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FONDA LOOKS BACK

One of the most startling images in David Zeiger’s Sir! No Sir!, a documentary about the G.I. anti-war movement during the Viet Nam era that Filmmaker selected as one of its “Best Films Not Playing in a Theater Near You” this year, is that of Jane Fonda. Sitting regally in the amber-hued foyer of her luxurious home, coiffed to perfection and expertly lit, Fonda’s sheer visual splendor is surprising within the context of the film — most of the film’s other interviewees still visibly bear the painful hurts of the period — as well as within today’s entertainment world. With […]

by Scott Macaulay on Nov 20, 2005

I SPY

While at the Creative Capital retreat this summer I met the L.A.-based French artist Marie Sester, who does fascinating work dealing with technology and the interstice of the individual and the social. From her website: “I was trained as an architect, then chose the visual and multimedia fields to examine the way that a civilization originates and creates its forms. These forms are both tangible — such as signals, buildings, and cities — and intangible, such as the aspects of values, laws and culture. My work questions the perspective of the West, and the meta-state of a New World Order. […]

by Scott Macaulay on Nov 19, 2005

WILD POSTING

Via the very clever people at Coudal Partners, whose design-oriented website always has lots of film-related stuff, this link to a database of Polish movie posters. At right: Robert Altman’s 3 Women. Says Tom Kuznar, the site’s proprietor, “Although my goal is to (eventually) provide all available information on all Polish film posters ever printed and every artist who ever designed one, back here on planet Earth my emphasis is on the best period of the mid 50s to early 70s. Since the Polish poster practically ceased to exist at the end of the 80s (and stopped being great long […]

by Scott Macaulay on Nov 14, 2005

ALUMNI REPORT

A couple of emails arrived this week announcing new online work from folks who have appeared here or in the print magazine. I wrote about NYU student filmmaker Sam Goetz on this blog when he took to the internet to fundraise for his student short, “Bruno.” “Breaking a record at the school’s production center for most check-outs in one semester, this film was not the easiest to get into the can,” he writes. “Fortunately, everyone put in 110% and bore through the 30+ days of shooting with a champion’s spirit.” He’s got a teaser up on the web now for […]

by Scott Macaulay on Nov 13, 2005

ATTRACTIONS FROM FAR AWAY

This year Filmmaker partnered with the IFP to create a new award to be given out in a few weeks at this year’s Gotham Awards. Titled Best Film Not Playing at a Theater Near You, the award is designed to highlight worthy films that have fallen beneath the theatrical radar. We asked 18 festival programmers to each nominate two films from their festival. From this list, our editors — myself, Matt Ross, Peter Bowen, Mary Glucksman and Ray Pride — narrowed it down to five nominees and, eventually one winner. It was an interesting exercise. The films nominated by the […]

by Scott Macaulay on Nov 13, 2005

NETFLIX FINDS ITS SPIRIT

The clock is ticking on a promotion offered by Netflix and Film Independent (FIND, formerly the IFP Los Angeles) and having to do with this year’s Spirit Awards. Only FIND members are allowed to vote for the Spirit Awards, and, this year, FIND members will receive a free three-month Netflix membership and a special code allowing them to rent all the nominated films. To take advantage of this, you need to join FIND (if you’re not a member) by November 15.

by Scott Macaulay on Nov 13, 2005

DOWN AND OUT… WITH NO MUSIC

Sony/BMG’s debacle over the “rootkit” copy protection on their music CDs has gotten a lot of hilarious press in the last few days. If you haven’t been following the story, the digital rights management software contained on Sony music CDs burrows deep into your operating system where it does Many Bad Things, including act as Trojan horse for a lot of malware and bad viruses. As documented by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, however, Sony/BMG has added insult to injury by concocting a draconian end-user license agreement that treats a CD-buyer like some sort of pauper out of a Dickens’ novel. […]

by Scott Macaulay on Nov 13, 2005

ROCK ‘EM SOCK ‘EM ROBOTS

Chris Cunningham’s new commercial for the PlayStation Portable can be found here.

by Scott Macaulay on Nov 12, 2005

THE BIG TEASE

After months of internet buzz, there’s finally an “internet teaser” up for Darren Aronofsky’s long-awaited The Fountain. Check it out as well as Moriarty’s interview with Aronofsky over at Ain’t It Cool News.

by Scott Macaulay on Nov 9, 2005

DIVINE NEUROSIS

Artist, filmmaker and production designer Dan Ouellette contributed a thoughtful and in-depth interview with Chris Cunningham to Filmmaker‘s current issue (sorry, it’s only in the print magazine), and today he’s just launched his new website, Neurotica Divine, which has to be one of the best personal artist sites I’ve seen. At the beginning of his film career Ouellette was known for his production design of Hal Hartley’s early work. More recentlly Ouellette production designed Alice Wu’s Saving Face. But Ouellette has always been a vivid visual artist whose work combines science-fiction and horror imagery with dashes of surrealism and dark […]

by Scott Macaulay on Nov 6, 2005

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