The tone and style of Ry Russo-Young’s debut feature Orphans might take some getting used to. That’s a compliment. Orphans takes itself seriously in a way that many low-budget mini-DV films made by young directors do not. Compared to the line-up of narrative features that accompanied Russo-Young on her journey around the film festival circuit, Orphans feels like an orphan in its own right. It is as far from the supposed tenets of mumblecore as a film can get (how it got grouped into that so-called movement spoke more about lazy journalism than anything else). To some—younger male viewers, especially—the overall impact will be a jarring experience and will result in a missing of the point, as well as an unfairly negative reaction. But the truth is that Russo-Young should be commended for attempting something so daring, and for succeeding. Using the most emotional tools of cinema—colors, music, landscapes, performances—she creates a haunting portrait of two ...
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Panaji, Dec 2 (IANS) Celebrated Kazakh documentary film maker Sergei Dvortsevoy’s film “Tulpan” Tuesday won the Golden Peacock award and a cash prize of Rs.4 million on the concluding day of the 39th International Film Festival of India in Panaji. ‘Tulpan’, which has in the past won the best feature film and the Golden Eye [...]... more
Taking Father Home is a marvel of low-budget filmmaking: a debut feature film shot on a borrowed video camera for less than $5,000, using friends and non-professionals for actors, and all without the permission of the Chinese government. Director Ying Liang trumps every technical and economic limitation through his highly refined visual sensibility, as elegant as it is imaginative. And yet it’s rather limiting to consider the film only in terms of its “limitations”—Ying makes no excus... more
I come to you this morning with my critical spectacles removed: I’ve been asked to cover IFP’s Independent Film Week not from the perspective of a journalist but as a filmmaker. Certainly, it’s in this capacity that I’m attending the market - a few months ago, my debut feature film effort, St. Nick , landed one of eleven spots at this IFP’s Narrative Rough Cut Labs. Now those selected projects are being shepherded into the Emerging Narrative Program, and indeed ... more
You can tell by watching Robert Downey Sr.’s movies that he’s something of a renaissance man. He began making low-budget, “underground” cinema in his mid-twenties, after he had already been a semi-pro baseball player, a soldier and a working actor. He was also, as the first fifteen years of his frequently remarkable and under-considered career show, an arch satirist, to be ranked with the great comedic minds of the era. Starting with his 1961 short Ball’s Bluff , where he first mu... more
Independent Film Week 2008 has officially commenced, and I would like to applaud the IFP for selecting Barry Jenkins’ Medicine For Melancholy as this year’s opening night film. Granted, Medicine For Melancholy has a lot going for it, having just screened at Toronto and been bought by IFC Films earlier this year. But it’s still a film made on a miniscule budget without any familiar faces by an unknown director, and to give it this attention is further proof of the IFP’s commitm... more
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