Authors — Scott Macaulay
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New Harmony Korine/ Die Antwoord Film!
Umshimi Wam (“Bring Me My Machine Gun”) premiered at SXSW last night, and now we have it for you here. It’s the Badlands of suburban South African wheelchair rap-rave. Check it out.
by Scott Macaulay on Mar 16, 2011 -
FEMALE FRIGHT DIRECTORS AND LIVE TWEETING HORROR AT SXSW
I like live tweeting panels if the panels hold up to the process, and yesterday’s “Directing the Dead 2,” here at SXSW, did. (The funny thing about live tweeting is that people entering mid-stream can become confused — as happened yesterday, I realized, as I tweeted Vikram Gandhi’s comments on religion at the Q&A for his Kumare. I’d write, “Ghandi” before his comments, and several people tweeted me Jesus quotes or passages from the Bible back.) The panelists were James Wan (Insidious), Simon Rumley (Little Deaths), Ben Wheatley (Kill List), Jacob Eisener (Hobo with a Shotgun), Nicolas Goldbart (Phase Seven), […]
by Scott Macaulay on Mar 15, 2011 -
SXSW SNAPS, PART TWO
The Innkeepers‘ star Sara Paxton, glam at the Driskill Hotel premiere afterparty. In Ti West’s excellent horror picture, wearing a red hoodie and blue jeans she plays a tomboyish hotel clerk and amateur ghost hunter. A fantastic idea — as part of its Film Design Awards, SXSW hosts a poster design competition, displaying all the entries in lobby gallery. Myth of the American Sleepover producer Adele Romanski and Visit Films sales agent Ryan Kampe at the Kodak Filmmaker’s Brunch. Forget barbecue. Grilled cheese is the food of Austin. The sandwich here is from The Big Cheese, inside the convention hall. […]
by Scott Macaulay on Mar 15, 2011 -
SXSW SNAPS, DAY ONE
The first day at SXSW, the 4th floor. “What’s this line for?” I asked the woman standing next to me. “No idea,” she said. But it wasn’t a line for anything. The crowd was just there. And as I pushed my way through, it slowly started to dissipate. It was like one of those highway slowdowns, where the memory of congestion lingers after whatever caused it. If you’re going to sponsor a festival, at least do something useful, like this rolling Samsung display of panel times, schedule changes and social media activity. When you check into SXSW, you’re given three […]
by Scott Macaulay on Mar 12, 2011 -
RODDY BOGAWA ON “TAKEN BY STORM”
Excuse the inconsistent audio levels, a few bad edits, and the boom-y sound of some of this, but I decided to simply take the recording of my interview with Roddy Bogawa about his new doc, Taken by Storm, and run it as an audio podcast. I may try and do some more, and if they get smooth enough, start uploading them to iTunes. Taken by Storm is a portrait of artist Storm Thorgerson, who is best known for his work with the graphic design company Hipnosis designing album covers for bands like Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin. His sometimes surreal […]
by Scott Macaulay on Mar 11, 2011 -
J-HORROR CANDID CAMERA
I’ll start switching this blog over to SXSW-related material tomorrow, I promise. For now, here’s a funny TV-show prank involving the most iconic image out of Japanese horror, a hotel corridor, and some unsuspecting guests.
by Scott Macaulay on Mar 10, 2011 -
WIM WENDERS + MIRANDA JULY IN A BERLIN CITY SYMPHONY
As Filmmaker readers know from our Jamie Stuart festival coverage, we prefer cinematic approaches to fest reportage over point-and-shoot talking heads. (Although expect none of the former and more of the latter from me at SXSW this week.) Jamie has his very distinct style, and via Nowness, it’s nice to see another set of filmmakers doing something different with festival coverage. From the site: For today’s exclusive story, NOWNESS contributors and filmmaking partners Carlo Lavagna and Roberto de Paolis set out to chronicle the 61st annual Berlin International Film Festival—and came away with a highly imaginative tribute to the host […]
by Scott Macaulay on Mar 10, 2011 -
“WINNING” — THE GREGORY BROS. DO CHARLIE SHEEN
The Ma-Sheen is Autotuned…
by Scott Macaulay on Mar 9, 2011 -
SXFANTASTIC’S TIM LEAGUE ON 2011’S MIDNIGHT EDITION
Despite their protestations to the contrary, festival programmers are often a competitive bunch, jostling for not only premieres but status. That’s why SXFantastic, now in its third year, is such a welcome event. A collaboration between SXSW and Fantastic Fest, which unspools its own main event in September, SXFantastic brings Fantastic’s genre smarts and midnight-movie acumen to the South By sprawl. The result is a focused section that has been producing its own fan favorites, critical hits and even industry acquisitions. Last year’s successes included Gareth Edwards’ Monsters and the unlikely pick-up A Serbian Film (which just landed the SITGES […]
by Scott Macaulay on Mar 9, 2011 -
HAMMER TO NAIL AT FILMMAKER
When we first launched Filmmaker back in 1992, we had a policy: no reviews. The idea was always that this would be a magazine by filmmakers and for filmmakers, and we wanted our film criticism to be implicitly — and perhaps subtly — embedded in our discussion of film practice. Which isn’t to say that we didn’t appreciate the value of film criticism. I probably owe half my film knowledge to religious readings of J. Hoberman every Wednesday during my college years. It’s just that a) there were plenty of other outlets doing it back then; and b), we wanted […]
by Scott Macaulay on Mar 9, 2011
