Sean Baker is amazed some people still think he’s a new filmmaker. That implies that he’s young. On the contrary. “I’m old,” Baker remarked during his talk at Ifp Week 2017. (Or at least he’s 46.) Back in 2015, Tangerine put him on the map. And it was shot on an iPhone 5S, which made him seem like some millennial who’d never even heard of a Bolex. As it happens, Tangerine was his fifth film. The others weren’t obscure; Four Letter Words, Take Out, Prince of Broadway and Starlet were all acclaimed. (He also spent years as the co-creator of […]...
- 9/19/2017
- by Matt Prigge
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Besides being a successful actress and loving wife and mother, Blake Lively is also quite the fierce competitor!
During “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” last night (June 20), the “Gossip Girl” babe looked incredible in a slim-fitting blue dress as she engaged in a heated round of “Know It All.”
Throughout the game, Lively, who has been busy promoting her new movie “The Shallows,” was too proper to drop any curse words, hence she didn’t do too well with the “Four Letter Words” category. Check the clip!
During “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” last night (June 20), the “Gossip Girl” babe looked incredible in a slim-fitting blue dress as she engaged in a heated round of “Know It All.”
Throughout the game, Lively, who has been busy promoting her new movie “The Shallows,” was too proper to drop any curse words, hence she didn’t do too well with the “Four Letter Words” category. Check the clip!
- 6/21/2016
- GossipCenter
Sean Baker wills his films into the world. He fearlessly shot his new film "Tangerine" entirely on the iPhone 5s. It dazzled audiences and critics when it premiered at Sundance 2015 and is now being released theatrically. It looks great on the big screen and has energy and style to burn. Using the iPhone was the most affordable way to shoot Tangerine, and turned out to be the very best way to make it. Read More: How the Dp Behind Sundance Hit 'Tangerine' Created a Cinematic Look with an iPhone Baker shot his first feature "Four Letter Words" in 1996 and finally finished it in 2000. Made for $80,000 with 35mm short ends, it's the only movie he has done on film. In 2004, he shot "Take Out" on standard definition video for $3,000 and "finished it with favors." In 2008, he made "Prince of Broadway on HD" for $45,000. Then in 2012, he completed "Starlet," which...
- 7/10/2015
- by Peter Broderick
- Indiewire
Filmmaker Sean Baker (Four Letter Words, Take Out, Prince of Broadway, Starlet) premiered his new film Tangerine at the Library theater Friday at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival. A Q&A followed the screening during which Baker revealed that the film was shot entirely using three iPhone 5S phones. (Update: Our original story said “almost entirely,” […]
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- 1/24/2015
- by Peter Sciretta
- Slash Film
The scrooge in me doesn’t care much for Xmas themed films. But worry not, this Christmas without snow will surely bring out the yuletide spirit. Following Four Letter Words, Take Out, Prince of Broadway and Starlet, on paper, Sean Baker’s fifth feature film promises more of the same: an immersive experience with characters you’d never thought you had a rapport with in a scape you probably didn’t know existed. Think street National Geographic style d examinations of the human condition. A featured Ioncinephile filmmaker, Baker began filming Tangerine very early in the year, and as usual, we find a mix of non-actors (stars newbies Kiki Lee Key and Mya Taylor) with a seasoned pro in James Ransone.
Gist: Co-scripted with Chris Bergoch, this is a rip-roaring journey through various subcultures of Tinseltown on Christmas Eve.
Production Co./Producers: Sean Baker, Through Films’ Marcus and Karrie Cox,...
Gist: Co-scripted with Chris Bergoch, this is a rip-roaring journey through various subcultures of Tinseltown on Christmas Eve.
Production Co./Producers: Sean Baker, Through Films’ Marcus and Karrie Cox,...
- 11/14/2014
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
"Hollywood Game Night" returns on Thursday (Feb. 27) with a new episode, and Zap2it has an exclusive first look at the shenanigans that are going down.
