Filmmaker Videos
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Kevin B. Lee’s Top 12 Films of 2012
He’s one of the sharpest film minds out there, and knows how to fashion great video essays. Here’s Kevin B. Lee pondering his favorite 12 of ’12.
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Trailer Watch: James Franco & Travis Matthews’ Interior. Leather Bar
One of the more fascinating projects in the Sundance New Frontiers section this year is Interior. Leather Bar, by writer/director/actor James Franco and director Travis Matthews. Here’s the synopsis: In order to avoid an X rating, 40 minutes of gay S&M footage was rumored to be cut and destroyed from the 1980 film, Cruising. Inspired by the mythology of this controversial film, filmmakers James Franco and Travis Mathews collaborate to imagine their own lost footage. Amid the backdrop of a frenzied film set, actor Val Lauren reluctantly agrees to take the lead in the film. Val is repeatedly forced to […]
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Trailer Watch: Pablo Larrain’s No
A hit at the Cannes and New York film festivals, a selection at Sundance next month and Chile’s official entry at the Academy Awards, Pablo Larrain’s No is a rousing and entertaining piece of cinema that details the “No” referendum campaign that aimed to unseat Chilean dictator General Augusto Pinochet in 1988. Out theatrically on February 15 through Sony Pictures Classics, the film got its first trailer today.
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25 New Face Rosario Garcia-Montero Goes for the Oscar with The Bad Intentions
When we put assemble our 25 New Faces list each year, we like to play the long game. We’re not looking for people who are going to break in just a few months at Sundance, although some inevitably do. For the most part, we’re trying to be ahead of the curve — sometimes extremely ahead of the curve. We want to find people who aren’t on all the tracking lists yet so we can claim our bragging rights years later. One of the long calls we made was on Rosario-Garcia Montero, selected for our list in 2004 on the basis […]
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Sheldon Candis explores The Subculture of Real Life Superheroes
We’ve seen the RLSH phenomenon explored in dramatic films like Kick-Ass and Super, but now Filmmaker 25 New Face director Sheldon Candis looks at it in the form of a documentary short. Here, executive produced by Ashton Kutcher for Thrash Lab’s Subculture Club series and based on San Diego’s XTreme Justice League, is The Subculture of Real Life Superheroes. From the press release: “Superheroes are for both children and adults. With so many varying characters there is at least one superhero everyone can take a liking to. We heard about these guys that live their lives playing the role of […]
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Coffee and Celluloid Looks at the Panasonic GH3
At his excellent filmmaking blog Coffee and Celluloid, Joey Daoud posted this short video review of the just-released Panasonic GH3. From the sounds of it, this seems like a great next version of the camera, with better controls, sturdier construction, Quicktime recording instead of just AVCHD, and a better bit rate. You can read Daoud’s quick thoughts on the camera here and watch the video above.
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Cary Fukunaga Explores Relationships and Landscapes in Kenya
Filmmaker Cary Fukunaga recently traveled to Kenya to shoot what is described as “a trailer with no feature attached” for the fashion brand, Maiyet. Nowness has run an excerpt, and describes the project here. Against the arresting backdrop of the East African bush, Haley Bennett portrays a young woman at a crossroads in life in this daring film by the critically acclaimed director Cary Fukunaga, commissioned by the distinguished fashion brand Maiyet. “We showed up in Africa with a one-line idea of what we were trying to do,” says the young auteur, whose cast and crew spent three days in […]
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Critic David Ehrlich’s Top 25 Movies of 2012
Here’s a great top 25 films of 2012 and a really great video to showcase them all. I’m happy to say that David Ehrlich and I agree on our favorite (nay, the flat out best) movie of the year, but I won’t tip my hand to say what it is as you should really watch this video in its entirety. (And congrats to Girl Walk // All Day, the first film Filmmaker/IFP programmed at the reRun Theater, which is number 10 on this list.)
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Trailer Watch: Shane Carruth’s Upstream Color
The follow-up to his Sundance Grand Prize-winning cult classic, Primer, Shane Carruth’s Upstream Color is one of the most-anticipated films of Sundance 2013. Here’s the just-released teaser trailer.
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Trailer Watch: Matt Porterfield’s I Used to Be Darker
201o “25 New Faces” pick Matt Porterfield, the writer/director of Putty Hill, will premiere his third feature, I Used to Be Darker, at Sundance in about six weeks, and the trailer for the movie just dropped. The synopsis from the SFF press release describes it as follows: “A runaway seeks refuge with her aunt and uncle in Baltimore, only to find their marriage ending and her cousin in crisis. In the days that follow, the family struggles to let go while searching for things to sustain them.”
