Select stories from our Summer issue are now available, including this year’s 25 New Faces of Independent Film.
You can also read online our interviews with Steve James on his new film The Interrupters, Evan Glodell talks about Bellflower and doc filmmaker Paul Devlin looks at the battle between documentary filmmakers and the IRS.
Plus, columns Culture Hacker, Industry Beat and more.
The issue hits stands next week, but you can read it now on your desktop by subscribing to our digital issue. Learn more here.
Enjoy.
You can also read online our interviews with Steve James on his new film The Interrupters, Evan Glodell talks about Bellflower and doc filmmaker Paul Devlin looks at the battle between documentary filmmakers and the IRS.
Plus, columns Culture Hacker, Industry Beat and more.
The issue hits stands next week, but you can read it now on your desktop by subscribing to our digital issue. Learn more here.
Enjoy.
- 7/20/2011
- by Jason Guerrasio
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
'Theatrical Launch," Paul Devlin's account of self-distributing his documentary Blast!, ends with his post-mortem on that release, a self-examination that takes into account not only box office but the press and further bookings the film received. I asked Devlin if he could update us on what's happened since the article, specifically how he approached the educational market. (He had received offers from non-theatrical distributors.) Here is his response. And, if you haven't read the article, you can pick it up on the stands or receive it immediately as a Pdf when you subscribe to Filmmaker. We turned down the distribution offers. In the educational/institutional market at least, they are truly ridiculous from our point of view. Instead...
- 2/2/2010
- by Scott Macaulay
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
An apology for this brief plug, but now that Sundance is over I wanted to write this short blog post on the difference between Filmmaker in print and Filmmaker online. As most of you know from reading this site, we make about 50% of each issue available online. (We also put up a lot of stuff — this blog, the Director Interviews, our Videos, our Web Exclusives — which is not in the magazine.) Here's a breakdown of articles in the current issue that aren't available online: 1. The longest article we've ever published -- almost 10,000 words -- is by Paul Devlin, and it's a tremendously helpful blow-by-blow of his efforts to self-release his feature documentary Blast! We originally planned to run this in two parts, but the cliffhanger in the...
- 2/1/2010
- by Scott Macaulay
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Paul Devlin has been involved with two of the better documentaries of the ‘00s: Power Trip, a film he directed, about the politics of making money off electricity in a post-communist Georgia; and Freestyle: The Art Of Rhyme, a film he produced and edited, about the importance of improvisation in hip-hop. Devlin’s documentary Blast! has a more personal origin, though the director doesn’t really delve into it. Blast! follows Devlin’s brother Mark, an astrophysicist working on launching a Balloon-borne Large Aperture Sub-millimeter Telescope, designed to peer back in time and map the history of the stars. Mark ...
- 6/11/2009
- avclub.com
This week sees a couple of golden oldies trotted out alongside the customary summertime family fun, docs on science both good and bad, and another lesson from the Tony Scott school of flash-bang filmmaking.
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"Betty Blue: The Director's Cut"
Having inspired everything from ardent film student party chatter to the pure cinematic showmanship of Luc Besson, Jean-Jacques Beineix's 1986 Oscar-nominated romantic drama has a legacy that reaches far and wide. This new print of Beineix's definitive 1991 cut of his oh so artsy tale of an aspiring writer Zorg (Jean-Hugues Anglade), his wild, volatile muse Betty (Béatrice Dalle) and her gradual descent into self-destruction contains more than an hour of additional footage that stretches out Betty's madness and embellishes it with such antics as Zorg's cross-dressing crime spree. In French with subtitles.
Opens in New York.
Download this in audio form (MP3: 9:09 minutes, 12.6 Mb) Subscribe to the In Theaters podcast: [Xml] [iTunes]
"Betty Blue: The Director's Cut"
Having inspired everything from ardent film student party chatter to the pure cinematic showmanship of Luc Besson, Jean-Jacques Beineix's 1986 Oscar-nominated romantic drama has a legacy that reaches far and wide. This new print of Beineix's definitive 1991 cut of his oh so artsy tale of an aspiring writer Zorg (Jean-Hugues Anglade), his wild, volatile muse Betty (Béatrice Dalle) and her gradual descent into self-destruction contains more than an hour of additional footage that stretches out Betty's madness and embellishes it with such antics as Zorg's cross-dressing crime spree. In French with subtitles.
Opens in New York.
- 6/8/2009
- by Neil Pedley
- ifc.com
U.S. filmmaker Paul Devlin's Power Trip has picked up the award for best international feature-length documentary at the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, which wrapped Sunday after a 10-day run. The documentary about efforts by a U.S. power company to keep the lights on in the Republic of Georgia amid the rubble of the Soviet collapse grabbed the jury prize at the Berlin Film Festival. The Hot Docs jury also gave a special award to State of Denial, U.S. filmmaker Elaine Epstein's portrayal of South Africans living with the AIDS epidemic amid confusion and neglect by their government. The jury prize for best Canadian feature documentary went to John Kastner's Rage Against the Darkness.
Director Ben Coccio's Zero Day took the Grand Jury prize for best narrative feature, worth $100,000 in goods and services, at the Orlando-based Florida Film Festival, which concluded Sunday. The audience award for best narrative feature went to Never Get Outta the Boat, directed by Paul Quinn. The Grand Jury prize for best documentary was presented to Paul Devlin's Power Trip, while Elaine Epstein's State of Deniel took home the audience award for best documentary. Among narrative shorts, Paul Gutrecht's The Vest won both the Grand Jury award and the Audience Award. Vance Malone's Ocularist earned the Grand Jury award for best documentary short, while Alex Budovsky's Bathtime in Clerkenwell won the Grand Jury award for animated short. Special jury awards were also presented to Greg Pak's Robot Stories, Jonathan Karsh's My Flesh and Blood, PES's Roofsex, and Shane Sauer's Voyage of the Kitty Kuku. The narrative features jury was comprised of Raymond De Felitta, Dave Karger, and Diana Williams. The documentary competition jurors were Alan Berliner, Mary Litkovich, and Kelly M. DeVine. The shorts jury was comprised of Michael Ellenbogen, Laura Levine, and Stephen Schaefer. The student works jurors were Tracy Frenkel, Leslie Halpern, and Katrinka VanDeventer.
- 3/17/2003
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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