For the first time since 1987 (Diane Kurys's A Man in Love), a female director will open the Cannes Film Festival: Emmanuelle Bercot's La Tête haute. Above: Josh Karp has written a book on Orson Welles's last film, The Other Side of the Wind, and has penned an article for Vanity Fair that traces the history of this infamous lost and found movie:"The story behind the making of The Other Side of the Wind begins at Schwab’s drugstore, the Hollywood soda fountain where: Charlie Chaplin played pinball, F. Scott Fitzgerald had his first heart attack, and, according to some versions of the story, Lana Turner was discovered while cutting school to grab a Coke."More on Orson Welles: David Bordwell writes on his personal history with the filmmaker (and his hometown) occasioned by a retrospective in Madison, Wisconsin: "So I had good luck coming here...
- 4/15/2015
- by Notebook
- MUBI
I saw a number of startlingly good films in 2014, but nothing shook me quite like a picture I saw at BAMcinemaFest this past summer. The film was Ellie Lumme, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky’s debut…debut what, exactly? Clocking in at 42 minutes, the film’s runtime frustrates typical designations – is it a featurette? A quasi-feature? A long short film? Perhaps we should just call it a medium. A medium seems most appropriate, as the film is a ghost story — albeit, as Vishnevetsky has cheekily explained, a ghost story sans ghost. (This description is, in fact, perfectly appropriate, and if you read […]...
- 12/15/2014
- by Zachary Wigon
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
I saw a number of startlingly good films in 2014, but nothing shook me quite like a picture I saw at BAMcinemaFest this past summer. The film was Ellie Lumme, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky’s debut…debut what, exactly? Clocking in at 42 minutes, the film’s runtime frustrates typical designations – is it a featurette? A quasi-feature? A long short film? Perhaps we should just call it a medium. A medium seems most appropriate, as the film is a ghost story — albeit, as Vishnevetsky has cheekily explained, a ghost story sans ghost. (This description is, in fact, perfectly appropriate, and if you read […]...
- 12/15/2014
- by Zachary Wigon
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
The seventh edition of Unknown Pleasures, Berlin's festival of American independent film, will open on January 1 with Aaron Katz and Martha Stephens's Land Ho! and run through January 16. Along with a special program devoted to the work of Alfred Guzzetti, highlights include Gregg Araki's White Bird in a Blizzard, Abel Ferrara's Welcome to New York, Robert Greene's Actress, Jessica Oreck's The Vanquishing of the Witch Baba Yaga, Mike Ott's Lake Los Angeles, Nathan Silver's Uncertain Terms, Tim Sutton's Memphis, Joe Swanberg's Happy Christmas, Gina Telaroli's Here's to the Future! and Ignatiy Vishnevetsky's Ellie Lumme. » - David Hudson...
- 12/5/2014
- Fandor: Keyframe
The seventh edition of Unknown Pleasures, Berlin's festival of American independent film, will open on January 1 with Aaron Katz and Martha Stephens's Land Ho! and run through January 16. Along with a special program devoted to the work of Alfred Guzzetti, highlights include Gregg Araki's White Bird in a Blizzard, Abel Ferrara's Welcome to New York, Robert Greene's Actress, Jessica Oreck's The Vanquishing of the Witch Baba Yaga, Mike Ott's Lake Los Angeles, Nathan Silver's Uncertain Terms, Tim Sutton's Memphis, Joe Swanberg's Happy Christmas, Gina Telaroli's Here's to the Future! and Ignatiy Vishnevetsky's Ellie Lumme. » - David Hudson...
- 12/5/2014
- Keyframe
If, like me, you're an admirer of Ignatiy Vishnevetsky's work as a film critic and plan to see, or perhaps have already seen, his new 40-minute film, Ellie Lumme, let me emphatically recommend the piece posted today at the Talkhouse Film. Consider it program notes, the sort of text you'd busy yourself with in a theater while waiting for the lights to go down, without fearing that the film you are about to see will be spoiled in any way. And Ellie Lumme, this "ghost story without a ghost," is one of the highlights of this year's BAMcinemaFest. » - David Hudson...
