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NYFF46 PART 1

In Jamie Stuart‘s first episode in his series of shorts on the 46th New York Film Festival, he invites us into his wild imagination while sitting in on press conferences for directors Laurent Cantet and Kelly Reichardt. Download the short here by right clicking and choosing Save Target or Save Link. (33M) Approximate running time: 5:53. Please visit Jamie’s site at www.mutinycompany.com. To see all the videos in this series please go to https://filmmakermagazine.com/nyff46.php.

by Jason Guerrasio on Sep 22, 2008

ECONOMIC SHOCK

From Screen Daily comes the news that Michael Winterbottom will work again with Mat Whitecross, his collaborator on The Road to Guantanamo, on a feature film adaptation of Naomi Klein’s book, The Shock Doctrine. Winterbottom says he’s already begun filming, and Klein will narrate the film. He should maybe take a breather while Klein appends a new chapter to her book. Her thesis — that late-stage capitalism is reliant on “shocks” that, by dizzying the populace, enable privatization and massive transference of public wealth into private hands by anti-democratic means — is astoundingly relevant to the Wall Street bail-out being […]

by Scott Macaulay on Sep 22, 2008

WRAPPING UP INDEPENDENT FILM WEEK

I’m sure there will be a few blog stragglers over the next few days as our guest posters gather their thoughts on the just concluded Independent Film Week. For now, though, thanks to all the filmmakers who joined our blog and took the time to relate their experiences. If you haven’t read their posts, scroll below and check out their first-hand accounts of trying to launch new projects at the IFP’s various programs this past week. I also recommend you click over to Hammer to Nail, where filmmaker David Lowery posted his own diary about his experiences in the Narrative […]

by Scott Macaulay on Sep 20, 2008

Wayne Wang, A Thousand Years Of Good Prayers

FAYE YU AND HENRY O IN DIRECTOR WAYNE WANG’S A THOUSAND YEARS OF GOOD PRAYERS. COURTESY MAGNOLIA PICTURES. Wayne Wang’s work has always been about a balance of contrasts, whether it be Chinese and American, classical and experimental, or independent and Hollywood. Wang was born in Hong Kong in 1949 and moved to the U.S. in his late teens to study film and television at the California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland. He made his directorial debut in 1975 with A Man, a Woman, and a Killer (on which he is co-credited alongside Rick Schmidt) but it was […]

by Nick Dawson on Sep 19, 2008

CLICKING TO UTOPIA

Peter Aspden has a provocative piece about the consciousness-changing aspects of the internet at the Financial Times today. Whereas many who discuss this issue come off as techno-Luddites, Aspden seems to both welcome and slightly fear the inevitable future. There’s a bit of Cronenberg’s “Long Live the New Flesh” here. An excerpt: The hyperlink syndrome, the way our minds copy the workings of the internet and flit sharply from one idea to another, means that we have become addicted to the breadth of everything rather than the depth of something. The contemporary mind needs to be elastic and happy to […]

by Scott Macaulay on Sep 19, 2008

Coverage of a Different Kind

The four-to-five week run of New York Film Festival screenings and press conferences each fall functions as something of an annual end-of-summer camp for a certain caste of mostly local film journalists. The series of videos shot, directed, edited by and usually starring Jamie Stuart which document this ritual should be, then, something of a camp yearbook… except that over the years Stuart has only rarely seemed interested in directly documenting the festival itself. He uses the experience of the NYFF — its films, visiting filmmakers both relatively obscure (Hany Abu-Assad, Hong Sang-soo) and unquestionably famous (Warren Beatty, Nicole Kidman), […]

by Jason Guerrasio on Sep 19, 2008

NYFF46 TEASER

With the New York Film Festival around the corner you know it’s time for Jamie Stuart to come out of hiding and dazzle (as well as bewilder) us with his series of shorts from the fest. Below is a teaser he sent. This year’s series will begin on the site next week. Also, new on the Web Exclusives page is a brief essay Karina Longworth wrote for us on Stuart’s previous NYFF pieces.

by Jason Guerrasio on Sep 19, 2008

TED HOPE AT INDEPENDENT FILM WEEK

As the IFP’s Independent Film Week rolls along, there has been quite a lot of discussion around the streets of Chelsea of new paradigms, the role of the independent filmmaker, and creative strategies to reach audiences. I’ve been wearing my producer hat this week, taking meetings at the IFP’s No Borders program. I’ll write a bit more about this experience when it’s all over, but suffice to say for now that it’s been an excellent couple of days filled with energetic and surprising meetings that stand in stark contrast to the torrent of bad news coming from Wall Street and […]

by Scott Macaulay on Sep 17, 2008

MELVIN VAN PEEBLES TO BE HONORED AT GOTHAMS

The IFP announced today that Melvin Van Peebles will be honored with a Tribute at this year’s Gotham Awards, taking place Tuesday, Dec. 2, in New York City. Recognized as the “godfather of independent film and modern black cinema,” Van Peebles wrote, produced, scored, directed, and starred in the landmark 1971 independent film, Sweet Sweetback’s Baadassss Song. He is an Emmy Award winner, a three-time Grammy nominee, and an 11-time Tony nominee. His latest film, Confessionsofa Ex-Doofus Itychfooted Mutha premiered at the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival. As part of the Gotham Tribute, The Museum of Modern Art will present a […]

by Jason Guerrasio on Sep 17, 2008

REMEMBERING DAVID FOSTER WALLACE

I started to write more about David Foster Wallace but scrapped it. For all of its celebrated intellectual brilliance, Wallace’s writing always resolved itself on the simplest, most human terms while still vigilantly guarding itself against the ever present threats of lazy thinking, sentimentality and, as he discusses in the Kenyon address linked to below, our “default thinking.” I can’t summon up anything profound or summarizing about him or the news that he killed himself. I simply direct you to his own writings. There is much on the web today about Wallace, including this round-up of links from GreenCine, that […]

by Scott Macaulay on Sep 14, 2008

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