https://vimeo.com/121445041 By Lee Salter. Four years ago Michael Chanan and I embarked upon an ambitious project to tell the story of the Corporation of the City of London in our documentary film, Secret City. In the midst of the economic crisis, with the new Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition in the UK […]
FilmInt on the Underground: A Cinematic World to Come
July 11, 2015
FilmInt on the Underground is a new blog dedicated to emerging filmmakers. By April L. Smith. Directors Trevor Mowchun and Daniel Eskin’s World to Come is a stark, beautifully shot study on the grief and guilt that underlies a quiet Jewish community. The film unfolds slowly as a series of images […]
CARVER to Open Second Annual REEL EAST FILM FESTIVAL, August 21-23, 2015
July 9, 2015
Contact: reeleastfilm@gmail.com Oaklyn, NJ – Carver, the horror film phenomenon directed by teen wunderkind Emily DiPrimio, will open the Second Annual Reel East Film Festival (REFF) for a 7:30 screening on August 21, 2015 at the historic Ritz Theatre in Oaklyn, NJ. South Jersey native DiPrimio will introduce the film, with a Q […]
A Quick Take from Cannes: Zhao Tao on Mountains May Depart
June 23, 2015
By Amir Ganjavie. Jia Zhangke’s Mountains May Depart could be defined as a metaphorical representation of the status of romance in the age of consumerism. By focusing on three different time periods – 1999, 2014, and 2025 – the movie describes how emotions and feelings evolve over time and what […]
FilmInt on the Underground: Michael Fredianelli and the Grittiness of Genre
June 4, 2015
FilmInt on the Underground is a new blog dedicated to emerging filmmakers. By April L. Smith. An interest in classic and obscure films led director Michael Fredianelli to filmmaking. While working in an office, Fredianelli set a goal of completing one half hour short per month during the weekends. He admits […]
Film Scratches: Spectacles of Loss in Dolissa Medina’s The Crow Furnace (2015)
May 29, 2015
Film Scratches focuses on the world of experimental and avant-garde film, especially as practiced by individual artists. It features a mixture of reviews, interviews, and essays. A Review by David Finkelstein. Dolissa Medina’s beautiful 30-minute short The Crow Furnace is a film prose poem that blends archival footage, surreal narrative, and montage […]
Call for Submissions – The Second Annual REEL EAST FILM FESTIVAL (August 21-23, 2015)
April 29, 2015
The Reel East Film Festival is seeking exciting, uncompromising and unique visions from around the world to present at our Second Annual event at the historic Ritz Theatre in Oaklyn, NJ on August 21-23, 2015. We are looking for short films in the following categories: Narrative, Documentary, Experimental, Student and […]
Editorial: Film International 70
By Daniel Lindvall. In an essay recently published at Filmint.nu, Martin Smith takes a critical look at the censorship debates in the British press regarding two equally controversial recent films, Antichrist (2009, directed by Dane Lars von Trier) and The Human Centipede II: Full Sequence (2011, directed by Dutchman Tom […]
Quick Take: Frederick Wiseman on At Berkeley (2013)
By Paul Risker. 1967 marked the inception of Frederick Wiseman’s documentary filmmaking career (with the controversial asylum expose, Titicut Follies), but fast-forward to the present day and behind him now lies a total of forty-seven diverse films. If there was a singular inspirational moment or spark for this observational career […]
Call for Submissions to a Special Issue of the Journal of Popular Film and Television on Holmes Onscreen (Tentative Title)
Edited by Tom Ue, Department of English, University College London Heralded by The Telegraph as a “global phenomenon,” BBC’s Sherlock is now one of the most commercially and critically successful television series of all time. The global recognition of Sherlock, combined with the recent discovery of Arthur Berthelet’s 1916 silent […]