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SXSW2010: Kick-Ass
Take the question, Why hasn’t a normal person, completely lacking in super powers ever tried to become a crime fighting hero? asked by an idle, comic loving teen to his friends; extrapolate from that point and it seems the script for Kick-Ass almost writes itself. The film, which opened SXSW on Friday to much [...]
ÉCU2010: The Grand Entrance
Try as we might, it’s just impossible for us to be at every festival worthy of DN coverage. The fourth year of Paris’ European Independent Film Festival (ÉCU) is one such place. So we asked writer Moze Halperin to bring DN the lowdown on this year’s festival.
Something of a novice as far as film festivals [...]
Free Fans, Friends & Followers
As a thank you to the South by Southwest community he mined for information, Scott Kirsner is offering the full e-book version of Fans, Friends & Followers as a completely free download for the duration of SXSW – where he’s also presenting a panel with Gary Hustwit (Helvetica & Objectified).
We were fortunate to get [...]
Micmacs – Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Hitchcockian, Capraesque and Kubrickian are all terms used to describe the relative filmmakers’ distinctive styles, well maybe it’s about time we add Jeunetian to the list (I thought Jeunetesque sounded better for a French filmmaker, but was a bit too close to the already existing Junoesque). It’s not that I’m comparing Jean-Pierre Jeunet to the [...]
A Conversation with Jack Thorne
When people knew I was talking to a writer who lives in Luton and has written for Shameless and Skins they assumed he moved here for material, but Jack Thorne, an acclaimed writer for TV, theatre, radio and now film had a different motive.
“Price, sorry. I wanted somewhere where I wasn’t working in my bedroom [...]
SotW: Echoes
There’s something perverse about the fact that my SotW pick of abused, sex trafficked women, happened to be posted on the universal day of love, but perhaps it’ll make you hold that special someone all the tighter. Despite the grim subject, director Rob Brown shows that compassion can be found where you least expect it.
Have [...]
Big Art, Little Debt
Was a time when the filmmaker’s strategy began with the gamble of maxed out credit cards and (hopefully) ended with the win of an acquisition bidding war at Sundance or the like. However, with the number of festival film buys shrinking and the cash amounts garnered by the lucky few doing likewise, what’s a filmmaker [...]
The Extended Take
Just found this fantastic article from Mike Le at Geek Week highlighting the 20 Greatest Extended Takes in Movie History, complete with embedded Videos.
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50 Best Blogs for Moviemakers & Film Radio Shows
Far be it for me to call foul or query the means by which MovieMaker compiled their 50 Best Blogs for Moviemakers list, but suffice to say somehow DN didn’t make the cut. I’m not going to be bitter, because despite that one oversight, they’ve collated a pretty fine list of blogs worthy of a [...]
The Wonder Of Wes
Regardless of what you think about Wes Anderson he is a unique force in contemporary cinema. An auteur in the classic sense with his visual, aural, tonal stamp on every frame of his films. For fans (like me) a new Wes Anderson film is an event and interviews with him are clamoured over.
I was curious [...]
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