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EVOLUTIONARY THINKING

I just caught up with Nicholas Carr’s thoughtful and resonant “Is Google Making Us Stupid” in the July/August issue of The Atlantic. His initial description of a new kind of malady will strike a chord with many who spend a good deal of time on the ‘net: Over the past few years I’ve had an uncomfortable sense that someone, or something, has been tinkering with my brain, remapping the neural circuitry, reprogramming the memory. My mind isn’t going—so far as I can tell—but it’s changing. I’m not thinking the way I used to think. I can feel it most strongly […]

by Scott Macaulay on Aug 10, 2008

TRANSITIONING VETERANS TO CIVILIAN LIFE

Filmmakers Amy Seimetz and Kelly Parker have created a short video for the nonprofit organization Veterans in Transition. Here’s an email we received from Amy, and the video is embedded below. Kelly Parker and I made a video for a nonprofit called The VET Foundation. It is an organization that helps soldiers returning from the war transition back into civilian life. Whether you are for the war or against it, the fact is their are men and women coming back either injured physically, suffering from a traumatic brain injury and/or coping with PTSD. The government does not have and effective […]

by Scott Macaulay on Aug 10, 2008

BATMAN FIGHTS THE NEO-CONS

I was late to see Chris Nolan’s The Dark Knight, only catching up to this astonishing and unexpectedly grim film this past week. It’s probably the first action film I’ve ever seen that’s exhausted me not by the intensity of its fight sequences but by its embedding of specific moral and philosophical dilemmas in all of its significant set pieces. Because I hadn’t seen the film, I avoided reading a lot about it, which means I missed the various pieces that have either celebrated (as in Andrew Klavan’s Wall Street Journal piece) or decried (as in Dave Kehr’s review) the […]

by Scott Macaulay on Aug 9, 2008

25 NEW FACES UPDATE #4

Here’s the fourth of our catch-ups with previous “25 New Faces” filmmakers. If you’ve been on the list and haven’t sent us an update, you can still email one to editor.filmmakermagazine AT gmail.com.Laura Colella, writer/director, 2000: In 2000, I was gearing up for the Sundance Directing & Screenwriting Labs with my 2nd feature project Stay Until Tomorrow. After the amazing lab experience, I spent over a year trying in vain to get a company or established producer behind the project. Amy Geller, a great young producer, signed on. We set a date, were offered many substantial donations of equipment and […]

by Scott Macaulay on Aug 9, 2008

HOW TO GET YOUR INDIE FILM ON iTUNES

…the short answer provided by Scott Kirsner at his CinemaTech blog: “It’s not easy.” Still, Kirsner lays out the options in a comprehensive blog post in which he names all the various aggregators who sell content on Apple’s market-leading download service, discusses their various terms, and provides contact info links. Essential.

by Scott Macaulay on Aug 9, 2008

MAN ON WIRE REMAKE?

Over at The Circuit, Mike Jones reveals the possibility of a remake of the summer box office darling Man On Wire. According to him, Robert Zemeckis has the rights and could do a motion capture remake in the same style as The Polar Express and Beowolf. Man On Wire is one of the most powerful films I’ve seen this year and James Marsh‘s use of archival footage, the charisma of Philippe Petit and clever recreated scenes makes the doc more than, well, a doc, but a thrill ride. I can’t imagine why a remake is waranted, or how it could […]

by Jason Guerrasio on Aug 8, 2008

ENJOY THE DOG DAYS AT HULU

I’ve been hooked on the free streaming video site Hulu the whole summer. And not just because I can watch episodes of The A-Team whenever I get a B.A. Baracus craving. Since June they’ve launched a new movie or TV show every weekday in their Days of Summer series (it ends in a few weeks). Today they premiered The Taking of Pelham One Two Three. Not one of my favorites, but for the most part I’ve been impressed by their taste: Lost In Translation, The Three Stooges collection, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, (and that was just the first […]

by Jason Guerrasio on Aug 8, 2008

EBERT SMILES ON FROWNLAND

Ronnie Bronstein’s Frownland opens this weekend at Facets Cinematheque in Chicaco, and Roger Ebert has written an extraordinary review in the Chicago Sun Times. After opening graphs where he describes the uncompromising nature of the film and the storyline, he ends with this: Now why would you want to see this film? Most readers of this review probably wouldn’t. I’m writing for the rest of us. It is a rebirth of the need for expression that inspired the American independent movement in the first place, 50 years ago. It was written, directed and edited by Ronald Bronstein, who had a […]

by Scott Macaulay on Aug 8, 2008

SEEING RED

Directors Bradley Rust Grey and So Yong Kim just directed a short film for the Museum of Chinese in America Chinatown Film Project. Grey also acted as d.p. and shot the film on the new Red camera — the same camera Steven Soderbergh used to shoot his recent CHE. Grey plans to use the Red to shoot his next feature, which should begin this fall, and was kind enough to send us this entry for the blog in which he quickly summarizes his impressions of the experience. I haven’t written a blog before. So I’m just sort of thinking of […]

by Scott Macaulay on Aug 7, 2008

OH, TARANTINO…

First you announce that you’re done teasing us and have begun the remake of The Inglorious Bastards, now you dangle a Faster, Pussy Cat! Kill! Kill! update… with Britney Spears attached!!! Well, that’s the rumor on Ann Thompson’s blog and the blogsphere has been salivating about it since. Whether this is a calculated PR move by the Britney camp to actually get a project off the ground or just another one of QT’s chances to go nuts and remake every Grindhouse title that’s on his shelf, if I can be serious of a second, I do think this would really […]

by Jason Guerrasio on Aug 7, 2008

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