In the above clip, Sean Hayes, Olivia Wilde and Christina Applegate play a rousing team game of Four Letter Words. They work impressively well together.
While the video showcases the fun the "Hollywood Game Night" guests have together, now viewers have share in the excitement at home. The "Hollywood Game Night" party game hit store shelves on Feb. 15 and can be purchased at Walmart and the NBC online store.
"Hollywood Game Night" airs Thursdays at 9 p.m. Et/Pt on NBC.
In the above clip, Sean Hayes, Olivia Wilde and Christina Applegate play a rousing team game of Four Letter Words. They work impressively well together.
While the video showcases the fun the "Hollywood Game Night" guests have together, now viewers have share in the excitement at home. The "Hollywood Game Night" party game hit store shelves on Feb. 15 and can be purchased at Walmart and the NBC online store.
"Hollywood Game Night" airs Thursdays at 9 p.m. Et/Pt on NBC.
- 2/25/2014
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
Have you ever wondered what are the films that inspire the next generation of visionary filmmakers? As part of our monthly Ioncinephile profile (read here), we ask the filmmaker the incredibly arduous task of identifying their top ten list of favorite films. Sean Baker (Four Letter Words (’00), Take Out (’04), Prince of Broadway (’08) and the just released Starlet), provided us with his all time top ten film list (dated: November 2012).
Babes in Toyland (aka March of Wooden Soldiers) – Gus Meins, Charley Rogers (1932)
“Gus Meins and Charley Rogers’ masterpiece. The comedic timing and images have passed the test of time… that poor monkey playing a bastard Mickey Mouse. And even in this age of advanced make-up and computer effects, show a child that Bogeymen sequence and I guarantee there will be nightmares.“
Bad Lieutenant – Abel Ferrara (1990)
“Ferrara’s masterpiece. I love NYC films and this truly captured the city’s vibe of the late 80′s,...
Babes in Toyland (aka March of Wooden Soldiers) – Gus Meins, Charley Rogers (1932)
“Gus Meins and Charley Rogers’ masterpiece. The comedic timing and images have passed the test of time… that poor monkey playing a bastard Mickey Mouse. And even in this age of advanced make-up and computer effects, show a child that Bogeymen sequence and I guarantee there will be nightmares.“
Bad Lieutenant – Abel Ferrara (1990)
“Ferrara’s masterpiece. I love NYC films and this truly captured the city’s vibe of the late 80′s,...
- 11/12/2012
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
Oncinema.com’s Ioncinephile of the Month feature focuses on an emerging filmmaker from the world of cinema. This November, we feature Sean Baker, an independent filmmaker whose fourth film, Starlet premiered at this year’s SXSW Film Festival, then continued onwards to Locarno, BFI London and most recently AFI Film Fest before being released theatrically via Music Box Films on Friday November 9th. Below is our follow-up interview where we learn more about Baker’s process and about the films that have influenced the filmmaker. Here’s Sean Baker’s personal Top Ten films of all time.
Eric Lavallee: During your childhood…what films were important to you?
Sean Baker: When I was in first grade, my mother brought me to the local library where they were screening selected scenes from the Universal monster films on 16mm. I remember watching the burning windmill sequence from James Whale’s...
Eric Lavallee: During your childhood…what films were important to you?
Sean Baker: When I was in first grade, my mother brought me to the local library where they were screening selected scenes from the Universal monster films on 16mm. I remember watching the burning windmill sequence from James Whale’s...
- 11/8/2012
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
No matter the scale of the production, American cinema largely reflects the conditions of a society that still has a hard time exploring its diversity. To put it simply: A lot of movies are made by white guys and revolve around white guys. American filmmaker Sean Baker is a white guy, but the four features he has written and directed over the last decade delve far deeper into the crevices of a country that contains many more stories beyond the market standard. Baker maintains a firm grasp of genre -- as his other career, creating the dopey comedy shows "Greg the Bunny" and "Warren the Ape" prove -- but applies it to unorthodox ends. While both his scrappy first feature, the college romp "Four Letter Words," and his latest effort, "Starlet" (which opens in limited release this Friday), revolve around archetypes of American youth, these familiar access points provide fluid...
