Sundance Film Festival 2010

The Guide

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  • IN THEATERS: Gigante opens at Nuart in LA Fri.

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VIEWING ZEITGEISTS AND THE BEST U.S. INDIES OF THE DECADE
By Jason Sanders

To try to recall your favorite films from an entire decade (and then to limit them to only ten titles) is to immediately set yourself up for uncertainty and ridicule: first off because it's hard enough to remember what you saw ten days ago, much less ten years ago, and secondly because to limit [continue]

IT WAS THE AUGHTS, AND I WENT TO THE MOVIES
By Brandon Harris

It was the aughts, and I went to (and made a few) movies. I did it mostly for pleasure, sometimes for distraction, often to see what others thought of the wild world around us; by the end, I did it simply because it was the only way I saw fit to make a living (sort of). It was a bell curve of [continue]

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DIRECTOR INTERVIEWS

LEE CHUNG-RYOUL, OLD PARTNER

Damon Smith
Topping the Korean box office is no small feat for a first-time filmmaker, given the perennial offerings of sassy romantic comedies and vivid, attention-grabbing genre flicks from this nation’s impressive stable of film artists. It’s even more improbable when you’ve made a no-frills [continue]

CORNELIU PORUMBOIU, POLICE ADJECTIVE

Brandon Harris
Cornelieu Porumboiu’s absurd anti-policier Police, Adjective, a hit at last fall's New York Film Festival, has pushed the Romanian director into the forefront of a young group of Romanian filmmakers who have in the past four years taken the world of International Art Cinema by storm. Along with [continue]

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OUR VIDEOS

ISN'T SHE?...

Jamie Stuart uses the latest edition of Apple's Final Cut Studio to create the short Isn't She?..., an ode to John Hughes that follows a day in the life of Claire (Lauren Currie Lewis) as she tries to claim unemployment insurance.

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FESTIVAL COVERAGE

HAWAII INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
By Jason Sanders

The 29th edition of the Hawaii International Film Festival (Oct. 15-25) kicked off with its usual blend of sun-kissed island charm and formal glamour; a sunset opening party at the historic Royal Hawaiian Hotel, steps from the beaches of Waikiki, seemed like some stage-managed idea of what “the [continue]

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THE BLOG

THE 25 BEST AMERICAN INDEPENDENT FILMS OF THE DECADE

Scott Macaulay
Concluding a decade in which specialty film distribution boomed and busted, and in which the identity and composition of filmed entertainment itself was challenged, perhaps it's not surprising that David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive, the ultimate unstable cinematic text, wound up on top of Filmmaker Magazine’s Editor’s Poll of the Best American Independent Films of the ’00s. Begun as [continue]

AVATAR: THE MAKING OF THE BOOTLEG

Scott Macaulay
Hollywood can compete, but the pirates are always fast on their heels....

TED HOPE'S 21 BRAVE THINKERS OF TRULY FREE FILM

Scott Macaulay
I and the Filmmaker blog received a nice holiday present with Ted Hope's "21 Brave Thinkers of Truly Free Film 2009" list. But you're already reading this blog, so you don't need to know about me. Click on the link to check out the rest of the list. I am happy to be in such good company, which includes various forward thinking filmmakers, producers, new media distribution types, and even a few [continue]

STEFAN NADELMAN'S RAMONA FALLS VIDEO

Scott Macaulay
Back in 2003 we selected Stefan Nadelman for our "25 New Faces" on the basis of his excellent short, Terminal Bar. I hadn't kept up with Nadelman to see what he's been doing since until I came across this recent video for the band Ramona Falls. Check in out -- it has some of the same antique beauty as that earlier, amazing short.

WISHING OUR READERS A HAPPY HOLIDAYS AND NEW YEAR!

Scott Macaulay
Best wishes to all of our readers -- hope you all have happy and safe holidays, and see you later on the weekend or early next week back here on the blog. Experience Mobile Mobile from James Théophane Jnr on Vimeo.

WORKBOOK PROJECT ON THE YEAR IN TECH, LONGWORTH GOES TO L.A. WEEKLY

Scott Macaulay
A couple of quick links here. First, congratulations to critic (and occasional Filmmaker contributor) Karina Longworth, who becomes the new film editor at the L.A. Weekly. I'll miss seeing her here in New York City, but I'm happy that I'll be able to read her regularly via the Weekly. She replaces Scott Foundas, who became the Associate Program Director at Lincoln Center. Second, a link to [continue]


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LOAD & PLAY

Filmmaker's look at upcoming DVD releases.

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GOMORRAH

THE NEW YEAR PARADE

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