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HAPPY THANKSGIVING

Everyone here at Filmmaker wishes our readers a happy and safe Thanksgiving. Thanks for reading us this past year and see you after the holiday.

by Scott Macaulay on Nov 22, 2007

Crispin Hellion Glover, It Is Fine! Everything Is Fine

STEVEN C. STEWART AND CARRIE SZLASA IN DIRECTOR CRISPIN HELLION GLOVER’S IT IS FINE! EVERYTHING IS FINE. Put simply, Crispin Glover is not from here: there is an otherworldly quality to the actor-turned-director’s appearance, manner and aesthetics that make even his friend and mentor David Lynch seem pretty normal. The son of actors Bruce and Marie Glover, he came to prominence in the mid-1980s with performances in Back to the Future (1985) and River’s Edge (1986). Very much treading his own path, he combined a career playing eccentrics on screen with painting, writing books, like Oak Mot (1991) and Rat […]

by Nick Dawson on Nov 21, 2007

TEETH TRAILER

Mitchell Lichtenstein‘s wildly entertaining film Teeth will finally get a theatrical release in February after being one of the most talked about films (and scaring the hell out of ever male who saw it) at Sundance this past January. Here’s the trailer, which just surfaced on the net over the weekend. Learn more about the film here.

by Jason Guerrasio on Nov 19, 2007

IN BRUGES ANNOUNCED AS SUNDANCE OPENING NIGHT FILM

In a release sent out moments ago, the Sundance Institute has announced Martin McDonagh‘s comedy In Bruges as the Sundance Film Festival‘s 2008 Opening Night Film. The film stars Ralph Fiennes, Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson. For those who may not be familiar with McDonagh, he’s an award-winning playwright and this film marks his debut feature. More on McDonagh and the film is in the release from Sundance below. The entire 2008 festival line-up will be announced Nov. 28 and 29. McDonagh’s first foray into filmmaking was with the short film, SIX SHOOTER, also starring Gleeson, which won the Academy […]

by Jason Guerrasio on Nov 19, 2007

WHAT WAS THE TREND AT THE AFM?

According to Mike Jones at Variety‘s “The Circuit,”, it was animals engaging in inappropriate behavior. Click on the link to find Mike’s first videoblog, a report from the halls of the recent American Film Market in Santa Monica.

by Scott Macaulay on Nov 18, 2007

“IN BETWEEN DAYS”

So Yong Kim‘s intimate debut feature about a young teenage Korean girl who tries to adapt to American life and the separation of her parents has been beloved by many since it premiered at Sundance in 2006 (the film caught our attention back then as well, as we named Kim one of our “25 New Faces of Independent Film” in ’06). Shot handheld on DV with no score, the film uses its guerilla mentality to put complete focus on its two main characters, Aimie (Jiseon Kim) and her friend Tran (Taegu Andy Kang), a Korean teen who’s a little more […]

by Jason Guerrasio on Nov 18, 2007

Strikeblogging #1: "A $100 million Dogma ’95 Film"

If you’ve been following the WGA strike, you’ve probably realized that a lot of people on the WGA side are blogging it. There is, of course, United Hollywood, a blog that reports from the WGA side. But there are also several blogs run by active screenwriters. One is John August’s blog where the veteran screenwriter (Go, Big Fish, Charlies Angels) is offering a very personal view of life on the picket line. His daily reports are full of humor, well-crafted observation, and even bits of industry news. Here’s an excerpt of his November 15 entry in which he describes meeting […]

by Scott Macaulay on Nov 16, 2007

Noah Baumbach, Margot At The Wedding

NICOLE KIDMAN IN DIRECTOR NOAH BAUMBACH’S MARGOT AT THE WEDDING. COURTESY PARAMOUNT VANTAGE. If you believe what you read, Noah Baumbach’s films — sharp, witty, poignant and sometimes devastating — are drawn directly from his life. The son of Village Voice film critic Georgia Brown and novelist and film critic Jonathan Baumbach, Baumbach debuted as a writer-director in 1995 with his acclaimed Kicking and Screaming, the first of a number of films made during his twenties about New Yorkers in their twenties. After his second film, Mr Jealousy (1997), Baumbach admits that he got “derailed” and ended up making Highball […]

by Nick Dawson on Nov 16, 2007

BEST FILM NOT PLAYING… SCREENINGS THIS WEEKEND

If you haven’t been over to the Filmmaker Videos section this week, click here to check out the nominees for this year’s Best Film Not Playing At A Theater Near You (special thanks to the IFP for putting the video together). The filmmakers will be present for a series of screenings this weekend at MoMA. Q&A’s will be conducted by the editors of Filmmaker and other members of the selection committee. Get screening times here. The winner, chosen by Filmmaker and the MoMA dept. of film, will be announced at the Gotham Awards Nov. 27. And if you want a […]

by Jason Guerrasio on Nov 16, 2007

SWANBERG LAUNCHES BUTTERKNIFE

If you’ve attended a screening of Frownland (and a couple are coming up this week at MOMA), then you know that writer/director Ronnie Bronstein does a mean Q&A. Hannah Takes the Stairs director Joe Swanberg realized this too and cast Bronstein as the private investigator protagonist of his new web series, Butterknife. It’s being presented by Spout, and there’s a blog and trailer up now. (The series launches in January.) Here’s how Spout describes the project: Forced to deal with the ugly side of people and relationships all day, an unnamed private investigator can’t wait to get home and hang […]

by Scott Macaulay on Nov 15, 2007

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