Authors — Scott Macaulay

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Stephen M. Duesner at the always reliable Pitchfork reviews the soundtrack to Todd Haynes’s I’m Not There. (It gets an 8.0.) Here’s the lede: I’m Not There is director Todd Haynes’ third music biopic, after Superstar in 1987 and Velvet Goldmine in 1998. In each of those films, the main subject– the celebrity at the center– has been altered or is somehow absent: Superstar recounted Karen Carpenter’s death from anorexia with only Barbie dolls, which continually prevents it from being officially released. Velvet Goldmine traces David Bowie’s rise and fall throughout the 1970s, but the singer threatened to sue and […]
by Scott Macaulay on Oct 30, 2007
THOSE AMAZING DUTCH!

Steve Buscemi’s Interview, which Filmmaker featured on its cover last issue, opened in London this week and there’s been some U.K. press about the movie and its American shoot. And while I don’t consider myself a reflexive stars-and-stripes-forever rah-rah’er, I found the comments in this Guardian piece entitled “The Final Cut” by the slain Dutch director Theo Van Gogh’s “creative consultant” Doesjka van Hoogdalem about shooting in American both naive and annoying. Much of the piece is devoted to van Hoogdalem’s wide-eyed wonder at the wacky wastefulness of U.S. filmmaking. From the piece: However, maintaining the authenticity of the Van […]
by Scott Macaulay on Oct 29, 2007
NYC FILM OFFICE ISSUES NEW PROPOSED SHOOTING RULES

The Mayor’s Office of Film, Theatre and Broadcasting today issued proposed new rules for the permitting of film shoots in the city of New York. If you remember back several dozen internet news cycles (like around late July), an outcry arose when the Mayor’s Office issued specific new shooting rules that seemed to many to disregard First Amendment rights, legitimate news gathering needs, the needs of tourists, and the working practices of artisanal street photographers and experimental filmmakers. Protests were had, everyone from no-budget filmmakers to Keith Olbermann chimed in, and a grass roots group, Picture NY, organized the opposition. […]
by Scott Macaulay on Oct 29, 2007
BICYCLING AT NIGHT

In time for Halloween is this spooky music video for the band Bat for Lashes and their song “What’s a Girl to Do.” It’s a great addition to the “choreographed one-shot wonder” school of pop promos, and it was directed by Dougal Wilson.
by Scott Macaulay on Oct 26, 2007
WHO IS PABLO?

The appealingly designed, crisply minimal Motion Design site describes itself as “a research blog on the subject of Motion Design. It serves as a means to discuss, share and develop ideas that will be used for a feature length documentary film.” I came across the site because it just posted an article about Pablo, director Richard Goldgewicht and producer Jeremy Goldscheider’s animated documentary on title designer Pablo Ferro. (You may remember this film and these filmmakers — they were featured in our 25 New Faces this year.) From the piece: Back in March of this year, a short teaser popped […]
by Scott Macaulay on Oct 25, 2007
DOWNLOADABLE BURNS

David Halbfinger has a noteworthy piece in The New York Times today revealing that Ed Burns will release his new film, Purple Violets, a $4 million indie production starring Burns, Debra Messing, and Selma Blair, exclusively on iTunes. From the piece: When Edward Burns’s latest romantic comedy, “Purple Violets,” had its premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival in April, it drew positive reviews, but only lukewarm offers from movie distributors. Mr. Burns, the director of indie favorites like “The Brothers McMullen” and “She’s the One,” but whose latest movies have not done as well, knew from experience how that story […]
by Scott Macaulay on Oct 24, 2007
SIDNEY LUMET AND CINEMA’S CORPSE

It seems as if Jamie Stuart has finished fumigating his new apartment and has gone back to making videos. In this case, it’s something relatively straightforward: his interview with Sidney Lumet, a snippet of which you saw in his earlier NYFF piece, but this time streamed unedited. In the piece, Lumet talks about never wanting to shoot on film again…
by Scott Macaulay on Oct 23, 2007
STOP-LOSS TRAILER ONLINE

There’s a trailer up for Kim Peirce’s Stop-Loss, and I think it looks pretty great. The film doesn’t come out until the Spring, so, until then, click here. (Hat tip, Ain’t It Cool News.)
by Scott Macaulay on Oct 23, 2007
HEARTS OF DARKNESS REDUX

I walked into the Filmmaker office yesterday and Ben Crossley-Marra and Jason Guerrasio were bent over a computer monitor, excited to come across the news that Fax Bahr, George Hickenlooper and Eleanor Coppola’s documentary Hearts of Darkness is set for a DVD release from Paramount Home Entertainment. As our post didn’t include the studio and director Hickenlooper is a friend of Jeff Wells and a regular poster at Hollywood Elsewhere, Wells posted a skeptical post about the release, wondering why he hadn’t heard it about from George first. Hickenlooper posts in the comments thread below Wells’s piece the news that […]
by Scott Macaulay on Oct 19, 2007
DOLL PARTS

I’m Not There director Todd Haynes couldn’t be at the Northwest Film Center in Portland for a retrospective screening of his classic film Safe, so he sent the film’s heroine, Carol White, instead. (Hat tip: Film Experience blog.) And here is the trailer for the actual movie:
by Scott Macaulay on Oct 19, 2007

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