Filmmaking
Filmmaking
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MIRANDA JULY AT SUNDANCE ’11
In our first video interview from the 2011 Sundance Film Festival we sit down with Miranda July to talk about her latest film, The Future.
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PARK CITY CRITIC’S NOTEBOOK #1: WOMEN IN TROUBLE
On the night the latest edition of the Sundance Film Festival kicked off, I was approached by a man in a beat-up looking bubble coat and slacks three thousand miles away in a Crown Heights, Brooklyn laundromat. He extended his hand, in which he was holding six plastic sheets with DVDs in them, and tersely said, “Movies.” I looked down at the half-a-dozen bootleg discs in his hand, most of which were sequels to “urban” thrillers I had never heard of in the first place. “I’m good,” I brusquely whispered, causing him to saunter off into the fluorescent hum and […]
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The Future Director Miranda July
Known as a West coast performance and video artist in the decade before her 2005 award-winning debut feature, Me and You and Everyone We Know, Miranda July seems to jump effortlessly from one medium to another. Her collection of short stories — No One Belongs Here More Than You — won the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award in 2007, and more recently she designed an interactive sculpture garden that was on view in the 2009 Venice Biennale before moving to Union Square this past summer. At this point, there are very few career moves for Miranda July that would […]
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Sasha Grey Melts With You
Below we posted four teasers from Mark Pellington’s Sundance feature, I Melt with You. They consisted of the male leads, and now counterpoint is provided by Sasha Grey.
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GREETINGS FROM PARK CITY
Jamie Stuart went out this morning and took these beautiful shots from our condo. Keep an eye out in the coming days for videos by Stuart from the fest on our Sundance page.
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CULT COINCIDENCE? OR SUNDANCE TRUTH REVEALED
There are four films at Sundance that venture, at least nominally, into the world of cults. Cult recovery (MARTHA MARCY MAY MARLENE), cult membership (HIGHER GROUND), cult discovery (THE SOUND OF MY VOICE), and cult leadership (RED STATE.) But as the crowds swell in Park City, as bus load after bus load of excited devotees alight, something is clear: there are an awful lot of identical grey sweaters, blue lanyards, knit hats and striped scarves. Together but alone, the committed stand in line for days, freezing cold, blind with hope.
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SUNDANCE: PASTS, PRESENT AND FUTURE
I was about half way through my monster preview of this year’s Sundance Film Festival when I stopped. There’s just an awful lot I’m looking forward to this year — way more than I’m able practically to see and perhaps more than you want to read about. Also, I was having a hard time writing about the individual films because, in many cases, I know too much about them. There are a ton of “25 New Faces” in the fest, people we’ve been following for years. Several filmmakers who went through the IFP’s Narrative Lab, of which I’m a part, […]
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BANKSY WINS TOP PRIZE AT CINEMA EYE HONORS
At an awards ceremony at the Museum of the Moving Image in Queens, Cinema Eye handed out honors to the best of this year’s documentary films. The top award, the Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Filmmaking, when to Banksy’s Exit Through the Gift Shop, produced by Jaime D’Cruz. Laura Poitras was named Outstanding Director for The Oath, and Jeff Malmberg Outstanding Debut for his Marwencol. Matt Porterfield’s Putty Hill won the first Filmmaker-sponsored Heterodox Award. One of the most moving moments of the night was a tribute to editor Karen Schmeer, who was killed last year in a hit-and-run, and one […]
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I Melt With You Freakout Clips
Save a few careful trailers and some hushed pre-festival press screenings, most producers are iffy about letting any actual footage into the world before their Sundance premiere. Music video veteran and ARLINGTON ROAD director Mark Pellington’s new movie is making a small and tantalizing exception with very brief clips of normally kind and comic actors losing it. JEREMY PIVEN RUBS HIS FACE IN ANGUISH THOMAS JANE ROLLS DOWN A HILL AND SCREAMS ROB LOWE SPEAKS POETRY, MAY OR MAY NOT HAVE A TERMINAL ILLNESS?
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THE CINEMA EYE/FILMMAKER HETERODOX AWARD
Definition of HETERODOX 1: contrary to or different from an acknowledged standard, a traditional form, or an established religion : unorthodox, unconventional 2: holding unorthodox opinions or doctrines — Merriam Webster Dictionary There’s a funny responsibility that comes with inaugurating an award. That’s what I discovered during the creation of the first Cinema Eye Heterodox Award, sponsored by Filmmaker. The award will be announced tonight along with all the other prizes at Cinema Eye’s Museum of the Moving Image ceremony, and if you haven’t heard, here’s an excerpt from the press release: “Filmmakers have always been at the forefront of […]
