If I can find a picture without the balls blacked out, I’ll post that one. Until that point, you will have to go here to watch the uncensored video. For those wondering, Bobby Bird is NOT a real rocker. But Carson says that he is hoping to create a live-action Devil in Denim feature film, […]

Ahhh…Motodrom. I loved this movie before I even saw it. From the moment I first read the description of Joerg Wagner’s experimental documentary about hellriders who travel from carnival ground to carnival ground with their giant wooden tower and their antique motorcycles and go carts I was anxious to track down the film. Luckily it […]

Veteran Rooftop volunteer (from our Bushwick days) and all-around good guy Matthew Pond made this tremendously entertaining portrait of Times Square’s famously talentless Naked Cowboy. You can watch it HERE.

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 […]

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% […]

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 […]

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) […]

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 […]

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 […]

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