For those unfamiliar with the Nuit Blanche experience - there are several cities operating events under the banner now - it goes like this. For one night, from dusk until dawn, artists invade and turn the public and not so public spaces of the city into art. Live performances, painting, experimental installations, pretty much anything you could name happens on Nuit Blanche.
This year's event hits Toronto on October 2nd and, among other things, will be entirely taking over the Tiff Bell Lightbox and all of the screening space there with the marquee event - at least in our mind - being the Grindbox.
Curated by Colin Geddes - the Tiff Midnight Madness programmer - Grindbox will present a non-stop loop of trailers and 'coming attractions' from Toronto's grindhouse past. With reels culled from his own collection along with others from Vagrancy Films and the collection of the Alamo Drafthouse in Austin,...
This year's event hits Toronto on October 2nd and, among other things, will be entirely taking over the Tiff Bell Lightbox and all of the screening space there with the marquee event - at least in our mind - being the Grindbox.
Curated by Colin Geddes - the Tiff Midnight Madness programmer - Grindbox will present a non-stop loop of trailers and 'coming attractions' from Toronto's grindhouse past. With reels culled from his own collection along with others from Vagrancy Films and the collection of the Alamo Drafthouse in Austin,...
- 9/28/2010
- Screen Anarchy
Experimental filmmaker Gustav Deutsch’s latest found footage concoction, “Film Ist. a Girl & a Gun,” begins a weeklong run today at New York’s Anthology Film Archives. “Taking his title from D.W. Griffith’s famous maxim that all one needs to make a movie is a girl and a gun, Deutsch recombines shards of archival footage—vintage nature docs, silent melodramas, old newsreels, and ancient porn—to explosive effect,” writes the Village Voice’s J. Hoberman. …...
- 12/2/2009
- Indiewire
This week's slate gathers together so many big name stars in one place you'd think it was Oscar night already.
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"Across The Hall"
A stripped-down neo-noir with a twist, this feature debut for filmmaker Alex Merkin began as a 2005 short (starring Adrian Grenier, which can be found online here). Grenier didn't return, but Mike Vogel takes his place as Julian, a young man who races to a seedy hotel where his best friend's wayward fiancée (Brittany Murphy) and another man have aroused the suspicions of his pal, who's holed up "across the hall" with a bottle of whiskey and a gun.
Opens in New York and Los Angeles.
"Armored"
Having garnered a great deal of attention with his grungy murder mystery debut "Kontroll," American-born Hungarian helmer Nimród Antal first made his mark in Hollywood...
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"Across The Hall"
A stripped-down neo-noir with a twist, this feature debut for filmmaker Alex Merkin began as a 2005 short (starring Adrian Grenier, which can be found online here). Grenier didn't return, but Mike Vogel takes his place as Julian, a young man who races to a seedy hotel where his best friend's wayward fiancée (Brittany Murphy) and another man have aroused the suspicions of his pal, who's holed up "across the hall" with a bottle of whiskey and a gun.
Opens in New York and Los Angeles.
"Armored"
Having garnered a great deal of attention with his grungy murder mystery debut "Kontroll," American-born Hungarian helmer Nimród Antal first made his mark in Hollywood...
- 11/30/2009
- by Neil Pedley
- ifc.com
Gustav Deutsch is a maestro of found footage filmmaking. In this enterprise, he travels to film archives worldwide, researches, and excavates clips from obscure films, and reassembles them into montage sequences that create compelling visual narratives organized around larger thematic concerns.
In Film Ist. a girl & a gun, the director weaves together a stunning array of color-tinted images from a variety of genres, including scientific, erotic, fiction, and actuality films. Deutsch also obtained privileged access to the film archives of the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction, enabling him to incorporate sequences from especially rare erotic and sex films into his latest oeuvre. Deutsch adroitly assembles a precisely constructed, mesmerizing ebb and flow of images into extraordinary montage sequences divided into five acts: Genesis, Paradeisos, Eros, Thanatos, and Symposion.
- notes from Jon Gartenberg Tribeca 09, if your attendig the festival you still have one more chance to see the film Sat,...
In Film Ist. a girl & a gun, the director weaves together a stunning array of color-tinted images from a variety of genres, including scientific, erotic, fiction, and actuality films. Deutsch also obtained privileged access to the film archives of the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction, enabling him to incorporate sequences from especially rare erotic and sex films into his latest oeuvre. Deutsch adroitly assembles a precisely constructed, mesmerizing ebb and flow of images into extraordinary montage sequences divided into five acts: Genesis, Paradeisos, Eros, Thanatos, and Symposion.
- notes from Jon Gartenberg Tribeca 09, if your attendig the festival you still have one more chance to see the film Sat,...
- 4/27/2009
- by Leigh
- Latemag.com/film
And here's the rest, including the Midnight Section, all after the break.
Encounters
This collection of engaging and entertaining narrative features and documentaries, a mixture of dark comedies and lighter fare, offers work from returning filmmakers, established talent, and popular subjects, and includes 10 World Premieres. Included in Encounters are performances from Academy Award®-nominated actors Thomas Haden Church, Melissa Leo, Elisabeth Shue; directorial debuts from both Eric Bana and Cheryl Hines (from a screenplay by Adrienne Shelly); stories ranging from an ill-fated man's discovery of inspiration and happiness, dysfunctional families, and unrequited high school crushes to a doc on the emergence of New York’s independent film scene.
• Blank City, directed by Celine Danhier. (USA) - World Premiere, Documentary. Celine Danhier’s kinetic doc mirrors the urgent, anything-goes energy of her subject: the Diy independent film movement that emerged in tandem with punk rock in late ‘70s downtown New York.
Encounters
This collection of engaging and entertaining narrative features and documentaries, a mixture of dark comedies and lighter fare, offers work from returning filmmakers, established talent, and popular subjects, and includes 10 World Premieres. Included in Encounters are performances from Academy Award®-nominated actors Thomas Haden Church, Melissa Leo, Elisabeth Shue; directorial debuts from both Eric Bana and Cheryl Hines (from a screenplay by Adrienne Shelly); stories ranging from an ill-fated man's discovery of inspiration and happiness, dysfunctional families, and unrequited high school crushes to a doc on the emergence of New York’s independent film scene.
• Blank City, directed by Celine Danhier. (USA) - World Premiere, Documentary. Celine Danhier’s kinetic doc mirrors the urgent, anything-goes energy of her subject: the Diy independent film movement that emerged in tandem with punk rock in late ‘70s downtown New York.
- 3/11/2009
- QuietEarth.us
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