Authors — Nick Dawson
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Werner Herzog’s Texting and Driving Doc From One Second To The Next
Werner Herzog turned 70 last year, but he’s certainly not slowing down and indeed he seems to be more prolific than ever. The latest film he’s made is surprising, to say the least: a short, 35-minute PSA doc to support the It Can Wait campaign against texting and driving. Interestingly, there’s absolutely no mention of Herzog on the site, and it’s only when you start watching From One Second To The Next that you find out who the man behind it is…
by Nick Dawson on Aug 8, 2013 -
Spike Jonze’s Her to Close 2013 New York Film Festival
The day after the first trailer for Spike Jonze’s much anticipated, futuristic romance Her was released, the New York Film Festival has announced that the film will close their 2013 edition on October 13. In a press release, Kent Jones, the NYFF’s Director of Programming and Selection Committee Chair, said, “Like many people I’ve come to expect great and surprising things from Spike Jonze, but Her is something altogether new in cinema. To discuss even a little bit of the plot – let’s just say that it’s about lonely people and artificial intelligence – is to deprive first-time viewers of the opportunity […]
by Nick Dawson on Aug 8, 2013 -
Gordon Willis on Lighting Marlon Brando in The Godfather
Gordon Willis is one of the truly great cinematographers of the second half of the 20th century, the man responsible for shooting everything from Woody Allen’s Manhattan and Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather to such lesser-known (but also brilliantly lensed) movies such as Hal Ashby’s The Landlord and Alan Arkin’s Little Murders. In the second of our ongoing series of exclusive Craft Truck videos, Willis talks about the approach he took to lighting Marlon Brando in the iconic opening scene of The Godfather.
by Nick Dawson on Aug 8, 2013 -
Win a DVD Copy of Ulrich Seidl’s Paradise: Love
In the past year or so, austere Austrian auteur Ulrich Seidl has unspooled his Paradise trilogy at major festivals: Paradise: Love premiered at Cannes last year, Paradise: Faith at Venice later that fall, and Paradise: Hope bowed at the 2013 Berlinale. Strand Releasing has picked up the trilogy for distribution in the U.S., and the first installment has just hit the home entertainment market, with Love coming out on August 6. Courtesy of Strand, we have copies of Paradise: Love to give away on DVD to the first five (5) people who email nick AT filmmakermagazine DOT com with the […]
by Nick Dawson on Aug 8, 2013 -
Win The World’s End Prize Packs
Thanks to our friends at Focus Features, Filmmaker has three prize packs to give away to mark the upcoming August 23 release of The World’s End, the conclusion of Edgar Wright’s “Cornetto trilogy.” The sci-fi-tinged comedy, starring Wright’s regular cohorts Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, is about a group of high school friends who reunite 20 years on to try and complete an epic pub crawl, but find that their old hometown is not as they remember it. So, if you would like a prize pack comprised of a special The World’s End T-shirt and pint glass (see below), simply […]
by Nick Dawson on Aug 7, 2013 -
Trailer Watch: Spike Jonze’s Her
Four years after 2009’s Where the Wild Things Are, Spike Jonze returns with his fourth feature, Her, starring Joaquin Phoenix as a reclusive writer who develops an ever closer bond with the personalized operating system, “Samantha” (voiced by Scarlett Johansson), tailored to take care of all his needs. Featuring a strong female supporting cast that includes Amy Adams, Rooney Mara and Olivia Wilde, Her is the first feature from an original screenplay by Jonze and it will be interesting to see what a film fully constructed in his mind looks like. In this trailer, Her appears sweet and touching, but I’m […]
by Nick Dawson on Aug 7, 2013 -
Gotham Awards to Honor Commisioner Katherine Oliver
IFP announced today that the Gotham Awards will honor this December the Commissioner of the New York City Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment, Katherine Oliver. Every year, the Gothams honors four individuals who have made a considerable contribution, in one capacity or another, to the world of independent film; in 2012, the honorees were actors Matt Damon and Marion Cotillard, writer/director David O. Russell and Participant Media’s Jeff Skoll. IFP’s Executive Director Joana Vicente said of the announcement, “We are honored to dedicate our 2013 Gotham Industry Tribute to Katherine Oliver, who has made an indelible impact in the […]
by Nick Dawson on Aug 7, 2013 -
Trailer Watch: J.C. Chandor’s All is Lost
I’m very excited to see J.C. Chandor’s follow-up to Margin Call, the sea-bound one-hander starring Robert Redford, All is Lost. The film comes out October 18 through Roadside Attractions, and at this point seems to be a lock to get Redford a Best Actor Oscar nomination. Scott saw the film at Cannes, and below is some of what he wrote about it for the Filmmaker newsletter: The film opens as an adrift shipping container hits Redford’s sailboat somewhere in the middle of the Indian Sea. Its hull punctured, the boat takes on water, quickly awakening a sleeping Redford. That’s minute two […]
by Nick Dawson on Aug 1, 2013 -
Cinematographer Andrij Parekh on Lighting Ryan Gosling
Starting this week, every Thursday the Filmmaker website will be hosting exclusive videos courtesy of Craft Truck, a new website which hosts “conversations with the world’s best cinematographers, editors, technology companies and more from the world of film and television.” To kick off this series, acclaimed d.p. Andrij Parekh talks about his approach to lighting and how this impacts on the performances of actors, such as Ryan Gosling, who he shot in Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden’s Half Nelson and Derek Cianfrance’s Blue Valentine and The Place Beyond the Pines.
by Nick Dawson on Aug 1, 2013 -
Trailer Watch: First Look at David O. Russell’s American Hustle
David O. Russell went on GMA this morning to talk about his December release, American Hustle, a fictionalized version of the Abscam operation, and share a teaser for the film. A Black List favorite from 2010 which was formerly called American Bullshit, Russell’s movie reunites him with Amy Adams and Christian Bale from The Fighter and Jennifer Lawrence, Bradley Cooper and Robert De Niro from Silver Linings Playbook, while Jeremy Renner, Michael Peña and Louis CK also appear. This certainly looks like it will be a lot of fun.
by Nick Dawson on Jul 31, 2013
