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MANUALLY OPERATED

Over at his blog, Self Reliant Filmmaking, Paul Harrill interviews one of our “25 New Faces of Independent Film,” Jake Mahaffy, who who discusses the artisanal techniques he brought to the production of his film, War: I shot most of it on a 16mm Bolex camera, which doesn’t have a battery, by disengaging the motor and winding the rewind key forward. So, I manually pulled the film through the camera, like silent film-operators used to do. That’s not a clever attempt at art. It was a practical necessity. With the Bolex, a spring-wound camera, you only get 20-second shots… many […]

by Scott Macaulay on Apr 14, 2006

DEMME ON NEIL YOUNG’S NEW PROTEST ALBUM

Editor and Publisher reports that filmmaker Jonathan Demme, currently in theaters with the Neil Young concert film Heart of Gold is quoted via a third party saying, “Neil [Young}just finished writing and recording — with no warning — a new album called ‘Living With War.’ It all happened in three days… It is a brilliant electric assault, accompanied by a 100-voice choir, on Bush and the war in Iraq… Truly mind blowing. Will be in stores soon.” Singer Alicia Morgan has more on her blog: “On Wednesday, I was at work when I got a call for a Neil Young […]

by Scott Macaulay on Apr 14, 2006

CROSS COUNTRY DIALOGUE

Over at Green Cine, Hannah Eaves writes up a panel on new distribution models that overlaps the discussion I moderated earlier this week for the IFP. Filmmaker Caveh Zahedi was at both panels, and the Sonoma, California panel went into different tangents and featured folks like moderator Joel Bachar (of Microcinema), GreenCine’s Content Acquisitions Director Jonathan Marlow, Wellspring’s VP of Theatrical Sales Marisa Keselica, Netflix’s Chief Content Officer Ted Sarandos and Houston King of Goodbye Cruel Releasing.

by Scott Macaulay on Apr 14, 2006

THIS IS YOUR PILOT SPEAKING

Borys Kit has a good article in the Hollywood Reporter discussing the influx of feature directors to the TV world, noting that this pilot season Spike Lee, Jim Mangold, F. Gary Gray and others are completing small-screen work. “The perception that TV was a sitcom world and that features provided a more intellectual medium — that distinction is not necessarily the case anymore,” said attorney Gregg Gellman of Barnes Morris Klein Mark Yorn Barnes & Levine, whose crossover clients have included directors like Gavin O’Connor (“Miracle”). With more and more scripts tackling concepts that challenge traditional formats and genres, feature […]

by Scott Macaulay on Apr 14, 2006

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I Am a Sex Addict on Rotten Tomatoes.

by Scott Macaulay on Apr 12, 2006

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

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

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

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

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

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