Authors — Sarah Salovaara
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NYFF 2015 Announces Special Events and Revivals Screenings
This morning, the New York Film Festival announced a characteristically impressive supplement to their Main Slate line-up, with their Special Events and Revivals screenings. Included in the Special Events sections are Athina Rachel Tsangari’s Chevalier and Laszlo Nemes’ Son of Saul, which were somewhat conspicuously absent from the Main Slate, along the world premiere of Paul Thomas Anderson’s documentary Junun on his collaborator Jonny Greenwood; Venice documentaries De Palma and Heart of a Dog; and an anniversary screening of O Brother, Where Art Thou? The Revivals are stacked with Lubistch, de Oliviera, Kurosawa, Hou, Ford, Ophüls and much more. View the full lineup, which includes a tribute […]
by Sarah Salovaara on Aug 21, 2015 -
Watch: How to Shoot a Road Movie
The road movie is a frequently tread subgenre, rife with comedic, episodic and dramatic potential. It can also pose a challenge for those seeking a varied mise-en-scene, and in this deconstruction of Dominga Sotomayor’s Thursday Till Sunday, Kevin B. Lee looks at the 83 ways in which the characters are framed in their rather contained environment. It’s a good primer on how to read a scene’s construction, and, from a directorial stand point, how to keep a static environment fresh.
by Sarah Salovaara on Aug 20, 2015 -
Trailer Watch: Todd Haynes’ Carol
Here’s the first teaser for Todd Haynes’ Carol, the Cannes hit starring Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara as star crossed lovers in 1950s Manhattan. Conveyed through glimpses and gestures, the trailer boasts the characteristically stunning cinematography of Ed Lachman and Haynes’ deliberate direction. Carol opens from The Weinstein Company on November 30.
by Sarah Salovaara on Aug 18, 2015 -
Watch: Paul Thomas Anderson’s Extreme Close-Ups
Here’s a thorough, succinct look at the rather particular use of extreme close-ups in the films of Paul Thomas Anderson. Note how they are almost never routine inserts or signifiers — there’s always a motion to the shot, either within the frame or as the camera pushes in toward its subject. Check it out above.
by Sarah Salovaara on Aug 13, 2015 -
Trailer Watch: Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight
After a much ballyhooed pre-production script leak, The Hateful Eight is set to hit theaters Christmas Day from The Weinstein Company. Here is the first official trailer for Quentin Taratino’s eighth feature film, starring regulars Samuel L. Jackson, Michael Madsen and Tim Roth, alongside Kurt Russell, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Bruce Dern and Demian Bichir as a motley crew of snowbound bounty hunters in post-War Wyoming.
by Sarah Salovaara on Aug 12, 2015 -
NYWIFT and IRIS Announce Inaugural Participants for The Writers Lab, Funded by Meryl Streep
Back in April, I interviewed the directors of NYWIFT and IRIS about their noted launch of The Writers Lab, a retreat for women screenwriters over 40, that received a substantial amount of funding from Meryl Streep. The 12 inaugural participants, listed below, were selected from a pool of over 3,500 applicants. The eight mentors for the weekend long September lab are Jessica Bendinger (Bring It On, Aquamarine), Caroline Kaplan (Time Out of Mind, Me and You and Everyone We Know), Meg LeFauve (Inside Out), Darnell Martin (Cadillac Records), Lydia Dean Pilcher (Darjeeling Limited, The Talented Mr. Ripley), Gina Prince-Bythewood (Secret Life of Bees, Beyond the Lights, Mary Jane Skalski (Win Win, The Station Agent) and […]
by Sarah Salovaara on Aug 10, 2015 -
Looking and Listening: Jem Cohen on Counting
Hewing closely to the tradition of documentary as diaristic essay, Jem Cohen’s Counting moves from New York to Sharjah as the cinema eye ruminates on street life, destruction, displacement and disparate urban portraiture. Divided into 15 chapters, Counting seldom forces any conclusions, drawing on the viewers’ emotional responses to its alternately lyrical structure and literal depictions — the removal of Brooklyn’s iconic Kentile Floors sign among them. Filmmaker spoke to Cohen about where Counting falls in the documentary tradition, and how his approach was not all that different from his most recent “narrative,” Museum Hours. Counting is now in theaters from Cinema Guild. Filmmaker: What is your process on an essayistic […]
by Sarah Salovaara on Aug 5, 2015 -
Kickstart David Felix Sutcliffe and Lyric R. Cabral’s (T)ERROR
A shocking exposé on the FBI’s counterterrorism efforts, David Felix Sutcliffe and Lyric R. Cabral’s (T)ERROR is in danger of not seeing an official release due exorbitant legal and insurance fees. In profiling a longtime informant, Saeed “Shariff” Torres, Sutcliffe and Cabral demonstrate enough evidence to suggest that the FBI might invent terrorists just as much as it prevents them. The film is an essential conversation piece, and one that deserve to reach the widest audience as possible, so please consider donating to the Kickstarter to fund the theatrical release.
by Sarah Salovaara on Aug 4, 2015 -
Trailer Watch: Lenny Abrahamson’s Room
Fall festival season means trailers are dropping at an ever quickening pace, and here’s one that was recently announced as a TIFF premiere, Lenny Abrahamson’s Frank follow-up, Room. Based on the novel by Emma Donoghue, Room stars Brie Larson as a woman who raises her child in captivity after having been kidnapped at a young age. A24 will release the film on October 16.
by Sarah Salovaara on Jul 30, 2015 -
TIFF Announces 2015 Gala and Special Presentations Lineup
Hot on the heels off NYFF announcing Steve Jobs as their centerpiece film yesterday comes the Gala and Special Presentations lineup from TIFF. There are the expected Cannes holdovers, and a handful of world premieres from Julie Delpy, Ridley Scott, Michael Moore, Terence Davies, Rebecca Miller and more. The full list is below. OPENING NIGHT FILM “Demolition” Jean-Marc Vallee, USA (World Premiere) GALAS “Beeba Boys” Deepa Mehta, Canada (World Premiere) “Eye in the Sky” Gavin Hood, United Kingdom (World Premiere) “Forsaken” Jon Cassar, Canada (World Premiere) “Freeheld” Peter Sollett, USA (World Premiere) “Hyena Road” (“Hyena Road: Le Chemin du Combat”) Paul Gross, Canada (World […]
by Sarah Salovaara on Jul 28, 2015
