Clara Podlesnigg gathers the many uses of windows in Wes Anderson’s films in this supercut.
by Filmmaker Staff on Nov 17, 2016The Criterion Collection pays tribute to the late DP Raoul Coutard (who died last week, on election day) with a video collecting remarks he made during interviews for their editions of films he shot. It includes specific comments on Breathless, Jules and Jim and Z, as well as the gorgeous theme for Contempt, which is always welcome.
by Filmmaker Staff on Nov 16, 2016The Independent Filmmaker Project (IFP), Filmmaker‘s parent organization, announced today that Emmy® Award-winner Keegan-Michael Key — actor, writer, and co-creator of Comedy Central’s Key & Peele — will host the 2016 IFP Gotham Awards. The ceremony will take place November 28, 2016 at Cipriani Wall Street in New York City. “We’re excited to have Keegan-Michael at the helm of this year’s Gotham Awards celebrations,” said Joana Vicente, Executive Director of IFP and the Made in NY Media Center by IFP. “His unique presence and brand of humor will be a perfect addition to what we expect will be a lively and […]
by Filmmaker Staff on Nov 2, 2016Why is The Shining so disturbing? In this video from “Lessons from the Screenplay,” Kubrick’s horror classic is examined from both a script perspective and, more broadly, why exactly the film is so creepy.
by Filmmaker Staff on Oct 31, 2016In this video essay, Tony Zhou gets deep into why the Marvel Connected Universe — the highest-grossing franchise of all time — sports not one memorable musical theme that people can recall. The answer involves a crippling dependency on temp tracks bordering on the potentially lawsuit-worthy, making this a good look at the general state of Hollywood musical scores beyond the MCU.
by Filmmaker Staff on Oct 27, 2016The Independent Filmmaker Project (IFP), Filmmaker‘s parent organization, announced today that the Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment will receive a special Appreciation Award at this year’s Gotham Awards ceremony on Monday, November 28th. In recognition of the 50th Anniversary of New York City’s Office of Film, Theatre and Broadcasting, the IFP and the Gotham Awards are celebrating the Agency’s legacy of supporting storytelling in New York City. Commissioner Julie Menin, of the Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment, and Deputy Mayor Alicia Glen will receive the Appreciation Award at the event. Menin and Glen will then honor two outstanding members of NYC’s creative […]
by Filmmaker Staff on Oct 27, 2016Walter Murch speaks in this video about his top six considerations while editing, from emotion and story down through the more technical considerations of keeping the audience’s eye moving. Oddly, the video (edited by Max Chatfield) begins with a lengthy montage of opening credits logos from some of the films Murch has worked on and ends with an end credits montage of same; the meat of the comments starts around the 50-second mark.
by Filmmaker Staff on Oct 26, 2016Jacob T. Swinney’s new video essay intercuts the short and feature versions of Whiplash seamlessly, showing how close the first incarnation was to the final feature project. And it’s also probably the only legal way you can see parts of the original short for now.
by Filmmaker Staff on Oct 25, 2016Candice Drouet’s latest video compares a number of shots from Steven Spielberg’s A.I.: Artificial Intelligence — which he famously took over at Stanley Kubrick’s request — with shots they’re modeled on from Kubrick’s work. Refreshingly for a supercut video, the Spielberg shots do seem directly modeled after specific Kubrick shots rather than merely relying upon vague similarities.
by Filmmaker Staff on Oct 24, 2016The Squid and the Whale The Squid and the Whale was, for Noah Baumbach, a rare and blessed thing: an honest to god new beginning. Baumbach’s directing career started strong (his first two films, Kicking and Screaming and Mr. Jealousy, were both released before he turned 30) but sat idle for eight years between Mr. Jealousy and the 2005 Sundance premiere of The Squid and the Whale, which brought Baumbach back with a passion. Watching the film, you get the sense that the wasteland years created within him a burning passion to scream this autobiographical story as furiously as possible […]
by Filmmaker Staff on Oct 20, 2016