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WEBHenry: Portrait of a Serial Killer. Currently underway at the the Nitehawk Cinema in Prospect Park, "Portraits of Wild Things: The Films of John McNaughton" is a long overdue retrospective of the Chicago-based filmmaker of Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1986). Like The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974), I’ve always felt that the most ...
The New Nostalgia of Touch: The Best Adult Erotic ... - Filmmaker
WEBFeb 16, 2021 — Finn Peaks, Katy Bit, Theo Meow, Candy Flip and Jo Pollux. In 2020, Meow and Flip joined with three other Berlin filmmaker friends — Finn Peaks, Katy Bit and Jo Pollux — to release the lush feature Urban Smut. Directed by the five shortly before the pandemic, they had time to finish postproduction in Berlin during COVID isolation.
The 20 Best Non-Fiction Films on Netflix Instant - Filmmaker
WEBAug 26, 2014 — I cleared away the underwhelming underbrush to find (in alphabetical order) a semi-idiosyncratic selection of the 20 best non-fiction films available for current streaming on Instant. The Act of Killing (2012) Joshua Oppenheimer’s elegantly disturbing investigation into the determinedly suppressed legacy of Indonesia’s 1965-66 mass killings ...
Feminist Pornographer Jennifer Lyon Bell on Silver Shoes
WEBMay 29, 2015 — Filmmaker: Your latest film Silver Shoes nabbed the Feminist Porn Awards 2014 Movie of the Year – so I was surprised to learn it had its world premiere at London’s Institute of Contemporary Arts during the London Short Film Festival. Do you see a return of “art porn” to more mainstream venues nowadays, or is this still a marginalized niche? ...
“Remember To Let Go of the Plan Now and Again”: Editor
WEBJan 28, 2023 — Andrew Bowser is the writer, director, star and editor of Onyx the Fortuitous and the Talisman of Souls, a film based on a comedy character of his own creation.Onyx the Fortuitous (Bowser) is an amateur medium who gets a coveted invite to a seance hosted by his idol Bartok the Great.
Ryan Coogler - Filmmaker Magazine
WEBRyan Coogler remembers the first moment it occurred to him to become a film director. Having grown up in Oakland, Coogler was on a football scholarship to Saint Mary’s College in Moraga, Calif., where he had to take a creative writing class. The assignment was to write about a personal experience, and Coogler wrote about the time his father ...
The (Approximately) 30 Movies of 2021 Shot on 35mm
WEBJan 18, 2022 — On the highest budgetary end, there was No Time to Die, where 35mm (some 1,007 rolls were shot) sat alongside 65mm and IMAX, and Space Jam: A New Legacy. “The two primary capture mediums were 35mm Kodak film and the entire lineup of Arri cameras, mainly the LF,” colorist John Daro wrote on his website.
James Marsh's Man On Wire - Filmmaker Magazine - Summer 2008
WEBBY DAMON SMITH. PHILIPPE PETIT IN MAN ON WIRE. James Marsh has wrestled before with subjects — both fictional and real life — whose obsessions have fueled eccentric and, at times, even extreme behavior. In The Burger and the King (1996), based on David Adler‘s book, he chronicled Elvis Presley‘s lifelong habit of compulsive eating.
What Everyone Does on a Film Set - Filmmaker Magazine
WEBAug 24, 2015 — Responsibilities: Assembling and maintaining support equipment for camera including dollies, dolly track, and jibs; setting stands for lights and placing light shaping elements such as flags. Join this department if you like: Engineering, puzzles, manual labor. Know them by: Creatively-tied “signature” bandanas.
Indie Film is Dead: Producer Ted Hope Diagnoses the ... - Filmmaker
WEBJan 3, 2020 — This article was originally published in our Fall, 1995 issue. It may look easy but sometimes it’s pretty hard to keep coming up with the inspirational success stories we usually pack into Filmmaker.Credit card-financed movies leading to three-picture deals; Sundance hits transformed to Fox sitcoms; domestic box-office failures rescued by ticket-buying Parisian cineastes – there are only ...