Filmmaking

ERROL MORRIS DISCUSSES ROBERT McNAMARA IN NEW DOC

The National Film Board of Canada has produced a documentary called Capturing Reality: The Art of the Documentary, and the website is incredible, featuring over 160 interview clips. Here’s their description of the doc: Capturing Reality: The Art of Documentary is a film about contemporary documentary cinema and features some rock stars of the genre, including Albert Maysles, Errol Morris, Alanis Obomsawin, Michel Brault, Nick Broomfield, Kim Longinotto and Werner Herzog. Thirty-three filmmakers from 14 countries share their passion for documentary and talk about the artistic and ethical choices they make in their craft. Capturing Reality premiered at the International […]

By Scott Macaulay on Jul 7, 2009 Filmmaking
LOVELY BY SURPRISE’s NEW KIND OF OPENING DAY

Producer Jake Abraham, well known to Filmmaker readers on account of his long tenure at InDigEnt Films, is a producer of Kirt Gunn’s festival charmer Lovely By Surprise. He’s taking the film out in a DIY-sort of way, and I’m going to spoil the closer of the article he’s just written for us over at Web Exclusives by reprinting it here: Our release date is today, July 7th. It feels different than opening days in the past. No premiere party, no box office reports. The effects of our plan will begin to appear over the next few weeks as we […]

By Scott Macaulay on Jul 6, 2009 Filmmaking
A Beacon of Democracy?: Distributing Lovely By Surprise

As I settle back in from a wonderful July 4th get-away, I am reminded of a mantra we used to chant at InDigEnt all the time (we were a spiritual bunch). It was about how the digital revolution in filmmaking truly is a democratizing factor in production and distribution. I believed it then and I believe it now. While that phrase has been thrown around to mean all kinds of things, what it really means to me is that technology is reducing the barriers to entry for the making of films and subsequently for the dissemination of those films to […]

By Jason Guerrasio on Jul 6, 2009 Distribution
PINA BAUSCH, R.I.P.

I missed the news that the astonishing German choreographer Pina Bausch died on June 30. From a lovely appreciation by Mark Swed: She became associated with big spectacles that were part-theater, part-dance battles of the sexes and society played out in extravagant environments. She might litter her stage with zillions of carnations or put her company in pools of water. Her highly sexed world-weary women paraded around in high heels, clothed and nude – just like the men. They beat each other up and the men usually ended up worse for the wear. Everything always looked amazing – costumes, sets, […]

By Scott Macaulay on Jul 6, 2009 Filmmaking
AN ESSENTIAL ANDREI TARKOVSKY RETRO AT THE WALTER READE

I received an email asking if I’d post something about the upcoming Film Society of Lincoln Center Andrei Tarkovsky retrospective at the Walter Reade. Sure, I wrote back, laughing as I imagined that a retro of the great Russian filmmaker would actually need a press boost, that it wouldn’t be packed from the outset with lines of people around the block hoping for tickets. But then I thought, what if that is not the case? Could it be that the current generation of young moviegoers has yet to fall under the spell of this rigorous and involving master director? Maybe. […]

By Scott Macaulay on Jul 6, 2009 Filmmaking
RED BAND JENNIFER’S BODY TRAILER

The latest, a Heathers-ish satirical horror film, Jennifer’s Body, from screenwriter Diablo Cody, former Filmmaker cover-story director Karyn Kusama (Girlfight), and Megan Fox. Related: Karyn Kusama in Filmmaker on Girlfight. Diablo Cody in Filmmaker on Juno.

By Scott Macaulay on Jul 6, 2009 Filmmaking
iPHONE 3GS MUSIC VIDEOS

In a time in which MTV barely shows music videos, want to score an audience for yours? Here’s the trick: be the first out of the gate with a clip shot on a new camera. Here are two music videos shot with the new Apple iPhone 3GS. The first is by XYFA and is directed by filmmaker Steve Ellington. Technologic Overkill – The First Music Video Shot on an iPhone 3GS from Steve Ellington on Vimeo. The second is by Ari Kuschnir and the track is by his fiance, Reyna Perez.

By Scott Macaulay on Jul 6, 2009 Filmmaking
BRIAN NEWMAN LEAVES TRIBECA FILM INSTITUTE

As Indiewire reported, Brian Newman has left his position as CEO of the Tribeca Film Institute. In a statement he sent to his friends that he reposted on his Springboard Media blog. An excerpt: As many of you know, I have quite an entrepreneurial spirit and want to now explore other opportunities. I will be launching a consulting business focusing on business development projects in the entertainment and cultural industries as well as helping filmmakers, artists and organizations to distribute content and connect with audiences through innovative uses of new technology. His statement echoes comments he made at the Open […]

By Scott Macaulay on Jul 5, 2009 Filmmaking
NEW SODERBERGH TRAILER: THE INFORMANT

By Scott Macaulay on Jul 1, 2009 Filmmaking
HOW DO YOU SEE CHINATOWN?

Premiering tomorrow at 7pm — and on the museum’s YouTube channel — is the Museum of Chinese in America (MOCA)’s Chinatown Film project, a collection of short films by Miguel Arteta, Patty Chang, Jem Cohen, Cary Fukunaga, So Yong Kim & Bradley Rust Gray, Amir Naderi, Sam Pollard, Shelly Silver, Rose Troche, and Wayne Wang & Richard Wong on their unique visions of Chinatown, New York. (Advance registration required to attend the opening.) The museum is located at 215 Centre Street, and the exhibition continues both on YouTube and on the exhibition’s blog (appropriately in Chinese and English.) The exhibition […]

By Scott Macaulay on Jun 30, 2009 Filmmaking

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