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13 items from 2012
The Comedy Critic - Even the Rain has its bad days
17 May 2012 11:37 PM, PDT | Flickeringmyth | See recent Flickeringmyth news »
Adam Hollingworth with the latest edition of the Comedy Critic...
Here’s a lesson straight out of the filmmaking 101 textbook for all you budding directors out there who value your own sanity…
Never film in wild, unspoilt landscapes.
Yes they look especially stunning on the cinema screen, and yes they add a special geographical aura and authenticity to a film, but for Christ’s sake think of something else to do, or somewhere else to film. This isn’t a matter of impracticalities and logistics. It may well be difficult to spend most of the day waiting on the weather, or getting an entire crew over a mountain with heavy and expensive equipment slung across their backs, but that isn’t the point of my advice to you now.
Quite simply, if film history has taught us one thing, it’s that directors who attempt to film in such inhospitable »
- flickeringmyth
Hot Docs 2012: Indie Game: The Movie Review
13 May 2012 9:26 PM, PDT | FilmJunk | See recent FilmJunk news »
Indie Game: The Movie Directed by: Lisanne Pajot and James Swirsky Starring: Phil Fish, Edmund McMillen, Jonathan Blow, Tommy Refenes From Hearts of Darkness to Lost in La Mancha to American Movie, we've seen some great behind-the-scenes documentaries about filmmaking over the years, some capturing the glory of success and others the agony of failure. The production of a feature film almost always makes for a compelling story because we get to watch creative professionals perform in a team environment while under pressure. And yet, despite the overabundance of these kinds of documentaries, up until now there have been very few documentaries covering the behind-the-scenes process of video game development. What gives? Part of the problem is that video games are giant team efforts where pretty much all of the talented people involved are unknown to the general public. However, the bigger complication is the fact that most major video »
- Sean
Join Us For The Doc Club Twitterthon Chat With Thom Powers & SundanceNOW Tonight
10 May 2012 2:25 PM, PDT | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
Can't get enough of documentaries?
Join us tonight (9pm Et) for the Doc Club Twitterthon, a conversation with festival programmer Thom Powers and streaming service SundanceNOW. Doc Club is a section of Sundance Now's VOD/streaming service, a monthly program curated by various industry members that shines light on the very best of the bunch (this month's theme is "Art For Everyone" which includes Don Argott's "The Art of the Steal" and the tragic "Lost in La Mancha," directed by Keith Fulton).
We'll not only be chatting about the Doc Club service in particular, but also about documentary filmmaking in general. Those interested can join the discussion by following the tag #SundanceNOW and voice their opinions and concerns, not to mention get some sweet swag -- everyone who uses the tag also becomes eligible to win a free year-long subscription to Doc Club.
So get the popcorn ready and let's talk non-fiction. »
- Christopher Bell
Hot Docs Roundup: 'Despite The Gods' Fascinates, 'Beauty Is Embarrassing' Is Heartwarming & 'About Face' A Fun Look At Fashion
1 May 2012 8:57 AM, PDT | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
"Despite the Gods"
Aussie filmmaker Penny Vozniak's "Lost in La Mancha"-esque documentary “Despite The Gods," following director Jennifer Lynch and her experiences making her third film in India, is a low budget docu-delight. Lynch is the beating, empathic heart of the film, an endearing combination of raw emotional honesty and self-deprecating humor. After surviving a critical flogging at 19 for her first film "Boxing Helena," and enjoying the relative success of her second film "Surveillance," Lynch still had a lot to prove with her third film. However it is clear from day one this will not be the film she envisions it to be. The film in question is "Hisss," a Bollywood action tale of a snake that turns into a woman, and then back again. Though Vozniak's film is an interesting look behind the scenes at some the challenges of being an American director shooting in India (no »
- Samantha Chater
The madness of Jennifer Lynch exposed in Despite The Gods documentary [trailer]
26 March 2012 12:40 PM, PDT | QuietEarth.us | See recent QuietEarth news »
Lost in La Mancha and Hearts of Darkness are two Classic documentaries about filmmakers almost turned mad by the pitfalls and process of making their visions come alive on film. Add to that list Despite the Gods, a new documentary chronicling Jennifer Lynch's yet to be released, Hisss (trailer) her film about a snake woman in Indian.
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Interview: Miriam Cutler Sheds Light On Working in the Boys Club of Film Composing and How the Industry is Changing
22 March 2012 11:15 AM, PDT | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »
After exploring the lack of ladies when it comes to the world of composing, I decided to go directly to the source and ask a composer who is currently (and actively) working in the business, and who also happens to be a woman. Miriam Cutler is best known for her work in documentaries such as Thin, Lost in La Mancha and Ethel (which recently premiered at the Sundance Film Festival back in January.) I spoke with Cutler not just about her background in music and composing (which is both impressive and extensive), but also about her perspective on the industry as a whole and as a woman working in it. While there may not be many well-known female composers at the moment, they are certainly on the rise. With veterans like Cutler paving the way, it sounds like many composers coming into the industry now are not just men, and it will be interesting to see how »
- Allison Loring
Terry Gilliam's The Man Who Killed Don Quixote Supposedly Still Happening
27 February 2012 7:15 PM, PST | GeekTyrant | See recent GeekTyrant news »
Love him or hate him, Terry Gilliam certainly adds a unique voice to the cinematic landscape. The director of Brazil, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Twelve Monkeys, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, and The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, Gilliam has a career that spans decades; as such, it's only natural that a few projects would slip through the cracks.
