Brandon Harris is a Brooklyn based filmmaker and journalist. He is a 2006 cum laude graduate of SUNY Purchase's Conservatory of Theatre Arts and Film. Brandon has written, produced, directed and edited several award winning short films including Happiness is no fun, a recipient of the 2006 National Board of Review student filmmaking grant, and Evangeleo, which has screened at the 2007 Slamdance Film Festival and NewFest: The NYGLBT Film Festival among twenty festivals worldwide. Among his producing credits is Eva Vives’ (Raising Victor Vargas) short film She Pedals Fast(For A Girl) and Evan Louison’s forthcoming feature directorial debut, A Light In The Window Lost. He has served as assistant to producers Scott Macaulay and Robin O’Hara at Tribeca based Forensic Films (Vargas, Idlewild, Demonlover). He has contributed to Filmmaker Magazine, The National Board of Review online, Variety.com/TheCircuit and his own blog devoted to New York City cinema culture, Cinema Echo Chamber.
Although published in 1994, Bret Easton Ellis’ The Informers is surely a product of the 1980s, reconstructing the decades’ tireless myths via a collection of terse, loosely interconnected short stories that the author wrote while still a Bennington debutante. I doubt I’ll ever get to see the early version of Gregor Jordan’s adaptation of The [...]
It takes a special brand of moxie (or delusion or intoxication) to play metal seriously. For the Toronto, Canada based Anvil, who are the subject of The Terminal screenwriter and former #1 Anvil fan Sasha Gervasi’s documentary, the outrageous dream of everlasting youth that fuels even the most pedestrian of aging rock bands to continue [...]
Making good on the promise of their Sundance winning short Gowanus, Brooklyn, Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden captured the ennui and moral complexity of a young, damaged idealist caught in the pervasive malaise of the Bush years with the compelling and self assured feature debut Half Nelson, a film whose stature continues to grow with [...]
Once again it’s late March and with the opening salvos of the 09’ festival circuit already fired in Park City, Berlin and Austin, our friends at some of Midtown’s most venerable arts institutions have picked what they see as the cream of the fresh, young crop for their yearly survey of “new” filmmaking. But what’s [...]
Oh, the ever tricky omnibus film. As Lauren detailed in her review of Tokyo!, three very different auteurs were ushered off to the Japanese capital to offer their takes on the city which bursts from the seams with post fire-bomb post-modernity. I had the chance this week to catch up with two of the three, [...]
February has been a good month for American movies in which vulnerable males stare out their bedroom windows at willowy, troubled blondes and grow obsessed. No, Rear Window has not been re-released; in James Gray’s melodrama Two Lovers a Brooklyn Heeb falls for the Shiksa next door, and in William Olsson’s stylistically assured, super-cynical without [...]
In her second feature length documentary Examined Life, which opens today at IFC Center, Canadian born, Georgia bred documentarian Astra Taylor whips around the Tri-State area and beyond with eight of the planet’s most renown contemporary philosophers and probes their ever active brains for answers to questions large and small, elemental and abstract. Engaging a [...]
It usually takes a comedic franchise a few outings to warm to up a “going to jail” installment. Sure, Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay got the irrepressible stoners to America’s most infamous detention center on their second journey to the multiplexes, but for the most part, especially when the films are buoyed by [...]
Jerry Bruckheimer redefines rock bottom once again.
A prolific director of intimate, vitrolic, globally minded narrative shorts, Topaz Adizes got a taste of star studded Hollywood productions, having worked on Ridley Scott’s Kingdom of Heaven and Paul Thomas Anderson’s There Will Be Blood, before embarking on a terrific run of directorial efforts, including City (2006) and Letting Go (2008). Currently at work [...]
Already a veteran of original web production, writer/director/actress Lena Dunham first popped up on the cinephile radar screen with her terrific 2007 Slamdance short Dealing. She followed that up with an Nerve.com original serial Tight Shots, and this week she debuts a hysterical new web serial Downtown Delusional Divas on Index Magazine’s newly redesigned site. We [...]
At the cinema, 2008 was the year when it was hip to depart from the moral outrage any conscientious individual might feel about our countries’ on going illegal and immoral war 6,000 miles away. Light satire, be it of the buddy (Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay) or “five minutes in the future, things [...]
Making her way to Sundance next month with her debut feature, Palestinian/Jordanian-American director Cherien Dabis, who was on the festival circuit last year with her terrific short Make a Wish, tapped her experiences growing up Arab in a small Ohio town during the first Gulf War when writing Amreeka, a bittersweet, comedic look at otherness. [...]
A favorite on these pages for her clever 08′ SXSW hit My Effortless Brilliance, a sort of comedic cousin to fellow Northwesterner Kelly Reichardt’s Old Joy featuring former Harvey Danger frontman Sean Nelson (not the kid in Fresh and American Buffalo), Lynn Shelton will be back on the fest circuit in 09′. Her new film [...]
After making a big splash at Sundance several years ago with his hysterical short Windowbreaker, the incredibly prolific and versatile Tze Chun, who in the five years since graduating from Columbia’s undergrad Film Studies program in 02′ has made a whopping 12 low budget short films, will be back in Park City this year with [...]
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