Big Screen Little Screen

– Ricky Gervais in BBC export to HBO: Extras - Season Two. Yahoo features a 12 minute preview of Ep. 1 (Pop Candy). Premiering January 14th, the new season features appearances by Orlando Bloom (in preview), Daniel Radcliffe, Chris Martin, Sir Ian McKellen, and David Bowie (featured - archives).

– Arrested Development’s Michael Cera in Impossible is the Opposite of Possible, in homage to Yale grad Aleksey Vayner and his hot-shot video resume that launched a thousand blog quips . (Gawker)

– Solace in Cinema digs up clips and a trailer in anticipation of the January 7th DVD release of Idiocracy, the Mike Judge directed, Luke Wilson-in-(is)-the-future comedy that Fox released into as few theaters as possible - effectively dumping it - quietly, like so many unwanted kittens into the river.

– “We like to stick our forks in each others’ salad” - Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu (Babel), Alfonso Cuaron (Children of Men), and Guillermo Del Toro (Pan’s Labyrinth) talk up their friendships, and each others’ films with Charlie Rose. - 57 minutes. (Twitch)

– A touch on the old side, but as opposed to faked rubik’s cube tomfoolery, there’s both length and breadth to this 50 minute sit-down between Michel Gondy and another guy who pays the rent via dream sequences - Harvard sleep researcher Robert Stickgold - RE: dream interpretation, the creative process, and The Science of Sleep. (Activity Book)