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CANNES LINEUP

The Cannes lineup is in a bunch of places: here’s the link to Indiewire’s piece. Quick take: Inarritu’s Babel, Linklater’s Fast Food Nation, new films by Bruno Dumont, Pedro Almodovar, Ken Loach and Aki Kaurismaki, Sofia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette, Richard Kelly’s Southland Tales (which we have a tiny preview of in the new issue — more when it comes out), and Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s follow-up to Distant all in Competition. Andrea Arnold’s Red Road the sole first feature in Competition. (I’m wondering what happened to Darren Aronofsky’s The Fountain — Variety reported that it would be the festival “somewhere” just […]

by Scott Macaulay on Apr 20, 2006

SHOW STOPPERS

Nick Knight’s U.K. fashion and media website SHOWstudio regularly streams some of the most interesting collaborations between media artists and the fashion world. As Knight writes, ““SHOWstudio is based on the belief that showing the entire creative process — from conception to completion — is beneficial for the artist, the audience and the art itself.” Now, SHOWstudio is broadening its community by creating interactive projects with both outside artists and viewers. From the website: Initial investigations into live, interactive fashion—contained within a 180-strong archive of projects on the site—are now being extended into opportunities for SHOWstudio’s international viewer-base to be […]

by Scott Macaulay on Apr 20, 2006

GUATEMALAN HIGH-FIVE

Over at Green Cine Jonathan Marlow posts a long interview with Todd Rohal, director of The Guatemalan Handshake. The film is one of my favorite indies so far this year. (I’ve actually been following the film for a while as I selected it to be part of the IFP’s Rough Cut program last year.) The film opens this week at the Independent Film Festival of Boston, and for more on the film, go to its website and, while you’re there, click on the iTunes link and subscribe to its podcasts. In the interview, Marlow asks Rohal about casting two musicians […]

by Scott Macaulay on Apr 19, 2006

FOUR-EYED MONSTERS CONQUER THE EARTH (AND THE APPLE STORE)

Our favorite podcasters, Arin Crumley and Susan Buice of the film Four-Eyed Monsters, are appearing next week at the Apple Store in Soho, New York. The event is part of the Indiewire series there and will be moderated by Eugene Hernandez. Expect to hear about the duo’s evolving plan to self-release their film, a plan which takes the grassroots, DIY approach they’ve developed to market their film to even new levels. Crumley and Buice are splitting their excellent podcast series into two strands. The first continues the soap opera that was the completion of their film and its premiere at […]

by Scott Macaulay on Apr 19, 2006

HAMPTONS SCREENWRITERS LAB ANNOUNCES PROJECTS

The Hamptons International Film Festival has announced the projects chosen for its Sixth Annual Screenwriters Lab, to be held this coming weekend in East Hampton. The chosen writers will develop their scripts with mentors Warren Leight, Whit Stillman, Charles Randolph and Alison Maclean. From the press release: During the lab in the Hamptons, our emerging screenwriters will have the opportunity to meet one-on-one each day with established screenwriting mentors who will advise them on how to develop their scripts. Within this intimate environment, our screenwriters are encouraged to take risks and discover new possibilities for their projects. Participantsalso attend group […]

by Scott Macaulay on Apr 19, 2006

INDIEWIRE, THE NEW YORK TIMES AND EMERGING PICTURES TEAM UP

From a just received press release: The New York Times and Emerging Pictures, the New York-based digital cinema network, will for the first time present “indieWIRE: Undiscovered Gems” as an eight-month-long film series. Based on indieWIRE’s annual list of the top 15 films from major festivals around the world that have yet to find a theatrical distributor, the series is being presented in association with the California Film Institute. The series kicks off in late April with Jem Cohen’s acclaimed feature Chain. With support from Sundance Channel, an audience prize competition will provide the winning filmmaker a cash award of […]

by Scott Macaulay on Apr 19, 2006

GOING HOME

Director Mike Leigh is on London stages now with Two Thousand Miles, his first ever “Jewish play.” Linda Grant in The Guardian talks to Leign about his Jewish heritage and why it hasn’t surfaced in his work until now. An excerpt: It was a kosher home, though they only went to synagogue now and again and they drove on the sabbath. “But it was very, very Jewish. My grandparents were immigrants – they talked in Yiddish – and there were some outreaches of the family where there were genuine frummers [Orthodox].” It was a time, he points out, when many […]

by Scott Macaulay on Apr 17, 2006

PRIVATIZE THIS!

Pat Aufderheide, Professor and Director for Center for Social Media at American University’s School of Communication, forwarded an email about potentially alarming news coming from the Smithsonian. She writes, “The Smithsonian recently announced an exclusive partnership with Showtime Networks to create ‘Smithsonian Networks’ as a joint venture with the Institution’s Smithsonian Business Ventures Unit. This arrangement could stifle the range of independent work on American history and culture that consistently brings new ideas, voices and perspectives to public attention.” Why? Because, she continues, “The Smithsonian Networks policy would preclude independent filmmakers from creating projects for other media outlets. According to […]

by Scott Macaulay on Apr 16, 2006

GREEN ON MYSPACE

Filmmaker‘s MySpace page has over 15,000 friends and as we (laboriously) approve each new person, it’s nice to see some directors we like check in with pages that contain their own work. For example, Brent Green, who was one of our “25 New Faces” last year, just joined, and his page streams some of his very original low-fi animation that we went crazy for last year in the magazine. (His regular film site, Nervous Films, has some of his fine art work and other info but no streaming.) And, while we’re at, Crystal Dunn, the NY-based photographer who took the […]

by Scott Macaulay on Apr 15, 2006

F*CK THE FESTIVALS

The filmmakers behind a short entitled Sex, Love and Z Parts have started a blog in which they’re showing the world that festival acceptance isn’t everything. They’re gearing up for a showcase screening at an L.A. theater where they’ll prove the naysayers wrong. Here’s from their inaugural post: Ok let’s get something straight; I have no regrets. Sundance doesn’t want me, boo -fuckin’ hoo. Slamdance don’t wanna dance, well call me Gloria ’cause I will survive bitch. I shot this movie and it’s the tits! ok…that’s better. So let me fill you in on a few things. I shot a […]

by Scott Macaulay on Apr 14, 2006

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