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We at the Gothamist network would like to express our heartfelt wishes to the people of Minnesota in the days after their tragic bridge collapse. We're not trying to discount the severity of the accident by making note of it in opposition to our usual -Ist lightheartedness - we just wanted to take a moment and recognize those affected last week.

MOVIE: Beware to those heading over to Pioneer Theater tonight, that Jackass Steve-O will be there promoting his new movie TV: The Movie. "A celebration of the ever increasing depravity of television in our society-- it's a channel surfing adventure through the most utterly ridiculous spoofed television programming and commercials." And we bet he'll totally staple something to his face.

To watch all the crap that comes out in the movie theaters is just plain crazy - especially during the summer movie season when it seems like every other movie is craptastic. But that's just what a few people have set their sights on with a website called The Movie Binge. The site has six people on its roster right now, including Gothamist's own Karen Wilson, with the possibly of some guest "bingers" as well. Their goal is to watch every movie from Memorial Day weekend to Labor Day weekend.

American Standard: The Movie is a comedy about a day in the interconnecting lives of young, professional New Yorkers. Sounds pretty standard...however this story is told through the intimate moments that occur within the bathroom walls of apartments, offices, restaurants, and bars throughout the city. We wonder how a film crew can even fit in a NYC bathroom.

THEATER: PS 122 & Act French present The Itching of the Wings (La démangeaison des ailes) as part of the series which brings new French theater to us. The play itself is an "autopsy of daydreams" and presents, among other things, a visit from a rock band dimensionalizing the polyphony of music, movement, text and image that is a history of the history of art and ideas. With music by Stockhausen, Kid Koala, Raymond Scott, Aphex Twin, John Williams and Big Yum Yum.

While we know you’re probably anxiously waiting for Mel Gibson’s Pope: The Movie or for your Mr. Skin’s Skinclylopedia to arrive, you might want to check out some great new and revived movies this weekend:

Tomorrow night the Center For Architecture kicks off a Friday night film series devoted to designed and built environments, actual and fictional. On the inaugural marathon film night, Eames Demetrios presents two documentary short subjects and one feature-length film.

Gothamist went to the premiere of Dig! The Movie @ Sunshine Theater on Monday. Admittedly knowing little about both bands involved in this documentary, we went in as a blank slate...ready to learn about seven years in the lives of the Dandy Warhols and Brian Jonestown Massacre.

So you've heard of this whole J-horror thing that the cinema kids are chatting about these days and you want to get in on the blood, guts and extreme fish hooking action. But how? The newly opened ImaginAsian theater is featuring a tribute to Japanese director and one of the vanguards of this icky movement, Takashi Miike with one of its first series, "Miike Madness."

While everyone has thought that various ads on Craigslist seem more cinematic than real (missed connections - that is so romantic comedy...we're not saying it's always good romantic comedy...), San Francisco director Michael Ferris Gibson is making a movie about Craigslist users. Wired says that people who posted ads on August 4, 2003, were asked to participate in what will be a 90 minute DV film, and Gibson and his crew are sifting through almost 2000 postings.

A.O. Scott gives a glowing review to the movie, Holes. Or Holes, The Movie. He even called it the best movie this year. Honestly, I am SHOCKED. Mainly because the trailer for it was so crappy, I was annoyed I had to sit through it. Scott wrote a piece about movie trailer watching a month ago, speaking to the joy of the movie experience that expands from what's on the screen to your experience in the theater. Previews are a part of the foreplay, Scott contend, which I agree with. They just drive me crazy at the same time, since they can give too much away and make no sense and inevitably have all the best scenes in those few minutes. But the really good ones, like the teaser for The Hulk that debuted before Spiderman, that to me was better than the movie itself, can leave one thrilled at the possibilities.