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Videos: October 2008 Archives
Putty In Their Hands: How to Give Yourself a Black Eye
By IFC on 10/31/2008
For the final day of our Halloween celebration of horror movie makeup, IFC.com's Alison Willmore meets up with Rachel Pagani, a makeup and special effects artist who, among her many credits, did creature effects work on Larry Fessenden's "Wendigo," to learn from an expert how to make it look like you're sporting a wicked shiner -- perfect for costumes or for just scaring your parents. The flash 8 plugin was not detected. var so = new SWFObject("http://media.ifc.com/swf/ifc_generic_blog.swf", "blackeye", "500", "375", "8", "#ffffff"); so.addParam("wmode", "transparent"); //change player width so.addVariable("pwidth", 500); //change player height so.addVariable("pheight", 375); //distinguish between different videos so.addVariable("s_movieID", "blackeye");... MORE »
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Video: Lars Ulrich Loves Indie Film
By IFC on 10/17/2008
Filed under: VideosApropos of nothing in particular, here's Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich talking with IFC's music blogger Jim Shearer about indie film, of which he's a huge fan, his friendship with Thomas Vinterberg and why there's still hope for low-budget cinema. For the record, he's thinks "Man on Wire" is "one of the best documentaries I've seen in years," he borrows Academy screeners from friends, he's seen "Control" four times and he believes that '07 was the best year for independent film. The flash 8 plugin was not detected. var so = new SWFObject("http://media.ifc.com/swf/ifc_generic_blog.swf", "larsulrichonfilm", "500", "375", "8", "#ffffff"); so.addParam("wmode", "transparent"); //change... MORE »
Video: "A Christmas Tale" at the New York Film Festival
By IFC on 10/13/2008
Filed under: Festivals, Videos"It could be sort of a slogan for this family: 'Let's get rid of melancholy'... They don't have time for melancholy. All of them are good fighters," said French director Arnaud Desplechin of his new film, an at turns lighthearted and deeply dramatic portrait of a family during the holidays that he compared in structure to an advent calendar. At the New York Film Festival press conference for "A Christmas Tale," Desplechin was joined by the legendary Catherine Deneuve, who plays the matriarch in the family and who affectionately compared the filmmaker to a "child in a playroom." The flash... MORE »
Video: "Waltz With Bashir" at the New York Film Festival
By IFC on 10/06/2008
Filed under: Festivals, Videos"This film was always meant to be an animated film. I never thought there was a chance to do it any other way -- not as a fiction film, and definitely not as a classic documentary film." Ari Folman, the writer/director of "Waltz with Bashir," described his unconventional and powerful doc about the 1982 Sabra and Shatila massacre and his personal involvement and memories of the incident to the press at the New York Film Festival. The flash 8 plugin was not detected. var so = new SWFObject("http://media.ifc.com/swf/ifc_generic_blog.swf", "waltzwithbashirnyff", "500", "375", "8", "#ffffff"); so.addParam("wmode", "transparent"); //change player width so.addVariable("pwidth", 500);... MORE »
Video: "Changeling" at the New York Film Festival
By IFC on 10/06/2008
Filed under: Festivals, Videos"I didn't know anything about it until I read the script," admitted Clint Eastwood at the New York Film Festival's press conference for "Changeling," his highly anticipated film based on the 1920s Wineville Chicken Murders and an incident in which the police tried to convince a single mother that the boy they had brought to her was her missing son, when he was actually a runaway looking for a free trip to California. Angelina Jolie plays the mother, while John Malkovich is the reverend who comes to her aid. Eastwood discussed making modern day L.A. look antique and how he... MORE »
Video: "Ashes of Time Redux" at the New York Film Festival
By IFC on 10/06/2008
Filed under: Festivals, Videos"It was almost like an odyssey, because we spent five years -- the first few years we had to retrieve material from different parts of the world." Wearing his signature sunglasses, Wong Kar-wai addressed the press after a New York Film Festival screening of "Ashes of Time Redux," the restored and recut version of his 1994 martial arts film "Ashes of Time," starring an unbelievable cast that includes Maggie Cheung, Tony Leung, Leslie Cheung and Brigitte Lin, who also appeared at the press conference. Cinematographer Christopher Doyle shared some memories of the original production, while Wong described visiting various locations... MORE »
Video: "The Wrestler" at the New York Film Festival
By IFC on 10/02/2008
Filed under: Festivals, Videos"If I knew it was going to take me 15 years to get back in the saddle and work again because of the way I handled things, I really would have handled things differently... Change, for me, didn't come easily. I didn't want to change, until I lost everything." Mickey Rourke's role as faded professional wrestler Randy "The Ram" Robinson in "The Wrestler" is rightly being hailed the comeback, and one of the best performances, of the year. At the film's U.S. premiere at the New York Film Festival, he, co-star Marisa Tomei and director Darren Aronofsky ("Requiem for a... MORE »
Video: "Che" at the New York Film Festival
By IFC on 10/02/2008
Filed under: Festivals, Videos"It wasn't until the film was finished, right around Cannes, that I realized... it was about engagement versus disengagement," Steven Soderbergh told the press after a screening of his four-hour bio-epic "Che," which will make its U.S. premiere at the New York Film Festival later this week. In the video below, he speaks about the process of making the film and presenting a figure who's retreated into an icon for t-shirts and dorm room posters. The flash 8 plugin was not detected. var so = new SWFObject("http://media.ifc.com/swf/ifc_generic_blog.swf", "soderberghchenyff", "400", "300", "8", "#ffffff"); so.addParam("wmode", "transparent"); //change player width so.addVariable("pwidth", 400); //change... MORE »
