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Abel Ferrara, Mary

JULIETTE BINOCHE IN DIRECTOR ABEL FERRARA’S MARY. COURTESY ABEL FERRARA & ANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIVES. After more than 30 years as a director, Abel Ferrara shows no sign of losing any of the raw intelligence, energy and vitality that have made him a continuing force in American cinema. The Italian American Bronx-born director, now 57, began directing shorts as a film student at SUNY Purchase in the early 1970s and made his feature debut in 1976 with the porn film 9 Lives of a Wet Pussy under the pseudonym Jimmy Laine. His debut proper was the legendary DIY grindhouse movie The […]

by Nick Dawson on Oct 17, 2008

WORDS FROM THE FRONTLINES

In this week’s newsletter I mentioned that I’m trying to put together some thoughts on how the looming recession and current credit crunch will affect independent film production. It’s a bigger issue than just that, however, as these economic troubles are hitting at the same time as the industry — both Hollywood and indie — is rethinking the business model that underpins the feature film business. (If you don’t currently get the newsletter, you can subscribe by typing in your email address at right.) I received the following response from Jane Kosek which raises a lot of good points about […]

by Scott Macaulay on Oct 17, 2008

MIDWESTERN RHAPSODY

One thing coming up in the new Filmmaker is an interview with Todd Sklar, the director of Box Elder and the head of Range Life, a company embarking on a progressively old-school DIY distribution strategy for four films this Fall. The first is Sklar’s own film, and the other three are Registered Sex Offender, In Memory of My Father, and On the Road with Judas. All four are on the road, working the arthouse and college circuit in a film tour featuring not only screenings but events with the various makers. Visit the websites linked here for more info, and, […]

by Scott Macaulay on Oct 17, 2008

MAN ONLINE

One of the past year’s best shorts is now online, courtesy of New York Magazine’s Vulture. I’m not sure I’d describe Myna Joseph’s Man as the tale of “creepy sisters into the woods,” but it does beautifully capture a particular and not often seen on screen sisterly dynamic having to do with burgeoning sexuality, competition and love. Here’s what Brandon Harris wrote about Joseph when we selected her for our “25 New Faces List”: A simple and startling premise, the rivalry that exists between sisters, especially when a strange, cute boy is involved, grows into an arresting account of female […]

by Scott Macaulay on Oct 17, 2008

APPLE: "FIREWIRE, YOU’RE FIRED!" (ON THE MACBOOK, THAT IS…)

Despite a blog post below in which we criticized Apple for some subtly unrealistic threats having to do with a government decision on artist royalties, we are Apple fans. Really. Our magazine is made on Macs, I’m typing on one right now, and Jamie Stuart’s work, which we feature on our home page, is edited with Final Cut on a MacBook Pro. So, like the techies, we look forward to Apple product announcements and the unveiling of what we will be upgrading to soon. The aluminum enclosure of Apple’s new MacBooks and MacBook Pro’s, which were announced this week, looks […]

by Scott Macaulay on Oct 16, 2008

MORE ABEL, BAD LIEUTENANT

Check out Evan Louison’s perfect capturing of an evening with Abel Ferrara over at Brandon Harris’s redesigned Cinema Echo Chamber. And here’s one other Abel-related link: at Hollywood Elsewhere Jeffrey Wells passes on info about the way in which that Bad Lieutenant remake came to be.

by Scott Macaulay on Oct 15, 2008

ABEL FERRARA ON HOLLYWOOD, MARY, RELIGIOUS MOVIES AND BAD LIEUTENANT

In Director Interviews, Nick Dawson talks with Abel Ferrara on the release of Mary at the Anthology Film Archives. I’m a big fan of this film — it’s his best in years. (Although I haven’t seen Go-Go Tales and the Chelsea Hotel doc yet.) Ferrara fans can also dip into the Filmmaker Archives with this interview with the director about R Xmas by Jeremiah Kipp. And, not on the Filmmaker site but on the late Zoe Lund’s site, my cover story on Bad Lieutenant back in 1992.

by Scott Macaulay on Oct 15, 2008

SASHA GREY REPORTED CAST IN SODERBERGH’S GIRLFRIEND EXPERIENCE

Over the weekend I read on Ain’t It Cool News about James Gunn and Spike TV’s “PG Porn,” a series of short satiric films starring porn stars but which feature no sex. Here’s Gunn from the AICN piece: My brothers Brian and Sean and I came up with PG PORN years ago. We’d talk about all sorts of scenarios where you take the typical porn set-up and things would somehow go wrong. When I was a kid I’d go see X-rated movies in a theater with my friends. I would rarely get turned on — it was all about laughing […]

by Scott Macaulay on Oct 14, 2008

55,000 VIDEOS IN SEARCH OF A GOOD HOME

Via Jeremiah’s Vanishing New York blog comes this sad notice: the East Village’s Mondo Kim’s will be closing, and Mr. Kim is searching for some organization to take the store’s collection of 55,000 videos. (Hat tip: Movie City News.) From the blog: In posters on display at Mondo Kim’s, he writes to say that, due to “rapidly declined” financial resources, he is seeking a sponsor to take on his entire collection of 55,000 films. The flyer goes on to say that he plans to close the rental department of his business and hopes to ensure that the collection will still […]

by Scott Macaulay on Oct 14, 2008

WEATHER UNDERGROUND DIRECTOR ON BILL AYRES

“One truism of being a documentary filmmaker is that your subjects often continue to make news long after your film has wrapped and is widely seen,” writes AJ. Schnack at his All These Wonderful Things blog. “Kicking off a new feature here at the blog, Sam Green, the co-director of the Oscar-nominated THE WEATHER UNDERGROUND, writes about Ayers’ return to prominence and the mixed feelings it provokes for the director.” What follows are Green’s thoughts about Ayres, who he got to know through the making of his documentary, his sudden emergence as an issue in the Presidential campaign, and both […]

by Scott Macaulay on Oct 14, 2008

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