Authors — Scott Macaulay

WHAT’S IN MY INSTAPAPER: SUNDAY MORNING LINKS, 12/4/11

I haven’t done one of these in a while — a roundup of a few things I’ve stored in my Instapaper for weekend readings. As the year goes on, Melancholia is emerging as my favorite film of 2011. Part of the reason, I think, is that the discourse about it is becoming more and more interesting. Whereas Von Trier’s Cannes comments dominated the dialogue following its opening, now not just critics but viewers are grappling with the film’s meanings. From the Occupied Territories Tumblr comes “Depression, Melancholia, and Me: Lars Von Trier’s Politics of Displeasure,” an extraordinary essay in which […]
by Scott Macaulay on Dec 4, 2011
MUSIC VIDEO: “THE VIEW, LOU REED/METALLICA DIR. BY DARREN ARONOFSKY

Because we are Darren Aronofsky completists here at Filmmaker, I present to you “The View,” the video he’s done for a track off of the Loutallica collab. Aronofsky is quoted in the press release as saying of the album, “”I had never heard anything like it. I couldn’t stop listening to it. Lou’s crushing lyrics, and the band’s incredible licks. It’s so original and that’s why I wanted to work on it.”
by Scott Macaulay on Dec 3, 2011
SOPA PIRACY BILL LAMPOONED ON COLBERT REPORT

The SOPA (Stop Online Piracy) Bill currently being debated in Congress was looked at by Stephen Colbert. He promptly got to one of the scary/silly aspects of the bill: The Colbert ReportGet More: Colbert Report Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,Video Archive For more, check out this video made by Filmmaker mag 25 New Face Kirby Ferguson.
by Scott Macaulay on Dec 3, 2011
GREGORY BAYNE IN FINAL KICKSTARTER HOURS

Gregory Bayne, who has contributed some of the best, most rabble-rousing recent posts to this site — including the analytics-busting “When Should You Call Bulls@&T” — is in the final hours of a Kickstarter campaign for his documentary Bloodsworth, An Innocent Man. With less than 72 hours to go, he’s about 15K shy of his 25K goal. Tough numbers, but I’ve seen other campaigns pull it out. Bayne is a tough and passionate filmmaker who has the goods, as you’ll see from this demo video. Please check it out and if it interests you, consider helping by supporting his campaign. […]
by Scott Macaulay on Dec 2, 2011
Chloe Has the Bunny Ears

The bicycles are sitting in my storage unit, but Chloe Sevigny kept a key piece of costumery from Gummo: the rabbit ears she made for the Bunny Boy character. (Sevigny not only co-starred in the movie, she was also its costume designer.) She explains in this video released by Opening Ceremony tied to the launch of her third collection for the fashion house. (HT: Portable TV.) At Home with Chloë: Part 1 from Opening Ceremony on Vimeo.
by Scott Macaulay on Dec 2, 2011
“KINYARWANDA” OPENS, SCORES 4-STAR EBERT REVIEW

25 New Face filmmaker Alrick Brown’s Kinyarwanda, a project of the IFP Narrative Lab, opens today via the AFFRM and Visigoth Pictures, and I urge you all to see it. Brown has made an extraordinary and ambitious independent film that tackles one of the gravest subjects of the 20th century: the Rwandan genocide. He does so with an intimate, character-based approach, evoking details that add up to full, human picture of the conflict. Writes Roger Ebert, who gave the film four stars I thought I knew something about Rwanda, but I didn’t really know very much. I was moved by […]
by Scott Macaulay on Dec 2, 2011
SWANBERG’S LATEST AT reRUN TONIGHT

Continuing an extraordinarily prolific phase that has also encompassed his year-long subscription service, Joe Swanberg premieres his latest film, Caitlin Plays Herself, tonight at Brooklyn’s reRun theater. His new star is Caitlin Stainken, a member of the Neo-Futurists Theater Ensemble. Here’s the description and a clip. Making its North American debut, CAITLIN PLAYS HERSELF is the last in a trio of provocative, self-reflexive new dramas premiering at reRun this season from acclaimed auteur Joe Swanberg (SILVER BULLETS, ART HISTORY). Inspired by Eric Rohmer’s THE GREEN RAY and the life of lead actress Caitlin Stainken (a member of the “Neo-Futurists” experimental […]
by Scott Macaulay on Dec 2, 2011
WERNER HERZOG GIVES A HUG

Discussing his feature Into the Abyss, Werner Herzog gives Vice Magazine a hug.
by Scott Macaulay on Dec 1, 2011
Sleeping Beauty Writer/Director Julia Leigh

When Filmmaker chose Australian novelist Julia Leigh for our 25 New Faces list of 2008, the author of such books as The Hunter and Disquiet was teaching at Barnard while establishing herself as a screenwriter of provocative, nuanced dramas for directors like Walter Salles and production companies like Plan B. She said when I interviewed her that screenplay writing was originally a form of “diversion therapy” while working on Disquiet, but that she grew to appreciate the form. “I actually find scripts hard to read — ugly,” she said in 2008. “I got my head around the very basic conventions […]
by Scott Macaulay on Nov 30, 2011
MUSIC VIDEO: THE WEEKND’S “THE KNOWING”

On my list of top ten culture for 2011 would be the woozy morning-after soul of the mysterious Canadian vocalist/producer team, The Weeknd. For a song from an album, House of Balloons, in which every other track sounds like the music from the final five minutes of a Miami Vice episode, this science-fiction opus, directed by Mikael Colombu and originally posted by Drake on his site, is not what I would have expected. Dim the lights, go full screen and check it out. (Hat tip: Pitchfork.)
by Scott Macaulay on Nov 26, 2011

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