6576 Results for “production”
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Steering Away From “Ooga-Booga” Horror Movies: John McNaughton on The Harvest
In 1985, a pair of brothers who owned a video equipment rental business in Chicago offered local filmmaker John McNaughton $100,000 in financing if he could come up with a low-budget horror movie. They probably got a little more than they bargained for when McNaughton delivered Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, a chilling (though also blackly comic) character study loosely based on the experiences of real life sociopath Henry Lee Lucas. McNaughton eschewed slasher movie conventions in favor of an ultra-realistic, serious-minded film with no escape hatch for the audience; one of the greatest cinematic representations of the banality […]
by Jim Hemphill on Aug 19, 2015 -
Right Then, Right Now: The Locarno Film Festival 2015
Considering last year’s Locarno Film Festival presented what turned out to be some of the best films of 2014 – Lav Diaz’s From What Is Before, Pedro Costa’s Horse Money, Martín Rejtman’s Two Shots Fired and Matías Piñeiro’s The Princess of France – artistic director Carlo Chatrian had a lot to live up to in his third year of tenure. Unbelievably, when the program of the festival’s 68th edition was announced, the main competition featured an even more impressive selection of auteurs. Though the extremely high expectations weren’t quite met, it was nevertheless an excellent year, and for every disappointment […]
by Giovanni Marchini Camia on Aug 19, 2015 -
Shooting A New Feature on Super 8: Director Matthew Wade on the Three Years It Took to Complete How the Sky Will Melt
Matthew Wade‘s How the Sky Will Melt premieres September 1st on NoBudge.com. In this guest post, he explains the difficulties of shooting a Super 8 feature and completing post-production over the course of the last three years. There are two questions I’ve become all too familiar with since prepping my first feature film, How the Sky Will Melt, three years ago (principal photography took place October 2012). The first and most common were “Are you crazy?” The question is not asked because I want to make a movie, or even a feature length movie, nor even necessarily that I’m choosing […]
by Matthew Wade on Aug 18, 2015 -
Mother Load: Xavier Dolan’s Tom at the Farm
I have the romantic’s weakness for tales of thwarted opportunities in the relationship department. Saddest and most frustrating are those for whom faulty communication, intentional or otherwise, generates the lion’s share of the blame. Ever read Poe’s short story “The Purloined Letter?” It involves theft, blackmail, a woman of royal lineage — it’s opiated Poe, what do you expect? — but we Little People can suffer in our more ordinary ways from the exchange of tainted information. I use the word exchange purposely: The action pains not only the victim, but the perp as well. Quebecois director Xavier Dolan puts […]
by Howard Feinstein on Aug 14, 2015 -
Samyang/Rokinon Announce New Cine Lens Line: XEEN
Samyang [also sold under the Rokinon brand] attracted quite a bit of attention from budget filmmakers when it started selling its budget line of “Cine” lens. These were their traditional still lenses with standard geared focus and aperture rings, de-clicked aperture ring, and remarking for T stops rather than F stops. The lenses received generally positive reviews from users — particularly as they provide a good mix of image quality/construction for the price. They are, however, fully manual lenses, with no auto-focus support or image stabilization built in. But adding teeth to the focusing ring of a lens doesn’t truly, a […]
by Michael Murie on Aug 13, 2015 -
Music Video: Lana Del Rey, “High by the Beach,” Directed by Jake Nava
What was that Godard (or Griffith) line, “All you need to make a movie is a girl and…”? Lana Del Rey’s latest music video, “High by the Beach,” has just dropped, and it’s got a kind of Zabriskie Point-era Antonioni meets Andy Sidaris thing going on, with lovely handheld camerawork, a trendily minimal beachside house location (“no” production design is the new production design) and a blast of a finish.
by Scott Macaulay on Aug 13, 2015 -
How to Fake a Movie That Takes Place Entirely on a Laptop: DP/Producer Adam Sidman on Unfriended
My gripe with most found footage horror films is that the subgenre strips away so many of a filmmaker’s paintbrushes in the name of verisimilitude. Score, editing, composition and lighting are sacrificed at the altar of faux reality. Unfriended strains under some of those same constraints, but the film diverges in the way it uses perspective. Instead of limiting point of view to a single shaky handheld camera wielded by one of the characters, Unfriended unfolds entirely on the Mac laptop of Blaire, a high schooler who, along with five or her friends, is terrorized by the spirit of a […]
by Matt Mulcahey on Aug 13, 2015 -
“I Was Getting Hate Mail Before I Even Started Shooting”: Keith Gordon on The Singing Detective
Writer-director Keith Gordon had one of the best film schools imaginable in the late ’70s and early ’80s, when he broke into the business as an actor and appeared in several now classic movies including All That Jazz, Dressed to Kill, and Christine. He must have learned quite a bit watching the likes of Fosse, De Palma, and Carpenter direct, because his own filmography is one of the most consistent in all of contemporary American cinema. Gordon has directed five features to date, every single one of which is an uncompromised treasure – and each one is different from the […]
by Jim Hemphill on Aug 12, 2015 -
New York Film Festival 2015 Announces Its Main Slate
Straight from the Film Society of Lincoln Center’s admirably thorough press release, here’s the main slate of this year’s New York Film Festival — 26 films strong, heavy on Cannes titles, and with Steven Spielberg’s second ever appearance in the fest (following the work-in-progress surprise screening of Lincoln in 2012). Opening Night The Walk Robert Zemeckis, USA, 2015, 3-D DCP, 100m Robert Zemeckis’s magical and enthralling new film, the story of Philippe Petit (winningly played by Joseph Gordon-Levitt) and his walk between the World Trade Center’s Twin Towers, plays like a heist movie in the grand tradition of Rififi and Bob le flambeur. Zemeckis […]
by Vadim Rizov on Aug 12, 2015 -
Trailer Watch: Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight
After a much ballyhooed pre-production script leak, The Hateful Eight is set to hit theaters Christmas Day from The Weinstein Company. Here is the first official trailer for Quentin Taratino’s eighth feature film, starring regulars Samuel L. Jackson, Michael Madsen and Tim Roth, alongside Kurt Russell, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Bruce Dern and Demian Bichir as a motley crew of snowbound bounty hunters in post-War Wyoming.
by Sarah Salovaara on Aug 12, 2015
