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Over at Variety's The Circuit, Mike Jones digs up a very helpful article by a director who travelled to Cannes to pitch his project... that happened to appear a couple of years ago in Filmmaker. Producers and directors about to make the trip over would do well to check it out. An excerpt from Richard Press's Cannes Diary: A week before I leave for cannes to participate in L’Atelier du [continue]
Scott Macaulay
The New Yorker this week reports on a Hollywood job opening in this generally deteriorating entertainment economy. The "Talk of the Town" piece by Lizzie Widdicombe quotes an "unofficial" email about what is apparently a real position: cultural attache to Oscar-winning producer Brian Grazer. Here's the email: This person would be responsible for keeping Brian abreast of everything that’s [continue]
Scott Macaulay
Roberto Quezada-Dardon's article on the Red One camera is one of our most widely read articles on the website this month. If you want to read about the Red from a different angle, check out Steve Tammi's piece, "Beta Sight: Red Digital Camera Red One," in the current Millimeter, which is online at their Digital Content Producer site. Here's his lede: I have been shooting with the Red Digital [continue]
Scott Macaulay
Here's Ricky jay, who co-stars in David Mamet's Redbelt, currently in release, performing a card trick alongside his discussion of Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance. Both Mamet and Jay were interviewed this week, separately, on the XMPR Bob Edwards radio show, and the discussions can be listened to or downloaded here. Both men are fantastic raconteurs and interview subjects, so this is a [continue]
Scott Macaulay
I've wondered several times on this blog why more filmmakers don't try to make original works for the web, works that challenge and alter the storytelling conventions of their feature or other narrative work. Well, now on the Sundance Channel website comes Green Porno, a series of shorts designed to be watched on computers and cellphones. Here's what Sundance and Rossellini say about the [continue]
Scott Macaulay
Variety is reporting the stunning news that Warner Bros. is shutting down both Picturehouse and Warner Independent. Speculation has been running in the indie community about the fate of the companies following the demise of New Line (which was a co-owner, with HBO, of Picturehouse) as a standalone studio and distributor. Observers had imagined a variety of scenarios, but I don't think anyone [continue]
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Famed documentarian Errol Morris dissects what we saw (and didn't see) in the Abu Ghraib prison photos in Standard Operating Procedure. By Peter Bowan
Subtitles, an unknown cast and a last-minute title change are just a few obstacles Christopher Zalla had to cross to get his Sundance 2007 Grand Jury Prize winning film Sangre de Mi Sangre into theaters. By Jason Guerrasio
Lisa Y. Garibay talks to director Tom Kalin and screenwriter Howard A. Rodman about Savage Grace, their film adaptation of the Oedipal-themed true-crime story.
Howard Feinstein recounts the journey director Tom McCarthy went on to make his issue-driven follow up to The Station Agent, The Visitor.
Dario Argento completes his “Three Mothers” trilogy with Mother Of Tears. By Travis Crawford
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Roberto Quezada-Dardon finds reactions to the Red One camera from two crews who have worked with it.
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American indies face the increasingly challenging international marketplace. By Anthony Kaufman
In search of the indie game. By Heather Chaplin
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FESTIVAL COVERAGE
To enter Gen Art, your name must be on a clipboard manned by a shining, feverish lady in black. If it is you feel lucky, chosen, special, because then you are permitted to taste what life should be like EVERY DAY: lo, there is free beer, free wine, free cookies and free popcorn. You eat, you [continue]
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The following essay by David Gordon Green on Todd Rohal’s The Guatemalan Handshake accompanies the film's DVD release from Benten Films out today. I am plagued by two mothers of frustration: 1. POWER PROBLEMS: Who controls the switches? Who pushes the buttons? How do I get to be large and [continue]
Over the course of eight feature films, Olivier Assayas has built a solid international reputation as a director of stylish, naturalistic thrillers and social dramas that team with sensuality. Assayas is a boundlessly resourceful director and in his most recent film, Boarding Gate, a lower key, [continue]
moreTHE DIRECTOR INTERVIEWS 
Nick Dawson
Immediately distinguishable by his understated good looks, laid-back, drawling English voice and, of course, the boom mike seemingly always in his hands, Nick Broomfield is an iconic figure in documentary filmmaking, as well as one of the form’s most talented artists. The son of English [continue]
Nick Dawson
When you meet Garth Jennings, it is immediately apparent where much of the energy, enthusiasm and imagination in his films comes from. The effervescent Jennings, born in Essex, England in 1972, attended the Central St. Martin's College of Art & Design in London where he met Nick Goldsmith with [continue]
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We've once again asked Jamie Stuart to cover the Sundance Film Festival with his unique brand of filmmaking and create a short that encompasses the people he meets, his creative eye and basically whatever pops up in his head. This year's film includes George A. Romero, Ellen Kuras, Stacy Peralta and strange text messages.
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