Fujifilm also sought new outlets for its expertise in film: for example, making optical films for LCD flat-panel screens.

ECONOMIST: Technological change

He films the uprising with a flat theatrical abstraction, turning it into a dimly recalled dream.

NEWYORKER: Regular Lovers

He looked dapper in a dark suit and tie and proved a gracious host, speaking excellent, if not always idiomatic, English for 90 minutes in his suite at the posh Carlyle Hotel, where a lesser-known novel by Alexandre Dumas lay open on the coffee table and a stack of European films on DVD sat next to a flat-screen television.

WSJ: Maurizio Pollini: Not as Others See Him | Cultural Conversation by David Mermelstein

How we reconstruct our economy to generate sustainable growth, and how - in the meantime - we cope with flat or declining living standards, are the themes of those films that I mentioned earlier (in case you've forgotten, 4 December and 11 December on BBC Two).

BBC: UK's debts 'biggest in the world'

Here is a look at the official Olympic Bid film for the Stockholm Olympic Games (see if you can spot my dog Zorro the black flat coat with the boat on his nose) as well as the films from several other cities.

FORBES: How To Market an Olympic Bid City Or an EXPO bid city To Win.

But, since most of the same films were already available for instant streaming on Netflix, for a flat monthly fee, the new service was something of a non-starter.

NEWYORKER: Streaming Dreams