesday proposed $420 million per year in state money for the continuation of tax credits for film and TV productions in the Empire State through 2014.

The governor’s 2010-2011 budget proposal calls for a new allocation of $420 million per year for the tax years 2010-2014.

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The Old World has ticket buyers. The New World has ticket buyers who are also Facebook friends. The Old World has commercials, newspapers ads and the mass audience. The New World has social media, YouTube, iTunes and niche audiences. “Newspaper ads,” Mr. Broderick said, “are mostly a waste of money.”

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Eric Rohmer, a member of the French New Wave who directed such films as “My Night at Maud’s,” “Claire’s Knee” and “Chloe in the Afternoon,” died Monday in Paris. He was 89. The cause of death was not known.

“Night at Maud’s” (1969) garnered an Oscar nomination for best foreign-language film and best screenplay. His “The Marquise of O” won the Special Jury Prize at the 1976 Festival de Cannes. Full story

With Ode (1999), Then a Year (2001), and Travis (2004), the three short films that she made during her hiatus from features, Reichardt returned to her experimental roots. She shot all three herself, using a Super 8 camera, producing images of lush, ephemeral beauty by exploiting the limited contrast ratio, low resolution, tendency toward overexposure, and Impressionist splotched color of the narrow-gauge film stock.

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