Six new releases are now vying for attention in the marketplace for Christmas. It was down to five, but now that Sony has authorized a last-minute limited release for The Interview, area theaters are absolutely packed with options. In terms of holiday titles, quite a few specialty screenings that were scheduled for Alamo Drafthouse Ritz have been scrapped because they added The Interview to Theater 1, but you can catch free daily Kid's Club screenings of Muppet Christmas Carol at the Alamo Slaughter Lane, Ernest Saves Christmas at South Lamar and Arthur Christmas (2D) at Alamo Lakeline each morning through New Year's Eve.
Aside from that, there aren't many rep screenings happening until the new year. The Ritz will still be offering Monday night's "Homo Arigato!" screening of Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell, an award-winning 2008 documentary about the queer musician and are hosting their annual New Year's Eve feast...
Aside from that, there aren't many rep screenings happening until the new year. The Ritz will still be offering Monday night's "Homo Arigato!" screening of Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell, an award-winning 2008 documentary about the queer musician and are hosting their annual New Year's Eve feast...
- 12/25/2014
- by Matt Shiverdecker
- Slackerwood
About 3 months ago we made the decision to self-distribute Bluebird in North America. From the beginning, our goal was to make an intimate, quietly affecting ensemble drama. For writer/director Lance Edmands, there was a specific kind of feeling he was trying to express with the film. There was a unique sense of loneliness, solitude, and isolation that was linked directly to a region of Northern Maine and the culture that permeates the area. Lance grew up in Maine, and he felt that these melancholy emotions stood in stark contrast with the great rugged beauty of the state. We wanted to explore that conflicted feeling in way that would resonate personally with a viewer. It was important to us to maintain the subtle, quiet tone of the film both in the way we made it and the way we brought the film to an audience. With that in mind, we...
- 7/16/2014
- by Kyle Martin
- Hope for Film
Answering the questions you didn’t know you had about how your parent’s parents, and for that matter, your grandparent’s parents were like when they were in their adolescence, Matt Wolf’s (Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell) docu-essay narrative film was one of the better items to be found in a paltry sampling of films I caught at this year’s Tribeca Film Fest edition. Teenage has found a taker in Oscilloscope Laboratories, who’ve picked up the film targeting more festival play and a 2014 release.
Gist: Before the ‘Teenager’ was invented, there was no second stage of life. You were either a child or you went to work as an adult. At the turn of the century, child labor was ending, ‘adolescence’ was emerging, and a struggle erupted between adults and youth. Would the young be controlled and regimented, or could they be free? Inspired...
Gist: Before the ‘Teenager’ was invented, there was no second stage of life. You were either a child or you went to work as an adult. At the turn of the century, child labor was ending, ‘adolescence’ was emerging, and a struggle erupted between adults and youth. Would the young be controlled and regimented, or could they be free? Inspired...
- 8/15/2013
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
After spending time as an editor on various films, including "Tiny Furniture," Lance Edmands decided to write and direct his own feature. "Bluebird," starring John Slattery, explores the human connection to the cold, looming landscape of a small Maine town and the struggles of forgiveness when a small mistake has rippling effects. Having a strong connection to the film's geography, Edmands hopes that his film transports audiences into a new world like a dream. What it's about: In the frozen woods of an isolated Maine logging town, one woman’s tragic mistake impacts several lives, leading to unexpected consequences. About the filmmaker: I was born and raised in a small town in Maine and moved to New York City in 2000 to attend Nyu. After I finished film school, I began working as an editor, cutting documentaries, commercials, and features. I edited “Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell,” “Brock Enright: Good Times Will Never Be The Same...
- 4/17/2013
- by Indiewire
- Indiewire
The Ifp announced today the slate for this year’s Project Forum, which will take place during the 33rd edition of Independent Film Week on Sept. 18-22 at the Film Society of Lincoln Center’s Elinor Bunin Monroe Film Center.
