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Podcasts: June 2009 Archives
The Action Movie Auteurs
By Alison Willmore on 06/29/2009
Michael Mann, Kathryn Bigelow... Tony Scott? It takes a certain type of action movie director to earn the love of the Film Comment crowd. This week on the IFC News podcast, we look at which action filmmakers are taken seriously as artists and why. Download: MP3, 36:50 minutes, 33.7 MB Subscribe to the podcast: [iTunes] [XML] MORE »
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Being a "Female Filmmaker"
By Alison Willmore on 06/22/2009
Filed under: PodcastsWhen Kathryn Bigelow makes an intense action film like "The Hurt Locker," the fact that she's a she becomes a major topic of conversation. So why isn't the same true when a man directs a movie for a "female" audience? That sort of double standard is the subject of this week's IFC News podcast, along with further discussion of Bigelow's career and some of our other favorite women directors. Download: MP3, 36:05 minutes, 33 MB Subscribe to the podcast: [iTunes] [XML] MORE »
Trying to High Concept the "High Concept"
By Alison Willmore on 06/15/2009
Filed under: PodcastsNazi zombies. Dog plays basketball. Bomb on a bus. Snakes on a plane. The "high concept" movie is usually anything but highbrow, but it's become an essential part of the studio system. This week on the IFC News podcast, we try and define just what a high concept film is, find some extreme examples, and look at how the idea has even spread to the indie world. Download: MP3, 36:32 minutes, 33.5 MB Subscribe to the podcast: [iTunes] [XML] MORE »
Great Modern Uses of Good Ol' Black and White
By Alison Willmore on 06/08/2009
Filed under: PodcastsShooting a film in black and white has been a choice rather than a necessity for decades now. This week on the IFC News podcast, we dig through the last ten years of color-free features to look for all the recent reasons directors have decided to go monochromatic, from its indie credibility to its intimacy to the way it allows you to critique films from the past. Download: MP3, 38:02 minutes, 34.8 MB Subscribe to the podcast: [iTunes] [XML] MORE »
Memory Loss in The Movies
By Alison Willmore on 06/01/2009
Filed under: PodcastsFrom the timeline-warping tricks of "Memento" to the bleary-eyed morning-after of this week's "The Hangover," memory loss remains a treasured (and sometimes abused) movie gimmick. This week on the IFC News podcast, we look at some of our favorite clichés of on-screen amnesia, as well as the best ways memory loss has been used to shake things up and put a new twist on plot and characters. Download: MP3, 31:50 minutes, 29.2 MB Subscribe to the podcast: [iTunes] [XML] MORE »
