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MAN ONLINE

One of the past year’s best shorts is now online, courtesy of New York Magazine’s Vulture. I’m not sure I’d describe Myna Joseph’s Man as the tale of “creepy sisters into the woods,” but it does beautifully capture a particular and not often seen on screen sisterly dynamic having to do with burgeoning sexuality, competition and love. Here’s what Brandon Harris wrote about Joseph when we selected her for our “25 New Faces List”: A simple and startling premise, the rivalry that exists between sisters, especially when a strange, cute boy is involved, grows into an arresting account of female […]

by Scott Macaulay on Oct 17, 2008

55,000 VIDEOS IN SEARCH OF A GOOD HOME

Via Jeremiah’s Vanishing New York blog comes this sad notice: the East Village’s Mondo Kim’s will be closing, and Mr. Kim is searching for some organization to take the store’s collection of 55,000 videos. (Hat tip: Movie City News.) From the blog: In posters on display at Mondo Kim’s, he writes to say that, due to “rapidly declined” financial resources, he is seeking a sponsor to take on his entire collection of 55,000 films. The flyer goes on to say that he plans to close the rental department of his business and hopes to ensure that the collection will still […]

by Scott Macaulay on Oct 14, 2008

KIRSNER REPORTS FROM THE DOC VANGUARD

CinemaTech’s Scott Kirsner sent me an email alerting me to a really interesting project he’s done with ITVS. From his email: Earlier this year, ITVS asked me to interview a group of documentary filmmakers who were working on the vanguard. Specifically, we wanted to focus on three things: 1. Opening up production in new ways, communicating and collaborating with the audience while a film is still in the works. 2. Distributing in new ways, through avenues like iTunes or downloads on a filmmaker’s own Web site 3. Marketing and cultivating an audience for the work in new ways, and figuring […]

by Scott Macaulay on Oct 13, 2008

"YOU CAN’T CALL IT ‘THESE PEOPLE’"

Over in Director Interviews, Nick Dawson interviews Marianna Palka, writer/director of the Sundance Competition film Good Dick, which opens this weekend in Los Angeles at the NuArt and then rolls out to other cities around the country. (New York opens next weekend at the Sunshine.) In it she explains the title, saying, “It’s like titling a poem or something. You have to title it, you can’t just call it ‘These People.’” From the piece: Filmmaker: The film tackles the subject of dislocation and the difficulty of connecting with people in L.A. Palka: Right, and everybody’s so isolated in their car. […]

by Scott Macaulay on Oct 8, 2008

PLEASURE PROMO

As you might have noticed from Scott’s post yesterday, we really like Joshua Safdie‘s The Pleasure of Being Robbed. So we have no shame in letting you know again. Head over to our Filmmaker Videos section where Evan Louison and David Woolner of Coin-Op Pictures have sent us a promo they co-directed for the film. It opens today at the IFC Center in New York. But in all honesty, Robbed was one of our favorites from this year’s fest circuit and hope it does well.

by Jason Guerrasio on Oct 3, 2008

THE PLEASURE OF BEING ROBBED IN THIS WEEK’S NEWSLETTER

Every week newsletter subscribers receive an email from us in which we link to key stories from the blog and the website from the previous seven days, highlight various pieces of news and festival deadlines, and in which I write a brief Editor’s Letter. I tend to write stuff that I don’t post elsewhere on the site or in the magazine, and it’s free to join — just subscribe by typing your email address in the box at the left. I’m posting below the letter from this week’s newsletter as I used it to plug two great movies opening this […]

by Scott Macaulay on Oct 2, 2008

A Thousand Phoenix Rising

Following is the text for Ted Hope’s keynote address at the Film Independent Filmmaker Forum on September 27, 2008. Thanks to Ted for allowing us to reprint his speech. A THOUSAND PHOENIX RISING How The New Truly Free Filmmaking Community Will Rise From Indie’s Ashes I can’t talk about the “crisis” of the indie film industry. There is no crisis. The country is in crisis. The economy is in crisis. We, the filmmakers, aren’t in crisis. The business is changing, but for us –us who are called Indie Filmmakers — that’s good that the business is changing. Filmmaking is an […]

by Jason Guerrasio on Sep 27, 2008

TED HOPE ON A TRULY FREE FILM CULTURE

Over on our Web Exclusives page I’ve posted Ted Hope’s just-concluded keynote address at the Film Independent Filmmaker Forum. Please read at this link and post comments if you have them. Here’s how he opens: I can’t talk about the “crisis” of the indie film industry. There is no crisis. The country is in crisis. The economy is in crisis. We, the filmmakers, aren’t in crisis. The business is changing, but for us –us who are called Indie Filmmakers — that’s good that the business is changing. Filmmaking is an incredible privilidge and we need to accept it as such […]

by Scott Macaulay on Sep 27, 2008

Matt Wolf, Wild Combination: A Portrait Of Arthur Russell

A REENACTED SHOT OF ARTHUR RUSSELL ON THE STATEN ISLAND FERRY FROM DIRECTOR MATT WOLF’S WILD COMBINATION: A PORTRAIT OF ARTHUR RUSSELL. COURTESY PLEXIFILM. Some people age more quickly than others, and Matt Wolf – both in person and in his work – displays a confidence and maturity that belie his tender years. Twenty-six-year-old Wolf was born and raised in San Jose, California, and spent much of his teenage years watching movies. He won a full-tuition fellowship to study film at NYU, where he made a number of shorts including Smalltown Boys (2003), an experimental biopic about AIDS activist David […]

by Nick Dawson on Sep 26, 2008

IFP LAUNCHES "FIRST WEEKEND" SERIES

IFP announced today the launch of First Weekend, a new program that seeks to connect audiences directly with new independent films. The first film profiled in the series will be Lance Hammer‘s Ballast. From the release: “First Weekend” series will be a quarterly program designed to guarantee sold out shows during a self-distributed film’s opening weekend. In purchasing a $25 ticket and supporting the series, audiences are directly supporting truly independent films and filmmakers. The full box-office proceeds will go directly toward the film’s theatrical run. The audience also gets to join in a post screening conversation hosted by a […]

by Jason Guerrasio on Sep 23, 2008

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