The centerpiece of Independent Film Week, Project Forum is designed specifically as a place for industry to meet with new talent, as well as discover fresh projects from emerging and veteran filmmakers.
Read the complete press release and full list of titles in this year’s Project Forum.
All 150 projects showcased in the Project Forum this year are narrative and documentary features ranging from films in development, or the early stages of production, to those nearing completion.
Some of the notable directors in this year’s Project Forum include: Bruce La Bruce (Otto: Or, Up With Dead People), Alrick Brown (Kinyrwanda), Adam Bowers (New Low), David Lowery (St. Nick), David Robert Mitchell...
The centerpiece of Independent Film Week, Project Forum is designed specifically as a place for industry to meet with new talent, as well as discover fresh projects from emerging and veteran filmmakers.
Read the complete press release and full list of titles in this year’s Project Forum.
All 150 projects showcased in the Project Forum this year are narrative and documentary features ranging from films in development, or the early stages of production, to those nearing completion.
Some of the notable directors in this year’s Project Forum include: Bruce La Bruce (Otto: Or, Up With Dead People), Alrick Brown (Kinyrwanda), Adam Bowers (New Low), David Lowery (St. Nick), David Robert Mitchell...
- 8/11/2011
- by Jason Guerrasio
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
By Christopher Stipp
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Monogamy - DVD Review
Color me surprised at how much I liked this film.
At first glance you could see a movie about a photographer who takes clandestine pictures of clients who pay to be shot in the wild, an odd subset of humans who need to see what it’s like to be shown in their natural territory, as something Hitchcock would cook up when one of the clients takes it up a notch and gets a little freaky deekey, having a penchant for voyeurism.
Purposely antagonizing the guy, the sexualized client and photog share in a relationship that isn’t so much physical as it is cerebral. As, you see, the guy is getting married to Rashida Jones, a woman...
The Archives, Right Here
Check out my other column, This Week In Trailers, at SlashFilm.com and follow me on Twitter under the name: Stipp
Monogamy - DVD Review
Color me surprised at how much I liked this film.
At first glance you could see a movie about a photographer who takes clandestine pictures of clients who pay to be shot in the wild, an odd subset of humans who need to see what it’s like to be shown in their natural territory, as something Hitchcock would cook up when one of the clients takes it up a notch and gets a little freaky deekey, having a penchant for voyeurism.
Purposely antagonizing the guy, the sexualized client and photog share in a relationship that isn’t so much physical as it is cerebral. As, you see, the guy is getting married to Rashida Jones, a woman...
- 6/18/2011
- by Christopher Stipp
A good film producer hires the right personnel and makes sure the production doesn't go over budget. A great film producer does that and supports talented new voices. You could say that Kyle Martin appears to often be at the right place at the right time. In a very short time frame, he has supported a talented batch of skilled folk such as: Jody Lee Lipes (NY Export: Opus Jazz - see pic), Lena Dunham (Tiny Furniture) and is currently developing Bluebird alongside filmmaker Lance Edmands. A 2007 graduate from Nyu’s Maurice Kanbar Institute of Film and Television in 2007, before getting into producing strictly indie and doc films, Martin oversaw television spots and online branding. His first producer cred was by way of 2007 shot film Blue Dress, while his first pair of doc features came with Matt Wolf's Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell and Lipes’ Brock Enright: Good Times Will Never Be The Same...
- 7/16/2010
- IONCINEMA.com
What do filmmakers Sean Durkin, Lance Edmands and Alistair Banks Griffin all have in common? Besides being future talents worth keeping tabs on and being featured on our American New Wave 25 list, they all use the same “ace” in their deck. Of all the people included on this list, Jody Lee Lipes needs no introduction. If your an art-house theatre patron, you've seen this award-winning cinematographer's work in 2008 for Antonio Campos' Afterschool and Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell. If you read Filmmaker Magazine, you've seen him be profiled in the 25 New Faces of 2009 issue. If you're into docs – then he goes by the title of “director” as he gave us last year's Hot Doc presented Brock Enright: Good Times Will Never Be The Same and the year before, he scripted and co-directed SXSW winning NY Export: Opus Jazz. If you're a film journalist covering the film fest circuit this year,...
