Harmony Korine’s upcoming Spring Breakers — which is featured in the current issue of Filmmaker — got a French trailer this week. As stated above, it is NSFW which, for a movie like this, seems only right.
Ingrid Jungermann, one half of the team behind The Slope and a “25 New Faces” alum from 2012, has just launched her new very funny web series, F to 7th. It’s a “homoneurotic” sequel of sorts to The Slope, again featuring Jungermann’s screen alter ego Ingrid, and exploring further comic territory that pokes fun at the LGBT community and Park Slopers. The first two episodes are online now and feature guest appearances by Michael Showalter (in “Off-Leash Hours”) and Compliance actress Ashlie Atkinson (in “Tweener”). Go here to check out the show.
At the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, Filmmaker magazine asked a series of directors to talk about the films they were excited about at this year’s event. Here Andrew Sensenig, the actor who plays The Sampler in Shane Carruth’s Upstream Color, offers his recommendations.
At the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, Filmmaker magazine asked a series of directors to talk about the films they were excited about at this year’s event. Here Frances Bodomo, writer/director of the short Boneshaker, offers her recommendation.
At the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, Filmmaker magazine asked a series of directors to talk about the films they were excited about at this year’s event. Here Hannah Fidell, writer/director of A Teacher, talks about the films she is looking forward to seeing.
At the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, Filmmaker magazine asked a series of directors to talk about the films they were excited about at this year’s event. Here James Ponsoldt, director of The Spectacular Now, offers his recommendations.
At the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, Filmmaker magazine asked a series of directors to talk about the films they were excited about at this year’s event. Here Jonas Carpignano, writer/director of the forthcoming feature A Chjàna, offers his recommendations.
David Lowery made our “25 New Faces of Independent Film” in 2011 on the basis of his fantastic short film, Pioneer. Now he’s got the most buzzed-about film at Sundance this year with Ain’t Them Bodies Saints, starring Rooney Mara and Casey Affleck. Here he talks about that film and the journey it took to get there.
James Franco presents Kink, a documentary about the San Francisco BDSM film studio, Kink.com. Director Christina Voros is one of our 25 New Faces and James Franco is… well, he’s James Franco. From the production notes: If porn were high school, they’d be the goth table. Director Christina Voros and producer James Franco pull back the curtain on the fetish empire of Kink.com, the Internet’s largest producer of BDSM content. In a particularly obscure corner of an industry that operates largely out of public view, Kink.com’s directors and models strive for authenticity. In an enterprise often known for exploitative practices, […]
American Hardcore directors Paul Rachman and Steven Blush are back with Lost Rockers, a documentary on great rock ‘n roll performers who have been buried beneath the sands of time. They include Chris Robison, Gloria Jones, David Peel, Bobby Jameson, Evie Sands, Cherry Vanilla, and Gass Wild and Johnny Hodge of the Lightning Raiders. Rachman and Blush have just released this new teaser, and you can read more about the film at its website.