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.

Running time: 15:23

Visit Jamie's site at www.mutinycompany.com.

Learn more about the songs in the short at www.ediesedgwick.biz

Read parts 1 & 2 of Jamie's review of Final Cut Studio.

See how Jamie created the visual effects here.

#posted by Jason Guerrasio @ 10/26/2009 09:13:00 PM Comments (5)

Jamie Stuart interviews documentary filmmaker Dmitry Trakovsky on his film Meeting Andrei Tarkovsky, which looks at the late auteur through his collaborators and friends. The film is currently playing at the Lincoln Center in New York as part of their Tarkovsky retrospective.

See interview here.
Running time: 4:20

Learn more about Meeting Andrei Tarkovsky here.

#posted by Jason Guerrasio @ 7/10/2009 04:37:00 PM Comments (2)

Perhaps best known for her Oscar-winning turn in Tony Gilroy’s Michael Clayton and the long, fruitful collaboration she enjoyed with the late Derek Jarman, Tilda Swinton has acted recently for David Fincher, Joel and Ethan Coen, Hungarian auteur Béla Tarr, and in Andrew Adamson’s Chronicles of Narnia franchise. Her flinty, fearless performance as an alcoholic outlaw in Erick Zonca’s cross-border thriller Julia, however, truly spotlights the impressive range and cool professionalism of this adventurous, one-of-a-kind screen actress. (She also appears in Jim Jarmusch’s The Limits of Control, which opened last Friday.) We caught up with Swinton in New York to talk about her role in the film, why she’d always wanted to portray a resourceful drunk, and how the indie-film world has changed since her heyday with Jarman in Britain’s underground cinema. -- Damon Smith

Running time: 5:46

#posted by Jason Guerrasio @ 5/07/2009 12:44:00 PM Comments (1)

Here Jamie Stuart examines the New York Film Festival with a irreverent brand of narrative/reporting that features the indie stars attending the festival while weaving a twisted tale starring Stuart himself.

#posted by Webmaster @ 10/14/2008 02:00:00 PM Comments (0)

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.

Running time: 9:00.

Download the short here by right clicking and choosing Save Target or Save Link. (63.5MB)

Please visit Jamie's site at www.mutinycompany.com.

To see all the videos in this series please go to
http://filmmakermagazine.com/nyff46.php.

#posted by Jason Guerrasio @ 10/13/2008 09:34:00 AM Comments (3)

Continuing the series of sneak peak interviews provided by Filmcatcher.com from the New York Film Festival, Darren Aronofsky talks about coming up with the idea for his latest film The Wrestler, using non-actors to achieve a sense of reality, and the joys and challenges of working with a talent like Mickey Rourke.

See interview here.

#posted by Jason Guerrasio @ 10/09/2008 05:11:00 PM Comments (0)

Jamie Stuart drops a bomb in this episode from his New York Film Festival series. With special appearances by Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, Clint Eastwood and many more.

Running time: 7:48.

Download the short here by right clicking and choosing Save Target or Save Link. (69M)

Please visit Jamie's site at www.mutinycompany.com.

To see all the videos in this series please go to
http://filmmakermagazine.com/nyff46.php.

#posted by Jason Guerrasio @ 10/07/2008 11:33:00 AM Comments (1)