ARTHOUSE FILM NEWS - Cosmic Disco Detective Rene at Facets, Chicago 11/29/23

View Larger Map I've been to Moonstruck diner on 2nd Ave in East Village half a dozen times now, very happy with the place. Specially since it is open 24 hours & is very close to Anthology Film Archives. Having hung out a lot at Tastee Diner in Silver Spring in my youth, I am a big fan of diners. So, if you've got any recommendations for NYC diners, post 'em in comments, will check 'em out. - Sujewa

BEFORE DURING AFTER Photos Copyright 2009 Sujewa Ekanayake For more on the event, check out this post . - Sujewa

If spending many minutes at a time reading people attack & defend Mumblecore in various blogs, also contributing to the same discussion, is - on the diy filmmaker fun scale - a 1.5 (out of 10), then showing your movie at a new Brooklyn art gallery (where some people come out to see a previously unheard of movie on a Friday night) is at least an 8, maybe a 9. DETAILS The gallery - Aeon Logic - is four months old and is experimenting with showing movies. Actually today's DNO screening was experiment 1 & it was a success according to the gallery owner Rachael Afolabi (also I agree that it was a success - we ran out of good chairs - granted, there was only about 9 chairs (a new batch of chairs are on order), but I was expecting about 6 people at this relatively under-publicized event at a new screening location (i spent most of my publicity work energy on the IFBRT premiere on 2/17 , the more important of the two screening this month) - overall the flick had about 13 or so au

It's a free screening, get all the info. here & come celebrate the upcoming Day of Love (and by that I mean Valentines Day), DIY film style, in Brooklyn! Date Number One at Aeon Logic Art Gallery, Fri 2/13, 7 PM, FREE . - Sujewa

Aside from the few film critics who became filmmakers in the past, my generation of filmmakers - the blog generation of filmmakers - the many filmmakers who started blogs in order to promote their work and other work that they enjoy, & then ended up in the role of film critics or reviewers even for a short while - even for a short, unpaid while - may come to realize a couple of things. One would be: you can be a filmmaker and be a part of the world of the filmmaker, or you can be a film critic, but you can't do both well at the same time - or it is very difficult to do both at the same time. Because, if you honestly critique films by filmmaker friends of yours or other filmmakers that you may one day have to work with - some of those filmmaker friends of yours may not be friends after you've published your reviews. An easy - or simple - way to remain a good filmmaker is to not take on the work of film critics or reviewers. An easy or simple way to be a good film critic is t

For sheer spectacle, I've been following the comments at Glenn Kenny's post/article re: Joe Swanberg's movies (let me get my take on the films & the maker out of the way quickly: Swanberg is very productive, Mumblecore is a good way to generate publicity for low-budget/no-star movies, I am not a fan of KOTM or LOL, however, did somewhat enjoy HTTS - some characters had funny moments - I think that's about it - oh, also, it is cool that the M-core crowd has embraced Barry Jenkins - I am sure MfM benefited from it), anyway, this latest comment from AlexJones (at the end of PAGE 4!!!??? of comments) is kinda explosive/feels explosive ('cause it attacks many indie scene makers?), here's a part of it: "First, Matt Dentler rode the Mumblecore hype to a job at Cinetic Rights Management and needed to continue to generate this hype in order to legitimize his hiring and raise his profile with companies like Amazon. This year his replacement, Janet Pierson, has p

One Way Productions is releasing a basic/no-frills version of Cookies & Cream, Carter, & Uptown on 3/1 - more at One Way blog .