Last month, I finished a Kickstarter campaign for my first short film: “Alpacaland,” a horror comedy inspired by a movement of late 1930s Soviet propaganda musicals set on farms. I looked at crowdfunding as a resource to help give the project funding I couldn’t otherwise offer. To cast a wide net of interest, I updated the page every day, asked a dozen friends to help with social media, and tried to make the project sound like a legitimate independent film worthy of the site I write for.
The experience was successful, buoyed by a number of supportive friends and family members. Yet for a while, it was an awkward, messy experience, bordering on obsessive and self-doubting. For weeks, our social media mark struggled to extend well beyond donors who knew a member of the team. I started asking students I knew at Wesleyan, Nyu and other schools if their experience was similarly strange.
The experience was successful, buoyed by a number of supportive friends and family members. Yet for a while, it was an awkward, messy experience, bordering on obsessive and self-doubting. For weeks, our social media mark struggled to extend well beyond donors who knew a member of the team. I started asking students I knew at Wesleyan, Nyu and other schools if their experience was similarly strange.
- 8/19/2016
- by Russell Goldman
- Indiewire
Watch: Rooney Mara’s “Carol” Interview
Somebody thinks the sight of Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara kissing in “Carol” is not suitable viewing at 30,000 feet. As AfterEllen reports, Delta (and other airlines) showed a version of the film that had every kissing scene between the two actors edited out. When a viewer complained to the airline about the cuts, she received this response from Delta:
On behalf of Delta Air Lines I apologize for your disappointment with our in-flight movie selection. As you can imagine, choosing entertainment that meets all of our passengers’ needs is a tricky business. Although we try to show a variety of videos that have been edited for an airline audience, I’m sorry the edits for the movie “Carol” offended you…Please know it is never our policy to discriminate on the basis of race, gender, age, national origin, religion, disability, sexual orientation or similar classification.
Somebody thinks the sight of Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara kissing in “Carol” is not suitable viewing at 30,000 feet. As AfterEllen reports, Delta (and other airlines) showed a version of the film that had every kissing scene between the two actors edited out. When a viewer complained to the airline about the cuts, she received this response from Delta:
On behalf of Delta Air Lines I apologize for your disappointment with our in-flight movie selection. As you can imagine, choosing entertainment that meets all of our passengers’ needs is a tricky business. Although we try to show a variety of videos that have been edited for an airline audience, I’m sorry the edits for the movie “Carol” offended you…Please know it is never our policy to discriminate on the basis of race, gender, age, national origin, religion, disability, sexual orientation or similar classification.
- 8/5/2016
- by Graham Winfrey
- Indiewire
Buoyed by the Supreme Court decision on same-sex marriage, things looked really good for Lgbtq people at the start of 2016. Then came the Orlando massacre, and with it the reminder that queer people were not safe, not even within the comforts provided by its culture.
That was only six weeks ago, but it seems longer. Orlando has fallen out of the news cycle — for the media, too many fresher tragedies take precedence. There’s the police murders of black men, an assassin’s murders of police and the public in Dallas, the Nice attacks, and even another Florida nightclub shooting, this one in Fort Myers. And for the public, the crises converge. There were signs remembering Orlando at Black Lives Matter rallies, and the Lgbtq community responded to Orlando with anti-gun rallies and messages of support for Muslims.
This puts Lgbtq culture in a familiar position: If the threats to...
That was only six weeks ago, but it seems longer. Orlando has fallen out of the news cycle — for the media, too many fresher tragedies take precedence. There’s the police murders of black men, an assassin’s murders of police and the public in Dallas, the Nice attacks, and even another Florida nightclub shooting, this one in Fort Myers. And for the public, the crises converge. There were signs remembering Orlando at Black Lives Matter rallies, and the Lgbtq community responded to Orlando with anti-gun rallies and messages of support for Muslims.
This puts Lgbtq culture in a familiar position: If the threats to...
- 7/29/2016
- by Jude Dry
- Indiewire
New York City’s brand-new Metrograph theater will present the world premiere of “Gems Unseen: Early Apparatus Films from Christine Vachon, Todd Haynes & Barry Ellsworth,” a two-part retrospective consisting of ten films assembled and digitally restored by IndieCollect. Vachon, Haynes, and Ellsworth will attend the premiere in early December.
Read More: Todd Haynes Explains the Cinematic Influences That Impacted His ‘Carol’
Some of the films shown in the series include “Tommy’s” by Barry Ellsworth and “Days Are Numbered” by Christine Vachon, both featuring a young Steve Buscemi; “He Was Once,” which features a special cameo performance by Todd Haynes; and “Anemone Me” by Pulitzer Prize-winner Suzan-Lori Parks.
Along with films by Apparatus Productions founders Vachon, Haynes, and Ellsworth, the series will also include a selection of films by directors they mentored, like Mary Bradford, Larry Carty, Brooke Dammkoehler, Susan Delson, Evan Dunsky, Mary Hestand, and Bruce Hainley. All the...
Read More: Todd Haynes Explains the Cinematic Influences That Impacted His ‘Carol’
Some of the films shown in the series include “Tommy’s” by Barry Ellsworth and “Days Are Numbered” by Christine Vachon, both featuring a young Steve Buscemi; “He Was Once,” which features a special cameo performance by Todd Haynes; and “Anemone Me” by Pulitzer Prize-winner Suzan-Lori Parks.
