For those who just look at the blog, head over to our newest section on the main page, Filmmaker Videos. There you will see Jamie Stuart’s second installment from the New York Film Festival along with some of the other shorts he’s made for Filmmaker. Enjoy.
The stars come out in Jamie Stuart’s second installment of his shorts series from the New York Film Festival. In this episode Noah Baumbach and Nicole Kidman discuss Margot at the Wedding while Sidney Lumet makes a declaration. Approximate running time: 4:20. Download the short here by right clicking and choosing Save Target or Save Link. (38M) Please visit Jamie’s site at www.mutinycompany.com.
TOM WILKINSON AND GEORGE CLOONEY IN TONY GILROY’S MICHAEL CLAYTON. COURTESY WARNER BROS. PICTURES. As a Hollywood screenwriter, Tony Gilroy has brought an insistent energy and intelligence to the projects he has worked on, so it was a totally logical step that he should progress to becoming a director. New York native Gilroy grew up with writing and the movies in his veins, as he is the son of Frank D. Gilroy, the Pulitzer prize-winning writer and filmmaker, possibly best known for writing The Only Game in Town (1970), starring Elizabeth Taylor and Warren Beatty. Gilroy Jr. debuted with the […]
Filmmaker is very happy to be sponsoring gumshoe director/journalist Jamie Stuart’s annual take on the New York Film Festival this year. Here’s his first piece: Stuart… with music; Schwartzman… without mustache; Anderson… sans sous-titres. Approximate running time: 3:49. Download the short here by right clicking and choosing Save Target or Save Link. (26M) Please visit Jamie’s site at www.mutinycompany.com.
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The following interview appeared originally in Filmmaker‘s Fall, 2007 print edition. We don’t cover enough screenwriters in Filmmaker, but that’s not entirely our fault. This magazine is devoted to independent film, and for many, the director is also the writer. Or the script has emerged from improvisation or some other nontraditional means. And while there is a new breed of independent-minded screenwriters today — Charlie Kaufman, Capote’s Dan Futterman and Juno’s Diablo Cody come immediately to mind — many of the “marquee screenwriters” still work almost exclusively in the studio world. By virtue of the unique niche that screenwriter Oren […]
You don’t have to be a massive Radiohead fan (like me) to be interested in the sudden and unexpected news today about the release of their new album, In Rainbows. (Thanks, Pitchfork, for the heads up.) With this new release the band is busting the music retailing paradigm in ways that filmmakers might think about as well. The Radiohead site, linked above, allows you to buy the album, but it’s a bit, uh, mysterious, so you may as well get all the details from the Pitchfork link. But, here’s a synopsis of what Radiohead is doing that’s different: 1. The […]
Filmmaker is very happy to be sponsoring gumshoe director/journalist Jamie Stuart’s annual take on the New York Film Festival this year. Here’s his first piece: Stuart… with music; Schwartzman… without mustache; Anderson… sans sous-titres. Click here and enjoy.
Over at Videoblogging, anyone with a camera is invited to subscribe to the Lumiere Manifesto and create one-minute works in the tradition of the turn-of-the-twentieth-century French filmmaking brothers. They’ve fashioned their call into a Dogma 95-ish Manifesto that dictates how such minute-long pieces must be conceived and shot. (Hat tips: Warren Ellis and Boing Boing) Here’s are excerpts from the Manifesto that argue for the validity of this homage in today’s times: We believe instead that everyday video brings together a collective consciousness and experience through which we all come to view a universal existence and see “light” in the […]
Over at his Long Tail blog, Chris Anderson posts an email he received from Jeff Bach, an independent filmmaker at Quietwater Films regarding the viability of the “long tail” model for an independent producer. (In this case, it’s a sports non-fiction producer — Quietwater produces films on canoeing for boating enthusiasts). Anderson posts the whole email, but here’s an excerpt: But the reality at this time for me and my company is that I need to find multiple large national distributors if I hope to even come close to making a living at this game. And I need to produce […]