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Watch: “When Words Fail in Movies”
When movies go wordless, what are they trying to say? This video essay by Filmscalpel’s David Verdeure examines wordless scenes from 15 films, including 2001: A Space Odyssey, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me and North by Northwest. For the full list and accompanying essay, click here.
by Filmmaker Staff on Aug 15, 2016 -
Watch: “Sailing with Bushnell Keeler,” A David Lynch Home Movie
David Lynch’s earliest short film is in fact a home movie, and he’d prefer it be labeled as such: a record of the artist Bushnell Keeler (an important figure for Lynch) sailing. The young director is briefly visible throughout.
by Filmmaker Staff on Aug 15, 2016 -
54th New York Film Festival (NYFF) Announces 2016 Main Slate
Fresh from Lincoln Center, here’s the line-up for the main slate of this year’s New York Film Festival. Amid the usual set of heavy-duty auteurs’ latest works (Jim Jarmusch, Olivier Assayas, the Dardennes, Kelly Reichardt et al.), there are a few outliers as usual, including Dash Shaw’s My Entire High School Sinking into the Sea, which will premiere at this year’s TIFF. NYFF runs from September 30-October 16, kicking off with the world premiere of Ava DuVernay’s new documentary The 13th and closing with another high-profile world premiere, James Gray’s The Lost City of Z. Opening Night The 13th Directed by Ava DuVernay […]
by Filmmaker Staff on Aug 9, 2016 -
Watch: Martin Scorsese on Stanley Kubrick, 2001
From 2001, it’s Martin Scorsese discussing Stanley Kubrick with Charlie Rose. They start with The Shining and go from there.
by Filmmaker Staff on Aug 2, 2016 -
26th Annual Gotham Awards To Take Place Monday, November 28th
IFP, Filmmaker‘s parent organization, today announced that the 26th Annual Gotham Awards will take place this year at Cipriani Wall Street in New York City on Monday, November 28th. The first awards show of the season, the Gotham Awards, established in 1991, is one of the leading honors for independent film and media, celebrating authentic voices behind and in front of the camera. The 2015 top film category winners were Spotlight (Best Feature), The Look of Silence (Best Documentary) and Tangerine (Audience Award). Nominated by committee recommendation in the first year, the Long Form Breakthrough Series category will be open to […]
by Filmmaker Staff on Aug 2, 2016 -
Watch: How the Bourne Movies Changed Film Fights
In his newest video essay, Kevin B. Lee breaks down how the Bourne series has changed the style of film fighting as the series continued. As he notes in a supplementary essay at Fandor, “At times it feels like a hodgepodge of fight shots dropped in random, non-linear order—something approaching an impressionist abstraction of action filmmaking. So it was somewhat of a revelation that, upon taking a fight scene from The Bourne Ultimatum and slowing it down to half speed, I could actually discern that one split-second shot from a fight linked up rather well with the next, in a spatially coherent linear sequence.”
by Filmmaker Staff on Aug 1, 2016 -
Watch: “Kubrick/Tarkovsky”
It’s one auteur illuminating similarities with another’s work in another split-screen video. This time around, it’s Stanley Kubrick on the left and Andrei Tarkovsky on the right.
by Filmmaker Staff on Jul 28, 2016 -
Watch: 39 Staircases in the Cinema
This one is pretty straightforward: in honor of Alfred Hitchcock’s The 39 Steps, a supercut of 39 stairwells and their varied treatment across film history.
by Filmmaker Staff on Jul 27, 2016 -
Watch: ’70s and ’80s Films Referenced in Stranger Things
A surprise critical hit for Netflix, the twisty sci-fi/horror/thriller/etc. series Stranger Things has also gained a great deal of attention for its knowing, deliberate references to classics of ’70s and ’80s genre films. Ulysse Thevenon has put together this split-screen video essay, with Stranger Things on the left and its reference point on the right. For another thorough overview in written form, check out Scott Tobias at Vulture.
by Filmmaker Staff on Jul 26, 2016 -
Watch: “Lars Von Trier – The Deconstructionist”
The ever-divisive Lars Von Trier is re-examined by Lewis Bond in this thorough video essay, which examines the way the Danish provocateur breaks down rules about the forms of cinema and then recombines them. Comes with lots of context and an amusing press conference clip of Willem Dafoe explaining on-set improv in Antichrist, where he didn’t even know if he’d be naked or not before starting a scene.
by Filmmaker Staff on Jul 26, 2016
