Filmmaking

iPod REDESIGN

“If Microsoft Redesigned the iPod.” Via Stereogum.

By Scott Macaulay on Mar 8, 2006 Filmmaking
GORDON PARKS, 1912 – 2006

Multiple sources are reporting the sad news that pioneering black director and photojournalist Gordon Parks died today in New York. He was 93. In 1969, Parks completed his first film, The Learning Tree, based on his own novel about growing up in Kansas in the 1920s. In doing so, he became the first black American to write and direct a studio motion picture. Later he would go on to achieve commercial success with the seminal “blaxploitation” film Shaft. More recently he appeared in an HBO documentary on his work, Half Past Autumn: The Life and Works of Gordon Parks. His […]

By Scott Macaulay on Mar 7, 2006 Filmmaking
FILM INDEPENDENT LAUNCHES SITE

Film Independent (formerly the IFP/Los Angeles) has launched their new website. Surf over there for news about the Spirit Awards, the upcoming L.A. Film Festival, and the organization’s other programs. Also up are a series of interviews by Lisa Garibay with folks like Michel Gondry and Capote producer Caroline Baron, winner of this year’s AMC/American Express Producer’s Award.

By Scott Macaulay on Mar 7, 2006 Filmmaking
RETURN OF THE B’S

Gersh agent David Kopple emails to say that he has helped organize what looks like a great event at the American Cinematheque at the Egyptian Theater in Hollywood on Thursday, March 9: a tribute to his grandfather, B-movie producer Jack Broder. Broder was a Russian-Polish immigrant who helped create the distribution company Realart Pictures and who produced 15 low-budget genre pictures in the ’50s and ’60s. The evening features screenings of two of Broder’s films: Kid Monk Baroni, which features Leonard Nimoy in his first starring role as an NYC-gangster-turned boxer, and the comedy Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla. […]

By Scott Macaulay on Mar 7, 2006 Filmmaking
Garrett Scott

I just arrived here in L.A. for the Spirit Awards and was stunned to hear that filmmaker Garrett Scott died yesterday. He was a great documentarian, a thoughtful colleague here in the NYC indie world, and a friend, and this is really an incredible loss. Scott was at the beginning of his career but on the basis of his two docs — Cul de Sac and Occupation: Dreamland, co-directed with Ian Olds — his was a great talent. He was able to synthesize an astutely critical take on contemporary society and politics with a real empathy for his subjects. Watch […]

By Scott Macaulay on Mar 3, 2006 Filmmaking
FILM SCHOOL ON THE WEB

Defamer performs a public service to film students and would-be studio producers by linking to The Smoking Gun which offers for download the budget for M. Night Shamalayan’s $71.6 million The Village.

By Scott Macaulay on Mar 2, 2006 Filmmaking
A NETFLIX KILLER?

Apple Insider has a revealing article posted that signals Apple’s intentions with regards to an iTunes Movie Store. The article references a survey undertaken by Apple that tests the concept of a subscription-based movie download service on consumers. From the piece: A survey distributed this week through Coyote Insight, a Fullerton, Calif.-based market research firm, asked that participants answer a series of questions related to a potential “iTunes movie service” that would provide on-demand access to movies that could be downloaded to a computer or iPod. “This iTunes service would provide access to 1,000 movies on demand which can be […]

By Scott Macaulay on Mar 2, 2006 Filmmaking
BERNEY ON LOYALTY AND THE CHANGING ARTHOUSE BIZ

The Reeler has a good interview up with Picturehouse’s Bob Berney who soberly assesses the U.S. market for foreign-language films in the wake of last week’s announcement that Wellspring is closing. I was encouraged by a few things that Berney said. One was that he’s still in the business of buying a film because he believes in the director and his or her future potential. “I’m probably going to make a deal for Lukas Moodysson’s new film,” Berney said, ” but it’s also hoping he’ll make a bigger film later that we can get.” I’m also a huge fan of […]

By Scott Macaulay on Mar 1, 2006 Filmmaking
ICK!

The Slither one sheet.

By Scott Macaulay on Mar 1, 2006 Filmmaking
DANGER AFTER DARK 2006

It’s turned into a yearly tradition that I’ve posted early notice of the Philadelphia Film Festival’s “Danger After Dark” program. Programmed by Filmmaker contributor Travis Crawford, the program is inevitably an excellent primer for the past year’s best in cutting edge genre fare. This year, Crawford’s descriptions are briefer than usual — he promises to send more detailed copy soon — but it is good to hear that his catalog proofreader labelled this the “sickest Danger after Dark ever.” The Philadelphia Film Festival runs from March 30 until April 11. A BITTERSWEET LIFE (South Korea): This visually stunning tale of […]

By Scott Macaulay on Feb 28, 2006 Filmmaking

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