- 7/15/2010
- IONCINEMA.com
Getting his feet wet on a number of gigs that included working for Todd Solondz (Palindromes), post-prod assistant experience for Jim Jarmusch's Broken Flowers and television's The Wire, surely helped trace the route of where this graduate of Nyu’s Tisch (2004) is headed, but it's Vacationland, the award-winning thesis short film that earned Lance Edmands his stars. Edmands stripes came via the position of film editor for Matt Wolf's Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell, Jody Lee Lippes' Brock Enright: Good Times Will Never Be the Same and Lena Dunham's breakout SXSW hit, Tiny Furniture. The New Englander has been making the kind of strides that will soon lead him to a full fledge member of the director's club, with this year being a pivotal one for Edmands. A double dipping at the Sundance Labs (Screenwriters in January and the Directors this past June) on his...
- 7/12/2010
- IONCINEMA.com
Though best known for his lyrically stunning work as the director of photography on "Afterschool" and "Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell," Jody Lee Lipes would rather be known as a filmmaker than as a cinematographer. His directorial feature debut, the provocative doc "Brock Enright: Good Times Will Never Be the Same," premiered at SXSW '09. It's then that Lipes met director Lena Dunham and agreed to shoot her Manhattan dramedy "Tiny Furniture," making its world premiere at this year's fest.
However, he's a filmmaker first: Lipes' second feature (as co-directed with Henry Joost) is the Emerging Visions entry "NY Export: Opus Jazz." Commissioned by two members of the New York City Ballet, this conceptual staging of Jerome Robbins' titular "ballet in sneakers" (like a raw B-side to "West Side Story," here followed by a fun behind-the-scenes doc profiling Robbins and the project) is a jaw-droppingly gorgeous marriage of choreography and cinematography.
However, he's a filmmaker first: Lipes' second feature (as co-directed with Henry Joost) is the Emerging Visions entry "NY Export: Opus Jazz." Commissioned by two members of the New York City Ballet, this conceptual staging of Jerome Robbins' titular "ballet in sneakers" (like a raw B-side to "West Side Story," here followed by a fun behind-the-scenes doc profiling Robbins and the project) is a jaw-droppingly gorgeous marriage of choreography and cinematography.
- 3/17/2010
- by Aaron Hillis
- ifc.com
Ifp has opened submissions for its Independent Filmmaker Labs, a fellowship that provides professional and creative guidance to aspiring filmmakers, and pushes directors to further develop the full potential of their talents and abilities. The only program in the U.S. that supports debut directors of low-budget and independently produced films at the crucial beginning stages, the Ifp Labs begin with a week-long intensive in New York, followed by being a part of Ifp’s Independent Film Week in September. Twenty projects will be selected for this year's program. Filmmakers at past Labs have had premieres at festivals like Berlin (Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell), Slamdance (The Guatemalan Handshake; The New Year Parade),...
- 1/29/2010
- by Melissa Silvestri
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
A Reenacted Shot Of Arthur Russell On The Staten Island Ferry From Director Matt Wolf'S Wild Combination: A Portrait Of Arthur Russell. Courtesy Plexifilm. Some people age more quickly than others, and Matt Wolf – both in person and in his work – displays a confidence and maturity that belie his tender years. Twenty-six-year-old Wolf was born and raised in San Jose, California, and spent much of his teenage years watching movies. He won a full-tuition fellowship to study film at Nyu, where he made a number of shorts including Smalltown Boys (2003), an experimental biopic about AIDS activist David Wojanorawicz. During this period, he also interned for and became friends with documentarian Sandi DuBowski, the director of Trembling Before...
- 10/8/2008
- by Nick Dawson
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
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