Filmmaker Videos
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Walter Murch Discusses the “Rule of” and the Perfect Cut
Is it emotional? Does it advance the story? Those are two of six questions editor Walter Murch argues that editors must ask themselves for every cut. The other four? That’s the deep stuff. Watch the video to find out. (Hat tip: Cinephilia and Beyond.)
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Zach Wigon’s Someone Else’s Heart Wins Hammer to Nail Short Film Contest
Congratulations to Filmmaker contributor Zach Wigon, who won this month’s Hammer to Nail Short Film Contest with his cyber-age paranoid romance, Someone Else’s Heart. From Michael Tully’s post: Is our increasing dependence on virtual communication deforming the way we interact with others in our real, everyday lives? Isn’t there something inherently strange about all this “how many friends and followers do you have” business of late? While the internet is without question an incredibly useful contribution to our modern world, on the other side of that coin, take a few steps back and watch someone “interacting” with their computer. Whether […]
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Fariha Roisin’s 10 Best of 2012
Leading up to Filmmaker‘s own 2012 Ten Best we are publishing individual lists from some our contributors. Fariha Roisin took part in the Indiewire Critic’s Academy and wrote coverage for us out of the New York Film Festival this year. Here is her 2012 Ten Best, some of which are festival entries not being released until 2013. – SM 1. Beasts of the Southern Wild Undeniably one of the most visceral films I have ever seen. Visually breathtaking and so moving, Hushpuppy’s insight into the world evokes so much imagination and rawness that I couldn’t help but cry and laugh […]
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Holiday Top Ten of 2012…With Eggnog
Tis the season for egg nog, friends, good conversations, video games, and top ten lists. So we put all of it into one post. Ghosts of SWJ past and future get together in this first episode of season two to give us their top tens from 2012. But first a few friends drop by for a drink and to talk about creativity in today’s climate. Check out Bryan’s sites: Bryanbruner.com Loveandrobots.tumblr.com Eric’s Film: American Bomber Movie Happy Holidays! John Top 10 of 2012: Frank Mosley 1. The Comedy 2. Compliance 3. The Master 4. Killing Them Softly 5. Bad Fever […]
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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.
