Filmmaking

FILMMAKER FLASHBACK: SPRING, 1994

Leading up to our 18th birthday, I’ll be revisiting on the blog one issue of Filmmaker a day. Today’s is Spring, 1994. The first ticking clock…. Rose Troche and Guinevere Turner’s Go Fish was our cover story, Spring, 1994, and I think may have been our first original piece of cover photography. Holly Willis’s story was a comprehensive account of the film’s production and sales process, charting the film’s beginnings as a no-budget feature begun alone by Troche and Turner to one produced by Christine Vachon and Tom Kalin and sold by famed producers’ rep John Pierson to Goldwyn in […]

By Scott Macaulay on Aug 8, 2010 Filmmaking
FILMMAKER FLASHBACK: WINTER, 1994

Leading up to our 18th birthday, I’ll be revisiting on the blog one issue of Filmmaker a day. Today’s is Winter, 1994. Today, most of our Filmmaker covers are original photography, but back in the day, we didn’t have the budget and were forced to work with supplied art from distributors. Scott McGehee and David Siegel, who went on to The Deep End, Bee Season, and, most recently, Uncertainty, made their debut with Suture, a formally challenging meta-thriller with a wobbly poster that produced for us a somewhat inscrutable cover. We took their key art, cropped it, colorized it yellow […]

By Scott Macaulay on Aug 7, 2010 Filmmaking
TERRY GILLIAM FILMS ARCADE FIRE AT MADISON SQUARE GARDEN

In case you missed the live concert or live stream….

By Scott Macaulay on Aug 6, 2010 Filmmaking
NEW YORK FILM TAX CREDIT EXTENDED; POST CREDIT ADDED

It’s nice to end the week on some good news. From an email I received from the New York State Governor’s Office of Film and Television: New York State’s Film Production Tax Credit Program has been extended and expanded to provide multi-year support of $420 million per year. New York State also introduces its first free standing post production credit. New York State’s 2010-2011 Executive Budget includes a multi-year agreement to extend and expand New York State’s Film Production Tax Credit Program, sustaining the state’s 30 percent Film Production Credit program for another five years. In addition, a new incentive […]

By Scott Macaulay on Aug 6, 2010 Filmmaking
FILMMAKER FLASHBACK: FALL, 1993

Leading up to our 18th birthday, I’ll be revisiting on the blog one issue of Filmmaker a day. Today’s is Fall, 1993. Peter Bowen interviewed Derek Jarman about his Wittgenstein for our Fall, 1993 cover. Holly Willis interviewed D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus about their doc on the Clinton Presidential campaign, The War Room. And there is still some useful advice in this article by Daniel Einfeld, a producer of the indie hit My LIfe’s in Turnaround, on bartering and production placement. (In the Filmmaker office, this article is kind of infamous for having what is perhaps our worst article […]

By Scott Macaulay on Aug 6, 2010 Filmmaking
NEW BREED L.A. #6: “THE INTEGRITY OF STORY”

Here’s the latest of our videos by Sabi Pictures in collaboration with the Workbook Project on L.A. Film Festival filmmakers and their creative processes. This installment: “The Integrity of Story.” The final episode in this series will be up Monday, so if you haven’t caught up with the others yet, check out the links below. NEW BREED LOS ANGELES – Episode 6 from Sabi Pictures on Vimeo.

By Scott Macaulay on Aug 5, 2010 Filmmaker Videos
FILMMAKER FLASHBACK: SUMMER, 1993

Leading up to our 18th birthday, I’ll be revisiting on the blog one issue of Filmmaker a day. Today’s is Summer, 1993. Summer, 1993 is another issue whose content didn’t make it over to WordPress. Our cover story was Alison Maclean’s Crush. Sande Zeig interviewed Sally Potter about her Orlando, which was just reissued by Sony Pictures Classics. John Woo, John Greyson, and Ross McElwee were all in the book along with an article tracking the development status of several beloved cult novels’ film adaptations. We also ran a great how-to by Strand Releasing’s Marcus Hu on guerilla marketing your […]

By Scott Macaulay on Aug 5, 2010 Filmmaking
GOOD DICK STREAMS ON HULU

Marianna Palka’s Sundance Competition feature Good Dick has just premiered on Hulu. When he interviewed Palka for Filmmaker in 2008, Nick Dawson wrote: The intrepid Palka makes her big screen debut as writer, director and producer with Good Dick, an unusual and surprising film in which she also stars opposite Ritter. The pair play the movie’s lonely, unnamed protagonists, a sweet-natured, hapless video store clerk and an awkward, reclusive young woman who rents pornographic videos from him. Smitten, he forces himself into her life, determined make her love him despite her seeming ambivalence. The decidedly unconventional (non)relationship between these two […]

By Scott Macaulay on Aug 4, 2010 Filmmaking
MOON MOLSON LAUNCHES KICKSTARTER CAMPAIGN

One of my favorite short films of the last few years is Moon Molson’s Pop Foul. I loved it so much I put Moon in our “25 New Faces” list of 2007. Wrote Brandon Harris, “Short films are rarely as devastating as Pop Foul, the lyrically mounted, subtly acted debut of Columbia University’s Moon Molson. The film tells the tale of a confused young boy who struggles with his reaction to a beating his father endures at the hands of a local thug following a Little League baseball game. Pop Foul stingingly depicts the emotional violence that follows the physical […]

By Scott Macaulay on Aug 4, 2010 Filmmaking
FILMMAKER FLASHBACK: SPRING 1993

Leading up to our 18th birthday, I’ll be revisiting on the blog one issue of Filmmaker a day. Today’s is Spring, 1993. For whatever reason, nothing from our third issue — Spring, 1993 — made it over when we ported to WordPress. Ted Hope had a lot of material in this issue: an interview with producer-turned-NYC film commissioner Richard Brick; a profile of up-and-coming d.p.’s; and a tutorial on how to break down a script. Also in this issue was Peter Bowen with our cover story on Nick Broomfield’s doc, Aileen Wuornos, a story that in its dramatic retelling would […]

By Scott Macaulay on Aug 4, 2010 Filmmaking

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