Lots of directors are good at wrangling automobile action, but Tim Damon's dedication to the craft is impressive. Unhappy with merely renting the gear he needs for any given automotive shoot, Damon has amassed a purposeful collection of proprietary gear — much of it modified to exactly suit his preferences during a shoot — that's meant to make sure he never has to tell a client, "We can't do that."... »
Gordon's version of the story, which stars Mena Suvari as the driver and Stephen Rea as her victim, is rewritten to give the poor guy a fighting chance. It's a violent B-movie that's as disturbing as it is funny, a black comedy that's genuinely interested in the psychology of a driver who could ignore the dying man stuck in her windshield.... »
Probably bound to be Errol Morris' most controversial film, Standard Operating Procedure examines the cases of torture and murder at Iraq's now-infamous Abu Ghraib prison. Mixing 35mm and HD video, Morris uses re-enactments to depict torture and other images he wasn't able to film directly.... »
Jason Kohn says he didn't make Manda Bala in order to raise awareness of poverty, or to effect change in Brazil. He says he made it more to challenge what he saw as hopelessly mundane, limiting ideas about what documentary films could and should be.... »
He's not exactly a household name, but movie buffs know Wong Kar Wai as one of the most distinctive stylists working in film today. F&V asked him about his first time working in the U.S., why digital cinema is "too perfect," and the future of film-watching.... »
“When I first read the script for Semi-Pro, I was struck by the very intelligent story, and that made me laugh out loud every other line,” recalls Shane Hurlbut, ASC. Simultaneously, I was envisioning a look, including textures and colors that evoked the appropriate feelings for this story.”... »
"It is about people becoming reporters," director George Romero says. "I guess there's a collective subconscious. You've got Redacted, you've got Cloverfield, you've got Vantage Point. Everybody seems to be aware of this camera that's on us. It's like, 'I am a camera.' Everybody's a camera these days."... »
When Dean DeBlois (best known as co-director of Lilo and Stitch) got a phone call from the manager of Sigur Ros, the Icelandic music group with the otherworldly sound, he was pitched anything but a conventional music-video project.... »
Filmmaker Bob Landis may have a home office, but his soundstage is Yellowstone National Park. More than 300 days out of every year, he takes his trusty Sony HDW-730 camcorder out on the road, driving into Yellowstone and following the wildlife around in search of beautiful and revelatory instances of animal behavior. ... »
