Improv Everywhere and its fans have been putting on crowdsourced public stunts for more than ten years. Now, a documentary feature offers viewers a look inside at the life of the world's most numerous performance group. It's called We Cause Scenes, and it's available for purchase from iTunes. We Cause Scenes is a look inside the mind of Improv Everywhere founder Charlie Todd, who has spent the past decade freezing in train stations, riding the subway without pants, and reenacting his favorite movie scenes. The film also examines the thousands of confederates who help make each 'prank' a success. A trailer released on January 7th has drawn a significant amount of attention on YouTube. We Cause Scenes debuted at South By Southwest in April 2013, and then toured the country for the rest of the year. It's now offered for the masses at both iTunes and its own Vhx-powered website, but...
- 1/10/2014
- by Sam Gutelle
- Tubefilter.com
Austin — The story of how a college grad with Broadway dreams but no prospects wound up coordinating stunts involving hundreds of strangers in Manhattan's most public places, We Cause Scenes could hardly fail to provide a certain amount of anarchic entertainment. Its look at Charlie Todd and his Improv Everywhere project is surprisingly straight given the nature of the subject (and the fact that director Matt Adams is part of the crew), and many viewers will find the pranksters' ragtag charm wears off as they become more successful. But the film is a welcome piece of cultural history that
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- 3/16/2013
- by John DeFore
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
South by Southwest (SXSW) is just one of many film festivals, we here at Sound On Sight cover yearly. The fest, which takes place every spring in Austin, Texas, began in 1987, and has continued to grow in size every year. The fest announced the first wave of films back in early January, and the lineup included some highly anticipated films such as The Incredible Burt Wonderstone, Evil Dead, Downloaded and Spring Breakers. Now the full lineup has been announced, and it just might be one of the best lineups the festival has ever programmed.
SXSW takes place March 8-16 in Austin Texas. Here are just some of the films we are excited about.
Narrative Feature Competition – This year’s 8 films were selected from 1,191 submissions. Each film is a World Premiere.
Awful Nice
Director/Screenwriter: Todd Sklar, Screenwriter: Alex Rennie
Estranged brothers Jim and Dave must travel to Branson together when...
SXSW takes place March 8-16 in Austin Texas. Here are just some of the films we are excited about.
Narrative Feature Competition – This year’s 8 films were selected from 1,191 submissions. Each film is a World Premiere.
Awful Nice
Director/Screenwriter: Todd Sklar, Screenwriter: Alex Rennie
Estranged brothers Jim and Dave must travel to Branson together when...
- 2/1/2013
- by Ricky
- SoundOnSight
Some of the best films of the 2012/2013 calender year from Richard Linklater, Harmony Korine, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Andrew Bujalski, Jeff Nichols, David Gordon Green, Shane Carruth and Joshua Oppenheimer are among the headliner names for the 2013 edition of the South by Southwest Film Festival. With a little over 100 plus film line-up (a whopping 2000+ titles were submitted), almost 70 are world premieres: there is the highly anticipated sophomore film (that has been on our radar since it first went into production) with M. Blash’s (The Wait), Joe Swanberg who makes SXSW his second home will premiere Drinking Buddies, veteran indie filmmaker John Sayles saddles in with Go For Sisters, and rounding out the Narrative Spotlight section we’ve got The Bounceback from Bryan Poyser, Loves Her Gun from Geoff Marslett along with titles we thought might break into Park City, but found an Austin home instead with Jacob Vaughan’s Milo and...
- 2/1/2013
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
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