New Directors/New Films is known for bringing some of the freshest, boldest films to light, and not necessarily just for New York audiences. Arthouse theaters around the country often make selections from this well-regarded festival’s programming. The relatively high-brow co-presentation of the The Museum of Modern Art and the The Film Society of Lincoln Center is not, however, generally considered a place to discover new genre film, despite its reputation for supporting ballsy young upstarts. Yet perhaps the increasing cultural and cinematic significance of sufficiently well-made genre films is now keeping them from being overlooked by the festival that saves many a movie from being overlooked; this year’s Nd/Nf includes The Raid: Redemption, a stylishly heart-pounding action flick from Indonesia which is also out in select theaters today. Considering even some dedicated genre fans and critics have yet to become familiar with Southeast Asia’s distinctive,...
- 3/23/2012
- by Farihah Zaman
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Slow day at the office? We’ve got some really cool videos that should help pass the time. Even the greatest directors had to start somewhere – and thanks to an alert flea-market shopper named Gary Huggins, cinephiles now have a chance to see one of Robert Altman’s earliest works. Huggins, himself a filmmaker, was perusing a Kansas City flea-market when he grabbed a few old film reels for $10. One of the titles was a piece called Modern Football – which turned out to be one of Altman’s first directorial efforts. Huggins explains how he discovered that Modern Football was a piece of cinematic history in a recent interview. “Modern Football sounded really dull. But when I recently [watched it], I glimpsed Altman, who cameos as a sports reporter...
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- 3/15/2012
- by Mike Bracken
- Movies.com
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Excerpts from Joss Whedon’s SXSW Panel from IndieWire (Suggested by postmod2u)
Watch: Lost 1951 Short Film Modern Football Directed by Robert Altman from The Playlist
Interview: Mosquita y Mari Writer/Director Aurora Guerrero from NPR.org
Similarities Between The Big Lebowski and The Big Sleep from Tdylf.com (Suggested by larue2121)
Jeff Bridges to Release “The Dude and the Zen Master” Book from EW.com
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- 3/14/2012
- by Heather Campbell
- IMDb Blog - All the Latest
As great moviemakers go, Robert Altman was a late bloomer, making his name with his fifth feature film, M*A*S*H, when he was in his mid-forties. But he didn't suddenly appear out of nowhere. Before making his first low-budget movie The Delinquents in 1957 and settling in for years of journeyman work in television, Altman churned out several short industrial films starting in 1949. Most of this stuff is lost to history, but now Altman completists can check out one of his earliest works below, the 1951 Modern Football, an educational sports documentary co-sponsored by Wheaties and ...
- 3/13/2012
- avclub.com
We live in an age where it seems almost every movie is just a mouse click or Netflix queue away, but there are still corners and pockets of the cinema world that are hiding in boxes or have been neglected by time waiting to be rediscovered. And even someone like the legendary Robert Altman still has a few things yet to see to the light of day. However, one of them has now been discovered thanks to director Gary Huggins.
All it took was $10 and a stop at a Kansas City flea market for Huggins to walk away with "Modern Football," the first film shot by Altman way back in 1951. Although, at first he didn't realize what he had as it was among a stack of old films he picked up at the same time. As he explains to Sf Weekly, " 'Modern Football' sounded really dull. But when I recently [watched it], I glimpsed Altman,...
All it took was $10 and a stop at a Kansas City flea market for Huggins to walk away with "Modern Football," the first film shot by Altman way back in 1951. Although, at first he didn't realize what he had as it was among a stack of old films he picked up at the same time. As he explains to Sf Weekly, " 'Modern Football' sounded really dull. But when I recently [watched it], I glimpsed Altman,...
- 3/13/2012
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
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