A bit of a rant, Stephen Murphy’s video essay “Capturing the Moment: In Search of Adequate Images” springboards off a diatribe against the epidemic of smartphones at concerts to riff off of Werner Herzog’s long-ago warning that we as a society need to find adequate images. What are these adequate images, and how do we define them? Murphy has some thoughts, and some high praise for A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night as well.
by Filmmaker Staff on Sep 22, 2015The Independent Filmmaker Project (IFP), Filmmaker‘s parent organization, announced today that two new awards will be given at the upcoming 25th Annual IFP Gotham Independent Film Awards. Two Breakthrough Series awards will single out outstanding achievement in serialized content in television and new digital media. Long Form (for continuing or limited series with episodes running 30 minutes and longer) and Short Form (for continuing or limited series with the majority of episodes under 20 minutes). Focusing on “debut” series, only series that premiered within the last year (September 1, 2014 – August 31, 2015) will be eligible. Full criteria for the […]
by Filmmaker Staff on Sep 17, 2015The LG34UC87, an ultra-wide monitor, is designed with the needs of editors and gamers specifically in mind. At 34 inches, the curved display eliminates the need to set up two side-by-side monitors, reducing your workflow to one manageable screen that appears in 3440x1440p resolution. The IPS display gives you over 99% of the space of sRGB in over twice the space available on a 16:9 full HD resolution display. With a wide screen, the need to move from one open program to another is eliminated, and you can complete your video without the need for any additional rendering, making the […]
by Filmmaker Staff on Sep 17, 2015Today the IFP Gotham Independent Film Awards (presented by Filmmaker Magazine‘s parent organization IFP) announced three additional tributes to be presented at this year’s 25th anniversary awards ceremony. In addition to previously announced director honoree Todd Haynes, Actor and Actress tributes will be presented to Robert Redford and Helen Mirren, and Anonymous Content founder and CEO Steve Golin will be awarded the Industry Tribute. The awards will take place Monday, November 30. For more information, click here for the full press release.
by Filmmaker Staff on Sep 15, 2015Today, IFP (Filmmaker‘s parent organization) announced the full lineup for the annual Screen Forward: IFP Conference. Taking place this year from September 20-25 at Lincoln Center, the program consists of several different sections. Among Industry Talks, you’ll find a discussion with longtime collaborators David Wain and Michael Ian Black, whose resurrected Wet Hot American Summer has recently made a splash on Netflix, and one with Christine Vachon, the Killer Films producer whose latest project is Todd Haynes’ forthcoming, keenly anticipated Carol. Some other highlights, as noted in the press release: *“Who Needs the Boys Club?” a discussion on inequality and the misperceptions […]
by Filmmaker Staff on Sep 3, 2015In honor of Ingrid Bergman’s centenary, Criterion has posted this tribute video cut together by Jonathan Keogh. For more reading, head over to Keyframe Daily, where David Hudson has rounded up some recent writing on the actress and the many retros of her films currently taking place.
by Filmmaker Staff on Sep 2, 2015Here’s another nifty video from Jacob T. Swinney, this time bookending an assembly of the Coen brothers’ numerous POV with montages of their many dashboard-driving shots.
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by Filmmaker Staff on Aug 31, 2015In this short interview snippet, Mel Brooks holds forth about his experience working with Orson Welles on History of the World, Part I. What did Welles intend to spend his fee on? 100 Cuban cigars and Sevruga caviur – not Beluga, since Sevruga was good enough and half the price.
by Filmmaker Staff on Aug 24, 2015In this brief introduction to a screening of Fight Club at Locarno, Edward Norton recalls that the film premiered to boos at the Venice Film Festival in 1999, a far cry from its assured cult status at this point. He then goes on to compare the film’s initially poor reception to what it must’ve been like to watch Rossellini’s Rome, Open City one year after the end of World War II, as something too raw and recent to process. The comparison’s probably ill-advised, but there you go.
by Filmmaker Staff on Aug 18, 2015