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‘You Are Here’ is compulsively watchable and utterly unique
23 May 2012 10:09 AM, PDT | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »
Written by Daniel Cockburn
Directed by Daniel Cockburn
Canada, 2010
Equal parts video essay, fragmented “thought experiment,” and social satire, Daniel Cockburn’s You Are Here is one of the most audacious English Canadian features to come down the pike in years. (Admittedly, that’s not a terribly prestigious body of films.) Imbued with enough dry wit and obscure observations to fill a dozen Charlie Kaufman treatments, the film dares to invent a cinematic language at least partially its very own in a scant 78 minutes.
Equal parts Library of Babel and errant-psychology portraiture (akin to the subjects of Errol Morris’s First Person), You Are Here contains few concrete characters – only a couple of figures recur. The film’s opening sequence is of a lecture – though it is never made clear if there is actually an audience present, besides the viewer(s) themselves. Projected behind the lecturer is »
- Simon Howell
Wes Anderson’s Next Feature Will Reunite the Director with Owen Wilson
22 May 2012 7:54 AM, PDT | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »
Until Wes Anderson's upcoming flick Moonrise Kingdom, Owen Wilson had played a part in all of the director's feature-length films. While the streak has been broken, their relationship will carry on with Anderson's next untitled feature. Anderson has now told the Dallas News' Pop Culture Blog [via The Film Stage] that the movie will be an ensemble piece, he's written a part for Wilson, and the actor has signed on. The script is halfway finished, but few details are known about the picture. However, Anderson, who's currently spending some time in Paris, did tell Harper's Bazaar [via The Playlist] that "it’s a film I want to make in Europe, a Euro movie." Hit the jump for a list of other projects on Wilson's slate. Moonrise Kingdom stars Bruce Willis, Tilda Swinton, Edward Norton, Bill Murray, Frances McDormand, Jason Schwartzman, Jared Gilman, and Kara Hayward. The film opens in limited release this Friday, and will expand wide in the following weeks. »
- Matt Goldberg
Garrett Hedlund/Kristen Stewart/On The Road Box-Office/Oscar Chances
9 May 2012 11:31 AM, PDT | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
Sam Riley, Garrett Hedlund, IFC Films‘ On the Road Starring Garrett Hedlund, Sam Riley, and Kristen Stewart, Walter Salles’ On the Road movie version of Jack Kerouac‘s iconic novel will be distributed in North America by IFC Films and Sundance Selects. Is that good news for North Americans? Definitely. Is that good news for On the Road? Well, it’s both good and not-so-good news. It’s good news in that Walter Salles’ film has finally landed a U.S. distributor, which means a 2012 release — some time in the fall, according to reports. It’s not great news for those who were expecting On the Road to find a box-office and awards-season-savvy North American distributor. IFC Films releases usually get enthusiastic reviews, but for the most part they have performed modestly — or downright poorly (at times abysmally) — at the North American box office. Andrew Haigh’s Weekend took in $484k, »
- Andre Soares
Movie Lovers We Love: Interactive Guru Ingrid Kopp Says Filmmakers Need to Think About User Experience
4 May 2012 10:46 AM, PDT | Indiewire | See recent Indiewire news »
Imagine if Frederick Wiseman, the Maysles brothers, or Errol Morris started making films in the twenty-first century. Would their documentaries need an interactive component: an iPad app, separate from the iPhone app, which links to the Facebook page? Imagine "Titticut Follies" as a role-playing game. Okay, don't. Those filmmakers are, in fact, making films now that exist on their own, with little transmedia flair. But interactive guru Ingrid Kopp says that documentary filmmakers are being expected to develop all kinds of kooky ideas to make their projects relevant in the Facebook era. But filmmakers need to be careful. "In some ways, I'm encouraging filmmakers to think about storytelling across platforms," Kopp said. " I hear a lot of people pitch me projects, I don't see them downloading the app, going to the website, filmmakers need to think really hard. Yes, we need to be in the digital space, but you need to be careful. »
- Bryce J. Renninger
From the archive, 1 May 1992: Stephen Hawking reviews film of his best selling book
1 May 2012 1:06 AM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Author of A Brief History of Time hopes his theories reach a wider audience
I first saw the complete version in Los Angeles in February. I must confess, I was quite apprehensive as to how it would turn out. I was afraid that, on the one hand, it might leave out or trivialise the science, and on the other, that people might be confused or bored. I hope the finished product avoids both dangers.
