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Czech Dream: The 49th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival
Though the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival bills itself as “the most important film event in Central and Eastern Europe,” such a bold declaration belies the fact that KVIFF is anything but snobby and self-serious. Back in 2011 I covered the prestigious fest, located in a fairytale scenic, spa city – once frequented by Beethoven and Goethe – about an hour-and-a-half from Prague by car. (That would be a BMW, the “official car” of KVIFF, the company having its own “BMW Zone” where you can check out the latest models nearby the ultra-chic Grandhotel Pupp.) Returning three years later I […]
by Lauren Wissot on Jul 21, 2014 -
(T)ERROR Co-Directors Lyric R. Cabral and David Felix Sutcliffe at the Sundance Labs
[Below, co-directors Lyric R. Cabral and David Felix Sutcliffe share their experiences at the Sundance Documentary Edit and Story Labs. For more background on the team, read our 25 New Faces profile from last year.] Lyric: I have closely known the main character of our film for 12 years, and have witnessed, firsthand, many of the salient moments of his lengthy career as an FBI counterterrorism informant. We met while he was active in two separate international and domestic sting operations, and our trusting relationship has always been complicated by both government surveillance and the turbulence of his past. Because of his […]
by Lyric R. Cabral and David Felix Sutcliffe on Jul 21, 2014 -
What’s in the Summer Issue of Filmmaker?
What’s in the summer issue of Filmmaker? Well, first of all, our 2014 25 New Faces, but you already knew that. (If you didn’t, click here and find out who they are.) But there’s a lot more to be found in our print edition. On the cover is Rick Linklater’s chrono-masterpiece, Boyhood. My interview is 5,000 words or so, and maybe the best things about it are just the rhythms of Linklater’s voice and the little bits of filmmaking — and life — wisdom he departs along the way. Our Managing Editor, Vadim Rizov, has been obsessively checking out all […]
by Scott Macaulay on Jul 20, 2014 -
YouTube, We’re Watching You
As I pull up to the front of the convention center, a man in a fluorescent vest struggles with some orange cones. I roll down my window to see if there is room in the parking garage, but before I can ask he says. “We’re full. Twenty thousand people, too many cars. Welcome to VidCon.” As I try to talk, the long line of vehicles behind me begin to honk. Drowned out, I drive off. It was only five years ago that more than 1,400 YouTube creators and fans crammed into a hotel in Century City, Los Angeles. The first […]
by Lance Weiler on Jul 17, 2014 -
“It’s Just a General”: How to Take a General Meeting
At some point in your career, things are going to break your way — you’ll be lucky enough to have your crowdfunded labor of love generate some heat at a big festival. Or your short film will go viral. Or maybe you’ll sell a hot spec or make the Black List. Whatever happens, you’ll land managers and agents, and people in L.A. will want to meet you — and not a minute too soon, because you’re four months behind on rent and need to pay for T-shirts for all your backers. It’s time to meet studio execs looking to hire […]
by Marc Maurino on Jul 17, 2014 -
Super 8
1 Blockchain If a group of computer scientists and financial technicians are right, the mysterious Satoshi Nakamoto’s most-celebrated creation may not be a peer-to-peer technology that lets you buy online contraband — Bitcoin — but rather its underlying invention. The blockchain is a shared transaction database that permits verification without a centralized authority, and VC funds such as Union Square Ventures are already predicting the computer science breakthrough will revolutionize everything from banking to voting to the law. 2 You Won’t Remember Dying Recorded in a single day in 1971, this under-known deep cut from the psych-rock vaults was the […]
by Filmmaker Staff on Jul 17, 2014 -
A Life in the Theater: Philippe Garrel on Jealousy
“We are all very much making Garrel’s film. He would have been happy to film at my place, or right nearby, using my clothes. Not to be realistic but for simplicity’s sake, because none of that counts for much. No colors. Nothing shiny. Elizabeth, the costume designer, and I are sometimes disconcerted by his flat rejections, right down to the stitching (too shiny).” — The Private Diaries of Catherine Deneuve, Catherine Deneuve, 1998 Though arguably less known than his model and actor son, Louis, Philippe Garrel is one of the great French filmmakers. He was considered a prodigy when he […]
by Miriam Bale on Jul 17, 2014 -
Kodak Moments: Rick Linklater on His Award-Winning Long-Game Masterpiece, Boyhood
This interview with Rick Linklater about his Boyhood originally appeared as the cover story of our Summer, 2014 issue. As the film wins Best Picture from the New York Film Critics’ Circle, is is posted online for the first time. Time, along with its cousin memory, are among modernity’s great artistic subjects, with the title of Proust’s masterwork, In Search of Lost Time, articulating the journey of countless authors, playwrights, and filmmakers to creatively capture the sensations and meanings of our rapidly receding past. Among the latter have been directors whose films have reached for these passing years with any […]
by Scott Macaulay on Jul 17, 2014 -
Theatrical, Regained
In 2008, Jake Perlin launched his specialty repertory film label The Film Desk with the first U.S. release of Philippe Garrel’s 1991 I Don’t Hear the Guitar Anymore, a compressed tragic romance doubling as a eulogy for the director’s ex, Nico. Perlin followed with reissues of Charlie Chaplin’s Monsieur Verdoux and Susan Sontag’s Promised Lands. Today, Perlin thinks that adventurous opening trio still represents the kind of movies he wants to reissue. “I go after movies I’m interested in, and part of my interest in them is that I can make prints.” With a few exceptions made for films where […]
by Vadim Rizov on Jul 17, 2014 -
Lily Henderson
“There’s a mood board above my desk that has a map of Las Vegas and then various notes, articles of inspiration, photographs from over the years,” says filmmaker Lily Henderson. “Dead center is a quote from the author John D’Agata that states: ‘I think the reason we’ve never pinpointed the real beginning to this genre is because we’ve never agreed on what the genre even is. Do we read nonfiction in order to receive information, or do we read it to experience art? It’s not very clear sometimes…I am here in search of art.’ And I am very much in […]
by Vadim Rizov on Jul 17, 2014
