One of cinema’s greats, the French director Alain Resnais, died yesterday, March 1, at the age of 91. The director of such landmark films as Last Year at Marienbad, Hiroshima, Mon Amour, and Night and Fog, he premiered his latest film, Life of Riley, just one month ago at the Berlin Film Festival. In 2000, coinciding with a retrospective organized by both the American Cinematheque and the Film Society of Lincoln Center, Peter Bowen wrote the following short essay, and we collected appreciations from three independent directors — Christopher Munch, Keith Gordon and Radley Metzger. It is reprinted below. Perhaps […]...
- 3/3/2014
- by Peter Bowen
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
One of cinema’s greats, the French director Alain Resnais, died yesterday, March 1, at the age of 91. The director of such landmark films as Last Year at Marienbad, Hiroshima, Mon Amour, and Night and Fog, he premiered his latest film, Life of Riley, just one month ago at the Berlin Film Festival. In 2000, coinciding with a retrospective organized by both the American Cinematheque and the Film Society of Lincoln Center, Peter Bowen wrote the following short essay, and we collected appreciations from three independent directors — Christopher Munch, Keith Gordon and Radley Metzger. It is reprinted below. Perhaps […]...
- 3/3/2014
- by Peter Bowen
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
It’s almost that time of year again, as the eyes not just of a sport but of a nation fix on Aintree and the people’s race the Grand National.
Forty runners will line-up for the most unique and demanding challenge in horse racing and the world’s most famous steeplechase is arguably the hardest race of the year to find the winner of from a punting perspective.
Hopefully my runner-by-runner guide will be able to steer you in the right direction though and help you pick out a horse, or several, that will be staying on at the elbow rather than crashing out at the first.
Therefore, in handicap order, here is my runner-by-runner guide to the 2013 Grand National:-
1. Imperial Commander – Impressive Gold Cup winner in 2010, but career blighted by injury since. Excellent comeback run after a lengthy absence when ½ length second to subsequent Gold Cup fifth Cape...
Forty runners will line-up for the most unique and demanding challenge in horse racing and the world’s most famous steeplechase is arguably the hardest race of the year to find the winner of from a punting perspective.
Hopefully my runner-by-runner guide will be able to steer you in the right direction though and help you pick out a horse, or several, that will be staying on at the elbow rather than crashing out at the first.
Therefore, in handicap order, here is my runner-by-runner guide to the 2013 Grand National:-
1. Imperial Commander – Impressive Gold Cup winner in 2010, but career blighted by injury since. Excellent comeback run after a lengthy absence when ½ length second to subsequent Gold Cup fifth Cape...
- 4/5/2013
- by Gareth Bunkham
- Obsessed with Film
Columns Festival Roundup Berlin, Sundance, the AFI, and Rotterdam covered by Jennine Lanouette, Peter Broderick, Holly Willis, and V.A. Musetto Production Update by Mary Glucksman Short Ends Features Fish Stories Holly Willis on Go Fish Pedro On The Verge Of A New Film Peter Bowen talks with Almodovar about Kika In The Kingdom Of The Camcorder Doug Block on tape-to-film transfers The Accidental Filmmaker Gregg Bordowitz’ Fast Trip, Long Drop Crossing The Line A tape-to-film case study by Peter Broderick The Draughtman’S Contract Tips on hiring a production designer from Ted Hope Portraits Of The Artists Production designers Therese DePrez, …...
- 3/2/2013
- by t.k.
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
Columns Festival Roundup Montreal, Thessalonilki, Turino, Tokyo, Toronto and other fall fetes covered by Noah Cowan, David Tracey, and Peter Broderick Production Update by Mary Glucksman Legal Affairs Robert L. Seigel on verbal agreements and the Boxing Helena case Short Ends Winter 1994 Table Of Contents Features What Me, Theory? Peter Bowen thinks about Scott McGehee’s and David Siegel’s Suture and Francois Girard’s Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould Apocalypse Now Jamie Painter unveils Mike Leigh’s Naked Choose Me A roundtable of international festival programmers Too Far For Comfort Nancy Kricorian fills out Atom Egoyan’s Calender Star Trek Marc …...
- 3/2/2013
- by t.k.
