As a special exclusive for Daily Dead readers, we have Carl Kelsch’s new short film, For My Facebook, available to watch now. Also in today’s Horror Highlights: Ray Harryhausen: Special Effects Titan Blu-ray / DVD release details, info on Europe’s 4K Uhd Blu-ray release of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, and a Q&A with Restoration director/co-writer/co-star Zack Ward.
Exclusive: Watch the Short Film For My Facebook: Press Release: “It all started with a funny image that popped in writer/director Carl Kelsch’s head: a play on words that yielded the final shots of ‘For My Facebook’ (To say more would spoil the ending). With only a few directing credits under his belt, he recruited jack-of-all-horror-trades Louie Cortes (Dir. of Attack of the Brain People, writer of Blood Slaughter Massacre) to do Sound. Kelsch, who also operated the camera, got input from Cortes on blocking and framing.
Exclusive: Watch the Short Film For My Facebook: Press Release: “It all started with a funny image that popped in writer/director Carl Kelsch’s head: a play on words that yielded the final shots of ‘For My Facebook’ (To say more would spoil the ending). With only a few directing credits under his belt, he recruited jack-of-all-horror-trades Louie Cortes (Dir. of Attack of the Brain People, writer of Blood Slaughter Massacre) to do Sound. Kelsch, who also operated the camera, got input from Cortes on blocking and framing.
- 4/28/2016
- by Tamika Jones
- DailyDead
Mainstream cinema culture is reluctant to reconcile the digital video versus film stock debate. As with any story of king and pretender to the throne, it is too easy to dichotomise and thus deny the possibility of a fruitful dialogue between past and future. When contrasts are characterised as oppositions, the space in between gets totally lost. Yes, film’s incumbency is on the wane and digital cinema’s ubiquity has arrived, but the instant that a paradigm shifts is hard to recognize and impossible to isolate. More likely, it is the very idea of competing film and digital aesthetics that will, in the future, be pointed to as the characteristic sentiment of the vague time during which the old film technologies were put away for good. But for now, we have purists on both sides advocating the essentialness and relevance of their chosen media, more or less to the exclusion of its alternative.
- 6/2/2015
- by Tom Stevenson
- MUBI
Tonight in London, the Barbican presents We Have an Anchor, Jem Cohen's "cinematic love letter to Nova Scotia's Cape Breton. Multiple layered film projections are interspersed with texts ranging from poems to local folklore, and buoyed by [an] alternately ethereal and epic original score written and performed by members of Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Fugazi, Dirty Three and more." A Jem Cohen Film Season begins at Whitechapel Gallery on April 9 with a screening of Museum Hours and runs through May 28's presentation of Chain. And the Hackney Picturehouse will present Benjamin Smoke on May 17 and Instrument on May 18. All this occasions Sukhdev Sandhu's excellent profile for the Guardian. » - David Hudson...
- 3/31/2015
- Fandor: Keyframe
Tonight in London, the Barbican presents We Have an Anchor, Jem Cohen's "cinematic love letter to Nova Scotia's Cape Breton. Multiple layered film projections are interspersed with texts ranging from poems to local folklore, and buoyed by [an] alternately ethereal and epic original score written and performed by members of Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Fugazi, Dirty Three and more." A Jem Cohen Film Season begins at Whitechapel Gallery on April 9 with a screening of Museum Hours and runs through May 28's presentation of Chain. And the Hackney Picturehouse will present Benjamin Smoke on May 17 and Instrument on May 18. All this occasions Sukhdev Sandhu's excellent profile for the Guardian. » - David Hudson...
- 3/31/2015
- Keyframe
With experimental documentaries like "Chain" and "Instrument," Jem Cohen has made intimate non-fiction diary films rooted in an attentiveness to atmosphere and riddled with small observations rendered in profound terms. "Museum Hours,"which opens today in select theaters, is technically his first narrative effort, with a pair of amateur performances and the backbone of a fictional story. But its constant introspection and remarkable sense of place provide a fluid connection to the earlier work. On the one hand a sad, poignant character study, "Museum Hours" is also a treatise on art history and a love letter to architectural wonder. Predominantly set in Vienna's grand Kunsthistorisches Art Museum, the trim story involves middle-aged museum guard Johann (Robert Sommer, making a gently affecting onscreen debut), whose quiet gig has allowed him to fade into his surroundings and observe the visitors in much the same way they peer at the artwork. It's here.
- 6/28/2013
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
The New York Times and Emerging Pictures, in association with the California Film Institute, are launching "IndieWIRE: Undiscovered Gems", an eight-month film series culling from IndieWire's annual list of the top features from major film festivals without theatrical distribution. The eight films will be shown in at least 11 theaters around the country from late April through November. Members of the audience can vote on each feature, and the winning filmmaker will receive $50,000, theatrical release in at least seven cities and an exclusive broadcast on the Sundance Channel. The program kicks off with Jem Cohen's globalization documentary Chain.
- 4/20/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
- I love this yearly piece from the folks @ IndieWIRE – it highlights the films that unfortunately find themselves by the waste side, that don’t get picked up, but that deservingly need to be seen. I’ve had the chance to catch a couple of these features - Three Times will most likely finds its way on my top 20 of the year (results published in February in 2006). Undiscovered Gems is a list from indieWIRE staffers and writers: Eugene Hernandez (editor-in-chief), Brian Brooks (associate editor), James Israel (administration and marketing), and contributors Erica Abeel, Howard Feinstein, Anthony Kaufman, Michael Koresky, Jonny Leahan, Lily Oei and Steven Rosen. Here is their Top 10 Films of 2005 Without U.S. Distribution: Chain - Jem Cohen C.R.A.Z.Y. -Jean-Marc Vallee Four Eyed Monsters - Susan Buice & Arin Crumley I Am a Sex Addict - Caveh Zahedi John and Jane - Ashim Ahluwalla
- 1/3/2006
- IONCINEMA.com
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