Miranda July
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MIRANDA JULY SHOWS YOU HOW TO BE MORE PRODUCTIVE
Productivity systems are a booming cottage industry, and while the commercial ones are aimed at businesspeople, artists are fascinated with them just as much. I met an artist/writer/actress the other night and we more or less geeked out on what productivity system we favored, debating the merits of the Four-Hour Work Week vs. Getting Things Done. At the website Nowness today, Miranda July tackles the issue of productivity in a deleted scene from her most recent film, The Future. It’s been recut and newly scored by David Byrne, and it might offer you some insight into your own patterns of […]
by Scott Macaulay on Nov 3, 2011 -
MIRANDA JULY’S FIVE FINGER DISCOUNT
Miranda July’s short recollection of being a teenage shoplifter is online at the New Yorker. She begins: I don’t remember the first time I did it, but I remember the first time I got caught. I was a freshman at U.C. Santa Cruz, the store was called Zanotto’s, the item was Neosporin. I took it out of its packaging, bent down as if to scratch my ankle, and then wedged the tube of triple-antibiotic ointment into my white ankle sock. When the guard grabbed my arm, I was so scared I peed on the floor. As we waited for the […]
by Scott Macaulay on Oct 12, 2011 -
Miranda July @IFC Center and On the Beach
“Some people look more like themselves with the photo filters on,” wrote one person on my Instagram. Snapped last night in back of the IFC Center, where I moderated Miranda July’s talk on the early short films of Jane Campion. And, at this link, July dancing on the beach in front of Sam Taylor-Wood’s camera. (Unfortunately, this New York Times video is not embeddable.) It’s a funny clip when you see the photo of Miranda on the cover of this Sunday’s New York Times Magazine. July’s new feature, The Future, opens in two weeks at the IFC Center, and it […]
by Scott Macaulay on Jul 15, 2011 -
WIM WENDERS + MIRANDA JULY IN A BERLIN CITY SYMPHONY
As Filmmaker readers know from our Jamie Stuart festival coverage, we prefer cinematic approaches to fest reportage over point-and-shoot talking heads. (Although expect none of the former and more of the latter from me at SXSW this week.) Jamie has his very distinct style, and via Nowness, it’s nice to see another set of filmmakers doing something different with festival coverage. From the site: For today’s exclusive story, NOWNESS contributors and filmmaking partners Carlo Lavagna and Roberto de Paolis set out to chronicle the 61st annual Berlin International Film Festival—and came away with a highly imaginative tribute to the host […]
by Scott Macaulay on Mar 10, 2011 -
Jamie Stuart’s Sundance Masterpiece
From the shards of our experience shooting interviews and seeing movies at Sundance 2011 comes Jamie Stuart’s “Masterpiece.” With appearances by: Miguel Arteta, Alrick Brown, David Carr, Paddy Considine, Nekisa Cooper, Phife Dawg, Danfung Dennis, Andrew Donsunmu, Sean Durkin, Liz Garbus, Paul Giamatti, Megan Griffiths, Colin Goddard, Rutger Hauer, John Hawkes, Azazel Jacobs, Miranda July, Tom McCarthy, Peter Mullan, Adepero Oduye, Elizabeth Olsen, Jessica Oreck, Lindsay Pulsipher, Michael Rapaport, Calvin Reeder, Dee Rees, Amy Seimetz, Kim Wayans, Vilmos Zsigmond. Shot on the Canon 7D. Download the Quicktime here. (Contains adult language — NSFW.) Look for the longer edits of these […]
by Scott Macaulay on Feb 7, 2011 -
FACES FROM SUNDANCE ’11
Here we highlight the stills Jamie Stuart took while shooting interviews for the site. Check out his videos from Sundance here.
by Jason Guerrasio on Jan 31, 2011 -
PARK CITY CRITIC’S NOTEBOOK #2: BEATS, RHYMES, ODDBALLS
After its first weekend has drawn to a close, the 2011 Sundance Film Festival has seen a flurry of buying activity from movies both expected to sell for significant amounts (Jesse Peretz’s My Idiot Brother, which went to the Weinstein Company for $7 million) and movies no one expected to go for as much as they did (Drake Doremus‘ Like Crazy, which without a significant movie star in it went for $4 million to Paramount). While I haven’t seen either film, they both seem to have both their admirers and detractors. In a U.S. Dramatic Competition heavy on formally ambitious […]
by Brandon Harris on Jan 25, 2011 -
MIRANDA JULY AT SUNDANCE ’11
In our first video interview from the 2011 Sundance Film Festival we sit down with Miranda July to talk about her latest film, The Future.
by Jason Guerrasio on Jan 23, 2011 -
The Future Director Miranda July
Known as a West coast performance and video artist in the decade before her 2005 award-winning debut feature, Me and You and Everyone We Know, Miranda July seems to jump effortlessly from one medium to another. Her collection of short stories — No One Belongs Here More Than You — won the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award in 2007, and more recently she designed an interactive sculpture garden that was on view in the 2009 Venice Biennale before moving to Union Square this past summer. At this point, there are very few career moves for Miranda July that would […]
by James Ponsoldt on Jan 22, 2011 -
MAHONEY, JULY SELECTED FOR BERLIN COMPETITION
Several of the films that will appear in Competition at this year’s Berlin Film Festival were announced today, and I couldn’t be happier to see two anticipated films by two of our “25 New Face” filmmakers on the list. Miranda July will be traveling from Sundance to Berlin with her new movie, The Future, and first-time filmmaker Victoria Mahoney will be debuting with her Yelling to the Sky. I’m particularly thrilled to see Victoria’s film there because the project was part of the IFP Narrative Lab this year, for which I was a mentor. I saw the film at the […]
by Scott Macaulay on Dec 15, 2010
