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Scott Macaulay
I always admire the blog writings of my colleagues who are able to jump from screening to keyboard, whipping out paragraphs of incisive critical prose. I tend to need more time to mull over the films I see as my opinions will shift from day to day. Take the first picture I saw in Toronto: Finish director Anti Jussi Annila's Sauna, which was shamelessly hyped in the program book to cine-geeks [continue]
Scott Macaulay
Yesterday walking from one theater to another at the Varsity multiplex that houses the Toronto International Film Festival's Industry Screenings, I thought that things seemed a little quiet, missing the usual crowded hub-bub. No one seemed to agree with me, though. "This will be a rebound market," predicted one sales agent friend, who thought that a nice flurry of sales would materialize from [continue]
Scott Macaulay
The blog post, below, titled "Breaking In," in which filmmaker Marc Maurino discussed the tensions between jobs, job security and filmmaking, inspired several responses. You can find them in the comments section to the original post, but filmmaker David Munro just wrote with a longer reply so I'm posting it here as its own entry. It's David Munro (New Faces '98, Full Grown Men). I read Marc [continue]
Scott Macaulay
What's with the media and indie film these days? I attend my first party in Toronto, eager to catch up with old film friends and see some new movies, but the toxic murk of today's business environment keeps seeping in. I got a ride in from the airport with a sales agent friend who, while bemoaning the difficult market for auteur films worldwide, said to me, "You have it worse in America. [continue]
Jason Sanders
Things seen and overheard, Day One of the Toronto International Film Festival: Ads hyping the new hybrid Escalade are opening every screening of this year's Toronto Film Festival; whether that's a subconscious meta-commentary on the festival itself, a similar all-consuming mammoth that's uniting unwieldy pomp and flash with more down-to-earth concern, is entirely unknown. While today was the [continue]
Jason Guerrasio
Bradley Beesley's sequel to his breakout hit Okie Noodling will be screening this Friday and Saturday at the IFC Center in New York. If you're not familiar with the film, here's a sum up from the release: In 2001, filmmaker Bradley Beesley brought the strange subculture of barehanded catfishing to the screen in 'Okie Noodling’, which won the Audience Choice Award and 1st runner-up for Best [continue]
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more25 NEW FACES
Filmmaker's 10th annual survey of new talent.
PLUS: Press Release on the 25 New Faces and those directing new short films for project by Spike Lee and Nokia Productions.
moreFEATURES
James Ponsoldt sits down with Mark and Jay Duplass to discuss the collaborative process behind the making of their horror buddy movie, Baghead.
Alex Holdridge tells Nick Dawson how his love-hate relationship with Los Angeles led to an improbably tender tale about looking for a companion in In Search of a Midnight Kiss.
James Marsh brings Philippe Petit's death-defying tightrope walk across the Twin Towers to life in the mesmerizing Man On Wire. By Damon Smith
moreLINE ITEMS
Moving from Net neutrality to infrastructure common carriage. By David Rosen.
Lance Weiler breaks down the new models independent filmmakers are using to create a fan base.
Shelley H. Surpin, Esq. tells filmmakers how to make movies about real people.
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Why we're living in The Ludic Age. By Heather Chaplin
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Salò, Baghdad High, Daft Punk (above), Luis Buñuel book, Carnivalesque Films, The Exiles.
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We've once again asked Jamie Stuart to cover the Sundance Film Festival with his unique brand of filmmaking and create a short that encompasses the people he meets, his creative eye and basically whatever pops up in his head. This year's film includes George A. Romero, Ellen Kuras, Stacy Peralta and strange text messages.
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SUMMER 2008
moreTHE DIRECTOR INTERVIEWS 
Nick Dawson
Chris Smith is an interesting conundrum, a filmmaker who brings a narrative verve and energy to his documentaries and approaches fiction films with the delicate restraint and remove of a documentarian. A graduate of University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee's film program, Smith first appeared on the [continue]
Nick Dawson
Jiří Menzel is rather like a character from literary fiction, the brilliant best friend who is beset by bad luck but accepts his lot in life with a wry, philosophical smile. Menzel, born in the former Czechoslovakia on the cusp of World War II, grew up with a passion for theatre but failed to [continue]
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This piece by filmmaker Barbara Schock appeared in our Summer, 2005 issue. The phenomenal painter, teacher and film critic Manny Farber called his film class “A Hard Look at the Movies.” It was the first upper-division college class I took. I’d transferred from a small college in the [continue]
This article, written by Bergen Swanson, originally appeared in our Winter, 2002 issue YOU'VE DONE IT! The screenplay you've been slaving over for months has finally been optioned by an edgy production company noted for offbeat films. Or, the movie that has consumed your life for the past two [continue]
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FESTIVAL COVERAGE
The CineVegas Film Festival (June 12-21) celebrated its tenth year in a manner befitting its Sin City setting: a colossal, ten-day jubilee of film and fun. High and low culture rubbed a lot more than just shoulders — among the many special events were not only a screening by contemporary art [continue]
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