Seasons Change: She's December and He's May. Relationships between older women and younger men haven't become an everyday thing in the movies. But the theme has surfaced in several recent pictures. By Stephanie Zacharek. [New York Times: Movies]

After a generation of self-righteous, sexist, ageist cant about older men/younger women ("Cradle robbers!"), will the same standard of prejudice be applied to these tales of older women/younger men? Or wil there be a new, double standard—to again demonstrate sexist, ageist hypocrisy?

They're Mellower Now, but There It Is: That Bomb. Like a German version of THE BIG CHILL, WHAT TO DO IN CASE OF FIRE brings together a group of once-close friends who are suddenly forced to examine their lives. By Peter Kobel. [New York Times: Movies]

STAR WARS effects studio shifts to Intel. Industrial Light and Magic (ILM) will switch from using RISC-Unix workstations to those based on Intel processors for the bulk of its animation and special effects work. [The All Electric Media Weblog]

Texas TV Station Goes Tapeless

KTXT-TV of Lubbock, Texas, has installed the Maitre D’ all digital broadcasting system from MaestroVision.

The Maitre D’ solution reduces maintenance time and on-air mistakes. It offers the broadcaster more flexibility and eliminates the need to be limited to a centralized operation. Both the traffic and acquisition departments can be located off site, and multi-site broadcasters can access all material from a central database.

Computer equipment used by the Maitre D’ system is PC-based and non-proprietary. Users can purchase equipment, boards and hard drives from a local source.

[The All Electric Media Weblog]

Prelinger Movie Collection on the Internet Archive. Film historian Rick Prelinger has a large collection of industrial and education movies from past decades. I guess you can call them propganda to promote the American way of life. you can download or stream a lot of them at the Internet Archive. [Boing Boing Blog]

Adobe updates video editing software. The graphics software maker on Monday will announce a new version of its Premiere video editing package. [The All Electric Media Weblog]

Before They Were Stars, They Were Star-Quality. As lovers in LANGRISHE, GO DOWN, a 1978 film for the BBC, Judi Dench and Jeremy Irons were in full command of their acting. By Stephen Holden. [New York Times: Movies]

Computer Games as the Tools for Digital Filmmakers. Machinima is an inexpensive form of digital filmmaking that piggybacks on the slick graphics that are easily available from computer games. By Matthew Mirapaul. [New York Times: Arts]

David Coursey: How Microsoft plans to take over your living room [Chris Van Buskirk's ITV Weblog]