Authors — Scott Macaulay
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TRAILER WATCH: “THIRD CONTACT” AND “FOOTSTEPS”
Filmmaker Simon Horrocks posted a comment below, and I clicked on his Twitter page. There there was a link to the website for his forthcoming feature, Third Contact, which has an effectively creepy teaser. On Horrocks’ Twitter I found a link to this trailer by Gavin B. James. It’s for a film called Footsteps that stars Brendan Sexton. As I watched (every shot is great), I thought of Polanski, Argento, Melville… FOOTSTEPS trailer from gavinbjames on Vimeo. The film has its N.Y. premiere at Anthology Film Archives on April 27 at 9:15. Tickets are six bucks.
by Scott Macaulay on Apr 10, 2011 -
WHAT’S IN MY INSTAPAPER: SUNDAY MORNING LINKS, 4/10/11
Here are a few articles of interest I’ve stored in my Instapaper. There’s a new website for Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life, and it takes something of a transmedia approach. Chuck Tryon explains: As you enter the website, it invites you to follow one of two forking paths, the father’s way or the mother’s way, while a haunting, almost mournful score plays in the background. Once you choose, you encounter a split screen with half the screen filled by a semi-circle of video clips and the other a white space with some cryptic text that evokes a moral parable. […]
by Scott Macaulay on Apr 10, 2011 -
R.I.P, SIDNEY LUMET
by Scott Macaulay on Apr 9, 2011
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Final Cut Pro and The Road To NAB
Okay, I’m not on the road to NAB… but David Leitner is, and he’ll be filing reports from the conference here at Filmmaker. Look for his pieces beginning tomorrow or Monday. There are other sites to follow as well. Koo will be attending NAB for the first time and posting interviews, write-ups and news over at No Film School. Phillip Bloom will be attending as wIll Vincent Laforet. For many, the big news will be (the rumored) announcement by Apple of the new Final Cut Pro. If you’re not following all the tech blogs, here’s the low-down: at the last […]
by Scott Macaulay on Apr 9, 2011 -
DAVID GORDON GREEN ON “YOUR HIGHNESS”
“By making this movie, David Gordon Green and Danny McBride have done what all of us have dreamed of doing since we too fantasized about making movies as adolescents. They have used their current success to truly test the boundaries of what they can get away with, and they’ve done it at a time when the Hollywood industry is as timid and fearful and insecure as it has ever been (which is saying something). They have caged their inner scaredy cats and swung for the f**king fence to produce something on a grand scale that has no direct precedent (or […]
by Scott Macaulay on Apr 8, 2011 -
TRAILER WATCH: KIRSTEN DUNST IN LARS VON TRIER’S “MELANCHOLIA”
The trailer is both gorgeous and slightly perplexing — and after Mike Cahill’s Another Earth, seems to be continuing a trend of arthouse psychological planet movies. In truth, I can’t wait for this this new, presumably Cannes-bound pic from Lars Von Trier. Melancholia from Zentropa on Vimeo.
by Scott Macaulay on Apr 8, 2011 -
LCD SOUNDSYSTEM LIVE FROM MADISON SQUARE GARDEN
I just figured out I can embed this… Their last NYC show. Wish I was there… but running this through my PS3 to my TV is not bad. (If you don’t see the video, click the headline above.) UPDATE: Sorry I didn’t see the show live; it was amazing. The live stream was surprisingly good, though. Here’s a clip — Arcade Fire guesting on backing vocals for “North American Scum.” SECOND UPDATE: Here’s the whole show. Thank you, LCD Soundsystem and Pitchfork.
by Scott Macaulay on Apr 2, 2011 -
REBECCA BLACK IN HELL
Although there are exceptions, I try to avoid pop-culture ephemera here on the ol’ Filmmaker blog. So there’s been no Rebecca Black, although I’ve been as bemused (and annoyed) as the rest of you. But this video appropriation is pretty wack. The band is Cynical Mass.
by Scott Macaulay on Apr 2, 2011 -
SARAH PALIN DEFENDS FILM TAX INCENTIVES
In my review of 2010 in film, appearing in the Winter issue of Filmmaker soon to depart newsstands, I predicted controversy in 2011 over state film tax credit and incentive programs. That controversy has today landed on an unlikely target: Sarah Palin. First, here’s what I wrote: In December, Wall Street analyst Meredith Whitney made waves when she predicted a wave of municipal bond defaults, highlighting the perilous financial position of recession-strapped state and local governments. Indeed, independent filmmakers might find their beloved film incentive and rebate programs impacted in 2011. The seeds of this began in late 2010, with […]
by Scott Macaulay on Mar 30, 2011 -
Blank City, Blank Generation
Here’s a brand new clip from Celine Danhier’s essential documentary on the wildly creative New York No Wave film scene of the early 1980s, Blank City. Appearing here are Steve Buscemi, Amos Poe, Vivienne Dick, and others, and clips feature the Talking Heads, Eric Mitchell’s The Way it Is, and more. The movie opens April 6; for more visit the website. And watch this space for an interview with Danhier. And here’s the trailer, which features shots from my favorite movie of this era, Underground USA Blank City Official Trailer from Celine Danhier on Vimeo. .
by Scott Macaulay on Mar 28, 2011
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