Filmmaker Videos
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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.
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The Canyons Star James Deen Tests Google Glass [NSFW]
It’s often been said that the porn industry pioneers practices that independent film later adopts, so it’s not too surprising that adult film star James Deen, who stars opposite Lindsay Lohan next month in Paul Schrader’s The Canyons, has taken part in “The 1st Porn Shot on Google Glass.” (I shouldn’t have to tell you that this video is NSFW.) How soon before indie filmmakers follow suit?
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Trailer Watch: Lana Wilson and Martha Shane’s After Tiller
Lana Wilson and Martha Shane’s After Tiller is one of my favorite films of the year, a profoundly moving, compassionate portrait of late-term abortion providers. It’s a film that is incredibly difficult to encapsulate in a trailer, so even if the above doesn’t grab you I’d strongly suggest you see it anyway. Subscribers can read my interview with Wilson and Shane from the Summer issue of Filmmaker here.
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Trailer Watch: Bryan Cranston and Alice Eve in Tze Chun’s Cold Comes the Night
Tze Chun, a 2007 25 New Face based on his great short, Windowbreaker, appears to have done a 180 follow-up to his first feature, the low-key, character-based drama Children of Invention. Cold Comes the Night stars Breaking Bad‘s Bryan Cranston, rising star Alice Eve and a missing bag of cash. But, note that I wrote “appears” in the above sentence. Last year, Kishori Rajan spoke to Chun about this movie while it was in production, and the director says it’s not entirely unlike his previous work: When his manager sent him as a writing sample a psychological thriller script by […]
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Trailer Watch: 21st Century
With dozens, sometimes hundreds, of press releases landing in my in-box every day, what makes me click on a link to learn more? Usually, it’s not overuse of superlatives. Nonetheless, there was something about this letter from Manhattan Project Films that made me want to watch the trailer: Manhattan Project Films is set to release its latest movie “21st Century”. We invite you to be part of our celebration and witness first hand the beauty and joy of our new cinematic masterpiece. The event promises you the opportunity to enjoy the charming atmosphere of the movie industry, food and drinks, […]
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Trailer Watch: Alfonso Cuarón’s Gravity
Long single takes are some of the most thrilling shots in cinema, and many would argue their thrills are reliant, in part, on the audience’s knowledge that they are choreographed and filmed in real time. But CGI-enabled single takes can be thrilling too, as this amazing trailer for Alfonso Cuarón’s upcoming Gravity proves. The film opens October 4.
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Music Video: Fiona Apple’s Hot Knife, directed by Paul Thomas Anderson
For his first music video in 11 years, Paul Thomas Anderson reunites with his ex, Fiona Apple, for “Hot Knife,” from the singer/songwriter’s The Idler Wheel…. Mixing black-and-white and color, split screen and tight close-ups, the video was, Apple said in an earlier interview, developed with Anderson prior to his shooting of The Master. It’s just been released today; check it out above.
