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Bring the Party Home

11 November 2009 8:30 AM, PST | Interview Magazine | See recent Interview Magazine news »

The beloved All Tomorrow's Parties festivals have earned a reputation as the premier gathering for obsessive indie music fans. Now Atp has the concert documentary its fans deserve, simply called All Tomorrow's Parties. Jonathan Caouette, with a crew of 200 festival-goers-turned-camera operators, captures the frolicy vibe of the Atp getaway, mingling performance footage with off-stage antics, elliptical banter, and poignant moments of sincerity. Caouette, who made Tarnation, the surreal 2003 documentary about his childhood, draws from Cassavetes and Quadrophenia and uses the festival and its culture to tell a story about youth, nostalgia, and millenial expressions of tribal recreation. The end result isn't so much a collection of performances by some of the bands that have played Atp, but an ode to their moment, fleeting as it may be. Below, he explains some of his choices.

Alex Sherman: This movie took hundreds of people to make? Sounds epic.

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All Tomorrow's Parties

29 October 2009 6:00 AM, PDT | Pastemagazine.com | See recent PasteMagazine news »

Director: Jonathan Caouette Release Date: October Absorbing fly-on-the-stage collage of legendary rock fest captured with Super 8 footage, cell-phone images and handheld cameras Now 40 years after Woodstock and the iconic concert film that proved that the zeitgeist of an event could be best captured by simply rolling tape and allowing the images to tell its story, experimental music label Warp offers us All Tomorrow’s Parties, an 82-minute examination of the famously independent British festival where one musician or band curates a weekend of music at an out-of-season seaside camp.... »

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Weekly Eye Candy: 42 Below One Dream Rush

13 June 2009 | ioncinema | See recent ioncinema news »

-   The pitch is simple. The line-up is impressive. 42 directors explore their dreams in 42 seconds. I'm not sure what relation the 4 minute trailer (see below) has to do with the individual works, but the concept alone merits our Eye Candy mention of the week. Visit the site here. Sponsored by the vodka brand 42 Below, this project includes some bona-fide stars in the auteur cinema field and a good portion of plenty unknowns. Among the names that I consider myself a fan we have the likes of David Lynch and Carlos Reygadas, but we'll be looking out for those in the near future since they have yet to post their contribution, but a small sampling is available on the site. Among those available, we have what I would call more of a day dream from Asia Argento's part "S/He" - her curiosity on transexuals was the basis of her film, »

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Indie Film “Portland” Mourns The Loss Of David Carradine

5 June 2009 11:09 AM, PDT | SmellsLikeScreenSpirit | See recent SmellsLikeScreenSpirit news »

Independent Film "Portland" Mourns Loss Of David Carradine Actor David Carradine was set to co-star in the feature film entitled Portland shooting in Los Angeles, CA and Portland, Or this summer. Los Angeles, CA, June 4, 2009 - The cast, crew, and producing team behind the feature film Portland are shocked and saddened to learn of the tragic passing of co-star David Carradine on the eve of principal photography. Portland was set to be David's next film and was his only project currently in pre-production. Helmed by Matthew Mishory, the picture stars Erin Daniels, Jonathan Caouette, Steven Martini, Renee Victor, and Alex Schemmer. Carradine was set to play a pivotal role in the film and this has been a great loss for the entire Portland family. "An actor of David Carradine's stature behind our film meant the world to us," said executive producers Adrian Salpeter and Elizabeth Levine of Random Bench Productions. »

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On DVD: "Moving Midway," "The Midnight Meat Train"

17 February 2009 6:59 AM, PST | ifc.com | See recent IFC news »

By Michael Atkinson

Say it again -- there's a film inside every family, and all you need is the head and heart to find it. (That is, you don't need to be the cursed Great Neck residents of "Capturing the Friedmans" or "Tarnation"'s Jonathan Caouette, and in some ways, it'd better for us all if you aren't.) Film journalist Godfrey Cheshire's "Moving Midway" (2007) has a deep ditch of historical soil to dig, but it's not a personal-regional family doc that focuses on dysfunction or tragedy; rather, its position is ironic and aciduously nostalgic. Originally from North Carolina, Cheshire may well be the most universally liked personage in contemporary New York movie critic culture (notoriously a small pond with mean fish; disclosure-wise, he is a friend), and his film comes both bearing an enormous amount of good will and receiving the same. I can't untie the extra-cinematic humanity from the film's threads, »

- Michael Atkinson

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A Film Critic Digs Into His Family's Slave-Holding Past

16 February 2009 4:39 PM, PST | ifc.com | See recent IFC news »

Say it again -- there's a film inside every family, and all you need is the head and heart to find it. (That is, you don't need to be the cursed Great Neck residents of "Capturing the Friedmans" or "Tarnation"'s Jonathan Caouette, and in some ways, it'd better for us all if you aren't.) Film journalist Godfrey Cheshire's "Moving Midway" (2007) has a deep ditch of historical soil to dig, but it's not a personal-regional family doc that focuses on dysfunction or tragedy; rather, its position is ironic and aciduously nostalgic. Originally from North Carolina, Cheshire may well be the most universally liked personage in contemporary New York movie critic culture (notoriously a small pond with mean fish; disclosure-wise, he is a friend), and his film comes both bearing an enormous amount of good will and receiving the same. I can't untie the extra-cinematic humanity from the film's threads, »

- Michael Atkinson

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