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moreFILMMAKER BLOG Scott Macaulay
Congratulations to Sundance Film Festival director Geoff Gilmore for receiving the inaugural Sydney Pollack Award at tonight's tribute to Samuel L. Jackson presented by the American Cinematheque in L.A. Anne Thompson has the story at Variety. From Thompson's piece: Cinematheque said the award honors “someone who has been of critical importance and continuing influence in nonprofit film [continue]
Scott Macaulay
Okay, one more music video posting. Via Kottke, who gets a hat tip: In a compilation of 64 videos all shown on the same page, one man recreates "Thriller" -- the beats, the howling, the singing -- all by himself. This is pretty awesome, like Christian Marclay on speed.
Scott Macaulay
At his blog Keef has assembled a tasteful playlist of music videos by feature film directors. Van Sant, Jarmusch, Wong Kar Wai, Sayles, Scorsese, Lynn Ramsay and Gaspar Noe all make appearances. Here are two. "Savoure le Rouge" by Indochine, directed by Marc Caro. "Disapearer," by Sonic Youth, directed by Todd Haynes. Sonic Youth - New Music - More Music Videos
Scott Macaulay
The excellent indie criticism site Hammer to Nail has taken the stratagem of being the first to publish its 2008 "10 Best" list, posting its selection (a baker's dozen of 13, actually) the day after Thanksgiving, when some of us film bloggers were still digesting the previous evening's turkey dinner. The rules: eligible films had to be American narrative films (features or shorts) budgeted at [continue]
Scott Macaulay
I moderated a panel this rainy Sunday afternoon in New York with the five nominees for the Gotham Breakthrough Director Award: Lance Hammer (Ballast), Dennis Dortch (A Good Day to be Black and Sexy), Barry Jenkins (Medicine for Melancholy), Antonio Campos (Afterschool) and Alex Rivera (Sleep Dealer). I'm not a big fan of reading (and writing) panel conversation blow-by-blows, but it was a good [continue]
Rose Vincelli
When leaving Brooklyn on the BQ train, your commute is pleasantly disrupted by the flashing scenes of experimental filmmaker Bill Brand’s “Masstransiscope” (1980), recently restored by the MTA’s Arts for Transit program. Masstransiscope is a 20-second kaleidoscopically colorful animation based on the principle of the zoetrope, a 19th century optical toy. Where in a standard zoetrope, [continue]
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moreFEATURES
For Charlie Kaufman, the whole world fits into Synecdoche, New York. By James Ponsoldt
Bruce LaBruce finds zombies among today‘s reality TV-crazed teens in his latest film, Otto; or Up with Dead People. By Mike Plante
With Zack and Miri Make a Porno, Kevin Smith learns his low-brow brand of humor is no longer considered taboo. By Jason Guerrasio
moreLINE ITEMS
Brian Chirls leans about the differing Red One workflows of Steven Soderbergh‘s Che and Arin Crumley‘s As the Dust Settles.
Scott Macaulay heads a roundtable discussion on the current indie model and what the hopes are for the future of the business.
Or how I “invented” the two-month window and spent six months wanting to kill myself every day. By Jon Reiss
Scott Macaulay talks to Scott Kirsner about his new book and the evolution of technology in film.
moreCOLUMNS
Heather Chaplin explains how Braid became this year‘s indie darling.
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The Road (above), Hal Hartley Book, Music Box, Art of the Modern Movie Poster, Cinema Guild at 40, Independent Film Week.
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FALL 2008
moreTHE DIRECTOR INTERVIEWS 
Nick Dawson
Avi Nesher seems to have had two careers as a filmmaker rather than just one. Nesher's dual identity partly stems from the fact that the Israeli writer-director spent most of his childhood and teenage years in New York and only returned to the country of his birth after attending Columbia [continue]
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Nick Dawson
Since she first came to prominence almost twenty years ago, Ellen Kuras has established herself as one of the most talented directors of photography working today. Film was not Kuras' primary focus when she was younger; the New Jersey native initially attended Brown to study anthropology but [continue]
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How couldn’t you be existential in space? Cut off from Mother Earth, becoming a machine of sorts with only memories of holidays to pass the time? In the lovably lo-fi sci-fi Christmas On Mars, psych rock band The Flaming Lips have invented a straight-to-DVD film that could be a lost cousin to 2001, [continue]
The Talented Mr. Ripley by way of Somerset Maugham, Henry May Long is a drama about two men, Henry May and Henry Long, set in the upper crust and under belly of 1887 New York City. Long is obsessed with the golden child May, and via constant surveillance has come to know his secret debt and drug [continue]
moreFILMMAKER VIDEOS 
In Jamie Stuart's final episode from his New York Film Festival series, Mickey Rourke reflects on the bad time in his career while Jamie learns the present is the best place to be.
To see the whole NYFF 46 series click here.
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FESTIVAL COVERAGE
Following on the heels of the Pusan International Film Festival, the Tokyo International Film Festival (Oct. 18-26), ever wanting to position itself as the "go to" festival for new Asian cinema, seems to get sloppy seconds. Even the newcomer, the Bangkok International Film Festival, programmed [continue]
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