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Michaela Olsen
The idea for Michaela Olsen’s exquisitely realized, sweetly shocking stop-motion animated short, Under Covers, was born a decade ago when the New Hampshire–born filmmaker was a senior at the Rhode Island School of Design. She made an artist’s book that was a bit like one of those children’s pop up books. There was a different character on each page, all lying in bed, “and you’d pull down the covers to see the characters and their secrets, then pull up the bed and see more secrets,” she says. Graduating into the “freelance recession world” of the late aughts, she wrote a […]
by Vadim Rizov on Aug 27, 2019 -
Andrew Patterson
“We were building a Trojan horse of a movie,” says writer-director Andrew Patterson. “We had the first few words — ’1950s New Mexico–set sci-fi thriller’ — and then we could stuff that sausage casing with a lot of things nobody expects to find there.” Patterson is discussing The Vast of Night, his eerily hypnotic, formally inventive UFO drama that was the hit of this year’s Slamdance Film Festival. The Vast of Night arrived in Park City having attracted Steven Soderbergh as executive producer, and there it won Slamdance’s Best Narrative Feature Audience Award. Then, just a week after the festival, […]
by Vadim Rizov on Aug 27, 2019 -
Billy Chew
Having premiered in the NEXT section of the 2019 Sundance Film Festival, The Death of Dick Long obtained status as a midnight attraction, complete with ardent, if not secret-keeping, fans. Like the most audacious films of the witching hour, The Death of Dick Long, directed by Daniel Scheinert (half of directorial duo Daniels, 25 New Faces in 2015) and written by Billy Chew, comes complete with a salacious title, jaw-dropping gumption and a shocking twist that’s both comically perverse and in tune with its preceding hysterics. Set deep in Alabama, the film follows two beer-guzzling bandmates who clumsily attempt to […]
by Vadim Rizov on Aug 27, 2019 -
“Every Viewer Can Decide What to Believe or Not Believe, Who to Trust and What to Question”: Avi Belkin on His SundanceTV True Crime Series No One Saw a Thing
Currently playing on SundanceTV, the Blumhouse-produced No One Saw a Thing is a true crime series directed by Avi Belkin, whose unexpectedly riveting Mike Wallace Is Here premiered earlier this year at Sundance (and launched in theaters just last month). It revisits a surreal episode in American vigilante history in which the small town bully of Skidmore, Missouri was shot to death while sitting in his truck, his wife by his side. This occurred back in 1981 —and to this day no one’s been charged. Even though a good chunk of the population witnessed the murder. While this mystery remains unsolved, […]
by Lauren Wissot on Aug 26, 2019 -
“Take Down the Patriarchy in Whatever Small Way I Can”: Sylvia Sichel and Dolly Hall on the Riot Grrrl Classic All Over Me
Last spring, my last Riot Grrrl fantasy unceremoniously came and went. Third-wave feminist trailblazers Bikini Kill reunited to play a few shows in Los Angeles, New York and London—their first time playing together since I was three years old in 1997—and I couldn’t finagle my way into getting a single ticket. They sold out in literally one second, and the original $40-$50 ticket price was already a huge chunk of change for me, not considering that tickets were selling for quadruple times the face value on StubHub. Even after additional dates were added in order to combat the rush of […]
by Natalia Keogan on Aug 26, 2019 -
Brief Encounters: Director Jim Jarmusch on the Poetic Downtime of Coffee and Cigarettes
The following interview with Jim Jarmusch was originally published as our Spring, 2004 cover story, and it is appearing here online for the first time. — Editor “Why do people go to the cinema?” Andrei Tarkovsky writes in a book of essays, Sculpting in Time. “I think that what a person normally goes to the cinema for,” he goes on, “is time: time lost or spent or not yet had.” Time lost, spent or not yet had is the stuff of Jim Jarmusch’s new feature, his ninth, Coffee and Cigarettes. Consisting of 11 short vignettes, all featuring two or three people […]
by Scott Macaulay on Aug 24, 2019 -
End of the Road: Jim Jarmusch on His Johnny Depp-Starring Western Death Trip, Dead Man
The following interview of Jim Jarmusch about Dead Man was published originally in Filmmaker‘s Spring, 1996 issue. It is appearing online for the first time. Dead Man was reissued last year by and is now available from Criterion. In Jim Jarmusch’s new Dead Man, Johnny Depp plays William Blake, a mild-mannered accountant who travels by train across the frontier West to work in a bookkeeping firm run by a crazed, gun-toting Robert Mitchum. When, as in a Kafka novel, the job vanishes before it’s even begun, Blake finds himself a hunted man, pursued for a murder he didn’t commit while […]
by Scott Macaulay on Aug 23, 2019 -
“Is That a Little Too Much Like Scooby-Doo?” Radio Silence on Ready or Not
Opening with a wedding and concluding with some kind of funeral, the horror-comedy Ready or Not is a welcomed late summer season addition. Grace (Samara Weaving) and Alex (Mark O’Brien) are married at the Le Domas family mansion. After the ceremony, the family announces that, as is tradition, they will promptly play a children’s game with (or more accurately, against) the bride, as she is the newest member of the Le Domas family and thus must pass a test. The game is Hide and Seek, and if Grace can make it to morning, she lives. If the Le Domas family […]
by Erik Luers on Aug 22, 2019 -
“It’s a Choice: To Be a Filmmaker or a Human”: Ljubomir Stefanov and Tamara Kotevska on Honeyland
The award-winning documentary Honeyland marks the second collaboration between directors Ljubomir Stefanov and Tamara Kotevska. Set in Bekirlijia, a rural village in Macedonia, it focuses on Hatidze Muratova, who follows ancient beekeeping traditions while caring for her ailing mother Nazife. Despite her efforts to be self-sufficient, political and economic decisions have a profound effect on Hatidze and her ability to survive. Synopses of Honeyland can make it seem like a dull, self-righteous nature documentary. Instead, it’s a film filled with contradictions and narrative reversals. Characters make self-destructive, at times inexplicable choices, often under the guise of kindness and generosity. Hatidze […]
by Daniel Eagan on Aug 22, 2019 -
IFP Announces Public Programming for 41st Annual IFP Week
The Independent Filmmaker Project (IFP), Filmmaker‘s parent organization, announced today its public program during the 41st IFP Week, including a series of over 40 panel conversations, informative workshops and screenings. IFP Week, one of IFP’s signature annual events, will take place in Brooklyn, New York from Sunday, September 15 to Thursday, September 19. The week kicks off on Sunday, September 15th with a series of panel conversations with filmmakers at BRIC, including: Keynote Presentation by Tyler Mitchell, Head of Impact at Imagine Impact “An Exciting Time” – a conversation with the creative visionaries behind TIME Studios, the recently formed premium content […]
by Filmmaker Staff on Aug 19, 2019
