Authors — Scott Macaulay

TRAILER WATCH: ADAM PENDLETON’S “BAND”

Artist Adam Pendleton has created a new large-scale video installation at New York’s The Kitchen inspired by Jean-Luc Godard’s Rolling Stones’ deconstruction, Sympathy for the Devil. It features the band Deerhoof and runs through December 23. From the catalog copy: This solo exhibition presents the U.S. premiere of Adam Pendleton’s new large scale video installation. Pendleton’s BAND is a form and content refashioning of Jean-Luc Godard’s Sympathy for the Devil, which stands in open contrast to the earlier film. Modeling Godard’s belief that radical formal complexity can undermine the bourgeois logic implicit to narrative filmmaking, BAND tracks the indie-rock band […]
by Scott Macaulay on Nov 27, 2010
TRAILER WATCH: “I LIKE YOU”

Coming in over the transom is this trailer for I Like You, a film by Jamie Heinrich. Heinrich hails from Reno, Nevada, and, based on this trailer, the self-described micro-budget film boasts some pretty striking cinematography and a good deal of heart. A few sites seem to have been given an early look. From Todd Brown at Twitch: The sort of naturalistic indie drama that Gus Van Sant and Larry Clark got their start with, I Like You is the feature debut not only of director / editor Heinrich and star Benna but also, seemingly, of just about everybody else […]
by Scott Macaulay on Nov 27, 2010
LAUREL NAKADATE’S PORN STAR POETRY

Artist and filmmaker Laurel Nakadate, whose The Wolf Knife is one of this year’s nominees for our “Best Film Not Playing at a Theater Near You” Gotham Award, has a new short, Untitled, in which porn stars Kate Kastle, Stacey Dollar, Robbye Bentley, Lucky Starr, and Stacy Adams read the poetry of Dora Malech. From HTML Giant’s Jackie Wang: In the video Untitled, Laurel has porn actresses read poems by Dora Malech. The interplay between Dora’s poems and the premise of the video is brilliant. The poems grapple with the tension between corporeality and disembodied intellect—being pure body or pure […]
by Scott Macaulay on Nov 26, 2010
A SHORT FILM FOR “REQUIEM FOR A DREAM”

The Requiem 102 project, in which various critics, writers, and filmmakers (mine is here) dissect individual frames of Darren Aronofsky’s Requiem for a Dream, is now in its third week, and the quality of submissions is both amazing and diverse. The latest is photographer Bruce Livingstone, who has made a short narrative commenting on the film’s early love scene. Reading the Love Scene in “Requiem for a Dream” from Bruce Livingston on Vimeo. Another good one: novelist and short-story writer Elizabeth Hand’s “potent blast to the nervous system.”
by Scott Macaulay on Nov 26, 2010
BLACK FRIDAY DEALS FOR FILMMAKERS

Black Friday — the shopping day after Thankgiving that is supposed to tip retailers’ balance sheets into the black — has been a staple of holiday consumerism for years, but I’m not sure I ever remember it quite like this. Not only did chain stores open in the dead of night this year, but every small, specialty and online dealer I buy from has flooded my in-box with discount offers. After this email deluge I feel a little silly that I didn’t move up Filmmaker‘s annual subscription deal a week to take advantage of all the shopping frenzy. Oh well, […]
by Scott Macaulay on Nov 26, 2010
HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

From all of us at Filmmaker, best wishes for a happy Thanksgiving to all of our readers. We hope everyone has a great and safe holiday, and we’ll be back tomorrow and into the weekend with news on the Gotham Awards as well as all of our regular content
by Scott Macaulay on Nov 25, 2010
IS AMAZON STUDIOS A THREAT? JIM MCKAY AND I DISCUSS

After posting last week about the new Amazon Studios, director Jim McKay and I have had an email discussion about this new crowdsourced development entity. There’s been much criticism — from me but many others around the web — of the minimal protections given writers, who grant Amazon an 18-month free option and the right to have the tech giant’s online community give input to and even rewrite their original work. (Read my earlier post here.) Jim isn’t as alarmist as some about the new venture; his take is rather nuanced. Here’s our conversation, reprinted with permission. McKay: I liked […]
by Scott Macaulay on Nov 23, 2010
PLAY PING PONG WITH SUSAN SARANDON FOR THE IFP

As the IFP’s annual Gotham Awards approach, the organization has launched a charity auction containing, I have to say, some pretty cool items to bid on. Visits to the sets of True Blood and Bored to Death, for example, including meetings with their creators, Alan Ball and Jonathan Ames. A Boardwalk Empire set visit with Steve Buscemi. Tickets to Spider-Man on Broadway and a backstage meet with Julie Taymor. Theater going with Philip Seymour Hoffman. Fishing with Ed Burns. And, yes, ping pong with Susan Sarandon. Of course, proceeds support the IFP and its mission of supporting independent filmmakers through […]
by Scott Macaulay on Nov 23, 2010
BILLY BOB THORNTON ON TODAY’S SCREENPLAYS

Billy Bob Thornton steps off the road and learns what’s been going on in Hollywood for the last few years….
by Scott Macaulay on Nov 23, 2010
SPIKE JONZE ARCADE FIRE VIDEO, “THE SUBURBS”

Taken from the short film “Scenes from The Suburbs,” this is shot by Greg Fraser and edited by Jeff Buchanan with additional video editing by Patrick Colman. Produced by Vince Landay and Arcade Fire. Directed by Spike Jonze. Watch until the end.
by Scott Macaulay on Nov 22, 2010

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