Fall 2022
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25 New Faces of Film 2022
Click here to read this year’s edition of the 25 New Faces of Film.
by Filmmaker Staff on Oct 11, 2022 -
The Body Is a Tool
From working in the camera department, I can still picture vividly some of the worn-down bodies I observed between takes: DPs, camera operators, ACs, grips and electricians standing at slightly odd angles, gripping their lower backs with one hand like a scissor jack propping up their spines. Whenever a fellow assistant or operator passed me a rig I didn’t have enough strength to hold properly, I would feel my lower back compensating in a way I knew it shouldn’t, and it wasn’t hard for me to understand that that strain might stick around if I kept it up. I heard […]
by A.E. Hunt on Oct 11, 2022 -
Communication Breakdown: Has the Pandemic Produced a Culture of No-Reply?
https://twitter.com/mynette/status/1499210404756664321?s=20&t=_vGKZshAnf_CbjPNFRK32Q On March 2, 2022, Mynette Louie, producer of award-winning films like The Tale and I Carry You with Me, tweeted out the above complaint, railing against what anecdotally appears to be a lamentable industrywide trend of financier ghosting. Filmmakers and producers across the spectrum of independent film shared similar grievances, pointing to a culture of “no reply” where executives, funders and gatekeepers are either impossible to reach or, after engaging in dialogues, disappear without a trace. While such behavior has always been the case in a business dominated by overworked individuals—with some in the industry notoriously difficult to get […]
by Anthony Kaufman on Oct 11, 2022 -
All That Is Solid Melts Into Air: Ricky D’Ambrose Speaks with James Gray about Armageddon Time
Armageddon Time returns the American writer and director James Gray to his childhood—or at least to a version of it. While its treatment of grade-school-age protagonist Paul Graff (Michael Banks Repeta) and his dealings with the world of grown-ups in and around his home in 1980s Queens, New York, might not be, strictly speaking, autobiographical (Gray has been careful to distinguish between personal and autobiographical filmmaking), Armageddon Time draws upon the filmmaker’s childhood to fashion a story of a boy’s moral and aesthetic education that seems at once thoroughly lived-in and unsentimental. For nearly two hours, we watch as young […]
by Ricky D'Ambrose on Oct 11, 2022
