BUTTERKNIFE 7: Complicated Mazes
After the jump, you’ll find the final episode of Joe Swanberg’s webseries Butterknife, starring Mary Bronstein, Ronnie Bronstein and Craig Zobel (Great World of Sound). Above, you’ll find the penultimate episode, which premiered on butterknife.spout.com last week, but in the haze of SXSW, failed to make it to the blog. Also after the jump, you’ll find a full episode guide, with a bit of where-are-they-now info on Butterknife’s illustrious stars and guest stars. To comment on the episodes, check out the Butterknife discussion page at Spout.com.
Previous episodes:
Plastic Hassle (with Kentucker Audley)
Sicilian Style (with Tony Baker and Frank V. Ross)
Key Witness (with Michael Tully)
Bongo Board (with Sean Prince Williams)
Laugh Attack (with Sean Prince Williams)
Bedroom Bully (with Barlow Jacobs)
Complicated Mazes (with Sean Prince Williams)
Mary Bronstein just premiered her directorial debut, Yeast, at the SXSW Film Festival (see our review and interview). Yeast will next be seen in the Independent Visions Competition at the Sarasota Film Festival.
Ronnie Bronstein’s Frownland opened at the IFC Center in New York last week to rave reviews.
Kentucker Audley’s feature Team Picture, which played at last summer’s New Talkies festival in New York, is screening in South Carolina and Georgia in April. More info at the film’s MySpace page.
Frank Ross and Anthony Baker star in Present Company, which Ross wrote and directed. The film premiered at SXSW last week to positive reviews. See our review and interview with Frank, Tony and the rest of the cast.
Michael Tully, whose documentary Silver Jew will be out on DVD later this year, blogs and contributes film reviews to a new site called Hammer to Nail. He recently wrote a post for SpoutBlog comparing and contrasting his experiences attending SXSW as a filmmaker and as a critic.
Sean Prince Williams is the cinematographer of Frownland and Yeast, in which he also plays a small role.
Barlow Jacobs appeared in Michael Almereyda’s New Orleans Mon Amour, which just premiered at SXSW. He’ll next be seen in the Spirit Award-nominated Shotgun Stories, which opens in New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles in late March/early April.
Joe Swanberg’s Nights and Weekends premiered at the SXSW Film Festival. Shortly before its debut screening, word spread that IFC had acquired the film, making it the first pre-premiere sale in the history of the festival.
