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Rushes collects news, articles, images, videos and more for a weekly roundup of essential items from the world of film.Above: the trailer for Spike Lee's new joint, Chi-raq.We're hotly anticipating Dennis Lim's new book on David Lynch. The New Yorker is running an excerpt, quoted below, the Criterion Collection has posted a section about Mulholland Dr., and the Film Society of Lincoln Center, which Lim heads, has announced its suggestive series pairing films by Lynch with those by Jacques Rivette."In Lynch’s own speech and in the speech patterns of his films, the impression is of language used less for meaning than for sound. To savor the thingness of words is to move away from their imprisoning nature."Screening in the above series is Rivette's marvelous Don't Touch the Axe, to which Notebook contributor Ryland Walker Knight has penned a poem: "...The game that is...

Jeff Goldblum has signed on to narrate the first nine episodes of AMC's new original series Movies That Shook the World, which premieres at 10 p.m. Sept. 9. The documentary series explores why certain movies were so "explosive" when they were released, the new paths they blazed and why they remain so influential today, the cable network said. Among the films to be spotlighted are The Graduate, Birth of a Nation, Do the Right Thing, Fatal Attraction and The China Syndrome. Other confirmed participants in the series include Spike Lee, Willem Dafoe, Al Franken, David Crosby, Sherry Lansing and Roger Ebert.