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
Columns Festival Roundup Scott Macaulay visits October Films Festival Roundup The Locarno Film Festival, Montreal World Film Festival of New Cinema, and Telluride Film Festival covered by Jonathan Rosenbaum, Jerry White, and Paula S. Bernstein Production Update by Mary Glucksman Legal Affairs Shelley S. Surpin defines the role of production counsel Technology An excerpt from Erik Holsinger’s MacWeek Guide to Desktop Video Imho Mikki Halpin’s true-life stories of filmmakers online Short Ends Fall 1993 Table Of Contents Features In The Company Of Saints Peter Bowen rings up Wittgenstein‘s Derek Jarman Public Access D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus’ The War Room …...
- 3/2/2013
- by t.k.
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
Columns Festival Roundup The Berlin Film Festival, the Sundance Film Festival, and the Festival of New Latin American Cinema covered by Howard Feinstein, Peter Broderick, and Beth Cataldo Production Update by Mary Glucksman Legal Affairs Michael Barnes and Kevin Morris on new securities laws and indie fundraising Technology Marc Schiller explores computer services for filmmakers Words Books on cinematic motion, Godard, and environmentally-correct filmmaking reviewed by Scott Macaulay and Holly Willis Short Ends Spring 1993 Table Of Contents Features Whose Crime Is This Anyway? Peter Bowen on true crime and Nick Broomfield’s Aileen Wuornos Reel Values Directors Peter McCarthy and …...
- 3/2/2013
- by t.k.
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
Britain's Duchess of Cambridge is on strict doctors' orders to stay well hydrated. The pregnant 30-year-old royal will have been instructed to keep sipping water to avoid nausea before being was released from London's King Edward VII hospital yesterday (06.12.12) after four days treatment for acute morning sickness. Duchess Catherine will also be limiting her food intake to small portions of dry food to avoid bloating as well as taking anti-sickness tablets, medical expert Peter Bowen Simpkins tells the Evening Standard newspaper. She currently needs a period of rest and will be looked after by royal doctors Marcus Setchell and Alan Farthing in Kensington Palace. However, Peter, who is the medical director of the London Women's Clinic, warned...
- 12/7/2012
- Monsters and Critics
"'They were experimenting on themselves,' says David Cronenberg, with no small amount of satisfaction, about the psychoanalytic all-stars of his superb new film, A Dangerous Method." Nicolas Rapold's met him and writes up an interview-slash-review for the Voice. "It's the dawn of the 20th century, and we are present for the messy birth of psychoanalysis as handsome, ambitious Carl Jung (Michael Fassbender) puts into practice the radical ideas of his outspoken mentor, Sigmund Freud (Viggo Mortensen), and takes extra special care of his first talking-cure patient, the brilliant, hot, hysterical Sabina Spielrein (Keira Knightley). Trysts with Spielrein and rifts with Freud follow, in a meticulous, electric costume drama of adultery and rivalry, shot through with self-examination and the rippling risks of acknowledging one's own desire."
But Andrew Hultkrans, writing for Artforum, prefers the early scary ones: "The arc of David Cronenberg's career as a director mirrors that of...
But Andrew Hultkrans, writing for Artforum, prefers the early scary ones: "The arc of David Cronenberg's career as a director mirrors that of...
- 11/23/2011
- MUBI
"Most romantic movies are so determined to chart the course of a love story — how boy meets girl leads to happily or unhappily ever after — that they miss the intensity and import of beginnings," writes Dennis Lim. "But the new British film Weekend, like its closest American predecessor Before Sunrise, lingers on the initial sparks of an erotic and emotional connection. As a one-night stand turns into something more, the film explores the notion that to meet someone new, not least a potential partner, is also to rethink who you are, an invitation to shape and refine the self you wish to project. A story about falling in love that is also a tale of identity and self-definition, it is perhaps all the more resonant for taking place between two gay men."
Also in the New York Times, Ao Scott argues that in the wake of recent comedies such as...
Also in the New York Times, Ao Scott argues that in the wake of recent comedies such as...
- 9/23/2011
- MUBI
Amazon has dipped its toe into the subscription streaming-video business, competing with Netflix by turning its Amazon Prime free-shipping service into a source for not just holiday gifts, books and tax-free, two-day-shipped sundries but also movies. It’s obviously a soft-launch for something bigger, and, for those who plunk down their $75 yearly fee for the shipping benefits, a really good deal.
Amazon claims to have launched with 5,000 titles, but one article cited only 1,668 films and 484 TV shows. (The discrepancy was chalked up to counting each episode of a TV series as a separate title.) So, Amazon hasn’t got anything on Netflix with its 11,000+ titles… yet. For now, though, there are some gems in Amazon’s back catalog. Here are 25 Filmmaker-approved movies Amazon Prime members can stream now.
