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I Am a Sex Addict on Rotten Tomatoes.

By Scott Macaulay on Apr 12, 2006 Filmmaking
THE BEGINNING OF MY DAVID SLADE INTERVIEW

The whole thing is in the new Filmmaker, which we just sent to the printer, but Hard Candy is opening this Friday and it’s an amazing first film, so I’m putting up the first part of my interview with director David Slade to whet your appetite for both the film and the magazine. Filmmaker: Having worked for years in commercials and music videos, how did Hard Candy wind up becoming your first feature?Slade: I’d been offered a lot of scripts, but this was the first thing that took me back to the roots of why I wanted to become a […]

By Scott Macaulay on Apr 11, 2006 Filmmaking
GREEN CINE HAND ME DOWNS

The great film blog Green Cine, which is something of a daily imperative for any literate cinephile, has so many interesting links up today that I might as well give them props for all of the below: An interview with video director Johan Renck on the eve of his first feature, Downloading Nancy, a story about a woman who arranges for herself to be killed by a guy she meets on the interet but changes her mind when she falls for him. Stars Holly Hunter, and the interview is linked to downloadable videos from Madonna and New Order, among others. […]

By Scott Macaulay on Apr 11, 2006 Filmmaking
NOTES ON THE DISTRIBUTION PANEL

I posted below a response to Sujewa in the comments section, but I thought I’d repost it here along with a few notes coming out of the panel I moderated last night sponsored by the IFP entitled “Distribution Now! Distribution How?” Prompted by IFC’s opening of Caveh Zahedi’s I am a Sex Addict this week, the panel brought Zahedi together with two other filmmakers – Susan Leber, producer of Down to the Bone, and Jay Duplass, writer/director of the upcoming The Puffy Chair, whose films took the long road to getting their features in theaters. (Down to the Bone opened […]

By Scott Macaulay on Apr 11, 2006 Filmmaking
WHAT WOULD THE COMMUNITY THINK?

There’s a good debate going on over at Indiewire prompted by a letter from filmmaker Jim McKay about the future of the AIVF and the role of community in independent film.

By Scott Macaulay on Apr 10, 2006 Filmmaking
ROOM FOR EVERYTHING

Peter Debruge in Variety gets to the bottom of an urban mystery (subscription required for link): what kind of movie that billboard on Highland in L.A. featuring a guy’s headshot and a movie title (The Room) is actually advertising, and how said movie has managed to run for years at the Sunset 5? The face on the billboard leers down over Highland, half-lidded and haunting in black and white. The image — actually the headshot of helmer Tommy Wiseau — has branded “The Room,” a self-distributed directorial debut so hopelessly amateurish that auds reportedly walked out during its two-week run […]

By Scott Macaulay on Apr 9, 2006 Filmmaking
NET NEUTRAL

The great political website Agonist has a new section up, the Agonist Net Neutrality Forum, dedicated to news and advocacy concerning the potential encroachments (corporate and governmental) on the freedoms we now enjoy on the internet. There’s a lot of debate going on around right now on this topic, but it hasn’t percolated up to the mainstream media as much as it should, Paul Kapustka has a primer on the issue up on his blog.

By Scott Macaulay on Apr 8, 2006 Filmmaking
STOCK FOOTAGE

Getty Images held a short film competition in which 50% of the material of each submitted film has to be material from the Getty archive. The 28 finalists are online, and viewers get to vote for the winner, who receives a $10,000 cash prize. (Annoyingly, you have to register with their site to stream the films, but registration is free.) Via Shortsville, which is picking up steam as a place to find cool short film and advertising links.

By Scott Macaulay on Apr 8, 2006 Filmmaking
HOLZER AND BECKETT’S WORDS

If you’re in London this week, check out artist Jenny Holzer’s public art work for the Beckett Centenary Festival. From the press release: As part of the Beckett Centenary Festival at the Barbican, American artist Jenny Holzer presents a series of light projections on the Barbican and buildings around London including City Hall and Somerset House. Writings from Beckett and a selection of works by celebrated poets, are cast onto well-known London landmarks, allowing light and text to flow over the cityscape, creating an extraordinary visual experience. Holzer rose to prominence with her text series Truisms (1977-79). In 1990 she […]

By Scott Macaulay on Apr 8, 2006 Filmmaking
NAOMI CAMPBELL IS THE DEVIL…

… in in this short FX extravanganza entitled The Call directed by Training Day director Antoine Fuqua for the Italian tire manufacturer Pirelli. John Malkovitch collects a payday as an exorcist.

By Scott Macaulay on Apr 8, 2006 Filmmaking

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