Stories from 100 Films
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Day 3 of Nicolas Citton's DECORATION
100 Films &bull Jan 12, 2012
We're up for a 9am shoot on a bridge. It's a small scene, meant to exist near the end of the film, so I'm not going to talk about it too much, other than to say we all drove out there and shot a scene near the water. The rest isn't all that important. Nothing complicated. Nothing exciting. From there, we head back to the cabin we're all staying in for quick turnaround. The word that goes out is "10 minutes". Someone sits… Full Story »
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Day 0 of Brea Grant's BEST FRIENDS FOREVER
100 Films &bull Jan 12, 2012
I've never really heard of Marfa, Texas until a couple of weeks ago, but apparently the place is mythical. Everywhere I've been--Wisconsin, Kansas, Arkansas, Dallas, Austin--I keep hearing the same thing: "Oh, you'll love Marfa." I'm not really sure why. Marfa is this tiny, tiny town in West Texas. The census bureau has the population at 1,900… Full Story »
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Day 2 of Nicolas Citton's DECORATION
100 Films &bull Jan 4, 2012
Call time for my second day on DECORATION is 9:30am. I'm ready to go a little before then, call it 9:20. Call time comes and goes. Nothing happens. And by that I mean nothing. People aren't ready, and why should they be? We aren't moving. People start to emerge. They make breakfast. Get coffee. The director has gone for a walk. It was like… Full Story »
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Music for UP COUNTRY
100 Films &bull Dec 22, 2011
Above is the first 1:45 (ish) of my film UP COUNTRY , a feature film shot in northern Maine on the 7D for roughly $4,000. That's not a typo. We thought we had a composer, but that's fallen through. We're… Full Story »
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Day 1 of Nicolas Citton's DECORATION
100 Films &bull Dec 16, 2011
One of the questions I get the most in regards to A Year Without Rent is how it is I find these projects. I've covered it before (even if I am too tired to go look up the links right now), but it never hurts to repeat it, especially when serving as an introduction to a film. Really, there's 3 popular ways. The first is the most obvious: I already know about the film. Usually this filmmaker is a friend of mine to some degree. This makes everything easier, as there isn't that awkward, "so what the hell are… Full Story »
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Brendan Flynn's A WINDOW
100 Films &bull Dec 6, 2011
The email from DP Connor Hair says the film is about a mime, kind of a riff on a French style. Fair enough. I'm a big fan of French films. Give me some Renoir, some Truffaut, some Godard, Jeunet, Attal, and I'm a happy guy. And if you're going to do a French thing, a mime is as good a start as any. So what, in this French movie about a mime are we shooting? Is… Full Story »
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With Our Powers Combined!
100 Films &bull Nov 19, 2011
Well that was easy. Well maybe not easy. Let's say it was "less hard". Call today for BEST FRIENDS FOREVER was 3pm out on the desolate highways of Marfa, TX. Depending on where you're standing in Marfa, you either have 1 bar of cell reception or zero. Data is just as sketchy. Even if you have reception, it might not work. So for the last 10 hours of the "Save AYWR"… Full Story »
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Day 2 of Kris & Lindy Boustedt's THIS IS OURS
100 Films &bull Nov 16, 2011
The story of THIS IS OURS (as I understand it, not having read the script) revolves around 2 couples. The first, played by Ernie Joseph and Karie Gonia, are cultured and monied and established. The second, played by Mark Carr and Wonder Russell, are freewheeling in pretty much every way. They live out of an RV. Today we're filming their introduction. It's pretty simple. Ernie Joseph's character goes out for a run. He overdoes it, and gets rescued by Mark and Wonder in the… Full Story »
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Day 1 of Kris & Lindy Boustedt's THIS IS OURS
100 Films &bull Nov 7, 2011
Early in A Year Without Rent, I was supposed to work on a film in Seattle that ended up falling apart. These things happen. A lot. But out of the ashes of that failure came two more films--THE SUMMER HOME, a short which shot back in April, and THIS IS OURS, a feature. This rarely happens.… Full Story »
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Day 7 of James DeMarco's THE STAGG DO
100 Films &bull Nov 3, 2011
There's a lot of things you can do wrong as a film production, and if you've been paying attention to our coverage of THE STAGG DO, you'll notice that they've pretty much ticked off all the boxes, save one: we've had good turnarounds. Generally, the rule in film is "12 on, 12 off". What that means is that a day's shoot shouldn't go over 12 hours and the crew should have 12 hours off before starting up again. The first one gets broken all the time in indie film, so much so that it's always a bit of a… Full Story »
