Filmmaking

THE LISTS KEEP COMING

I haven’t been too focused on all of the end-of-year “ten best” hoopla, but there are some lists up today worth checking out. Indiewire has their “insider” ten best, with lists from people like Bingham Ray, Christine Vachon and Ryan Werner. And then there’s our former Filmmaker West Coast Editor Chuck Stephens, whose list is provocatively subtitled “The top 10 fresh wounds to the body politic of global filmmaking.” I only know about half the films on Stephens’ list, so there are a lot of discoveries here. And, as usual, his write-ups are a treat. Here’s what he has to […]

By Scott Macaulay on Dec 28, 2005 Filmmaking
JULY ENDS IN DECEMBER

Miranda July says adios with a final post on her Me and You and Everyone We Know blog, offering to us as her going-away present an artful Google image tree that unspools her life for the past year.

By Scott Macaulay on Dec 28, 2005 Filmmaking
SUGAR HIGH

If you’re strolling through New York’s Chelsea neighborhood this weekend, you can stop for a bit and check out one of the more interesting films from last year’s Sundance Film Festival — in a gallery, not a theater. Running through January 7 at Roebling Hall in Chelsea is Sugar, a film installation by Reynold Reynolds and Patrick Jolley with Samara Golden. When the feature version of this work played in Sundance’s Frontier section, I remember appreciating its visual-art feel, and now, for their gallery show, the artists have expanded on Sugar by creating “two life-size hyper-real sculptures” to accompany the […]

By Scott Macaulay on Dec 28, 2005 Filmmaking
DEREK BAILEY, 1930 – 2005

According to various postings on the web, free-music guitarist Derek Bailey died on Christmas Day. I’ve seen Bailey a few times, all of them a long time ago when he’d periodically put together in New York one of his “Company Weeks” of group improvisation. I saw him play with folks like Bill Laswell, John Zorn and George Lewis, and to several musician friends of mine, like Donald Miller from Borbetomagus, he was a god. Certainly the most radical guitarist of his generation due to the simple fact that much of what he played didn’t sound like guitar, he was a […]

By Scott Macaulay on Dec 28, 2005 Filmmaking
MISE-EN MESS

As 2005 winds to a close, so too the boring parade of “Ten Best” lists. And now, with the last Sunday of the year gone, the newspaper columnists will move on to their “New in 2006!” pieces while the internet stragglers take up the rear with a more interesting bunch of kudos. GreenCine has been diligently covering the whole year-end shebang, and today the site has a bunch of interesting links to everything from DVDTalk and others ranging from Best Schlock of 2005 to Top 20 Adult DVDs, which feature lists from both male and female reviewers, to the most […]

By Scott Macaulay on Dec 27, 2005 Filmmaking
POOR CHOICES

A while back I linked to D.C.-based filmmaker Sujewa Ekanayake, whose blog, Filmmaking for the Poor, covers a range of no-budget film topics. Today GreenCine draws my attention to his site again with this link to a good post for the New Year: Ekanayake’s picks for “10 Filmmakers to Watch in 2006.” There are a few obvious choices here, talented filmmakers who he’s eager to see what they do next. Miranda July, Andrew Bujalski and Caveh Zahedi fit into this category. But then there are people I don’t know as well, like Amir Motiagh, Andrew Dickson, and Elizabeth Nord. And […]

By Scott Macaulay on Dec 26, 2005 Filmmaking
THE HERD AND THE TRIBE

The people over at Boing Boing have a piece up linking to this article on Fleshbot, this piece on SFist, and blogger Violet’s post on her Tiny Nibbles blog, all of which detail the decision by Tribe.com to apply Federal 2257 regulations to pages created by Tribe users. After December 20, all Tribe pages containing sexual content will be rendered “invisible” to the public at large. Comments Violet: “Now everyone is confused about whether or not they can put up a picture of their own boobies and not end up in federal prison. They’re confusing everyone, and kind of really […]

By Scott Macaulay on Dec 23, 2005 Filmmaking
A FRENCH KISS FOR FILE SHARERS

ABC News has a surprising story up about a debate in the French government that led to an unexpected victory for file-sharers. When the country’s cultural minister introduced legislation that would have dealt jail time and a fine to those convicted of file sharing copywritten material over the internet, lawmakers instead endorsed an amendment that would make file-sharing legal as long as monthly royalty payments of $8.50 were paid for the privilege. From the piece: “‘To legalize the downloading of our music, almost free of charge, is to kill our work,’ venerable rocker Johnny Hallyday said in a statement. The […]

By Scott Macaulay on Dec 22, 2005 Filmmaking
VLOGGER’S BLOCK

It is hard to beat Ray Pride to the punch when passing along a relevant indie-film link. He’s the first to note that the Four-Eyed Monsters duo of Arin Crumley and Susan Buice have just posted Episode 3.5 of their popular video blog. Watch it and you’ll see why they’re not calling it Episode Four, as this week’s podcast deals with the burn-out at having to churn out these video blogs. More positively, they post on their My Space page links to some of their own favorite video blogs, including RocketBoom, Diggnation, and filmmaker Kevin Bewersdorf’s podcast for his film […]

By Scott Macaulay on Dec 22, 2005 Filmmaking
THE LONG AND SHORT OF IT

Via GreenCine, which was unanimously hailed at the Indiewire blogger panel I sat on last Friday at the Apple store in Soho as the best film blog, comes this link to Tim R’s Mainly Movies blog in which he relays the not-so-surprising news out of today’s Variety that Terrence Malick is still editing The New World just days before it’s release in theaters. Malick is reportedly making 15 to 20 minutes of trims to the picture, although no sections are said to be being taken out. What is surprising, however, is that Malick plans to deliver this cut after the […]

By Scott Macaulay on Dec 21, 2005 Filmmaking

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