Authors — Scott Macaulay
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DAVID LOWERY’S “ST. NICK” OPENS AT reRUN
Opening today at Brooklyn’s gastropub theater, reRun, is David Lowery’s first feature, St. Nick. Here’s Alicia Van Couvering’s introduction to her interview with Lowery for Filmmaker at the film’s festival premiere: There is almost no dialogue in the first half of David Lowery’s feature debut, St. Nick. A young boy and a girl enter an abandoned house, clean it up, build a fire, forget to open a window and fill the house with smoke, figure out a chimney and watch the embers turn into flames. They sleep, they forage for food; somehow they survive, until reality starts bearing down on […]
by Scott Macaulay on Apr 22, 2011 -
TIM HETHERINGTON, R.I.P.
While traveling today I heard the very sad news that photojournalist and documentary filmmaker Tim Hetherington, winner of the Sundance Documentary Grand Jury Prize, with Sebastian Junger, for their documentary, Restrepo, was killed while covering the conflict in Libya. Lauren Wissot interviewed Hetherington and Junger earlier this year for Filmmaker, and she began her piece like this: “Most documentary filmmakers attempt to see the world through the lens of the subjects they’re shooting, but few put their lives on the line to do so.” Of the film, which looked at the conflict in Afghanistan through the viewpoints of U.S. soldiers […]
by Scott Macaulay on Apr 21, 2011 -
WATCH IFP/POWER TO THE PIXEL CROSS-MEDIA FORUM HERE
The IFP and Power to the Pixel present today the Cross-Media Forum. You can read the complete line-up here and also check it out via the livestream below. See you there… or online. Live Broadcasting by Ustream
by Scott Macaulay on Apr 19, 2011 -
I WANNA SEE YOUR HANDS IN THE AIR
Both actor and bona fide Hollywood star, Mark Ruffalo has made a surprising directorial debut with Sympathy For Delicious, a bold fable about religion and rock & roll, betrayal and friendship. By Scott Macaulay
by Scott Macaulay on Apr 17, 2011 -
Writer/Director Janet Grillo on Fly Away
Emotional and involving yet also clear-eyed and with a cool wisdom, Janet Grillo’s Fly Away is a sharply observed and strongly acted tale of a mother learning to allow her autistic teenage daughter to transition into the adult world. Beth Broderick plays Jeanne, a single mom with her own home-office corporate consulting business. Ashley Rickards is her daughter Mandy, and the two have a tight, well-ordered relationship, with Jeanne trying to grow her business during the day while Mandy attends a special needs school. But when Mandy begins a series of violent outbursts at that school, Jeanne’s almost preternatural composure […]
by Scott Macaulay on Apr 15, 2011 -
SEAN COMBS GIVES SXSW FILMMAKER $1,000
Here’s a weird clip — Sean Combs stopped by the taping of Carson Daly’s interview with Bellflower director Evan Glodell at SXSW and wound up handing him $1,000. Both Alicia Van Couvering and I liked this movie at Sundance, so Diddy’s largesse is for a good cause.
by Scott Macaulay on Apr 13, 2011 -
David Leitner Reports Form Rge Final Cut pro X Unveiling
While I was following the premiere of the new Final Cut Pro X at the Las Vegas FCPUG Super Meet Up at NAB Tuesday night via Twitter (and posting some of the best tweets below), David Leitner, d.p. and editor who is reporting for us from the conference, was in the room. I got him on the phone as he left the presentation, and in this audio interview he talks about native editing, the changes in the UI, the “magic” of Apple, the price, the shortcuts built into the app, the new capabilities of the timeline, the color matching, the […]
by Scott Macaulay on Apr 13, 2011 -
Apple Announces New Final Cut Pro At NAB
“Something as revolutionary as the first version of Final Cut Pro when introduced in 1999.” That’s how the new version of Apple’s editing software was announced at the Final Cut Pro User Group Super Meet Up at NAB tonight. The new version of FCP has been hinted at for months, and after several prominent editors were shown a demo — and made to sign NDA’s that apparently only allowed them to leak words like “awesome” — the post production community has been awaiting its official unveiling. Many thought it would appear this summer alongside the release of the new OS, Lion, […]
by Scott Macaulay on Apr 12, 2011 -
WATCH TV ON THE RADIO’S FILM, “NINE TYPES OF LIGHT”
Coinciding with the release today of TV on the Radio’s new album, Nine Types of Light, is a near-feature consisting of a video for each song, all sequenced with an eye towards a longer-form narrative. From the band’s site: Nine Types of Light is as much an album as it is a movie by TV on the Radio. The movie is meant to be a visual re-imagining of the record, and includes a music video for every song on the album. The band personally asked their friends and the filmmakers they admired to help direct the music videos. Tunde Adebimpe, […]
by Scott Macaulay on Apr 12, 2011 -
TRAILER WATCH: “THE COLOR WHEEL”
Described as a “comedic symphony of disappointment and forgiveness,” Alex Ross Perry’s new feature, The Color Wheel, is written by lead Carlen Altman and Perry, and shot in a lovely, low contrast B&W by Sean Price Williams. Some of you may remember Altman for her role in Ry Russo-Young’s You Won’t Miss Me. And you’ll remember Ross from his feature Impoplex of a couple of years ago. According to the website, the film rests “uncomfortably somewhere between the solipsistic, unrepressed id of late Jerry Lewis, the confrontational pseudo-sexual self loathing of Philip Roth, and the black and white motels, diners […]
by Scott Macaulay on Apr 11, 2011