- 11/7/2012
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
If you haven't yet noticed, I updated all the Oscar charts yesterday to reflect the latest shifts in buzz. As ever I am not totally enslaved by immediate buzz but try to project forward from it. I don't believe, and past experience backs me up here, that the first word from festivals is the last word on consensus. Festival audiences have, in many cases, different needs than Academy voters and the general public and even mainstream-leaning film critics. These differing needs range from subject matter to tone to emotional and intellectual content. So there is much we still don't know about the new films winning raves. To win Oscar's heart you generally have to first master or at least make peace with three other audiences (all of which can or do overlap with each other and with Oscar but let's not complicate the matter): Critics (i.e. reviews/perceptions...
- 9/15/2011
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
Sometimes hitting the multiplex just isn’t in the cards. That’s when Netflix steps in to provide a movie fix. But how to separate the wheat from the chaff? I’m happy to help; every week I’ll pick a flick from the Netflix Watch Instantly section and see if it’s worth your time. This week? “Love and Other Four Letter Words”.
She’s a busy career woman that has left her past behind so she can blossom in the big city. She’s got everything she’s ever wanted, except love. No, it’s not Sweet Home Alabama, Never Been Kissed or Meet The Browns. This time it’s Love and Other Four Letter Words, and it’s a shadow of the movies that have come before it.
The she in this movie is television talk show host Stormy La Rue (and I’m assuming that’s...
She’s a busy career woman that has left her past behind so she can blossom in the big city. She’s got everything she’s ever wanted, except love. No, it’s not Sweet Home Alabama, Never Been Kissed or Meet The Browns. This time it’s Love and Other Four Letter Words, and it’s a shadow of the movies that have come before it.
The she in this movie is television talk show host Stormy La Rue (and I’m assuming that’s...
- 5/25/2011
- by Denise Kitashima Dutton
- Atomic Popcorn
Usama Alshaibi’s Profane debuted in Berlin last week and the film already garnered a review by Ceven Knowles. To be honest, I haven’t read it yet because I’m waiting to see the film first without preconceptions. But, I think it’s a positive write-up.Actually, there are lots of write-ups coming from the Berlinale. On Electric Sheep, Pamela Jahn and Alison Frank review films Road to Nowhere, The Devil’s Double, Tomboy and Dance Town.Robert Koehler has several write-ups. First, he says Miranda July’s The Future isn’t good, but Marie Losier’s The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye is excellent. Then, this round-up of several films makes the fest sound pretty dismal overall.Kinemastik reviews some Berlinale short films.Clint Enns has a completely excellent review of Jaimz Asmundson’s phenomenal short film The Magus, cluing us in on many of the fine...
- 2/20/2011
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
A lot of hay has been made lately about the future of Netflix streaming movies over the Internet for its subscribers as opposed to their original business model of being a mail-order DVD rental service. A good recent article on the subject was written by Chuck Tryon, who waded through all the hype and arguments against to try to figure out what impact Internet streaming of movies has on the movie industry.
Well, forget about the industry for the moment. How is Netflix streaming affecting the underground filmmaker?
Personally, I’m not a Netflix subscriber, so wading through their offerings is a bit more difficult for me. However, I was still curious if the company was streaming any underground movies. To find out if they were, I ended up searching a website called Instant Watcher, which is a company independent of Netflix, but uses a Netflix developer Api to scan...
Well, forget about the industry for the moment. How is Netflix streaming affecting the underground filmmaker?
Personally, I’m not a Netflix subscriber, so wading through their offerings is a bit more difficult for me. However, I was still curious if the company was streaming any underground movies. To find out if they were, I ended up searching a website called Instant Watcher, which is a company independent of Netflix, but uses a Netflix developer Api to scan...
