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There comes a time in every star’s career when he or she has to come to terms with the fact that they may not be relevant anymore. Most often actors don’t have to come to this career roadblock as quickly as actresses because, frankly, it’s a sad fact no one wants to write roles for a 30-plus women, though they have no trouble finding roles men that age — except if they are action stars. In the time Jean-Claude Van Damme was roundhouse kicking his way into the worshiping teens in the 90s he was as big a box office […]

by Jason Guerrasio on Apr 27, 2009

CANNES ’09 LINE UP ANNOUNCED

The 2009 Cannes Film Festival lineup was announced in Paris today. Opening the fest will be Pixar’s latest, Up. Notable titles in competition for the Palme d’Or include Lars Von Trier’s Antichrist, Gasper Noe’s Enter The Void, Quentin Tarantino’s Inglorious Basterds, Ken Loach’s Looking For Eric, Ang Lee’s Taking Woodstock and Michael Heneke’s The White Ribbon. Terry Gilliam’s The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, Sam Raimi’s Drag Me To Hell and Lee Daniels’s Sundance winning film Precious (formerly titled Push) will screen out of competition. The full line up is below. Competition Line Up Abrazos Rotos (Broken Embraces), directed by Pedro […]

by Jason Guerrasio on Apr 23, 2009

TRIBECA: ALLEN RETURNS TO NYC WITH WHATEVER WORKS

The Tribeca Film Festival opens its eight year with the world premiere of Woody Allen‘s Whatever Works, marking his return to NYC after a four film absence. Screening earlier this evening at the Ziegfeld in Manhattan (though Allen did show up, sadly he did not introduce the film or do a Q&A afterwards), Allen’s latest work can hardly match his earlier ones shot in his beloved city, so we won’t even go there, instead he constructs an entertaining, conventional (for Allen’s standards) comedy about an eccentric named Boris (Larry David) who describes himself as a “Nobel Prize-worthy thinker” with a […]

by Jason Guerrasio on Apr 22, 2009

DO FILM FESTIVALS MAKE YOU HAPPY?

Over at The New Breed, which is a section of the Workbook Project, a number of filmmakers are engaging in an interesting virtual video panel that discusses the issue of managing expections while traversing the festival circuit. There’s been a lot of talk recently about how film festivals are the new theatrical for many filmmakers whose work will not otherwise see the darkened inside of a movie theater. But is just showing your film at a festival enough? What about a deal? Or about networking? And should one worry about all of these things or simply visit festivals with an […]

by Scott Macaulay on Apr 22, 2009

John Crowley, Is Anybody There?

MICHAEL CAINE AND BILL MILNER IN DIRECTOR JOHN CROWLEY’S IS ANYBODY THERE? COURTESY STORY ISLAND ENTERTAINMENT. Along with Martin McDonagh and Conor McPherson, John Crowley is part of a recent wave of Irish theater influx into film. Born in 1969, Crowley is a philosophy graduate from the University of Cork in Ireland who first became involved in theater as a student, seeing it as a way to get into directing film. He began directing plays in Dublin in the early 90s and was successful enough that already in 1996 he was working in London’s West End. After a few years, […]

by Nick Dawson on Apr 17, 2009

THE ALLEGORICAL DIVIDE OF ERAN RIKLIS’S LEMON TREE

In the new issue of Filmmaker, out next week, I think Peter Bowen has the perfect take on Eran Riklis’s Lemon Tree: it’s an allegory. The question then becomes, what does Riklis do with the allegorical form to make it cinematically resonant and appropriate in dealing with the current state of affairs between Israel and Palestine? Here’s a section from Bowen’s interview with Riklis: Filmmaker: While Lemon Tree was based on a real story, the structure is so specific that it appears to be pure allegory. Rikilis: Once I wrote the first few lines of the synopsis, I thought, “Oh […]

by Scott Macaulay on Apr 17, 2009

Tribeca: Leaner and Nicer

That’s how Stephen Holden opens his preview of this year’s Tribeca Film Festival in today’s New York Times. Beginning next Wednesday with the world premiere of Woody Allen‘s Whatever Works, Allen’s first film in four years set in Manhattan, the 8th edition of TFF will be a smaller and less serious in theme than its previous years, as Holden points out: The 12-day festival’s identity as a hybrid of serious film forum and family-friendly community celebration catering to cinéastes and tourists alike is now firmly established. At Tribeca highbrow meets no-brow with everything in between. Leaner means smaller but more […]

by Jason Guerrasio on Apr 17, 2009

IFP ANNOUNCES DOC LINE UP FOR FILMMAKER LAB

The IFP has just released the ten projects selected for their Independent Filmmaker Lab, hosted by Galapagos Art Space in Brooklyn. For five days this week the filmmaking teams will participate in workshops in which they receive advice on technical, creative, and post-production issues. There are two tiers of mentorship support: via the program’s Lab Leaders who lead each of the five-day-long intensive sessions, and workshop leaders who provide technical, creative and strategic support to help bring films to completion. The 2009 Documentary Lab leaders are producer Lori Cheatle (51 Birch Street) and producer Lesli Klainberg (Paul Monette: The Brink […]

by Jason Guerrasio on Apr 16, 2009

MARCUS HU REMEMBERS WOUTER BARENDRECHT

If you haven’t read Marcus Hu’s remembrance of Wouter Barendrecht, who died unexpectedly last week, over at Indiewire, I highly recommend that you do so. Marcus lovingly captures Wouter’s charm, irreverence, and warmth, and the piece’s headline — “Wouter Barendrecht: A Family Man” — speaks to his ability to make what some people view as just a business instead a global sharing among friends and colleagues. Marcus opens: Wouter cared deeply for his friends and cherished them. His wonderful group dinners were his expression of embracing us, not as work colleagues, but as family. The Fortissimo family he designed with […]

by Scott Macaulay on Apr 14, 2009

GEOFF GILMORE ON HIS TRIBECA ORIENTATION

With the Tribeca Film Festival less than two weeks away, its new Chief Creative Officer Geoff Gilmore posts on Tribeca’s website an essay on his orientation as well as the festival’s — and independent film’s — future. Here’s how he opens: I’ve been at Tribeca for almost a month now, so I guess I can’t claim that I’m still completely frazzled or barely able to follow the complexities of morning staff meetings. Every institution is different, of course, and the familiarity I have with the arenas of independent and global film after nineteen years of operating inside these realms is […]

by Scott Macaulay on Apr 9, 2009

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