Authors — Jason Guerrasio

ALL EYES ON DOCS

Let me start off by saying I’m not a fan of award shows. And in no way am I speaking for the magazine, I personally don’t like them. How you can rate films (or music, or anything in the arts for that matter) is just beyond me. But there’s one thing that an award show can do if done right and that’s bring a community together. That’s what the inaugural Cinema Eye Honors did last night in New York City. Created by filmmaker AJ Schnack and Stranger Than Fiction founder Thom Powers (and sponsored by IndiePix), this celebration of non-fiction […]
by Jason Guerrasio on Mar 19, 2008
Carnal Knowledge

Over the course of eight feature films, Olivier Assayas has built a solid international reputation as a director of stylish, naturalistic thrillers and social dramas that team with sensuality. Assayas is a boundlessly resourceful director and in his most recent film, Boarding Gate, a lower key, appealingly absurd riff on the same erotic, globalization-era techno thriller he first brought us in 2002’s explosive Demonlover, the fifty-two year old French filmmaker uses his signature loose, montage-y style to tell what is essentially a lurid and oblique crime story, full of people with secrets and double agendas, whose longings to fulfill the […]
by Jason Guerrasio on Mar 18, 2008
“TRIGGER MAN”

Inspired by true events, director Ti West (The Roost) throws out the typical elements and traps of the horror genre to create what he calls an “experimental horror.” Shot with one HD camera, West uses sparse dialogue, long takes and a haunting score to tell the story of three friends who travel from New York City to the woods of Delaware to hunt deer. Similar to films like Deliverance, The Decent or Open Water — ordinary people thrust into extraordinary circumstances — the hunters become the hunted when a sniper begins to shoot them down one by one. But instead […]
by Jason Guerrasio on Mar 15, 2008
B-SIDE BEGINS SUBMISSIONS 2.0

In a story posted today on Variety‘s The Circuit, Michael Jones reports that B-Side, the company that gathers audience reactions for thousands of festivals, is now going into the fest submissions game with the announcement that it’s creating Submissions 2.0, a site where filmmakers can submit work to multiple festivals without paying a service fee. Set to launch this summer, it will certainly be in direct competition with Withoutabox. Read full story here.
by Jason Guerrasio on Mar 11, 2008
THE REACH FILM FELLOWSHIP UNVEILED

Announced today, the new non-profit, Cinereach, has announced the first-ever recipients of The Reach Film Fellowship. Created last fall by a group of young filmmakers and philanthropists, Cinereach’s goal is to developing original features that focus on issues of cross-cultural communication, global unity and other matters of social relevance. The four Fellows, announced in a press release today, will show their work at a reception hosted by Mira Nair in New York City on March 19th. The Fellows were chosen through a judging panel that included Jeffrey Abramson of GenArt, producer Caroline Baron, GOOD founder Benjamin Goldhirsh and associate director […]
by Jason Guerrasio on Mar 11, 2008
SPIRIT AWARD WINNERS

Juno was the big winner of the Spirit Awards, which just wrapped up on a soggy afternoon in Santa Monica, CA. The film walked away with Best Feature, Best Female Lead for Ellen Page and Best First Screenplay for Diablo Cody. The complete list of winners is below. BEST FEATUREJuno BEST DIRECTORJulian Schnabel, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly BEST MALE LEADPhilip Seymour Hoffman, The Savages BEST FEMALE LEADEllen Page, Juno BEST SUPPORTING MALEChiwetel Ejiofor, Talk To Me BEST SUPPORTING FEMALECate Blanchett, I’m Not There BEST SCREENPLAYTamara Jenkins, The Savages BEST FIRST SCREENPLAYDiablo Cody, Juno BEST DOCUMENTARYCrazy Love, Director: Dan […]
by Jason Guerrasio on Feb 23, 2008
DVDs STILL WAY TO GO

On the heels of Toshiba’s announcement this past weekend that it will fall on its sword in the long-winded battle for hi-def DVD supremacy making Blu-ray the victor (guess I backed the wrong horse, anybody want Goodfellas on HD DVD?), David Pogue writes in the New York Times today that even though there’s more options to watch movies online, in the immediate future, DVDs are still your best choice as he gives a report card on the Internet movie boxes (Apple TV, TiVo/Amazon Unbox, Xbox 360 and Vudu). Pogue also makes a good point about the absent-minded thinking of the […]
by Jason Guerrasio on Feb 21, 2008
“FOR THE BIBLE TELLS ME SO”

With more eye-catching docs coming out of Sundance in 2007 (Manda Bala (Send A Bullet), Crazy Love, My Kid Could Paint That, No End In Sight, War Dance, Zoo, ect.), Daniel Karslake‘s For The Bible Tells Me So was lost in the flurry, but this interesting look at how decades of religious anti-gay bias is based almost solely upon the misinterpretation of the Bible, the film should certainly be in the conversation as one of the best docs that came out of Sundance ’07. Hailed at festivals around the country and getting an impressive release through First Run Features, this […]
by Jason Guerrasio on Feb 18, 2008
IT’S OFFICIAL: STRIKE IS OVER

According to Variety, the 100-day strike which began back on Nov. 5 has ended with 92.5 percent of the guild voting in favor of putting down their picket signs and returning to work immediately. Read the full story here.
by Jason Guerrasio on Feb 13, 2008
BE KIND REWIND EXHIBIT AT DEITCH

Though Michel Gondry‘s latest highly imaginative film Be Kind Rewind, which is the cover story of our current issue, isn’t out in theaters for another two weeks, beginning this weekend you can be like Mos Def and Jack Black in the film and create home videos of some of your favorite films (or as they call it “swede”) when Deitch Projects in New York City brings the video store from the film to their gallery. Here’s more from their press release: For the exhibition, Michel Gondry will be recreating the video store in the gallery, complete with a back lot […]
by Jason Guerrasio on Feb 11, 2008

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