A touch more network news (May's a big month for us). IFC.com's been hosting new, never-before-seen episodes from the "Four Eyed Monsters" filmmakers here. The last one, episode 13, will go up tomorrow; here are the rest to date:

> Episode 9 (Shock)
> Episode 10 (Denial)
> Episode 11 (Anger)
> Episode 12 (Bargaining)

Elsewhere, Austin Bunn at Stream sums up the Susan Buice and Arin Crumley saga.

[Photo: Susan Buice and Arin Crumley in "Four Eyed Monsters," Less Life Lived LLC, 2005]

+ Four Eyed Monsters (IFC)
+ Four Eyed 101: From Break-Up to Breakout (Stream)

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A bit of network news: "Wilfred," IFC.com's new web series, kicks off today, with a new episode going up every weekday — the first episode is here, the second here. A cult TV show from Australia, the series began as a short film that won the best comedy award at Tropfest in 2002, possibly due to its killer thematic combination of pot-smoking pets and guys in animal costumes.

The shiny new third season of Joe Swanberg's "Young American Bodies" will also be premiering on IFC.com starting next week — here's a promo.

[Photo: "Wilfred," IFC, 2007]

+ Wilfred (IFC)

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Isabella Rossellini's "Green Porno" shorts, in which she enacts the mating rituals of various insects, are now all up online here.

[Photo: "Green Porno," Sundance Channel, 2008]

+ Green Porno (Sundance Channel)

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Having taken advantage of none of the past weeks' advance screenings, I'm going to be heading into many a Tribeca film come tomorrow, and possibly turning around and heading right back out of a few, given my luck in the past with parsing the festival's daunting line-up.

All of IFC.com's Tribeca coverage, including interviews and videos, will be gathered here; in the intro piece, below, Matt and I talk to the fest's executive director Peter Scarlet.

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Baz Luhrmann is vodcasting about the making of "Australia," that Oz fuck explosion starring Nicole Kidman, Hugh Jackman, thousands of cattle and World War II, as part of Apple's "Set to Screen" series on iTunes.

The film, Luhrmann's first to follow the Red Curtain Trilogy, is in post-production now, and is due in theaters in November. There are only two behind-the-scenes installments up so far for download, an intro and a piece focusing on the on-set still photographer, but both offer glimpses of a film that looks devotedly and unabashedly epic,

[Photo: "Australia," Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation, 2008]

+ Baz Luhrmann: Set to Screen (iTunes)

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Ellen Page sings "Zub Zub" in a "Juno" deleted scene at Daily Motion. For those who haven't been keeping track, that's the song written by Diablo Cody, a version of which, sung by Page, will be featured on "Juno B-Sides: Almost Adopted Songs," which is getting an iTunes release on April 8th. [Via Fimoculous.]

A trailer for "Bangkok Dangerous," the Pang brothers film that had such a troubled time shooting due to the 2006 Thailand coup d'état, is here. Some day, I will put together a pictorial essay on the hair of Nicolas Cage from role to role, and this may represent the nadir.

Hell, while I'm at it: here's a trailer for "Lost Boys: The Tribe."

And to cleanse the palate: Ray Pride at Movie City Indie points out that Alejandro González Iñárritu is the latest director to become involved in The Meth Project. You can find his three anti-meth tv spots here, here and here — Oscars nominees know, meth is bad!

[Photo: "Juno," Fox Searchlight, 2007]

+ Ellen Page Sings "Zub Zub" On the "Juno" DVD's Deleted Scene (Daily Motion)
+ Trailer: "Bangkok Dangerous" (YouTube)
+ Lost Boys: The Tribe (Moviefone)
+ Meth and madness: 3 new shorts by Alejandro González Iñárritu (Movie City Indie)

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Tags: Alejandro González Iñárritu, Bangkok Dangerous, Corey Feldman, Corey Haim, Diablo Cody, Ellen Page, Juno, Lost Boys:The Tribe, Nicolas Cage

The Sundance Institute has just put five short films from six established(ish) filmmakers up on the web for your free viewing pleasure here.

The catch? They were commissioned as part of Sundance's Global Short Film Project to be designed specifically for mobile phones and, therefore, tiny screens, and, therefore seem to have been created with tiny, YouTube-like expectations in mind. Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris of "Little Miss Sunshine" turn in "A Slip in Time," a slo-mo look at a few favorite slapstick moves, while "The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love"'s Maria Maggenti offers "Lo Viajes de King Tiny," centered around a small dog's day out. The pick of the bunch is without a doubt the hypnotically weird security cam cowboy song "Reno," from Cory McAbee of "The American Astronaut."

[Photo: Cory McAbee's "Reno," Sundance Institute, 2007]

+ Sundance Film Festival Global Short Film Project (Sundance Institute)

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IFC News host Matt Singer talks "Chop Shop" with director Ramin Bahrani (of "Man Push Cart") and his young star Alejandro Polanco.

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Tags: Cannes 2007, Chop Shop, Ramin Bahrani

By popular request, there's a video of the U2 performance on the Palais stairs in honor of the "U2 3D" premiere here. Don't say we never gave you anything.

+ Cannes Cam: U2 Live From Cannes (IFC)

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