Filmmaker: Spring 2004.

Scott Macaulay's interview with Jim Jarmusch may not be online, but a healthy chunk of the Spring 2004 issue of Filmmaker is. For starters, Cheryl Dunye, a filmmaker herself, and one her interviewees appreciate to boot, talks to Melvin and Mario Van Peebles - primarily about Baadasssss!, itself an excellent way into a discussion of what their whole father-n-son relationship's been like all these years.

Though Before Sunset didn't win anything at the Berlin Film Festival this February, it was clearly a critical and audience favorite. Matthew Ross talks to director Richard Linklater.

The third interviewee is Morgan Spurlock, whose Super Size Me has been enormously well-received at a generous handful of festivals lately. Andy Bailey talks to the filmmaker and copyright expert Michael C Donaldson assesses the ways Spurlock and his team have cleverly tiptoed clear of what could have been a massive lawsuit.

There's a practical section called "No Budget 2004" with Jason Peterson learning from director Greg Harrison and DP Nancy Schreiber how to take $150,000 and make a film - like November - look like a million bucks. At least. Kevin Asher Green had a mere $10K at his disposal and yet his film, Homework, scored the Grand Jury Prize at Slamdance; Scott Macaulay reports.

Also:

• Osama's just the beginning of what could turn into quite a lively film scene in Afghanistan, Michael Luango's discovered.
• Mary Glucksman on six true indies you should know about.
• Anthony Kaufman checks in with screenwriters in New York to find out how they get by.
• Cinematographers show Josh Zeman their favorite new tools.
• André Salas on the "scream kings" of DeadGuysCinema.
• Jason Guerrasio on Ray Carney's discovery of Cassavetes's original version of Shadows.
• Ali Gitlow on Moog, a doc on the breakthrough synthesizer and its creator, and on Subway Melodies, a doc its maker, Michael Krivicka, says "explores the subway system as a stage and as a complex instrument that never stops playing.
• This issue's Super 8.

Posted by dwhudson at April 27, 2004 9:12 AM