Filmmaking

MAN ONLINE

One of the past year’s best shorts is now online, courtesy of New York Magazine’s Vulture. I’m not sure I’d describe Myna Joseph’s Man as the tale of “creepy sisters into the woods,” but it does beautifully capture a particular and not often seen on screen sisterly dynamic having to do with burgeoning sexuality, competition and love. Here’s what Brandon Harris wrote about Joseph when we selected her for our “25 New Faces List”: A simple and startling premise, the rivalry that exists between sisters, especially when a strange, cute boy is involved, grows into an arresting account of female […]

By Scott Macaulay on Oct 17, 2008 Filmmaking
APPLE: "FIREWIRE, YOU’RE FIRED!" (ON THE MACBOOK, THAT IS…)

Despite a blog post below in which we criticized Apple for some subtly unrealistic threats having to do with a government decision on artist royalties, we are Apple fans. Really. Our magazine is made on Macs, I’m typing on one right now, and Jamie Stuart’s work, which we feature on our home page, is edited with Final Cut on a MacBook Pro. So, like the techies, we look forward to Apple product announcements and the unveiling of what we will be upgrading to soon. The aluminum enclosure of Apple’s new MacBooks and MacBook Pro’s, which were announced this week, looks […]

By Scott Macaulay on Oct 16, 2008 Filmmaking
MORE ABEL, BAD LIEUTENANT

Check out Evan Louison’s perfect capturing of an evening with Abel Ferrara over at Brandon Harris’s redesigned Cinema Echo Chamber. And here’s one other Abel-related link: at Hollywood Elsewhere Jeffrey Wells passes on info about the way in which that Bad Lieutenant remake came to be.

By Scott Macaulay on Oct 15, 2008 Filmmaking
ABEL FERRARA ON HOLLYWOOD, MARY, RELIGIOUS MOVIES AND BAD LIEUTENANT

In Director Interviews, Nick Dawson talks with Abel Ferrara on the release of Mary at the Anthology Film Archives. I’m a big fan of this film — it’s his best in years. (Although I haven’t seen Go-Go Tales and the Chelsea Hotel doc yet.) Ferrara fans can also dip into the Filmmaker Archives with this interview with the director about R Xmas by Jeremiah Kipp. And, not on the Filmmaker site but on the late Zoe Lund’s site, my cover story on Bad Lieutenant back in 1992.

By Scott Macaulay on Oct 15, 2008 Filmmaking
SASHA GREY REPORTED CAST IN SODERBERGH’S GIRLFRIEND EXPERIENCE

Over the weekend I read on Ain’t It Cool News about James Gunn and Spike TV’s “PG Porn,” a series of short satiric films starring porn stars but which feature no sex. Here’s Gunn from the AICN piece: My brothers Brian and Sean and I came up with PG PORN years ago. We’d talk about all sorts of scenarios where you take the typical porn set-up and things would somehow go wrong. When I was a kid I’d go see X-rated movies in a theater with my friends. I would rarely get turned on — it was all about laughing […]

By Scott Macaulay on Oct 14, 2008 Filmmaking
55,000 VIDEOS IN SEARCH OF A GOOD HOME

Via Jeremiah’s Vanishing New York blog comes this sad notice: the East Village’s Mondo Kim’s will be closing, and Mr. Kim is searching for some organization to take the store’s collection of 55,000 videos. (Hat tip: Movie City News.) From the blog: In posters on display at Mondo Kim’s, he writes to say that, due to “rapidly declined” financial resources, he is seeking a sponsor to take on his entire collection of 55,000 films. The flyer goes on to say that he plans to close the rental department of his business and hopes to ensure that the collection will still […]

By Scott Macaulay on Oct 14, 2008 Filmmaking
WEATHER UNDERGROUND DIRECTOR ON BILL AYRES

“One truism of being a documentary filmmaker is that your subjects often continue to make news long after your film has wrapped and is widely seen,” writes AJ. Schnack at his All These Wonderful Things blog. “Kicking off a new feature here at the blog, Sam Green, the co-director of the Oscar-nominated THE WEATHER UNDERGROUND, writes about Ayers’ return to prominence and the mixed feelings it provokes for the director.” What follows are Green’s thoughts about Ayres, who he got to know through the making of his documentary, his sudden emergence as an issue in the Presidential campaign, and both […]

By Scott Macaulay on Oct 14, 2008 Filmmaking
MARTESKO-FENSTER JOINS BABELGUM

Congrats to my old friend and colleague, Karol Martesko-Fenster, founding publisher of Filmmaker and co-founder of Indiewire on his new position at Babelgum, the ad-supported internet TV platform. From the press release: Babelgum, the free independent web TV platform, today announced the appointment of Karol Martesko-Fenster as General Manager & Publisher of thecompany’s Film Division. Martesko-Fenster will oversee allaspects of the film offering on Babelgum, expanding programming acquisitions and partnerships and global film industry and festival activities. Karol will also assume the role of Managing Director of theannual Babelgum Online Film Festival working closely with creator Stefania Valenti and Jury […]

By Scott Macaulay on Oct 13, 2008 Filmmaking
KIRSNER REPORTS FROM THE DOC VANGUARD

CinemaTech’s Scott Kirsner sent me an email alerting me to a really interesting project he’s done with ITVS. From his email: Earlier this year, ITVS asked me to interview a group of documentary filmmakers who were working on the vanguard. Specifically, we wanted to focus on three things: 1. Opening up production in new ways, communicating and collaborating with the audience while a film is still in the works. 2. Distributing in new ways, through avenues like iTunes or downloads on a filmmaker’s own Web site 3. Marketing and cultivating an audience for the work in new ways, and figuring […]

By Scott Macaulay on Oct 13, 2008 Filmmaking
HOLLY WOODLAWN, OFF CAMERA

CineVegas programmer and Filmmaker contributor Mike Plante writes: “Not sure why the Off Camera festival in Krakow has gone so unnoticed in the US, maybe because it’s first time and in an unknown city – but I went and it was great, all the filmmakers and jury had a blast, and they give out 100,000 Euros in their competition. Probably the biggest prize of any festival?” Off Camera was off my radar as well, but I just checked out Mike’s blog postings and they detail a spirited fest with a good, artistically attuned line-up. Here’s his account of Holly Woodlawn […]

By Scott Macaulay on Oct 13, 2008 Filmmaking

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