In Jamie Stuart’s final episode of his shorts series from the New York Film Festival, things have gotten a little out of hand for our video reporter. But he manages to get an interview with John Landis, whose documentary Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project premiered at the fest. Approximate running time: 4:01. Download the short here by right clicking and choosing Save Target or Save Link. (26M) Please visit Jamie’s site at www.mutinycompany.com.
I walked into the Filmmaker office yesterday and Ben Crossley-Marra and Jason Guerrasio were bent over a computer monitor, excited to come across the news that Fax Bahr, George Hickenlooper and Eleanor Coppola’s documentary Hearts of Darkness is set for a DVD release from Paramount Home Entertainment. As our post didn’t include the studio and director Hickenlooper is a friend of Jeff Wells and a regular poster at Hollywood Elsewhere, Wells posted a skeptical post about the release, wondering why he hadn’t heard it about from George first. Hickenlooper posts in the comments thread below Wells’s piece the news that […]
I’m Not There director Todd Haynes couldn’t be at the Northwest Film Center in Portland for a retrospective screening of his classic film Safe, so he sent the film’s heroine, Carol White, instead. (Hat tip: Film Experience blog.) And here is the trailer for the actual movie:
MATTHEW SUNDERLAND AS KILLER DAVID GRAY IN DIRECTOR ROBERT SARKIES’ OUT OF THE BLUE. COURTESY IFC FIRST TAKE. Some people go through their whole lives searching for what they truly want to do, but those fortunate souls who find their vocation early in life can achieve incredible feats. New Zealander Robert Sarkies made his first film, Snap, Sizzle and Bang, when he was only 10, and by his early twenties his acclaimed shorts Dream Makers (1993), Flames from the Heart (1995) and Signing Off (1996) had played at film festivals around the world. Sarkies made his feature debut with Scarfies […]
In the Fall ’07 issue of Filmmaker Jamie Stuart reviews the Pansonic AG-HPX500P. Here’s some footage he shot with the camera. Download the short here by right clicking and choosing Save Target or Save Link. (28M) Please visit Jamie’s site at www.mutinycompany.com.
Ed M. Koziarski in the Chicago Reader posts a piece about mumblecore auteur Joe Swanberg in the months following his breakthrough film Hannah Takes the Stairs. He goes with the hook of Swanberg still struggling financially despite his mini-stardom (“It hasn’t changed my life at all,” Swanberg says. “I’m still sitting in Chicago wondering how I’m going to buy groceries. I’m not getting phone calls from agents or studios saying, ‘What are you up to?’”), but there are other observations in the piece worth noting. Like this one: Hannah Takes the Stairs grossed a respectable $6,000 on one screen its […]
As the Wall Street Journal pointed out recently, if you want to know what’s going on with the possible Writers Guild of America strike, check out The Artful Writer, the blog published by screenwriters Craig Mazin (Scary Movie 3) and Ted Elliott (Shrek). It’s a great blog with information for writers not just on the strike but also on copyright law, the WGA Minimum Basic Agreement, and lot of other news and info. And it’s most likely seen its traffic spike as the October 30 strike deadline looms. Mazin has been posting a blow-by-blow of the negotiations that’s relatively even-handed. […]
From commercial crab fishing in Alaska, to learning how to become a filmmaker in Peru, Aaron Woolf’s worldly experience makes him an ideal documentarian for PBS. His previous films — Dying to Leave: The Human Face of Global Trafficking, Greener Grass Cuba and Baseball and the United States — all aired on public television, but Woolf is proud to have his latest film, King Corn, get theatrical distribution. “I never wanted to be anything,” Woolf says. “I only knew things I wanted to accomplish in my life. I wanted to build a house, drive cross-country, run for office, shoot a […]
Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl was kidnapped and beheaded in 2002. The heart-rending video of his execution played for the world to see. Five years later, the tragedy comes to a harrowing life in Michael Winterbottom’s A Mighty Heart. Pearl was a journalist with a promising career, a wife, a baby on the way, with family and friends who loved him until one day in the cluttered streets and back alleys ofKarachi,Pakistan, Al-Quaeda terrorists plucked and devoured him. Angelina Jolie melts into the role of Mariane Pearl, his journalist wife, who plays the part with equal amounts of courage […]
Head over to Filmmaker Videos to check out the latest NYFF short by Jamie Stuart, starring Todd Haynes.