1. Mysterious Skin. Gregg Araki’s adaptation of Scott Heim’s book stars Brady Corbet and Joseph Gordon-Levitt as teenagers who have found...
Amazon claims to have launched with 5,000 titles, but one article cited only 1,668 films and 484 TV shows. (The discrepancy was chalked up to counting each episode of a TV series as a separate title.) So, Amazon hasn’t got anything on Netflix with its 11,000+ titles… yet. For now, though, there are some gems in Amazon’s back catalog. Here are 25 Filmmaker-approved movies Amazon Prime members can stream now.
1. Mysterious Skin. Gregg Araki’s adaptation of Scott Heim’s book stars Brady Corbet and Joseph Gordon-Levitt as teenagers who have found...
- 3/8/2011
- by Scott Macaulay
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Steve James’ Hoop Dreams, Darnell Martin’s first feature, I Like it Like That, experimental filmmaker Eric Saks, and a report on non-linear editing, which was new at the time — those were all in our Fall, 1994 edition. But our big story was our cover — Hal Hartley’s interview of Jean-Luc Godard. Godard was in town for an exhibition of his work, including his new “self-portrait,” Jlg By Jlg. Hartley met with Godard at 9:00Am in his suite at the Essex Hotel, and d.p. and photographer Gabor Szitanyi snapped the smoky shot of Godard we ran. Nothing from this issue is online, but we rekeyed it so I could quote from it here. Peter Bowen’s intro: In the world of independent film, the element of dependence –...
- 8/10/2010
- by Scott Macaulay
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Leading up to our 18th birthday, I’ll be revisiting on the blog one issue of Filmmaker a day. Today’s is Fall, 1993. Peter Bowen interviewed Derek Jarman about his Wittgenstein for our Fall, 1993 cover. Holly Willis interviewed D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus about their doc on the Clinton Presidential campaign, The War Room. And there is still some useful advice in this article by Daniel Einfeld, a producer of the indie hit My LIfe’s in Turnaround, on bartering and production placement. (In the Filmmaker office, this article is kind of infamous for having what is perhaps our worst article design ever, with floating clip-art dollar signs all over the page.) I interviewed Victor Nunez about his Ruby in Paradise, which...
- 8/6/2010
- by Scott Macaulay
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Leading up to our 18th birthday, I’ll be revisiting on the blog one issue of Filmmaker a day. Today’s is Spring, 1993. For whatever reason, nothing from our third issue — Spring, 1993 — made it over when we ported to WordPress. Ted Hope had a lot of material in this issue: an interview with producer-turned-nyc film commissioner Richard Brick; a profile of up-and-coming d.p.’s; and a tutorial on how to break down a script. Also in this issue was Peter Bowen with our cover story on Nick Broomfield’s doc, Aileen Wuornos, a story that in its dramatic retelling would win Charlize Theron an Oscar a full decade later. Of special note in this issue were two pieces on the Sundance Grand Jury Prize-winning documentary,...
- 8/4/2010
- by Scott Macaulay
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Back in 2001 we selected Ari Gold as one of our "25 New Faces" on the basis of his great short films Helicopter and Culture. Wrote Peter Bowen: In the past few years, Ari Gold has been to the Sundance Film Festival more often than most established filmmakers. He arrived in 1997 with Frog Crossing, a short film that he co-directed with Jamie Babbit. Two years later he was back with Culture, a one-minute short that reel.com hailed as the "the best 60 seconds of film at Sundance." In 2000 he returned once more, not as a filmmaker but as an actor in the rave-scene romance Groove. This year he presented Helicopter, a 21-minute mixed-media short film on the death of his mother in a 1991 helicopter accident with her then boyfriend, rock...
- 10/7/2009
- by Scott Macaulay
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Leading up to the Oscars on Feb. 22, we will be highlighting the nominated films that have appeared in the magazine or on the Website in the last year. Peter Bowen interviewed Milk director Gus Van Sant for our Gotham Independent Film Awards special section in the Fall '08 issue. Milk is nominated for Best Picture, Best Director (Gus Van Sant), Best Original Screenplay (Dustin Lance Black), Best Actor (Sean Penn), Best Supporting Actor (Josh Brolin), Best Original Score (Danny Elfman), Best Editing (Elliot Graham) and Best Costume Design (Danny Glicker). In the early ’70s as a student at the Rhode Island School of Design, Gus Van Sant made a momentous decision. He changed his major from painting to film. But Van Sant didn’t leave...
- 2/13/2009
- by Jason Guerrasio
- Filmmaker Magazine_Web Exclusives
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