Issue 1.11
June 11-17, 2007
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Alice Neel
In speaking about his second feature film Alice Neel, filmmaker Andrew Neel talks way over our head, and we love him for it.
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Montclair
Mike Ramsdell's feature film debut Montclair is quite simple, utterly honest and built of tiny moments that speak to a generation.
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A Compilation of Moments
“When I started making movies, I thought movies were just a compilation of shots, but I came to realize that movies are much more a compilation of moments. You have to serve the moment…It’s not how you’re going to string your shots together; it’s how you’re going to string your moments together.”~ Filmmaker Mike Ramsdell (Montclair, The Anatomy of Hate, Busted Down on Bourbon Street)
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Question Posed: Who Is It That You Want to Be?
"If you truly commit yourself to the journey of just exploring who you are, which at the end of the day is all you’re doing whether you’re conscious of it or not conscious of it, that’s what we do here on this spinning rock, just manifest ourselves. Once you accept that that’s just the reality, that’s all you’re doing, then it’s not so much of a “This is who I want I be,” so much as a curiosity of “Who am I?”…I want to be a good husband. I want to be a good dad. I want to be successful at what I...
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Working with Composer Jonah Rapino
"(Jonah's) able to achieve these tracks that are unique but strick these chords that are universal. I love that he does a lot of those recordings himself, and there's a rough shot beauty to all of his tracks. I thought that was really appropriate for Alice because that's what makes her work really good, the mixture of the tightly controlled and yet the realistically sloppy elements."
"That was great, working with him. (Luke & I) had test tracks that we'd put in there fr...
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On Editing
“There’s a chorus-verse-chorus element to (Alice Neel) where we go into her life, then we come flash forward into my life and then we go back to her life…What (editor Luke Meyer) was trying to achieve, and I think he did a really good job of it, was making that chorus-verse-chorus work together in a cohesive way.
One of the important things we’ve done you’ll notice sometimes is to allow some shots to run a little longer than you might normally–for instance, the scene with the turkey...
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