Above: 41 seconds of psychedelic casino nightmare by the Zellner Brothers, masquerading as a promo for the CineVegas Film Festival. The Zellners’ latest feature, Goliath, will be screening at the fest in June. Several other filmmakers have made promos for the fest, including Cam Archer and Kevin Everson; see them all here.
I saw six films at Tribeca this weekend, and five of them were completely blown off the map by Somers Town, Shane Meadows’ practically perfect follow-up to his 2007 triumph, This is England. England was one of my favorite films of last year, but its political/historical aims, admittedly, occasionally overwhelmed Meadows’ more subtle, character-based observations. [...]
Those who have been following the news surrounding the hit SXSW short Glory at Sea (see the trailer above) know that the film’s director, Benh Zeitlin, is recovering from a hit-and-run car accident that happened en route to Sea’s SXSW premiere. Zeitlin didn’t have insurance, and his medical bills are reported to be in the [...]
“Smart, absurd and heartwarmingly innocent, Joshua Safdie’s The Back of Her Head is a dessert short, that euphoriant treat that could in endless play still mesmerize with its sweetness and richness of story,” writes Noralil Ryan Fores at ShortEnd Magazine. The above clip “is in a way, a trailer for the film,” according to its [...]
March 20, 2008 – 11:00 am
YesButNoButYes points to the Peeps Film Festival, a series of YouTube remakes of classic films (and also 300) starring the marshmallow bane of Easter season. There are twelve shorts; the three that I’ve watched, including the take on King Kong embedded above, aren’t spoofy-funny as much as they’re bizarre, a little creepy, and at times, [...]
March 20, 2008 – 10:01 am
Help the GLORY AT SEA filmmaker recuperate by sending him a copy of your movie.
A look at some of the best short films from this year’s SXSW Film Festival.
February 7, 2008 – 1:12 pm
Spout is, sadly, not at the Berlin Film Festival, where screenings began this morning. But we’ll be trolling the blogs for scraps throughout the course of the fest.
Immediately after Martin Scorsese’s opening night film Shine a Light screened for the press, I started seeing insta-reviews on Twitter and Facebook. “Shine a Light: weak sauce,” [...]
January 28, 2008 – 1:52 pm
It’s like Girls Gone Wild, but art!
January 7, 2008 – 1:05 pm
BUTTERKNIFE promo: Best Trip EverAdd to My Profile | More Videos
It’s time to present the second in our exclusive series of shorts, produced by members of the cast and crew of Joe Swanberg’s Butterknife. The short embedded above is called Best Trip Ever, and it’s the brainchild of Barlow Jacobs, the writer/star of Low and [...]
