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Executive Director Anne Hubbell on the Provincetown International Film Festival at 25
Founded in 1999 and situated in the historic arts colony on the Massachusetts Cape, the Provincetown International Film Festival has been a bastion for independent filmmakers and their projects for a quarter of a century, with classics such as Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Cameraperson and Coffee & Cigarettes appearing across its programming. PIFF has also long been known for its established rapport with queer directors (John Waters has returned annually to present awards and host events) and the the LGBTQ+ community that resides in the town year-round. PIFF’s 2023 edition, which begins today and runs through the 18th, is the festival’s […]
by Natalia Keogan on Jun 14, 2023 -
“The Result of On-Camera Conversations Spanning 15 Years”: Christian Einshøj on The Mountains
Shockingly (as the films I adore usually fly under the radar) but deservedly, this year’s winner of the Best International Feature Documentary Award at Hot Docs, first-time feature director Christian Einshøj’s The Mountains, proved to be a prime example of my mantra that the smaller and more specific the story, the more universal the reach. Influenced by Ross McElwee’s Sherman’s March (it thrills me just to type that), and also Jonathan Caouette’s Tarnation, the doc is equal parts oddball charming and emotionally devastating. As the (very specific) logline puts it: “Armed with 30 years of home video, 75,000 family photos […]
by Lauren Wissot on Jun 14, 2023 -
“I’m the Little Boy Believing That There’s a Pony in a Pile of Shit”: Mark Duplass (Back To One, Episode 257)
Mark Duplass is the living patron saint of the indie filmmaker. Honest, simple, modest, positive, affirming about the work, Duplass, first with his brother Jay and now on his own, has become a household name in the film world for producing projects in a DIY style foregrounding authenticity, improvisational humor, and human connection. As an actor, both in his own productions and also series like The Morning Show, he finds a way to keep that homegrown genuineness alive in front of the camera. His latest film, Biosphere, which he co-wrote with director Mel Eslyn, is a true two-hander (with the wonderful Sterling […]
by Peter Rinaldi on Jun 13, 2023 -
“This Work is a Product of Survival”: Lea Glob on Tribeca 2023 Premiere Apolonia, Apolonia
[Editor’s note: Apolonia, Apolonia opens Friday, Jan. 12, at DCTV Firehouse.] Premiering in international competition at last year’s IDFA, where it took top prize, Lea Glob’s (2015’s Olmo and The Seagull) Apolonia, Apolonia is an intense character study of French figurative painter Apolonia Sokol. The Danish director met the artist, who is of Danish and Polish descent, while searching for the protagonist of her first doc while attending the Danish Film School, and then trailed her for the next 13 years. And while the bohemian free spirit, who was raised in a Paris underground theater founded by her eccentric parents (an […]
by Lauren Wissot on Jun 10, 2023 -
“At the End of the Movie You Have Nine Different Deliverables to Time”: Roger and James Deakins on Still Photography, LUTs and Previs
Cinematographer Roger Deakins—CBE, ASC, BSC and recently knighted—and his collaborator and wife, James Ellis Deakins, recently visited New York to talk about his book of still photographs. Byways, published by Damiani Books, is the first book from the two-time Oscar-winning cinematographer. It includes previously unpublished black-and-white photos spanning five decades, from 1971 to the present. North Devon farms, British seaside towns, the deserts outside Albuquerque: Deakins’s singular vision is apparent no matter what the subject. Deakins is known for his collaborations with directors like Denis Villeneuve, Sam Mendes and the Coen brothers. With his wife James he also hosts the […]
by Daniel Eagan on Jun 8, 2023 -
The Gotham and Variety Partner on Variety Gotham Week Amid 2023 Project Market Cancellation
The Gotham (Filmmaker‘s publisher) and Variety announce today Variety Gotham Week, a multi-day event celebrating the Broadway, film, television and audio creative communities, which will take place in NYC from October 2-6. Also announced today is the cancellation of the 2023 Gotham Project Market in accordance with WGA strike rules. Those that have already submitted to this year’s Project Market have been notified and invited to participate in Variety Gotham Week programming instead. Variety Gotham Week programming will include screenings of new films (featuring corresponding events and after parties), panel conversations with relevant arts and cultural figures, the second annual […]
by Filmmaker Staff on Jun 8, 2023 -
Fantasia International Film Festival Announces Second Wave of 2023 Lineup
Fantasia International Film Festival announces today a second wave of titles to screen at the festival’s forthcoming 27th edition, which will take place in Montreal from July 20 through August 9. Screenings, workshops and launch events will be hosted at the Concordia Hall Cinema, with additional screenings located at the Cinémathèque Québécoise and Cinéma du Musée. A first wave of programming for the festival was announced last month, and the full Fantasia 2023 lineup will be announced in early July. Until then, read the full list of second wave titles below or on Fantasia’s official website. Red Rooms Coming to […]
by Filmmaker Staff on Jun 8, 2023 -
“It is Like a Story From a Database That We Are All Implicated In”: Heather Dewey-Hagborg and Toshiaki Ozawa on Their DNA-Themed Short Film, T3511
Art and biology coexist in the work of artist Heather Dewey-Hagborg, who has created images — film, video, sculptural — as well as multimedia performance and process-oriented work that animate with emotional complexity increasingly urgent questions around identity and personal freedom. Much of her work uses DNA as both subject and artistic material, with the artist working herself with genome sequencing and DNA collection as well as exploring the implications of this same work being commodified at scale through consumer-facing companies like 23andMe. What’s particularly noteworthy are the emotional valences she brings to these questions. Neither a techno-thrillseeker or a […]
by Scott Macaulay on Jun 7, 2023 -
Girlblogging: American Psycho
This post is part of a series, Girlblogging. Read the introduction here. Also, in New York, American Psycho screens tonight at the Paris Theater with director Mary Harron present in a tribute to producer Ed Pressman. The orchestral sting slices through the opening credits; perfect drops of blood rain down like vinyl balloons or the forms in a photorealistic painting: taut and shiny, artificially self-contained. When they splatter, the punch line lands. It was a joke all along—not blood, not really, just a false appearance—an emulsion drizzled across bone china; the screen expands to reveal a chef’s knife descending upon […]
by Matilda Lin Berke on Jun 5, 2023 -
Trailer Watch: 25th Anniversary 4K Restoration of Lars von Trier’s The Idiots
MUBI has released a new trailer for the 25th anniversary 4K restoration of Lars von Trier‘s dark comedy The Idiots. The only film that von Trier made under the Dogme 95 “Vow of Chastity” (and the second official Dogme film, or Dogme #2), The Idiots centers on a commune in the Danish suburbs where members aim to disrupt wider “bourgeoisie” society by pretending to have mental and physical ailments in public. It is the second film in von Trier’s Golden Heart Trilogy, preceded by Breaking the Waves and followed by Dancer in the Dark. The Idiots will open theatrically at […]
by Filmmaker Staff on Jun 5, 2023