Of course, the film does not explain the science in the detail the book did. That was inevitable. But I think it gets across two of the key ideas in my book: first, that the universe had a beginning in time. And second, that there is another kind of time, called imaginary time, in which the universe need have no boundary, no beginning or end.
The discovery of ripples in the microwave background reported last week is consistent with this idea, »
Hot Docs 2012: ‘Herman’s House’ a deeply moving account of penitentiary life
24 April 2012 8:13 PM, PDT | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »
Herman’s House
Directed by Angad Singh Bhalla
Canada, 2012
Today is April 24th 2012. Last week marked the 40th anniversary of Herman Wallace’s initiation to a punitive epoch in solitary confinement. This commemoration is made even more lamentable when we learn that he’s been there ever since.
In a documentary shot over five years, Toronto filmmaker, Angad Singh Bhalla, tells the story of Jackie Sumell, an American artist looking to give Wallace a small semblance of life and humanity. At times an intricate political statement and at others a torrid character study, Herman’s House is a contemplative look into the searing brutality of the American justice system, as well as the seemingly altruistic compassion of strangers.
In 1972, a 25-year old Wallace was already repaying his 25-year debt to society for a bank robbery, when he was accused, and convicted, of murdering Brent Miller, a 23-year old Angola Prison guard. »
- Justin Li
Director Kevin Macdonald Talks The Long Road To Making His Documentary 'Marley,' And Why It's The Opposite Of 'Senna'
19 April 2012 12:59 PM, PDT | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
Talking about icons can take a while, especially when you're tasked with an international musical legend like Bob Marley, whose face and music are synonymous with Jamaica, reggae and college dorms. Kevin Macdonald's new documentary, "Marley," takes over two hours to explore the culture and relationships that the singer forged in Jamaica, his politics and and the little details from this life that help show new sides to the artist that many have not have seen before. The Playlist sat down with Macdonald to talk about the film, how the scope and scale differs from "Senna" (which he produced), his thoughts on the Academy Award nomination process and what he's got coming up next.
One thing I've been wanting to ask you for a few years now.
Yeah, ok.
Including Boney M in "Touching the Void," how does that affect the choice to do a documentary on Bob Marley? »
- John Lichman
Kenny G, film composer? How Matt Damon led two filmmakers to a surprising doc about the smooth jazz superstar -- Video
17 April 2012 5:10 PM, PDT | EW - Inside Movies | See recent EW.com - Inside Movies news »
He’s one of the top-25-selling musicians of all time in the U.S. His name arguably defines an entire genre of music for many listeners. He reportedly holds the record for the longest sustained note ever played on a saxophone. But it turns out that what Kenny G really wants to do is break into movies.
That’s in part the premise of Kenny: A Documentary in G, an in-the-works film by directors Rod Blackhurst and Brian McGinn about the smooth jazz icon, chronicling his attempt to launch a second career as a feature film composer. Fittingly, it »
- Adam B. Vary
Shuffle Trailer: A Sci-Fi Movie from the Director of Dear Zachary
11 April 2012 7:25 AM, PDT | FilmJunk | See recent FilmJunk news »
We're continuing to see a lot of documentary filmmakers make the jump to fiction as of late, (ie. Seth Gordon, Errol Morris, heck, even Morgan Spurlock also just revealed that he is shooting his first narrative film this summer), and although it makes sense from a career standpoint, it makes you realize that not every non-fiction director is cut out to direct fiction. So what about Kurt Kuenne, the man behind the acclaimed crime documentary Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father? He was criticized by some for turning his non-fiction film into a very personal and passionate diatribe against the Canadian justice system, but it did make for a better story. Now he's putting those storytelling skills to use with his first fictional feature Shuffle, and it looks like it paid off as the movie just picked up a distributor. Shuffle is a science-fiction piece about »
- Sean
The best damned film list of them all
5 April 2012 6:00 PM, PDT | blogs.suntimes.com/ebert | See recent Roger Ebert's Blog news »
Long-suffering readers will have read many times about my dislike of lists, especially lists of the best or worst movies in this or that category. For years they had value only in the minds of feature editors fretting that their movie critics had too much free time. ("For Thursday's food section, can you list the 10 funniest movies about pumpkin pie?") Now their value has shot way up with the use of slide shows, a diabolical time-waster designed to boost a web site's page visits.
