SUNDANCE SHORTS: ANDY BLUBAUGH’S SCAREDYCAT

SUNDANCE SHORTS: ANDY BLUBAUGH’S SCAREDYCAT

We screened Andy Blubaugh‘s charming short Hello, Thanks last summer and we are really excited to see that he has continued working in a similar vein but seems to really be making strides as a video artist, or video diarist, or personal documentarian or whatever he decides to call himself. Scaredycat is really great and […]

FEMME HELMER STATS

FEMME HELMER STATS

Hollywood Reporter printed these stats yesterday, originally compiled by critic Carrie Rickey (all stats are 2006 only): 60% (3 of 5) of 2006 Oscar nominated documentary features are directed by women, 40% (2of 5) of 2006 Oscar nominated foreign-films are directed by women, 25% of Sundance 2007 features and shorts are directed by women, 0% […]

SUNDANCE SHORTS: IAN OLDS’ BOMB

SUNDANCE SHORTS: IAN OLDS’ BOMB

Ian Olds has worked on several really great films over the years, including the Academy Award short-listed documentary feature, Occupation: Dreamland and the extraordinary (according to Mark) suburban tank documentary Cul de Sac, which is not yet available on DVD, unfortunately. Bomb is quite different from either of his doc films, but still quite an […]

RURAL MICROCINEMAS AND WHISKEY SMUGGLING

RURAL MICROCINEMAS AND WHISKEY SMUGGLING

There is a nice little article in Filmmaker about indie director Jay Craven‘s DIY 100-Town-Tour. Disappointed that all of the theaters in Vermont were booked with more commercial fare (even in the boonies of backwoods Vermont), he decided to rent as many churches and union halls as he could (for as little money as possible) […]

SUNDANCE AWARDS AND THE BEST SHORTS

SUNDANCE AWARDS AND THE BEST SHORTS

We are back from Sundance and had a great time. We won’t bore you with details of our social interactions, since there are more entertaining and complete Sundance blogs out there. I’ll just say that I didn’t get to meet Hammer, or Dakota Fanning, but our friend Casimir did. Some of our favorite features screening […]

THE BEST SCENES FROM THE REMAKE OF THE WICKER MAN

THE BEST SCENES FROM THE REMAKE OF THE WICKER MAN

There was a part of me that wanted to get upset a few years back when I found out that they were making a remake of The Wicker Man–so much so that I couldn’t bear to even Netflick the Nicholas Cage version. But having seen this extraordinary YouTube compilation, I now realize that I may […]

TONY VS. PAUL

TONY VS. PAUL

Two million people saw this before I did, including the folks at The House Next Door but that’s OK…

JONATHAN REYNOLD’S BURIAL AT SEA

JONATHAN REYNOLD’S BURIAL AT SEA

I don’t really know anything about this Jonathan Reynolds, but this film is pretty magical. Find out (a very little bit) more about him here. Spaghetti Terrestris is also pretty cool…

ROOFTOP SHORTS: CASIMIR NOZKOWSKI’S BODEGA

ROOFTOP SHORTS: CASIMIR NOZKOWSKI’S BODEGA

Longtime Rooftop Films alum, YouTube celebrity, Utz eater and Quarter Water chugger Casimir Nozkowski returns to the Rooftop blog with this homage to really unhealthy food bought cheaply from inner city corner stores. You can watch it HERE. UPDATE: If you like Bodega, you can also see what happens when they hang out in Park […]

ROOFTOP EDITING CLASS

ROOFTOP EDITING CLASS

Rooftop Films offers friendly, do-it-yourself, hands-on classes in Avid editing, at the cheapest rate in New York or beyond. Avid is the industry and independent leader in digital non-linear editing, and Rooftop Films has ten years of experience supporting independent filmmaking: this class is a perfect fit. Rooftop Films’ Introduction to Avid Xpress DV is […]

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