iPOP 'Tiny Furniture''s Big Dance Party! - indieWIRE

So proud of Lena Dunham and TINY FURNITURE! A thrill to be able to stop by the NYC premiere.

iPOP 'Tiny Furniture''s Big Dance Party! - indieWIRE

More very cool art from Shih-Chieh Huang

Sascha's very cute babies

I was a huge fan of Sascha Paladino's doc THROW DOWN YOUR HEART which premiered at SXSW in 2008. Since then he's had a couple of twins. Very cool to see this film he made in connection with Focus' new doc Babies.




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Plastic Bag By Ramin Bahrani

I'll totally post this too. Love this film - directed by the extremely talented Ramin Bahrani, voiced by the great Werner Herzog. We were delighted to screen Plastic Bag at SXSW 2010.

Tiny Furniture in the NYT- just one of SXSW 2010 highlights

I don't keep this blog anymore, well, certainly not like I used to too. It was a little space for writing practice and personal musings. Now I'm in a job with a public component, and lots of eager eyes with their own agendas. But occasionally, it's still a worthy parking space. So I'm happy to note this here: Young Filmmaker's Search for Her Work is Rewarded, by David Carr.

It's a terrific piece, about a terrific film, by a wonderful new filmmaker, that on top of everything, exposes one of the best components of SXSW Film - the creative crossroads where filmmakers really do get to meet and mix it up with one another and return or even evolve elsewhere, that much the stronger.

Barbie parts jewelry

Found this via a tweet from Roger Ebert @ebertchicago strangely enough. Fantastic! Really illustrates how so much of art is just a different way of organizing in the world. Talk about seeing with fresh eyes! Love these images.

The Wire - 100 Greatest Quotes

Love this!!

A selection of the top 100 quotes from The Wire, the greatest TV show ever made. First featured on Pajiba.com. Contains spoilers from all 5 seasons! Featuring Omar, Bubbles, Bunk, McNulty, Rawls, ...

A selection of the top 100 quotes from The Wire, the greatest TV show ever made. First featured on Pajiba.com. Contains spoilers from all 5 seasons!

Featuring Omar, Bubbles, Bunk, McNulty, Rawls, Stringer, Avon, Snoop, Marlo, Cheese, Prop Joe, Clay Davis and many many more!

I don't own any of the footage presented here, this video was made merely to pay homage to the Wire and David Simon and not for any profit or commercial reasons.

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Where the Wild Things Are, sons and mother love

As I enter the tunnel (as Sundance's John Cooper and Trevor Groth so aptly put it), I took off a few hours to catch WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE before it slipped out of town. I'd wanted to go opening night and couldn't. The next day, on my way to meetings in NYC, I detoured to pay a visit to my 19-year-old son, now in his second year of college. Not a big movie fan (Transformers is his fav!), he'd gone to Where the Wild Things Are the night before.

"I loved Where The Wild Things Are. But it was so sad!! It's a film for sons and mothers. You know, as boys, we get really frustrated and we break things. But what's really sad, is that we break our own things!

Remember when I got the $5 bill and ripped it into a hundred pieces?"

In that second, I did...
"Yes I do. I'm sorry I wasn't a better mother. I know you were frustrated a lot."

"No, it's ok mom. When I think of you, I think of you always trying to help me. Like you helped me tape it all back together."

Ah my son. And ahhh this film - which had me smiling and sobbing within minutes. Really a modern masterpiece, carving so close to the heart of something so delicate and primal. A real rarity in this day and age. I'm very grateful.

Beeswax opening in NYC. Go.

So delighted at all the excellent reviews for BEESWAX. Opening Friday, August 7 at NYC's Film Forum. Go.

Miranda July's The Hallway

Courtesy of Jesse Trussell's I Prefer Your Earlier Work, Miranda July's Hallway:

The Hallway from The Hallway on Vimeo.

Tiny taste of Passing Strange

Thinking about musicians discovered at Sundance this year; for me, seeing Spike Lee's Passing Strange was a revelation!! I was completely unfamiliar with the Broadway show, Stew and Heidi, or their band, the Negro Problem. Hearing the music for the first time, and experiencing the show through Spike's masterful lens was transcendant. Don't miss it when it becomes available later this summer via IFC and eventually PBS. In the meantime, here's a tiny sample from the show itself, via an awards show:

The Hudson Riverkeepers on Snag for earth day

A nostalgic trip for Earth Day 2009. This film was shot in and around the old neighborhood.

SXSW Animated Venue and Shuttle Guide

I just love this! Can't embed, but very worth clicking on. It's an adorable animated guide to SXSW Venues and new 2009 Shuttles.

Daddy Wakes Baby funny youtube clip

John turned me on to this. Pretty hilarious, and particularly, for us, a snoring family.

David Lowery on films festivals and relationships

I found David Lowery's answer to this question from Karina Longworth re: her sxsw preview interview on Spoutblog.com amazing. Just beautiful and so apt. Cool series - Karina, thanks. And David - thank you for a great perspective....

Karina: There’s been some criticism that the only way to get into SXSW is by being a part of an “incestuous scene where everybody knows everybody.” So who did *you* have to sleep with to get in? Metaphorically or literally: are there any SXSW filmmaker(s) past or present that you’re close with personally and/or professionally, and how have those relationships helped or hurt the process of producing your film and getting it seen?

David: Why apply a pejorative? I like to think that film festivals both foster relationships with individual filmmakers, and engender a sense of community amongst those filmmakers. It’s a beautiful thing, and it’s only natural that, within a given festival lineup, there will be a few works by people who have screened there in the past, and works by their friends, and perhaps even a bit of cross–pollination in the credits. This doesn’t by any means create a veil of exclusivity. I have five friends with feature films in the festival this year whose work has screened here in years past. That is five films out of 108, meaning there are 103 other features I’ll be walking into blindly, and 103 filmmakers I’m looking forward to making friends with.

David Hudson on Beeswax in Berlin

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Milk - Highly Recommended

What a movie! I cried my way through this beautiful, sad, uplifting, and important work. As I expected it was almost overwhelming in terms of personal history and resonance, but of course, it's so much greater than that. Just a great piece - great acting, great directing, vitality, sensitivity but also, of course, its politics. Go see it. Amen.

Young Rob in 1978

I just need to copy this photo here (snagged from Indiewire...no pun intended :)) because I love it so much. Young Rob Epstein!!! This is 1978. We met in 1973, our very first day of college. We were inseparable for months, then life shifted. But our paths kept crossing, and have still been crossing all these years later. I couldn't be more proud of Rob's career - he's made some incredible, deeply affecting films.

How I wish I had at least one picture of us young together!!

Thrilled to see the renewed attention Rob is getting for his superb The Times of Harvey Milk. And chomping at the bit to immerse in Gus Van Sant's Milk. I've missed several advanced screenings. A great subject, a great director. And I lived in SF 1975-1980. I remember that moment very well. I was spending all my time outside of my day job (distributing experimental films) up off Castro at a small lesbian run theatre company. I'm pre-disposed to go crazy for this film on so many, many levels. Really looking forward to it.

Go: See Zack and Miri with a fullhouse

Go!!

And do yourself a favor - see Zack and Miri in a crowded movie theatre, with lot of others laughing their heads off. It's a group experience you won't want to miss.

Thriller in Austin syncronized worldwide

Ok, I wasn't there. And the Thriller video isn't even a personal touchstone for me. But still totally cracks me up, and makes me proud of my Austin buds. Go Alamo Drafthouse.