- 1/4/2011
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
Getting a little less attention than glossier fare like "The Avengers" and "Cowboys & Aliens" in the four-day firestorm of Comic-Con unveilings the past weekend was the announcement that "A Contract With God" was headed to the big screen, indie-style.
Will Eisner's masterpiece, which consists of four semi-autobiographical short stories set in the Bronx and its environs in the 1930s, is considered a landmark of the form. It's one of the main texts, along with "Watchmen" and "Maus," that gets brought up by people making the case for the potential of comic books and graphic novels as art forms.
Each of the four parts of "A Contract With God" will be handled, anthology-style, by one of four up-and-coming indie filmmakers. The dream team and the segments they'll each handle:
Sean Baker: "Cookalien"
One of the creators of the "Greg the Bunny" franchise, formerly of IFC, then Fox, then IFC again,...
Will Eisner's masterpiece, which consists of four semi-autobiographical short stories set in the Bronx and its environs in the 1930s, is considered a landmark of the form. It's one of the main texts, along with "Watchmen" and "Maus," that gets brought up by people making the case for the potential of comic books and graphic novels as art forms.
Each of the four parts of "A Contract With God" will be handled, anthology-style, by one of four up-and-coming indie filmmakers. The dream team and the segments they'll each handle:
Sean Baker: "Cookalien"
One of the creators of the "Greg the Bunny" franchise, formerly of IFC, then Fox, then IFC again,...
- 7/30/2010
- by Alison Willmore
- ifc.com
Artist Rob Seward creates a stunning type display using fluorescent light tubes, with words borrowed from an eerie experiment that began in the 1970s.
Rob Seward's installation, Four Letter Words, is comprised of four units, each of them made from fluorescent lights that can rearranged themselves to render all 26 letters of the alphabet:
The sheer form of the letters themselves is startling to watch, as they fade from one letter to the next.
But the piece gets part of its eerie poetry from the words themselves, which displays the results from a word-association database that was assembled at the University of South Florida between 1976 and 1998, in hopes of mapping how the mind free-associates. (The attempt failed: Despite crunching answers from over 6,000 people, the researchers weren't able to successfully predict what words people would cross associate.) Apparently, Seward also programmed the words to drift towards "dark" subject matter, following in the...
Rob Seward's installation, Four Letter Words, is comprised of four units, each of them made from fluorescent lights that can rearranged themselves to render all 26 letters of the alphabet:
The sheer form of the letters themselves is startling to watch, as they fade from one letter to the next.
But the piece gets part of its eerie poetry from the words themselves, which displays the results from a word-association database that was assembled at the University of South Florida between 1976 and 1998, in hopes of mapping how the mind free-associates. (The attempt failed: Despite crunching answers from over 6,000 people, the researchers weren't able to successfully predict what words people would cross associate.) Apparently, Seward also programmed the words to drift towards "dark" subject matter, following in the...
- 3/30/2010
- by Cliff Kuang
- Fast Company
Prince of Broadway Directed by Sean Baker Prince Of Broadway, the third feature from writer/director Sean Baker (Take Out, Four Letter Words) continues in the minimal, neo-realist vein of his previous films, a slice-of-street-life indie that places a human face on a character not normally seen in mainstream film. The film revolves around the New York world of bootleg apparel, following Lucky (Prince Adu), an illegal immigrant from West Africa who works as a hustler selling counterfeit purses and sneakers for his Armenian-Lebanese boss Levon (Karren Karagulian). Lucky is confronted at work by an ex-girlfriend (Kat Sanchez) who drops an 18-month-old (Aiden Noesi) into his arms, claiming the child is his, and then disappears. Things get complicated from there. Lucky tries to do the right thing, but he's ill-prepared for the sudden responsibility, and things don't go exactly as planned. Winner of the best narrative feature award at the 2008 Los Angeles Film Festival,...
- 10/12/2009
- by Ricky
- SoundOnSight
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