One of the best documented of these elusive films-to-be is The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, a whimsical story that has had multiple incarnations throughout the years. The film's rise and fall is wonderfully captured in a great documentary called Lost in La Mancha, which I'd highly recommend seeking out if you haven't seen it and are at all interested in the way movies come together (and crumble apart, in this case) behind the scenes. But that attempt was years ago, and according to the film's co-writer Toni Grisoni, »
- benp
The Man Who Killed Don Quixote May Still Be Alive, New Logo Revealed
27 February 2012 3:19 PM, PST | cinemablend.com | See recent Cinema Blend news »
Oh, Terry Gilliam. When will you learn to just give up on Don Quixote?The filmmaker has been trying to get The Man Who Killed Don Quixote made for years now, but every time out it has been an utter and complete failure. Production on the project first began in 2000, but due after one problem after the other the whole thing had to be shut down (and a documentary called Lost in La Mancha was made about the experience). Not content with letting sleeping dogs lie, Gilliam tried to bring back the movie yet again a few years ago with Robert Duvall playing Quixote, but that version didn't even make it to the production stage. It's almost as though there is a outside force doing its best to prevent the movie from ever getting made, but apparently nobody is paying enough attention. According to Money Into Light (via The Playlist »
Terry Gilliam's The Man Who Killed Don Quixote is not dead
27 February 2012 3:14 AM, PST | www.themoviebit.com | See recent TheMovieBit news »
Already the subject of the documentary Lost In La Mancha, Terry Gilliam's The Man Who Killed Don Quixote has been described as the "film that didn't want to be made". The story is a modern take on Cervantes' novel Don Quixote, about an elderly 17th century noble who wants to become a knight. Gilliams version would have had a modern business man travel back in time and become mistaken for Quixote's squire, Sancho Panza. Production began in 2000, after Gilliam spent two years casting the role of Don Quixote. The role went to French actor Jean Rochefort, who had to learn English for the part, and he would act alongside Johnny Depp as his reluctant squire. The shoot got off to a rocky start when the location in Spain was discovered to be near a functioning military base, and jets flying over head ruined audio recordings. It was decided »
- noreply@blogger.com (Tom White)
Indie Gaming: Double Fine Smashes Kickstarter Records and Ushers In a New Way of Making Games
20 February 2012 2:36 PM, PST | Obsessed with Film | See recent Obsessed with Film news »
Tim Schafer and his bearded band of merry men – the developers otherwise known as Double Fine – have made the news again in what is potentially one of the most exciting stories for independent videogame developers (and gamers) in recent years.
If you’ve been following the news at all this past week and a half, you’ll know that Tim Schafer put out an appeal on the most popular crowd funding site on the web, Kickstarter. He wants to make an old school adventure game, he says. He really does. It’s just that the only way he can do it is with your money. Excitingly, they’re also going to be filming all of this in a potentially Lost in La Mancha style documentary, where you get to see not just exactly how your money is getting spent, but also how gloriously the development will succeed or fail.
I »
- Alex Turner
The fall and rise of Alejandro Jodorowsky's Dune
13 February 2012 6:12 AM, PST | Den of Geek | See recent Den of Geek news »
Alejandro Jodorowsky’s Dune movie never made it to the screen, but the production’s legend lives on, as a new documentary charts its making...
Director Alejandro Jodorowsky’s doomed attempts to bring Frank Herbert’s novel Dune to the screen are the stuff of movie legend. In seeking to adapt Herbert’s sprawling sci-fi fantasy, Jodorowsky’s proposed adaptation seems, with the benefit of hindsight, unbelievably quixotic.
In 1974, the director decided that he would follow his surrealist western The Holy Mountain with a big-screen retelling of Herbert’s story of rival families and warring empires in a distant galaxy – a decision he made without even having read the book. He was attracted by its themes of messiahs and emotional dislocation, he later said, and readily agreed to producer Michel Seydoux’s proposal to adapt it (“I needed to support my family,” Jodorowsky explained in a later interview).
Dune would feature an eclectic star cast, »
Terry Gilliam presents The Wholly Family at the Guardian
23 January 2012 4:15 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Terry Gilliam appears at a live Q&A, hosted by Peter Bradshaw, after presenting his new film at the Guardian offices
Terry Gilliam will be at the Guardian's offices from 7pm tonight for the online premiere of his new short, The Wholly Family.
Sponsored by the Italian pasta manufacturer Garofalo, Gilliam's film sees a young boy dream of a nightmare-ish dinner after he's sent to bed without any supper by his tetchy parents. We have a stream of the film here, which we'll be hosting exclusively for two weeks – and you can stream it up to five times for a fortnight, from noon today.
Our own Peter Bradshaw will be interviewing Gilliam tonight, but we'll also be a holding a readers' Q&A, so we'll need your questions too. Post your queries below and we'll get the best of them answered at the event, which we'll be live-blogging here from 6.45pm. »
- Henry Barnes, Catherine Shoard
20 incredibly arduous film productions
19 January 2012 9:29 AM, PST | Den of Geek | See recent Den of Geek news »
Script rewrites. Exacting directors. Terrible twists of fate. We look back through the ages to bring you 20 nightmarish film shoots…
The lavish lifestyles of Hollywood’s more famous actors and filmmakers may hint at a world of glamour and cash, but as this list proves, the process of actually putting a movie together is rarely a dignified process. What follows is a lengthy catalogue of ill-advised location choices, tantrums, dreadful acts of God, spiked bowls of soup, ruined studios, bruised egos, broken bones and shattered dreams.
For the prospective filmmaker, this article could be read as a cautionary tale of just how badly wrong a production can go – though in order to keep the tone relatively light, we’ve excised those film productions that ended in tragedy (you’ll have to look elsewhere to discover the sad stories behind Twilight Zone: The Movie and The Crow).
Nevertheless, we suggest you »
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