In a field with much competition, Number One on my list of Most Shameless Lists has got to be Time mag's recent list of the "Best 140 Tweeters." How did the magazine present this? That's right, on 140 pages of a slideshow. Considering that the list had no meaning at all except as some hapless intern's grindwork, I'd say that was a bold masterstroke. I say so even though I was on it. »
- Roger Ebert
Review: 'Scenes Of A Crime' Is A Riveting True-Crime Documentary Worthy Of Errol Morris
31 March 2012 3:16 PM, PDT | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
The following is a reprint of our review which ran during the 2011 Doc NYC Film Festival. "Scenes Of A Crime" is now out in limited release.
When the West Memphis Three were freed just a wee bit before Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky's third film about their plight ("Paradise Lost 3") was about to hit the festival circuit, people were again reminded of the brass strength of cinema. After the first of the trilogy was aired on HBO, the public was wooed and spoke out against their conviction, with loud voices such as those of Johnny Depp and Winona Ryder bringing even more heat to the topic (with some celebrities even helping to fund the legal defense team). We often forget that film can help elicit change -- maybe it's our general apathy or maybe we've been conditioned to turn away from whatever new "issues" doc is at our door, »
- Christopher Bell
TV highlights 26/03/2012
25 March 2012 4:05 PM, PDT | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »
Just A Minute | Scott & Bailey | My Murder | Storyville: Tabloid – Sex In Chains | Ad Men | One Night
6pm, BBC2
To celebrate its 45th anniversary, the Radio 4 panel show returns to TV for the first time since the 1990s. The hiatus is not surprising: the format of four competitors getting 60 seconds to speak on a subject "without repetition, hesitation or deviation" is hardly visual. Or so you might imagine. The first episode, which finds host Nicholas Parsons overseeing Paul Merton, Sue Perkins, Graham Norton and Phill Jupitus, reveals much about the panellists you might otherwise miss, notably Jupitus's genuine frustration at his own inability to avoid repetition. Jonathan Wright
Scott & Bailey
9pm, ITV1
Very little Scott in tonight's episode as Rachel copes with keeping her brother Dom out of jail. Meanwhile, she and her boss are called in to assist on a copycat rape case. The infamous perpetrator of »
- Jonathan Wright, David Stubbs, Julia Raeside, Andrew Mueller, Martin Skegg, John Robinson
Daily Briefing. Scorsese and DiCaprio take on Wall Street
15 March 2012 3:02 PM, PDT | MUBI | See recent MUBI news »
A day after Greg Smith rattled the financial sector with his New York Times Op-Ed, "Why I Am Leaving Goldman Sachs," claiming that "the environment now is as toxic and destructive as I have ever seen it," Deadline's Mike Fleming reminds us that Wall Street was pretty toxic and destructive long before Smith even began his 12-year run at the company. Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio "are committing to make The Wolf of Wall Street their fifth collaboration. The film is based on the Jordan Belfort memoir of his days as a hard partying, drug addicted stockbroker who was indicted in 1998 for security fraud and money laundering and served a 22-month federal prison stretch. Shooting will begin August in New York." The Playlist's Kevin Jagernauth posts a 2007 interview with Belfort.
Also at the Playlist, Jagernauth reports that Gerardo Naranjo (Miss Bala) will likely direct Michael Fassbender in J Mills Goodloe »
Errol Morris Working On Donald Rumsfeld Documentary
15 March 2012 8:55 AM, PDT | cinemablend.com | See recent Cinema Blend news »
Errol Morris is a filmmaker unstoppably drawn to controversial subject matter, be it capital punishment or Holocaust deniers, so his latest focus should be little surprise to his admirers. According to Vulture, the heralded documentarian has been sitting down for a series of in-depth interviews with former U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, who memorably resigned in 2006 after being accused of woeful mismanagement of President George W. Bush's Iraq War. The in-development documentary will cover the length of Rumsfeld's political career, which spanned 40 years, and could well serve as a companion piece to Morris' Academy Award-winning doc, The Fog of War, where he profiled another former U.S. Secretary of Defense.in that case Robert S. McNamara.as a means to explore the Vietnam War. Meaning, it's possible Morris's upcoming feature will investigate the War on Terror. Morris is not responding to inquiries about his Rumsfeld doc at »
Errol Morris to Make Donald Rumsfeld Documentary
14 March 2012 5:01 PM, PDT | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »
The last time a past Secretary of Defense sat down for an interview with Errol Morris, the documentarian earned himself an Oscar. 2003's The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara featured Morris' breakdown of the man who presided over the Pentagon during the Vietnam War. Now, having been able to sit down with the second-longest tenured Secretary of Defense (McNamara himself being the first), Morris is looking to replicate his award-winning documentary by focusing on Donald Rumsfeld. Not shying away from such sensitive topics as the torture of suspected terrorists at Abu Ghraib prison in his 2008 work, Standard Operating Procedure, Morris will surely delve into the incidents which occurred under Rumsfeld's reign. What's less clear is how history will remember Rumsfeld, whether as Nixon's "anti-poverty czar," a proponent for governmental transparency or just another bungler in the Dubya administration. Undoubtedly, Morris's work will have »
- Dave Trumbore
Errol Morris to Release Donald Rumsfeld Documentary This Year
14 March 2012 3:02 PM, PDT | The Film Stage | See recent The Film Stage news »
Whether your political leanings take you to the left or the right, you can probably agree that Donald Rumsfeld wasn’t very good. Be it the torture, the spying, the lying, or the unnecessary public displays of anger, having him around as Secretary of Defense for almost six years was rough. But a controversial figure steeped in one of America’s most contentious political periods is, obviosuly, also a fascinating one — the sort that could make for an equally engaging documentary.
