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A FILMMAKER’S GLAMOROUS LIFE: TZE CHUN

In “A Filmmaker’s Glamorous Life,” online and in our latest print edition, Esther Robinson surveyed a number of filmmakers about the jobs they’ve taken to support themselves when they are not making films. In this blog series we’ll run the unedited responses we received that were then condensed for the piece. Below: Tze Chun. Filmmaker: How did you support yourself during the production of your last movie/movies? What was good/not good about this kind of job(s)? Chun: I didn’t go to grad school, but was committed to making films. So I opted to do a bunch of short-term work rather […]

by Scott Macaulay on Jul 31, 2009

ON THE MAIN PAGE: CHRIS FULLER, THE DARDENNES, AND ARMANDO IANNUCCI

Up on the main page are three web-only interviews of particular interest. The first, posted moments ago, is David Lowery’s interview with Chris Fuller, director of Loren Cass. This no-budget indie (nominated for a Filmmaker-sponsored Gotham Award) is in theaters now from Kino and scored a surprise rave from Nathan Lee in the New York Times. I saw the film a couple of years ago at Cinevegas and was intrigued by its blend of art film aesthetics and documentary style realism. Lowery’s interview really gets at these issues and I recommend it; it’s a great read. Also up is Nick […]

by Scott Macaulay on Jul 29, 2009

Director Chris Fuller on Loren Cass

There’s something to be said about not being eager to please. Chris Fuller’s Loren Cass is an aggressively confrontational debut, all the more so because it is so resolutely restrained in its approach. So seemingly oblique is Fuller’s approach that one feasibly could make it through the entire film and not realize that its subject matter is the aftermath of the 1996 St. Petersburg riots; but on the other hand, that subject matter is so deeply ingrained in the film’s form that it doesn’t matter. Loren Cass doesn’t so much deal with its themes as it ingests them, and then […]

by Jason Guerrasio on Jul 29, 2009

BLOGGING FROM THE SUNDANCE CREATIVE PRODUCING LAB: MYNETTE LOUIE, PT. 2

Here’s our final Sundance Creative Producing Lab blog from producer Mynette Louie, who collects her thoughts after a night’s sleep back in New York. I flew home from the Sundance Resort late last night and just woke up after a 10-hour slumber. The weeklong experience of the Creative Producing Lab and Summit was intense, to say the least! Each day of the four-day Lab and 2.5-day Summit started at 8am and ended at 11pm, and we barely had any breaks. The range of what we covered with our producing advisers — Lynette Howell, Paul Mezey, Mary Jane Skalski, Jay Van […]

by Scott Macaulay on Jul 28, 2009

“BAD LIEUTENANT”: SPECIAL EDITION

When a film is labeled controversial on its release, often times with the passage of time things that made it risqué become tamer, leaving the story less effective. Abel Ferrara’s Bad Lieutenant is not one of those films. 17 years after being released, Ferrara’s disturbing look at a dirty cop (played by Harvey Keitel in one of his most powerful performances) running rampant on the streets of New York City is still as gritty, horrifying and powerful as when it premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 1992. Receiving a much needed special edition, out this week through Lions […]

by Jason Guerrasio on Jul 28, 2009

Armando Iannucci, In The Loop

PETER CAPALDI AND JAMES GANDOLFINI IN DIRECTOR ARMANDO IANNUCCI’S IN THE LOOP. COURTESY IFC FILMS. Scottish writer-director Armando Iannucci has made a slow and steady progression toward becoming a film director. The Glasgow-born Italian Scot originally was planning to become a priest (like Martin Scorsese) but the lure of the entertainment world won out over the less glamorous prospect of a life of piety and celibacy. Iannucci attended the University of Glasgow then studied English at Oxford University, where he discovered his passion for comedy. He next got a job as a radio producer on comedy shows for the BBC, […]

by Nick Dawson on Jul 24, 2009

GOING DUTCH AT EL PASO TACQUERIA

On Saturday night an exclusive dinner was hosted for participants to discuss issues involving alternative and arthouse film exhibition. The IFP’s Danielle DiGiacomo was there, and she files this report. On Saturday afternoon, in the sun-drenched backyard of the El Paso Tacqueria on 104th and Lexington, Rooftop Films, Cinereach, and IFF Rotterdam launched both a new partnership and a new form of the “panel discussion.” As white sangria flowed freely and guacamole was savored, several of independent film’s industry leaders and filmmakers and programmers came together to confab about “New Collaborative Models of Film Exhibition.” At least, according to the […]

by Scott Macaulay on Jul 20, 2009

THOMAS PYNCHON IN A ’60S KIND OF WAY

I stopped by St. Mark’s Bookshop this afternoon and noted that they are remaining open past midnight on Monday, August 3 (until 12:30) to sell copies of the new Thomas Pynchon novel, Inherent Vice, which goes on sale Tuesday. This new Pynchon has snuck up on me — I knew it was coming out but I hadn’t realized so soon. So, Googling I come across the cover, which at first I thought was a joke. It’s got a real Elmore Leonard ’80s design thing going on, or maybe a Carl Hiassen vibe, or, less charitably, as a poster on at […]

by Scott Macaulay on Jul 19, 2009

FILMMAKER’S “25 NEW FACES”

Our press release announcing our annual “25 New Faces” feature has just gone up at Indiewire, and you can read our profiles of the selections on our site here. As I wrote in the editor’s letter for the upcoming issue, we looked at a lot of work this year — maybe too much work, actually — and could easily have made a list of “125 New Faces.” Of the people we finally chose, every person on the list was championed passionately within our editorial team, and each person also seemed to us to be approaching their roles as filmmakers, dps, […]

by Scott Macaulay on Jul 15, 2009

THE YOUNG PERSON’S GUIDE TO EMAIL SUBMISSION ETIQUETTE

Since I posted yesterday about the ways in which journalists might learn to pitch in the future, I suppose I should finally commit to the blogosphere this post about how they should pitch in the present. I’ve been meaning to write this post for a long time, and I haven’t because, frankly, I’ve been afraid to. That’s because the Filmmaker magazine editorial mailbox fills up with about 500 posts a week, and I’ve been hesitant to write something that’s going to increase that in any way. Of course, most of those 500 posts are spam, or press releases that can […]

by Scott Macaulay on Jul 14, 2009

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