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
“BADNESS IS HAPPENING RIGHT NOW!”

I was a big, big fan of the TV show, and I actually don’t hate this. It’s just a teaser, of course, and the AICN talkbackers are having a field day with it, saying it looks like a Bacardi ad, but, Linkin Park music and all, the vibe seems right for a 2006 update of Miami Vice directed by Michael Mann. It’s weird, though, the dozens of hours I spent watching that show seem co-opted in my head by the considerably fewer I spent playing GTA: Vice City, and it’s those scenes that I’m flashing back to as Colin Farrell […]

By Scott Macaulay on Dec 21, 2005 Filmmaking
HEARTSTOPPING

Dennis Lim has a great appreciation in the Village Voice today about Claire Denis’s memorable and mysterious new film L’Intrus (or, The Intruder). Opening at the Quad in some kind of stealth release from Wellspring, the film continues the intuitive, searching and philosophical cinema that Denis has been pursuing since Beau Travail. It’s a cinema in which storyline, subtext, motivation and the unconcious are all interwoven as they collectively pursue a meaning that is as much in the viewer’s mind as it is in the celluloid. Writes Lim: “Allergic to the dictates of linear storytelling, her movies have grown increasingly […]

By Scott Macaulay on Dec 21, 2005 Filmmaking
TRANSIT STRIKE AND SUNDANCE CRUNCH

I’m sure I’m not the only New York producer trying to figure out what the NYC transit strike means to an already down-to-the-wire Sundance feature post schedule. Fortunately, the project I’m working on is picture-locked and all elements are to the appropriate vendors. My worry is with the vendors and their employees, hoping that the strike doesn’t slow them down. I started my day today by calling our neg cutter. Fortunately, she was on the job and had left her outside-of-NYC home at 4:00 a.m. so as not to get nailed by the driving restrictions. My morning meeting at the […]

By Scott Macaulay on Dec 20, 2005 Filmmaking
AMERICAN PANOPTICON

There’s been much in the mainstream media this week about the New York Times reporting that Bush via executive order — and not judicial warrant — authorized the wiretapping of American citizens. The political blogosphere, such as Kevin Drum, is discussing the issue in greater detail, commenting on the obvious conclusion that the spying Bush authorized is probably part of some new data-mining system of surveillance, something quite different than garden-variety phone tapping. Forgive my lack of surprise, but isn’t this what the NSA has been in the business of doing for years? And yes, the focus on American citizens […]

By Scott Macaulay on Dec 20, 2005 Filmmaking
AN X-RATED OPTION

While movies are becoming more like videogames, journalism seems to becoming more like the movies. Or, rather, one often can feel the movie-option ambition embedded in print journalism published by Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, and, today, The New York Times. The Grey Lady’s latest must-read is the shocking and strange tale of Justin Berry, a 13-year old California teen who, over the course of the six years chronicles in the paper’s very long story, goes from innocently flirting with other kids on the Internet with a $20 webcam to running a child porn online empire with himself as the […]

By Scott Macaulay on Dec 19, 2005 Filmmaking
IT’S CHEAPER THAN THE ZIEGFELD

Albert Brooks premiered his new movie, Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World, in Dubai last week. In the film, Brooks’s character is sent by the U.S. Government to Hindu India as well as predominantly-Muslim Pakistan to learn more about Muslims and their taste in humor. From Heba Kandil’s Reuters piece: “Audiences in Dubai gave mixed reviews of the film, which Brooks wrote, directed and starred in. But for the most part, they welcomed it, saying it was refreshing to see a U.S. production that did not vilify Muslims. ‘It was different from the usual movies we see from America. […]

By Scott Macaulay on Dec 18, 2005 Filmmaking

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