- 6/21/2014
- Keyframe
If, like me, you're an admirer of Ignatiy Vishnevetsky's work as a film critic and plan to see, or perhaps have already seen, his new 40-minute film, Ellie Lumme, let me emphatically recommend the piece posted today at the Talkhouse Film. Consider it program notes, the sort of text you'd busy yourself with in a theater while waiting for the lights to go down, without fearing that the film you are about to see will be spoiled in any way. And Ellie Lumme, this "ghost story without a ghost," is one of the highlights of this year's BAMcinemaFest. » - David Hudson...
- 6/21/2014
- Fandor: Keyframe
The 21st annual Chicago Underground Film Festival programmed an amazing lineup of wonderful short films over its five days, way too many to review them all. Below are just a few selected reviews of the short films that made the biggest impression on the Underground Film Journal. Also, the four incredibly strong films reviewed below were all also selected for awards at the fest by Journal editor Mike Everleth and his jury cohorts, Brian Chankin and Alison Cuddy.
A Million Miles Away, dir. Jennifer Reeder. A Million Miles Away was the first film projected at the festival on Opening Night and, still with several dozen other films following it throughout the fest, the jury awarded this Best Short. The film begins with several seemingly disconnected scenes of teenage girls discussing the deteriorating adult relationships in their lives — each one appears to be the child of a divorced, separated or cheating parent.
A Million Miles Away, dir. Jennifer Reeder. A Million Miles Away was the first film projected at the festival on Opening Night and, still with several dozen other films following it throughout the fest, the jury awarded this Best Short. The film begins with several seemingly disconnected scenes of teenage girls discussing the deteriorating adult relationships in their lives — each one appears to be the child of a divorced, separated or cheating parent.
- 4/21/2014
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
The 21st annual Chicago Underground Film Festival, which will run April 2-6 at the Logan Theater, will be extra special this year. Why? Because Mike Everleth, the Executive Editor of the Underground Film Journal, is sitting on this year’s festival jury! And looking over the fest lineup below, he is incredibly excited to witness this visual extravaganza of revolutionary cinematic madness. (Other jurors are Brian Chankin, Therese Grisham and Alison Cuddy.)
Opening Night Film: What I Love About Concrete is the debut feature by the directing team of Katherine Dohan and Alanna Stewart and is a surreal suburban tale about a teenage girl who believes she is transforming into a swan.
Closing Night Film: Usama Alshaibi will be making his triumphant return to Chicago with his latest documentary, American Arab, a personal and sociological examination of what it means to be an Arab in a post-9/11 United States. This...
Opening Night Film: What I Love About Concrete is the debut feature by the directing team of Katherine Dohan and Alanna Stewart and is a surreal suburban tale about a teenage girl who believes she is transforming into a swan.
Closing Night Film: Usama Alshaibi will be making his triumphant return to Chicago with his latest documentary, American Arab, a personal and sociological examination of what it means to be an Arab in a post-9/11 United States. This...
- 3/28/2014
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
Here's your daily dose of an indie film in progress; at the end of the week, you'll have the chance to vote for your favorite. In the meantime: Is this a movie you’d want to see? Tell us in the comments. "Ellie Lumme" Tweetable Logline: A ghost story without a ghost. Elevator Pitch: "Ellie Lumme" is a ghost story without a ghost, which essentially means that it's a drama that deals with the sorts of themes that supernatural fiction deals with. There are some funny parts, because writing and rehearsing serious dialogue gets boring after a while. It contains a lot of flowers, hands, dolly shots, and only one zoom. It's in color, just like real life. Also, like real life, it's full of people doing stuff out of spite and saying things that they don't mean. Production Team: Written & Directed by Ignatiy Vishnevetsky Produced by Stephen Cone, Theresa Vishnevetskaya,...
- 6/17/2013
- by Indiewire
- Indiewire
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