Josh Safdie contacted me earlier this week about indieWIRE hosting 47 short films, or buttons, that he, his brother Benny and their colleague Alex Zalman created while in Cannes this year with their film, “Got Get Some Rosemary.” “We’ve just starting editing these button,” Josh told me in an email, “a japanese couple looking for baby names in a book, Francis Ford Coppolla basking in flashes just after his screening, people mooning us from a yacht, a touchscreen mcdonalds, Jerry Lewis’s abridged press conferences and those of us who invaded it, a guard bouncing a ball while watching the door… we’ve got some really nice observations.”
We posted them on indieWIRE this weekend. Enjoy!
RED BUCKET FILMS CANNES BUTTONS 2009:1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8
Spike Lee, Robert DeNiro, Uma Thurman, Jane Rosenthal and others were among the folks gathered at BMCC in Tribeca this morning for the annual kick-off press conference at the Tribeca Film Festival, watching a fest promo clip and then posing for some photos. While the event technically opens its eighth festival tonight, iW’s coverage began last week. And on Tuesday, indieWIRE offered a trio of pieces. A first dispatch from the festival, including a conversation with Jane Rosenthal, a roster of ten films to watch at this year’s fest, and news of the fest juries. Much more to come over the next ten days or so, get the latest anytime in iW’s Tribeca fest archive.
[photos by eugene hernandez]
Amsterdam resident Peter Greenaway on stage yesterday at the city’s premiere movie theater, the Tuschinski cinema. “Rembrandt’s J’Accuse,” his examination of Rembrandt’s “Nightwatch,” is a thrilling CSI-style deconstruction of the painting. I’ll write more about it soon for indieWIRE.
[photo by eugene hernandez]
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