"Come Away, O Human Child!To The Waters And The WildWith A Faery, Hand In Hand.For The World's More Full

"Come away, O human child! To the waters and the wild With a faery, hand in hand. For the world's more full of weeping Than you can understand..." — "The Stolen Child" by William Butler Yeats +++

A roundup of cinematic locations in movies

Secret underground cave pool (127 Hours) Mystical fantasy circus tents (Cirque Du Soleil · Worlds Away) Neon blue skyline of Neo Seoul (Cloud Atlas) Subconscious winter beach in Montauk (Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind) First-class outer space colony (Elysium) Phosphorescent night sea (Life Of Pi) Rocky cliffs of the Amami Islands (Memoirs Of A Geisha) Rolling hills of the southeastern French countryside (Perfume: The Story Of A Murderer) Maya Bay from light to dark (The Beach) Remote shorelines of the Florida Keys (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button)

"Will you still love me When I'm no longer young and beautiful? Will you still love me When I got nothing but my aching soul? I know you will, I know you will I know that you will Will you still love me When I'm no longer beautiful...?" — Lana Del Rey +++ The bittersweet ending to the love story of Benjamin Button and Daisy Fuller...

"As random and as subjective as this award is, it means a great deal in a year of extraordinary, yet again, extraordinary performances by women... And thank you to the audiences who went to see [Blue Jasmine] and perhaps those of us in the industry who are still foolishly clinging to the idea that female films with women at the center are niche experiences. They are not. Audiences want to see them and, in fact, they earn money. The world is round, people!" — Cate Blanchett on championing women in cinema during her 2014 Oscar Best Actress acceptance speech. +++ Various fierce and flawless heroines in female-centric feature films Audrey Tautou as Amélie Poulain (Amélie) Quvenzhané Wallis as Hushpuppy Doucet (Beasts Of The Southern Wild) Björk as Selma Ježková (Dancer In The Dark) Jamie Chung as Eden (Eden) Greta Gerwig as Frances Halladay (Frances Ha) Tilda Swinton as Emma Recchi (I Am Love) Léa Seydoux as Emma + Adèle Exarchopoulos as Adèle (Blue Is The Warmest Colour) Zhang Ziyi as Sayuri Nitta (Memoirs Of A Geisha) Brit Marling as Sarah Moss/Jane Owen (The East) Rooney Mara as Lisbeth Salander + Élodie Yung as Miriam Wu (The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo)

"Acquiring preemptive knowledge about emerging technologies is the best way to ensure that we have a say in the making of our future." — Catarina Mota, TED Talks +++ A selection of future technologies featured in films Personalized virtual billboard advertising via retinal scanners (Minority Report) Candy-colored fast-food chains with advanced 3D food printers (Cloud Atlas) Holographic multi-touch dynamic interactive presentations (Prometheus) Anti-gravity cocktails in upscale restaurants (Upside Down) Designer-label body modification scanner pods (Elysium) Full-scale aquarium with sushi bar in luxury locomotives (Snowpiercer) Avant-garde transformative fashions (The Hunger Games: Catching Fire) Relaxing weightless sleep in outer space colonies (Gravity)

The fabulous Miuccia Prada and her thoughts on fashion during her impossible conversation with Elsa Schiaparelli.

Chris Evans on a promotional photo shoot in South Korea for "Snowpiercer".