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A NIGHT AT THE MOVIES

In an email charmingly entitled “Movie Night with Gaspar Noe,” the IFC Center announces that the “French cinematic provocateur” will be hosting a double feature for the brave: Noe’s own I Stand Alone and Pier Paolo Pasolini’s infrequently screened Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom. (Salo, by the way, is not available on U.S. region DVD. Asealed copy of Criterion’s old disk goes for $566 on eBay, and there’s a brisk business going in Salo bootlegs.) Of I Stand Alone, the critic Jonathan Rosenbaum has written: “Movies don’t get much darker than this, because few of them have as […]

by Scott Macaulay on Oct 3, 2006

NEW YORK, NEW YORK

New York magazine is streaming five shorts screening at the New York Film Festival. Go to the above link to see Benoit Forgeard’s absurdist comedy, The Naked Race; Ariana Gerstein’s experimental documentary Alice Sees the Light; Tom Harper’s comedy about British hooliganism, Cubs (pictured); Faye Jackson’s female-centric horror film, Lump; and Elisabeth Subrin’s tale of intimate encounters, The Caretakers (the latter of which, I’ll admit in a full-disclosure moment, I exec-produced.)

by Scott Macaulay on Oct 3, 2006

BOCCO AT IFC

Indiewire is reporting that Arianna Bocco is moving to IFC. The former acquisitions exec at both Miramax and New Line has, for the last couple of years, been an agent at the Gersh Agency. She’s now been named IFC Entertainment’s New VP of Acquisitions and Production. From Brian Brooks’s report: In her newly appointed role, Bocco is charged with “identifying and pursuing finished feature films that support the company’s overall motion picture acquisition strategy of aggressively growing its theatrical release slate with larger, commercial films,” in addition to “new projects that contribute to a diverse new production slate.” Bocco will […]

by Scott Macaulay on Oct 3, 2006

JAMIE STUART, EPISODE TWO

Over at The Mutiny Company Jamie Stuart has posted the second episode of his hardboiled take on the 44th Annual New York Film Festival. With appearances by Helen Mirren, Stephen Frears and others… Don’t miss it.

by Scott Macaulay on Oct 2, 2006

THE REELER REBORN

Today our friend S.T. Van Airsdale premieres the relaunch of The Reeler, his blog/website devoted to New York City cinema and cinephilia. Stu is now on his own and he’s enlarged the site by adding two new blogs, film reviews and other news to a now bustling main page. From today’s editor’s letter: As mentioned previously, nothing much has changed except that I have accrued extra piles of crap that I will never get done. But it all still pertains to the sphere of New York cinema that you have (hopefully) been following here for a while now, where the […]

by Scott Macaulay on Sep 29, 2006

VACHON RETURNS TO THE BOOKSTORES

Over at Indiewire Eugene Hernandez has an appreciation of and excerpts from Christine Vachon’s new book, A Killer Life. There are many film books out there these days, but Vachon is one of the few people writing them who actually has the real-world experience and successes to back up her advice and opinions. Here’s an excerpt from the book: My strategy is to stay a moving target. I’ve got a reputation for “edgy,” “dark” material — the kind of movie where you’re maybe rooting for the bad guy. I’m also frequently accused of operating with a political agenda. A gay […]

by Scott Macaulay on Sep 27, 2006

JANE, YOU IGNORANT SLUT!

There’s a great point/counterpoint going on over at The Onion’s A.V. Club Blog having to do with whether or not Kelly Reichardt’s Old Joy and Andrew Bujalski’s Mutual Appreciation (pictured) are the future of independent cinema. Or, actually, whether we should be scolded for not ensuring that they are considered as such. First Scott Tobias’s original post, which is entitled “Mutual Appreciation, Old Joy and the Current State of American Independent Film.” An excerpt: …If you care at all about American independent films, you’re required to see these movies…. Watching these movies in short succession was a pretty bracing experience […]

by Scott Macaulay on Sep 25, 2006

MUST SEE TV

Here at Crooks and Liars is the Fox News Bill Clinton clip, which Ray Pride says this about: Why does Fox News’ Chris Wallace hate America? (Rhetorical question.) Every writer who’s been on a beat for years or decades has a few tropes, fixations and straw men they fall back upon on a morning with a touch of the flu: pudding-headed political commentators love to describe dark turns in a pol’s career as “Shakespearean,” which, unless it’s coming from a studied, articulate, passionate former theater critic like Frank Rich, is usually so much bumf drawn from a dip into the […]

by Scott Macaulay on Sep 24, 2006

THE WORD OF GOD

Over on the main page Annie Nocenti interviews the directors of Jesus Camp,, the incredibly fascinating documentary that opened this weekend from Magnolia Pictures. In the piece, co-director Heidi Ewing discusses Magnolia’s strategy to position the film as something of interest to both Christian evangelical audiences and godless hipsters in the big city: Ewing: Eamonn wants to bring the film to Christian strongholds before it hits L.A. or New York. Colorado Springs, Kansas City — they get the movie first. Magnolia is withholding the film from the secular world for one or two weeks. The Evangelicals have time to embrace […]

by Scott Macaulay on Sep 24, 2006

"ARE YOU TALKIN’ TO ME?"

Over at Ticklebooth Ajit Anthony Prem gets ready for Martin Scorsese’s The Departed by trolling YouTube for homemade renditions of Robert DeNiro’s classic scene from Taxi Driver. From Prem’s post: There are were many impersonations of De Niro on Youtube, mostly of the notorious “You talking to me?” scene. The scene was largely improvised by De Niro who clearly was “living the role.” The scene is not as powerful as it once used to be. When Taxi Driver was first released, films resisted getting into its character’s head, to spend alone-time with someone. Before Taxi Driver, scenes were clearly part […]

by Scott Macaulay on Sep 24, 2006

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