Filmmaker Magazine

Time 2021-05-26 20:15:05

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Five Years Have Gone By and You Still Haven t Made a Second Feature : Anja Marqaurdt on The Girlfriend Experience, Season ThreeJulia Goldani Telles on the set of The Girlfriend Experience, season three At the Berlin International Film Festival in 2014, the German-born Anja Marquardt’s debut feature, She’s Lost Control, premiered to positive notices and went on to a healthy festival life. A fictional account of a graduate student (Brooke Bloom) doubling as a professional sex surrogate for men struggling with physical intimacy, the film represented a unique new voice on the independent film scene, ultimately netting Marquardt Film Independent Spirit Award nominations for Best First Feature and Best First Screenplay. Several years removed from that film’s theatrical run, Marquardt has now taken on a project with similar themes but a much more expansive production schedule (and name brand value). After selecting Lodge Kerrigan and Amy Seimetz to helm the first two seasons, Steven Read moreBy Erik Luers The Marvel Paradigm is to Come at It Like a Movie : Kari Skogland on The Falcon and the Winter SoldierAnthony Mackie, Kari Skogland and Adepero Oduye on the set of The Falcon and the Winter Soldier) (Photo by Chuck Zlotnick. ©Marvel Studios 2021) Director Kari Skogland has long been a master of tonally complex television, having helmed episodes of The Handmaid’s Tale, Boardwalk Empire, The Walking Dead and many other beloved series; she also executive produced and directed several episodes of one of the best limited series of the last ten years, the Showtime Roger Ailes drama The Loudest Voice. Yet the best work of her career is her most recent, as the director of all six episodes of Marvel’s Disney+ series The Falcon and the Winter Soldier. An extraordinarily ambitious expansion of the Marvel universe that takes full advantage of the opportunities television provides to deepen and broaden its characters and themes beyond what’s possible in a two- to three-hour running time, Falcon Read moreBy Jim HemphillJim Hemphill s Home Video Recommendations: Explorers, Fool for Love, 12 MonkeysExplorers One of director Joe Dante’s most interesting and underrated films gets the Blu-ray treatment it deserves with the Shout Factory release of Explorers, Dante’s 1985 follow-up to Gremlins that walks a similarly unconventional line between Spielbergian sentiment and Tashlinesque pop satire, with an undercurrent of unsettling melancholy thrown in for good measure. There’s genuine warmth and wonder to spare in the first half of the film as friends Ethan Hawke, River Phoenix, and Jason Presson build their own spaceship; when they actually manage to rendezvous with the aliens who have been communicating with them, the movie shifts gears to become a gloriously silly barrage of jokes, sight gags, and media references (as in his earlier work, particularly the “It’s a Read moreBy Jim Hemphill A Dream of Education : Reel Works Celebrates its 20th AnniversaryProduction Assistant training graduate Courteney Cooke-Freeman on the set of the WNET shoot.(Photo: Ryan Rivard) When Maya Velazquez’s teacher told her class about Reel Works, the ninth-grader at Park Slope Collegiate had no idea what story she wanted to tell, only that filmmaking was something she wanted to try. Cultivating that spark of interest is what Reel Works, a New York-based nonprofit organization that teaches filmmaking to students, has done for the past two decades. Reel Works now celebrates its 20th anniversary and will host a 20th Anniversary Gala on May 26. And while the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted the global film business in 2020, Reel Works actually had its most successful year yet, serving an all-time high of nearly 800 students across its different programs. Stephanie Walter Williams, the co-founder of Reel Works, described the organization’s start Read moreBy Dominique Castanheira  On Every Movie I Do, I Try to Test Every Single Camera I Can Get My Hands On : DP Pawel Pogorzelski on NobodyBob Odenkirk in Nobody In the middle-aged revenge fantasy movie, the protagonist’s onslaught of violence is a reluctant one. In your John Wicks or Takens, these are men forced back into action by a transgression so grievous it demands brutal retribution. They don’t want to, but they have to. As director Ilya Naishuller points out, Nobody is an inversion of that formula. When Bob Odenkirk’s retired assassin Hutch is jarred from suburban drudgery by a home break in, he loses only a few bucks, a kitty cat bracelet and some pride. Hardly a kidnapped daughter or a murdered puppy. Hutch doesn’t have to dust off his dormant aptitude for carnage….but he really, really wants to. It’s basically his version of a midlife crisis. By the Read moreBy Matt MulcaheyWagner Moments: DP Manuel Alberto Claro on Melancholia at Ten Years, Lars Von Trier and DepressionMelancholia Melancholia premiered in Cannes ten years ago this month and was immediately overshadowed by the infamous press conference in which its provocative Danish director, Lars Von Trier, said “I am a Nazi.” Yet, as the film rolled out across the world, its visceral and moving portrayal of depression found its way into audiences' hearts. It stands the test of time as a rare example of a beautiful film about mental illness. The equivocation of a realistic depiction of depression in Part One as it engulfs Justine (Kirsten Dunst) on her wedding day with the science-fiction concept of the world ending in Part Two as the blue planet Melancholia moves towards Earth lends the perspective of the depressive a spectacular integrity.Manuel Read moreBy Sophie Monks Kaufman Before Directing, I Never Truly Understood Just How Exhausting and Taxing the Filmmaking Process Is”: David Weil on SolosUzo Aduba and David Weil on the set of Solos (Photo by Jason LaVeris) Showrunner David Weil’s Amazon series Hunters was one of the most audacious pieces of television I saw in 2020, a profound meditation on morality and history articulated with the exhilarating narrative rush of a great genre film. Epic in its sweep and ambition, the show made me eager to see what Weil would do next—where does a filmmaker go after such a bold swing for the fences? The answer turned out to be Weil’s new show (also for Amazon) Solos, which operates at the other end of the spectrum in terms of scale but is just as daring in its own way as Hunters—and ultimately, even more emotionally satisfying.An anthology series in which each episode features a single actor—sometimes giving Read moreBy Jim Hemphill Our Aim Was to Document a Reconciliation Process Led by Kurdish Women : Alba Sotorra on Human Rights Watch Film Festival Doc The Return: Life After ISISThe Return: Life After Isis Terrorist or victim? That seems to be the animating question behind Alba Sotorra’s The Return: Life After ISIS. Premiering at SXSW, and selected for the Special Presentations section at this year’s virtual Hot Docs (April 29-May 9), the film is an up close and personal look at a group of Western women caught in nightmarish limbo in a detention camp in northern Syria. All left behind First World lives - in the US and Canada, the UK, Germany, and The Netherlands - with online propaganda-shaped dreams of rescuing fellow Muslims and finding shared community. And all ultimately became disillusioned and disavowed the terrorist organization after years of war zone trauma. But no matter. Regardless of country of origin, not a Read moreBy Lauren Wissot

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