Along with films by Apparatus Productions founders Vachon, Haynes, and Ellsworth, the series will also include a selection of films by directors they mentored, like Mary Bradford, Larry Carty, Brooke Dammkoehler, Susan Delson, Evan Dunsky, Mary Hestand, and Bruce Hainley. All the...
- 7/27/2016
- by Vikram Murthi
- Indiewire
Spoiler alert: In the Nov. 4 episode of Sons of Anarchy, Jax (Charlie Hunnam) made another play to get Bobby (Mark Boone Junior) back from August Marks (Billy Brown). Bobby's fate—a bullet to the head from the gun Marks had hidden on him before the no-weapons-allowed exchange—will have surprised the fans who voted Samcro's de facto conscience the club member most likely to survive in a pre-season EW.com poll. "I took that as a great compliment that people actually wanted me to survive," Boone says. "I think that this show does surprising things more than most shows, and...
- 11/5/2014
- by Mandi Bierly
- EW - Inside TV
"Boardwalk Empire" came to an end tonight. I spoke at length with creator Terence Winter, and I have a review of the finale coming up just as soon as I think about the things I want in life, then imagine myself in a dress... "What are you in the end, anyway?" "I'm what I need to be." "How's that make you anything at all? -The Commodore & Nucky And so "Boardwalk Empire" died as it lived: with a tightly-plotted installment that paid off many storylines from both the final season and the entire series, and one where the most memorable, powerful scene involved someone other than Nucky Thompson. Although the Nucky material was pretty damn powerful and satisfying in its own right. The most powerful scene in question: Al Capone telling his son about his impending prison sentence, and the boy not only offering to help his dad, but putting up...
- 10/27/2014
- by Alan Sepinwall
- Hitfix
The big question leading into tonight's "Boardwalk Empire" season finale was how Nucky Thompson (Steve Buscemi) would manage to recover from the streak of bad luck and betrayal which has steadily encroached upon him all season. But after a finale filled with strategic maneuvers and an enormous body count, the lingering issue remaining for Season 4 is whether or not Nucky will stick to the "full gangster" mantra.
Season 3 was more consistent than the last -- the writing was stronger, and it played out with fewer contemplative and slow episodes. And unlike last year, the finale wasn't packed with jaw-dropping revelations or unexpected deaths. Instead, "Margate Sands" played out as a tribute to Nucky Thompson's shrewd negotiating skills, and his ability to take back his city after losing nearly everything.
*Warning: Spoilers ahead*
A Nucky-less Atlantic City is chaotic, and gang violence has the press and the public talking. Even as Thompson plots his comeback,...
Season 3 was more consistent than the last -- the writing was stronger, and it played out with fewer contemplative and slow episodes. And unlike last year, the finale wasn't packed with jaw-dropping revelations or unexpected deaths. Instead, "Margate Sands" played out as a tribute to Nucky Thompson's shrewd negotiating skills, and his ability to take back his city after losing nearly everything.
*Warning: Spoilers ahead*
A Nucky-less Atlantic City is chaotic, and gang violence has the press and the public talking. Even as Thompson plots his comeback,...
- 12/3/2012
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
One of the most common pitfalls of a serial drama like Boardwalk Empire is the glut of characters and their corresponding narratives. As the show progresses, it becomes harder to keep track of the overlapping story lines, and some characters will even go missing for long enough periods of time that when they do reappear, you find yourself saying, "Ok, so Michael Shannon is still on Boardwalk?" It's for this reason I must applaud "Two Imposters" writer Howard Korder for tabling most of the secondary subplots in order to turn...
- 11/26/2012
- Rollingstone.com
"Boardwalk Empire" returned tonight, delivering on its "full gangster" promise and churning out plenty of tension, booze, and violent retribution as it answered lingering questions from Season 2's cliffhangers -- and introduced new players and stressors to the complex web of corruption and crime in 1920's Atlantic City.
Nucky Thompson (Steve Buscemi) is still the focal point of the series, but the first character seen in Episode 1 is newcomer Gyp Rosetti (Bobby Cannavale). He's an ambitious Sicilian gangster with a volatile temper and unhinged behavior that recalls iconic mafia movie bad guys -- akin to Joe Pesci's Tommy Devito in "Goodfellas." It's obvious that he'll harm whomever gets in his way or offends him, and that includes Nucky.
With his ever-present red carnation boutonniere and his continued -- albeit uncertain -- control over Atlantic City, Nucky has also taken on more of a classic mob boss demeanor. In his first appearance this season,...
Nucky Thompson (Steve Buscemi) is still the focal point of the series, but the first character seen in Episode 1 is newcomer Gyp Rosetti (Bobby Cannavale). He's an ambitious Sicilian gangster with a volatile temper and unhinged behavior that recalls iconic mafia movie bad guys -- akin to Joe Pesci's Tommy Devito in "Goodfellas." It's obvious that he'll harm whomever gets in his way or offends him, and that includes Nucky.
With his ever-present red carnation boutonniere and his continued -- albeit uncertain -- control over Atlantic City, Nucky has also taken on more of a classic mob boss demeanor. In his first appearance this season,...
- 9/17/2012
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
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