Filmmaker Videos
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Brit Marling’s Georgetown Convocation Speech: On Not Going it Alone
“When a group of people get together and decide to do something, strange and mysterious things can happen,” said writer and actress Brit Marling as she delivered the 2013 Georgetown University Senior Convocation speech. The Georgetown alum reflected on her years at Georgetown and the friends and future directors she met there — Mike Cahill and Zal Batmanglij. She describes moving to L.A. with them and not becoming successful until the three decided to stop trying to “break in” and just make work. “If I can tell you anything of value, it’s that the most important thing you do from […]
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Trailer Watch: David Lowery’s Ain’t Them Bodies Saints
Debuting today is the first trailer for David Lowery’s Ain’t Them Bodies Saints, which premiered at Sundance, is currently in Cannes, and will be out through IFC on August 16. Though I’ve already seen the film twice, this trailer beautifully captures the gorgeous lyricism of Lowery’s 1970s-set tale of outlaw lovers and makes me right away want to revisit it once more.
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Trailer Watch: Alejandro Jodorowsky’s The Dance of Reality
Earlier today Scott wrote about Jodorowsky’s Dune, the Cannes doc about the legendary mystical auteur’s famous failed attempt to adapt Frank Herbert’s sci-fi novel for the big screen, so now is a perfect time to post the trailer for the director’s new film, which is also having its world premiere on the French Riviera. The Dance of Reality is Jodorowsky’s first film since 1990, but the 23-year layoff does not seem to have dulled the director’s visual flair, sense of the bizarre or, well, general weirdness. This trailer has French rather than English subtitles, but the images more than speak for […]
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Cannes 2013: First Clips from Gray’s The Immigrant and Saulnier’s Blue Ruin
Another day, another bunch of clips from U.S. indies playing at Cannes. Above there is a quick snippet, featuring Marion Cotillard and Jeremy Renner, from James Gray’s period drama The Immigrant (previously called Lowlife). The Weinstein Company will be putting out the film (also starring Gray regular Joaquin Phoenix) later this year and, barring terrible reviews from Cannes critics, it should be a 2013 awards contender. Below are a teaser trailer and a clip from Jeremy Saulnier’s second feature, Blue Ruin, which looks incredibly compelling and has the potential to establish the director (who mostly plies his trade as a […]
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Trailer Watch: Calvin Reeder’s The Rambler
I sadly missed Calvin Reeder’s The Rambler when it played at Sundance this January, but the film is having a theatrical release starting June 7 (at the reRun Theater!) so I will be checking it out very soon. This first trailer for the film certainly has whetted my appetite even more, and confirms just how crazy and out there Reeder’s movie really is.
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Cannes 2013: First Clips from Payne’s Nebraska and Jarmusch’s Only Lovers Left Alive
Two of the big U.S. films playing at Cannes this year — Alexander Payne’s black-and-white dramedy Nebraska and Jim Jarmusch’s vampire flick Only Lovers Left Alive — have both released clips today. Above, from Nebraska, father and son Bruce Dern and Will Forte are joined by a weaselly Stacy Keach, and below you can check out two short bursts from Jarmusch’s movie, featuring leads Tilda Swinton, Tom Hiddleston, Mia Wasikowska and Anton Yelchin. We’ll have more on both films here on the Filmmaker website once they have screened on the Croisette.
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Trailer Watch: Ari Folman’s The Congress
Ari Folman’s excellent animated doc Waltz with Bashir was a hit at Cannes five years ago, and the Israeli director’s back on the Croisette this year with The Congress. The first trailer just hit and it looks like as bold and inventive a film as one would expect from Folman, a mixture of Body Mind Change Labs and Charlie Kaufman, but with animation in there too. I’m very interested to learn more once it premieres.
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David Foster Wallace’s This is Water Turns Viral Video
The L.A.-based production house The Glossary created this homage to writer David Foster Wallace, condensing and illustrating his celebrated Kenyon College commencement speech into nine or so minutes — and scoring over two million YouTube views in the process. Comprised of director Matthew Freidell and producers Allison Freidell and Jeremy Dunning, producer, The Glossary self-funded this video without obtaining rights to Wallace’s audio. In an interview with Ad Week, the trio describe the video as “a passion project” and say that “sometimes it’s better to ask for forgiveness than permission.” And while the video was prompted by Matthew’s love of […]
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Sun Don’t Shine Director Amy Seimetz on the Casey Anthony Trial
Sun Don’t Shine, Amy Seimetz’s sun-blasted neo-noir opening today in New York at Cinema Village, stars Kate Lyn Sheil and Kentucker Audley as a couple, Crystal and Leo, on the run in steamy, sweaty Florida. Leo loves Crystal, and he’s not going to let the body in the trunk of their car get between them. Shot strikingly with a rough-hewn style by Jay Keitel and anchored by two powerful performances, the film owes as much to Barbara Loden’s seminal Wanda as it does to noir classics like They Live By Night. Sun Don’t Shine is acutely aware of the ways […]
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The Making of The Reluctant Fundamentalist
Courtesy of our friends at IFC Films, Filmmaker has posted a short documentary about The Reluctant Fundamentalist on our YouTube page. The film, which opens tomorrow in NYC and LA, tells the story of Changez (Riz Ahmed), a Pakistani man whose life in America was inexorably altered by 9/11. At the time of the World Trade Center attacks, Changez was a fresh Princeton grad seeking his fortune on Wall Street and, with his American girlfriend Erica (Kate Hudson) at his side, the American Dream seemed imminent. But following the attacks, a cultural divide opens between the couple and Changez’s life turns for […]
