If Dick Van Dyke says it is so, then it is so.
Parts of Hard Working Movies just came back from New Hampshire, where we’ve been shooting for Live Free or Die this past week. One of the things we’re excited about is the fact that we’re mixing many formats here, shooting on both full HD as well as super 8 and super 16 mm film. Getting [...]
Kids vs Buzz Lightyear
We’re opening The Kids Grow Up tonight in Washington DC at the Avalon. Ann Hornaday writes in the Washington Post: Between “The Kids Are All Right” and “Toy Story 3,” audiences were gifted with particularly sensitive portrayals of one of the most bittersweet passages in family life, when the first child prepares to leave for college. [...]
Lab alumni at Tribeca
Two more 2010 IFP Lab projects are starting their US festival run, with premieres at the Tribeca Film Festival next month in the World Documentary competition: Our School, directed by Mona Nicoara & Miruna Coca-Cozma and edited by Erin Casper, and Give Up Tomorrow, directed by Michael Collins & produced by Marty Syjuco. Congratulations!
On the incommensurability of flying ashtrays
Docmaker Errol Morris has an interesting essay in today’s New York Times, about unexpected life turns, academic intolerance, chain smoking, and the elusiveness of the term “incommensurability” itself – well worth a read. And if the mere word “incommensurability” gave you a headache, it also includes a really nifty 1000 fps shot of said flying ashtray – [...]