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Speaking of their new short film John’s Gone, the Safdie Brothers said on their site that ‘To us, the film's a feature, "short" is just one way to describe the film's length. It's a full film.’ Though the comment is a little flippant, it holds true; this twenty-two minute short has the depth, the expansiveness, what even feels like the time spent with its main character John (played by younger brother Benny Safdie), that it does feel like a feature, or ‘full-length’. The film opened at Venice last year in October and has since played at numerous festivals in the US, starting with South by Southwest and prepping for a Rooftop Films showing...

We interviewed Michel Gondry's American cousin back in 05' (I make the comparison because the two have that insatiable appetite to create and use a more experimental approach), so it's been a long, painful wait for fans of Thumbsucker. I see elements of Magnolia + Gods and Monsters in the story-line and then you add the Mill's visual style and how he works with his actors and you've got what sounds like a great cocktail.

The Film Forum (209 W Houston St, New York, NY) have released their Fall schedule packed with foreign film and documentary film which includes offerings from the master filmmaker core of Claire Denis (35 Shots of Rum), Alexander Sokurov (The Sun) and Peter Greenaway (Rembrandt's J'accuse). The September to December slate also includes documentary films that preemed at Sundance (The Yes Men Fix the World) and Tribeca (American Casino).

Maria and I had the good fortune of being advised by people like Walter Mosley, Frank Pierson, Allison Anders, Dylan Kidd, David Benioff, and Walter Bernstein. All of them had gems of advice that helped us go back to our draft and re-write, re-write, re-write. It improved and expanded the story.

5,632 submissions were submitted this year with 96 short films making the cut including the impressive Next Floor from Denis Villeneuve (see pic).