Originally posted as part of our 2011 SXSW coverage, Better This World is nominated for Best Documentary. Screening Times: Saturday March 12th, 11:00am (Vimeo Theater), Monday March 14th, 1:45pm (Alamo Lamar B), Friday March 18th, 2:00pm (Paramount Theatre) Katie Galloway and Kelly Duane De La Vega profile the young political radicals David McKay and Bradley Crowder in Better This World. The pair plotted to disrupt the 2008 Republic National Convention, but found themselves charged with domestic terrorism. Filmmaker: How did you first hear of David McKay and Bradley Crowder? What drove you to make a film about them? De […]

If you went to see Sean Durkin‘s haunting debut Martha Marcy May Marlene over the weekend you’re probably still digesting Durkin’s dark story, the exhausting performance by Elizabeth Olsen and the beautiful cinematography from the film’s DP Jody Lee Lipes. But tucked away in all this is a soothing song delivered by John Hawkes titled “Marcy’s Song.” Playing Patrick, the manipulative leader of the “community,” he wins over Martha with an acoustic guitar and a song from a little-known ’60s folk singer. Jackson C. Frank only released one album in his career, but his life is ripe for a biopic […]

For the second year the IFP‘s Gotham Independent Film Awards will have an Audience Award. Head over to the award’s sponsor, Festival Genius, to select the five films you want nominated. On Nov. 10, the nominees will be announced and you can then vote for the winner. All 29 films vying for the five nominee slots are Audience Award winners from the top US and Canadian film festivals. Get out there and vote! The Gothams take place Nov. 28.  

The IFP have announced the nominees for their 21st Gotham Independent Film Awards. Considered the kick off to awards season, this year’s leaders in nominations are Alexander Payne‘s The Descendants and Sean Durkin‘s Martha Marcy May Marlene with three nominations each. Along with the competitive awards, Charlize Theron, Gary Oldman, David Cronenberg and Tom Rothman will each be presented with career tributes. The full list of nominees are below. The awards will be handed out on Monday, November 28th at Cipriani Wall Street. And from Nov. 18-21 be sure to check out the nominees of the Best Film Not Playing […]

Here’s the new trailer for Jason Reitman’s follow up to Up in the Air. Titled Young Adult, it was written by Diablo Cody and stars Charlize Theron, who is the recipient of an IFP Gotham Tribute Award this year.

The IFP has announced that Charlize Theron, David Cronenberg and Gary Oldman will receive career tributes along with earlier announced recipient Tom Rothman, CEO of Fox Filmed Entertainment, at the 21st annual Gotham Independent Film Awards. Signaling the start of awards season, the Gotham Independent Film Awards honors the year’s top independent films and filmmakers with seven competitive awards: Best Feature, Best Documentary, Breakthrough Director, Breakthrough Actor, Best Ensemble Performance, Best Film Not Playing at a Theater Near You (selected by the editors of Filmmaker) and Audience Award as well as four tributes. This year’s tributes also happen to be involved […]

The trailer for David Cronenberg’s latest, A Dangerous Method, which is about Carl Jung’s relationship with a female patient and his clash with Sigmund Freud, is online. The film stars Michael Fassbender, Keira Knightley and Viggo Mortenson. According to The Playlist, Knightley has a “lengthy neurotic monlogue” that “steals the show.” Indeed, her extreme physical angularity may never have been used to such good effect as it appears to have been used here.

In a press release sent out today, Sony Pictures Classics has announced that they have acquired the U.S. rights to David Cronenberg‘s next film, A Dangerous Method. Starring Michael Fassbender, Keira Knightley, Vincent Cassel and Cronenberg regular Viggo Mortensen, the film follows how the intense relationship between Carl Jung (Fassbender) and Sigmund Freud (Mortensen) gives birth to psychoanalysis. Knightley plays their patient, Cassel plays Freud disciple, Otto Gross. The film, Cronenberg’s 19th, is currently in post production and was shot mostly in Germany by the director’s longtime DP Peter Suschitzky. The composer is Howard Shore and adapted from Christopher Hampton‘s […]

Dee Rees’s debut feature, Pariah, is celebrating its 10th anniversary this month with a free screening and Q&A hosted by the Academy Museum. Rees, who first appeared in Filmmaker when she was selected for our 2008 25 New Faces, was interviewed upon the film’s release by Brandon Harris. That interview, originally dated November 18, 2011, is reposted below. The free screening of Pariah is viewable until May 20. — Editor With Pariah, a buoyant tale of a young, middle-class New York lesbian’s tough coming-of-age amid the class and cultural proxy battles that simmer within black America, lauded newcomer Dee Rees […]