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“CRIPS AND BLOODS: MADE IN AMERICA”

Stacy Peralta uses his knack for dissecting counter-cultures to highlight the two most violent gangs in America with Crips and Bloods: Made in America. Since his breakout Sundance hit Dogtown and Z-Boys, about the iconic skateboarders who revolutionized the sport (Peralta was one of the Z-Boys), Peralta has stayed in the alt-sport realm as his second doc, Riding Giants, looked at the history of surfing (it was also the opening film at 04’s Sundance). Now Peralta leaves his comfort zone to look at a world he’s not directly a part of. In telling the story of the Crips and Bloods, […]

by Jason Guerrasio on May 17, 2009

CANNES: MY NEIGHBOR, MY KILLER’s ANNE AGHION

Premiering in Cannes in Un Certain Regard, Anne Aghion‘s penetrating and transfixing documentary, My Neighbor, My Killer, is the culmination of a decade-long filmmaking quest to address one of the most difficult questions facing citizens, communities, tribes, religious groups and ethnic factions around the world today: “Could you forgive the people who slaughtered your family?” In 1994 hundreds of thousands of minority Tutsis were slaughtered by Rwanda’s Hutus, with villager killing fellow villager, cousin killing cousin. The Rwanda genocide has been well covered in the media, but less focused upon has been the Gacaca Tribunals, open air citizen hearings instituted […]

by Scott Macaulay on May 17, 2009

IN THE LOOP TRAILER HARKENS BACK TO ONE OF THE GREATS

Just launched earlier today on FunnyOrDie.com, the trailer for Armando Iannucci‘s biting satire and Sundance fav In The Loop (the film opens in the U.S. July 24) cleverly nods to A Clockwork Orange, which I feel is one of the greatest trailers ever created. As Kubrick’s trailer highlights the debauchery and horror of the film in one minute, the Loop trailer superbly captures the film’s wittiness as well as putting the spotlight on the debut of Peter Capaldi (pictured top right) in an unbelievably disgusting role that’s so vile you can’t help but enjoy every second he’s on screen. IN […]

by Jason Guerrasio on May 15, 2009

Kirby Dick, Outrage

POLICE MUGSHOTS OF POLITICIAN LARRY CRAIG AS FEATURED IN DIRECTOR KIRBY DICK’S OUTRAGE. COURTESY MAGNOLIA PICTURES. Whether his subjects have been small and personal or large and institutional, documentarian Kirby Dick has always dedicated himself to telling important and often provocative stories. Dick was born in Tucson, Arizona, in 1952, graduated from the Film and Video Program at the California Institute of the Arts and subsequently did postgraduate studies at the American Film Institute. He made his directorial debut in 1986 with Private Practices: The Story of a Sex Surrogate, but afterwards segued into television work, taking eleven years before […]

by Nick Dawson on May 8, 2009

SWINTON ON SWINTON

Over at Filmmaker Videos check out Damon Smith‘s interview with Tilda Swinton about her new film, Julia, which opens today, as well as other revealing thoughts about her career.

by Jason Guerrasio on May 8, 2009

TILDA SWINTON, “JULIA”

Perhaps best known for her Oscar-winning turn in Tony Gilroy’s Michael Clayton and the long, fruitful collaboration she enjoyed with the late Derek Jarman, Tilda Swinton has acted recently for David Fincher, Joel and Ethan Coen, Hungarian auteur Béla Tarr, and in Andrew Adamson’s Chronicles of Narnia franchise. Her flinty, fearless performance as an alcoholic outlaw in Erick Zonca’s cross-border thriller Julia, however, truly spotlights the impressive range and cool professionalism of this adventurous, one-of-a-kind screen actress. (She also appears in Jim Jarmusch’s The Limits of Control, which opened last Friday.) We caught up with Swinton in New York to […]

by Jason Guerrasio on May 7, 2009

LARS VON TRIER’S ANTI-CHRIST GETS A SECOND TRAILER

I liked the first trailer for Lars Von Trier’s Anti-Christ a lot, but some people were mixed on it, thinking it looked too much like conventional horror. I don’t agree — or, perhaps, I like the idea of Von Trier doing an out-and-out horror film — but here’s the second trailer, which has a bit more of a psychological vibe. The film opens in Competition this month at Cannes.

by Scott Macaulay on May 3, 2009

WALKING AND TALKING WITH JIM JARMUSCH

Tied to this weekend’s opening of The Limits of Control, the FilmInFocus site (which, full disclosure, I co-edit) has posted quite a bit of content relating to writer/director Jim Jarmusch and the movie. Below is an excerpt from Lea Rinaldo’s documentary on the making of The Limits of Control. FilmInFocus will be posting sections of this piece, and, having seen the whole thing I can recommend it both as intriguing glimpse into Jarmusch and his production method as well as film in its own right. And, also, I interviewed Jarmusch about the movie’s striking score, which is compiled of tracks […]

by Scott Macaulay on May 3, 2009

FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA’S TETRO TRAILER PREMIERES

Francis Ford Coppola’s Tetro, which opens this year’s Cannes Film Festival Directors Fortnight, has just premiered online. The film stars Vincent Gallo, newcomer Alden Ehrenreich, Y Tu Mama, Tambien’s Maribel Verdu, Carmen Maura and Klaus Maria Brandauer, and it is posted below.

by Scott Macaulay on May 3, 2009

Götz Spielmann, Revanche

JOHANNES KRISCH AND URSULA STRAUSS IN DIRECTOR GÖTZ SPIELMANN’S REVANCHE. COURTESY JANUS FILMS. Contemporary Austrian cinema has been dominated by the works of its two best known names, Michael Haneke and Ulrich Seidl, but now the name of the prodigiously talented Götz Spielmann can be added to that list. Spielmann was born in 1961 in the town of Wels, but grew up in the country’s capital, Vienna. As a child he was drawn to film and he began writing and directing in his teens; when he was just 17, he had his first film shown on television. Between 1980 and […]

by Nick Dawson on May 1, 2009

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