Filmmaker Videos
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Now Online: 25 New Face Ian Harnarine’s Doubles With Slight Pepper
At the DCTV short film panel I hosted a few weeks ago, I was chatting with Ian Harnarine, one of our 25 New Faces of 2012, and 2011 New Face Jason Sondhi, who runs Short of the Week and Staff Picks at Vimeo. So I’m wondering if it’s a coincidence that Harnarine’s excellent Trinidad-set family drama Doubles with Slight Pepper (the feature version of which is in IFP’s Emerging Storytellers program next month) has just debuted on Vimeo (where it’s a Staff Pick, naturally) and is the current pick on Short of the Week. Either way, make sure to check […]
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Werner Herzog’s Texting and Driving Doc From One Second To The Next
Werner Herzog turned 70 last year, but he’s certainly not slowing down and indeed he seems to be more prolific than ever. The latest film he’s made is surprising, to say the least: a short, 35-minute PSA doc to support the It Can Wait campaign against texting and driving. Interestingly, there’s absolutely no mention of Herzog on the site, and it’s only when you start watching From One Second To The Next that you find out who the man behind it is…
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Gordon Willis on Lighting Marlon Brando in The Godfather
Gordon Willis is one of the truly great cinematographers of the second half of the 20th century, the man responsible for shooting everything from Woody Allen’s Manhattan and Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather to such lesser-known (but also brilliantly lensed) movies such as Hal Ashby’s The Landlord and Alan Arkin’s Little Murders. In the second of our ongoing series of exclusive Craft Truck videos, Willis talks about the approach he took to lighting Marlon Brando in the iconic opening scene of The Godfather.
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Trailer Watch: Spike Jonze’s Her
Four years after 2009’s Where the Wild Things Are, Spike Jonze returns with his fourth feature, Her, starring Joaquin Phoenix as a reclusive writer who develops an ever closer bond with the personalized operating system, “Samantha” (voiced by Scarlett Johansson), tailored to take care of all his needs. Featuring a strong female supporting cast that includes Amy Adams, Rooney Mara and Olivia Wilde, Her is the first feature from an original screenplay by Jonze and it will be interesting to see what a film fully constructed in his mind looks like. In this trailer, Her appears sweet and touching, but I’m […]
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Jamie Stuart Goes Backstage Baby with Jay Z
Filmmaker Jamie Stuart went backstage on Mark Romanek’s Picasso Baby shoot and created this short video capturing the lines, gear and space leading up to the rap artist’s performance art event. Glimpses include Marina Abramovic, Judd Apatow, Jim Jarmusch, Alan Cumming and others. Check it out above.
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Jay Z’s Picasso Baby, directed by Mark Romanek
Here’s Mark Romanek’s first music video in a decade or so, a capturing of Jay Z’s recent performance art event at Pace Gallery, where he performed the single “Picasso Baby” for six hours straight. Shot by 25 New Face Jody Lee Lipes (Martha Marcy May Marlene), it features an all-star cast of participatory spectators, including, first and foremost, artist Marina Abramovic, whose own The Artist is Present performance it was clearly inspired by. Others include Judd Apatow, Adam Driver, Jim Jarmusch, Marilyn Minter, Rose Lee Goldberg, Fab Five Freddy, Rosie Perez (dancing!), George Condo, Jemima Kirke, Alan Cumming and Radical […]
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Trailer Watch: J.C. Chandor’s All is Lost
I’m very excited to see J.C. Chandor’s follow-up to Margin Call, the sea-bound one-hander starring Robert Redford, All is Lost. The film comes out October 18 through Roadside Attractions, and at this point seems to be a lock to get Redford a Best Actor Oscar nomination. Scott saw the film at Cannes, and below is some of what he wrote about it for the Filmmaker newsletter: The film opens as an adrift shipping container hits Redford’s sailboat somewhere in the middle of the Indian Sea. Its hull punctured, the boat takes on water, quickly awakening a sleeping Redford. That’s minute two […]
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Cinematographer Andrij Parekh on Lighting Ryan Gosling
Starting this week, every Thursday the Filmmaker website will be hosting exclusive videos courtesy of Craft Truck, a new website which hosts “conversations with the world’s best cinematographers, editors, technology companies and more from the world of film and television.” To kick off this series, acclaimed d.p. Andrij Parekh talks about his approach to lighting and how this impacts on the performances of actors, such as Ryan Gosling, who he shot in Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden’s Half Nelson and Derek Cianfrance’s Blue Valentine and The Place Beyond the Pines.
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Trailer Watch: First Look at David O. Russell’s American Hustle
David O. Russell went on GMA this morning to talk about his December release, American Hustle, a fictionalized version of the Abscam operation, and share a teaser for the film. A Black List favorite from 2010 which was formerly called American Bullshit, Russell’s movie reunites him with Amy Adams and Christian Bale from The Fighter and Jennifer Lawrence, Bradley Cooper and Robert De Niro from Silver Linings Playbook, while Jeremy Renner, Michael Peña and Louis CK also appear. This certainly looks like it will be a lot of fun.
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Trailer Watch: Hannah Fidell’s A Teacher
Just released is this fine trailer for the debut feature of 2o12 “25 New Face” Hannah Fidell, A Teacher. (It was also produced by another 2012 alum, Kim Sherman, and shot by Andrew Droz Palermo, who was just selected for our 2013 “25 New Faces” list.) I first saw the film in rough cut over a year ago, and I’m excited to see it go out into the world when O’scope release it in September.
