It’s Internet Week in New York City! That means all my Twitter friends are going to three parties a night and texting from each about about how bored/drunk/drowning in nerdy masculinity they are. Because they keep going back night after night, I have to assume that either the NY tech community is full of self-destructive [...]
March 26, 2008 – 12:40 pm
Shotgun Stories, the impressively accomplished feature debut of writer/director Jeff Nichols, has a few obvious affinities with the directorial work of its producer, David Gordon Green. Beyond the fact that both filmmakers have a demonstrated interest in the personal tragedies of working class families in the small-town South, much of the commonality lies in the [...]
The worm turns and squirms in Frownland, an aptly named film made on the cheap in and around New York. An up-close, painfully intimate portrait of a hapless, manipulative schlub, a Loser with a capital L, the film offers for our horror and our empathy a creature whose very existence is a rebuke to the [...]
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Scott Macaulay reminds that Ronnie Bronstein’s Frownland begins a one-week run at the IFC Center in New York this Friday. More than that, he explains why it’s a must see:
If you’re someone who follows and cares about American independent cinema, you’ve noticed that what passes for independent film [...]
January 20, 2008 – 10:31 pm
At a reception here in Park City on Sunday afternoon, filmmakers AJ Schnack and Margaret Brown were joined by Indiepix’s Danielle DiGiacomo and the Toronto Film Festival’s Thom Powers to announce the nominees for a new batch of awards honoring excellence in non-fiction filmmaking: the Cinema Eyes. Schnack, who previously announced the formation of the [...]
September 5, 2007 – 1:54 pm
I haven’t seen Ronnie Bronstein’s Frownland. I brought a screener home from Telluride with the intention of watching it last night, but then zonked out from a long day of travel before I had a chance to put it on. So I can’t vouch for it personally, but a handful of people whose opinions I [...]
August 29, 2007 – 3:07 pm
After I wrote that post last week on the films of Kentucker Audley and Frank V. Ross, I got a nice email from Quiet City producer Brendan McFadden, gently reminding me that although I had lumped the female protagonist of the film in with the relatively cosmopolitan characters of some the other mumblecore films, in [...]
August 7, 2007 – 12:39 pm
IFCFirstTake has posted the new, theatrical trailer for Joe Swanberg’s Hannah Takes the Stairs on YouTube, and for your viewing pleasure, I’ve embedded it above. I think it does a bang-up job of sculpting Hannah’s rangy charms into something perfectly palatable for mass consumption.
If you’ve been living under a rock (and/or haven’t read this, this, [...]
Via Eugene at indieWIRE comes this trailer for The New Talkies — ie: the “mumblecore” film festival set to take place later this month at the IFC Center here in NYC. I don’t know about you, but I definitely have my calendar blocked out to spend the better part of the week before Telluride at [...]
One of the must-see movies of the summer opens on one screen this week.
