Authors — Jason Guerrasio

WATCH. LEARN. MEET.

Internet Week New York kicks off next week and social fundraising site IndieGoGo will bookend the event with a screening of Mark Becker and Jennifer Grausman‘s Pressure Cooker on Monday night at the IFC Center (followed by a Q&A with the filmmakers, moderated by yours truly), then on Sunday they will host a panel discussion on film funding, promotion and distribution on the Internet at the Apple Store in SoHo (panelists include filmmaker Lance Weiler, Christopher Roberts, and CinemaTech’s Scott Kirsner will moderate) ending with a party in the evening. Details for all events are here.
by Jason Guerrasio on May 28, 2009
THE FEST WHERE $100,000 IS AT YOUR FINGERTIPS

Just posted over on Festival Ambassador, Mike Plante highlights this year’s Off Plus Camera Film Festival in Karkow, Poland (he and Trevor Groth presented the “25 Years of Sundance” program at the festival). Off Plus Camera has not only begun to grab the attention of celebs like Anna Karina (pictured) but filmmakers who can vie for it’s Grand Prize of $100,000. And I don’t mean 100g’s worth of equipment and other prizes, I mean $100,000 in cold hard U.S. cash.
by Jason Guerrasio on May 19, 2009
“CRIPS AND BLOODS: MADE IN AMERICA”

Stacy Peralta uses his knack for dissecting counter-cultures to highlight the two most violent gangs in America with Crips and Bloods: Made in America. Since his breakout Sundance hit Dogtown and Z-Boys, about the iconic skateboarders who revolutionized the sport (Peralta was one of the Z-Boys), Peralta has stayed in the alt-sport realm as his second doc, Riding Giants, looked at the history of surfing (it was also the opening film at 04’s Sundance). Now Peralta leaves his comfort zone to look at a world he’s not directly a part of. In telling the story of the Crips and Bloods, […]
by Jason Guerrasio on May 17, 2009
IN THE LOOP TRAILER HARKENS BACK TO ONE OF THE GREATS

Just launched earlier today on FunnyOrDie.com, the trailer for Armando Iannucci‘s biting satire and Sundance fav In The Loop (the film opens in the U.S. July 24) cleverly nods to A Clockwork Orange, which I feel is one of the greatest trailers ever created. As Kubrick’s trailer highlights the debauchery and horror of the film in one minute, the Loop trailer superbly captures the film’s wittiness as well as putting the spotlight on the debut of Peter Capaldi (pictured top right) in an unbelievably disgusting role that’s so vile you can’t help but enjoy every second he’s on screen. IN […]
by Jason Guerrasio on May 15, 2009
SCORSESE’S WCF ADDS B-SIDE, THE AUTEURS & KENT JONES

In a release sent out today at Cannes, World Cinema Foundation’s founder and chairman Martin Scorsese announced that the organization, dedicated to the preservation and restoration of neglected films from around the world, has formed separate partnerships with B-Side Entertainment and virtual cinematheque The Auteurs to market, promote and distribute a slate of restored WCF titles (Criterion will also be involved). Former New York Film Society associate director of programming, Kent Jones, has come on as the WCF’s new executive director. From the release: The films that the WCF restores every year will now have their festival premiere in Cannes […]
by Jason Guerrasio on May 15, 2009
SWINTON ON SWINTON

Over at Filmmaker Videos check out Damon Smith‘s interview with Tilda Swinton about her new film, Julia, which opens today, as well as other revealing thoughts about her career.
by Jason Guerrasio on May 8, 2009
TILDA SWINTON, “JULIA”

Perhaps best known for her Oscar-winning turn in Tony Gilroy’s Michael Clayton and the long, fruitful collaboration she enjoyed with the late Derek Jarman, Tilda Swinton has acted recently for David Fincher, Joel and Ethan Coen, Hungarian auteur Béla Tarr, and in Andrew Adamson’s Chronicles of Narnia franchise. Her flinty, fearless performance as an alcoholic outlaw in Erick Zonca’s cross-border thriller Julia, however, truly spotlights the impressive range and cool professionalism of this adventurous, one-of-a-kind screen actress. (She also appears in Jim Jarmusch’s The Limits of Control, which opened last Friday.) We caught up with Swinton in New York to […]
by Jason Guerrasio on May 7, 2009
"AN ANARCHIST INFILTRATOR"

We all here at the magazine were stunned last month when Ray Pride contacted us from Greece, where he was covering the Thessaloniki Film Festival for us, to tell us that he’d been attacked by a mob just hours before. We were happy to hear from him and relieved that he came out of it, for the most part, with only minor injuries. He recounts what went on that evening in a post over at Movie City Indie. An excerpt: Along the eight blocks to [my friend’s] apartment, a square bristles with a crowd of middle-aged men listening to an […]
by Jason Guerrasio on Apr 29, 2009
TRIBECA: ENTRE NOS, DEVIL, DAZZLE & RACING DREAMS

At the midway point of the Tribeca Film Festival most covering it are walking around with a look of relief as this year’s slate of a tolerable 85 films has made it a less strenuous undertaking to get a good grasp of what the fest has to offer (and it’s nice to step in an air conditioned theater during this heatwave). Here are four titles that have stuck out for me. Entre nosA tour-de-force performance by Paoloa Mendoza, who also shares writing and directing credits with editor Gloria La Morte, this very personal tale follows a Colombian woman’s struggle to […]
by Jason Guerrasio on Apr 28, 2009
“JCVD”

There comes a time in every star’s career when he or she has to come to terms with the fact that they may not be relevant anymore. Most often actors don’t have to come to this career roadblock as quickly as actresses because, frankly, it’s a sad fact no one wants to write roles for a 30-plus women, though they have no trouble finding roles men that age — except if they are action stars. In the time Jean-Claude Van Damme was roundhouse kicking his way into the worshiping teens in the 90s he was as big a box office […]
by Jason Guerrasio on Apr 27, 2009

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