Filmmaker. Winter 05.

Practically the axis on which the indie world turns, Sundance naturally figures heavily in the new issue of Filmmaker. In the most startling and editorially brilliant feature, 43 filmmakers - 15 more than appear in print! - with films screening in this year's edition of the fest talk about what they've learned making those films. It's a veritable symposium, workshop and crash course rolled out over six pages.

Mary Glucksman, who once again files her invaluable profiles of indies currently in production, also looks back at Sundance 2004 and offers a sort of insightfully annotated report card on how several of that round's greatest hits have fared since. Sidebar: the Sundance Theatrical Box Office Chart.

There's a Sundance tie-in to Ira Sachs's interview with first-time film director George C Wolfe as well; the experienced theater director's debut feature, Lackawanna Blues is screening in Park City this year.

Scott Macaulay has a fine, long talk with Sundance veteran Jonathan Nossiter, not only about Mondovino, which he calls "a film about the soap opera of globalization," but also about Michael Moore; Macaulay also takes a look at four new indie production companies.

Also:

• Tamara Krinsky on how the IFP Los Angeles Film Festival and Filmmaker's Fast Track program is coming along.

• Graham Leggat, Filmmaker's excellent writer on the games beat, traces the development of The Getaway: Black Monday.

• Well, well, well. Tuxedomoon tops the Super 8.

• Matthew Ross on Maya Churi's mesmerizing Forest Grove.

• Nick Twemlow on Park Chan-Wook's Oldboy.

• Ray Pride on Looking for a Thrill: An Anthology of Inspiration, a collection of "112 playful, hardly-ever-earnest early-21st-century snapshots" with some of the most thrilling and throbbing living musicians as their subjects.

Posted by dwhudson at January 25, 2005 3:19 PM