Errol Morris knows a thing or two about those — and has some thoughts about the man, too — thus making this story from Vulture all the more promising. As they’ve learned, the documentarian has pulled in Rumsfeld for several interviews, which will act as the basis for a documentary that’s being released later this year.
Through these discussions, the two have reportedly covered “the entire span of his »
- jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
Errol Morris Preparing Donald Rumsfeld Documentary
14 March 2012 11:36 AM, PDT | Twitch | See recent Twitch news »
Oscar winning documentarian Errol Morris is bringing two time Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld to the big screen.According to Vulture Morris sat down with Rumsfeld last month for a lengthy series of interviews covering Rumsfeld's entire career. And it's a career that seems to contain any number of fascinating contradictions - the man who was George W. Bush's primary adviser on the Iraq War also being the man who championed the Freedom Of Information Act, which gives the public access to government records.the last time Morris sat down with a politician of Rumsfeld's stature the result was the Oscar winning The Fog Of War, and I see no reason to expect any slide in quality here. »
Errol Morris Will Point The Interrotron At Donald Rumsfeld In A New Documentary
14 March 2012 10:04 AM, PDT | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
Controversy has never scared off Errol Morris, and in fact, it has powered some of his best work. From the true crime tale "The Thin Blue Line," powerful portraits of war in "The Fog of War" and "Standard Operating Procedure," and more recently the JFK assassination (in the astounding short "The Umbrella Man"; watch it here) he has faced some tough material head on with tremendous insight. And his next effort promises nothing less.
Vulture reports that Morris and his Interrotron sat down last month with Donald Rumsfeld for a series of interviews covering his entire career. If somehow you have no idea who this guy this (and really, you should), he has impacted American politics in huge and very controversial ways. Most know him as the Secretary of Defense under George W. Bush who came up with the framework for "enhanced interrogation techniques." Or as the guy who eluded »
- Kevin Jagernauth
Donald Rumsfeld Documentary Reportedly In The Works
14 March 2012 9:20 AM, PDT | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »
How will we remember Donald H. Rumsfeld? As “a ruthless little bastard” (as President Nixon once described him), who became Nixon’s anti-poverty czar despite voting against the very post’s creation as a congressman? As a champion of transparency who co-sponsored the Freedom of Information Act, ensuring public access to U.S. government records? Or as a bungling Iraqi-war commandant and architect of “enhanced interrogation techniques” that led to the torture of prisoners of war at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay? We will soon have a better idea, for Vulture hears exclusively that Errol Morris has gotten the two-time Secretary of Defense to sit for a lengthy series of interviews, which Morris aims to release later this year as a documentary feature film. »
- Vulture
Errol Morris Is Making a Documentary About Donald Rumsfeld
14 March 2012 8:15 AM, PDT | Vulture | See recent Vulture news »
How will we remember Donald H. Rumsfeld? As “a ruthless little bastard” (as President Nixon once described him), who became Nixon’s anti-poverty czar despite voting against the very post’s creation as a congressman? As a champion of transparency who co-sponsored the Freedom of Information Act, ensuring public access to U.S. government records? Or as a bungling Iraqi-war commandant and architect of “enhanced interrogation techniques” that led to the torture of prisoners of war at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay? We will soon have a better idea, for Vulture hears exclusively that Errol Morris has gotten the two-time Secretary of Defense to sit for a lengthy series of interviews, which Morris aims to release later this year as a documentary feature film. It's a follow-up of sorts to his Oscar-winning 2003 doc, The Fog of War, in which he profiled another Secretary of State, the Vietnam War architect Robert McNamara. »
- Claude Brodesser-Akner
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