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  INDIE KID RYAN: THE EFFECT OF BIG NAME STARS IN INDIE FILMS

  May 23, 2011 at 8:34 am / Indie Boy Ryan

  Wouldn’t you know it, it seems that Hollywood’s A-list actors may not have it all. Everything that money can buy, perhaps. And in today’s ever changing film industry, one now dominated by a revitalized independent filmmaking market abounding with the freshest and most imaginative stories available in the most accessible of forms to the greatest masses, it is becoming clear that there is, at least one thing, money can’t buy: credibility.

  This happens to be a problem that has worked itself [...]

  

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  Indie Kid Ryan: The art and business of music in film.

  May 7, 2011 at 10:56 pm / Indie Boy Ryan

  Think back on what are considered to be among the greatest films of all time. Lawrence of Arabia, The Godfather, Star Wars; these films are considered to be among the highest achieving films for a number of reasons.  Aside from their mastered accomplishment in visual storytelling, the thing that more often then not comes to mind when mentioned is the iconic music that accompanies one of these films.  This marriage of music and movie is undoubtedly one of the most [...]

  

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  Looking for a thinking man’s art film or a simple slapstick comedy for the modern age? “Rubber” aims to serve both.

  April 10, 2011 at 6:37 pm / Foreign, Indie Boy Ryan, Movie Reviews

  “Yeah, I know I’m shooting something really stupid.” – Quentin Dupieux

  I notice upon meeting with the incomparable Frenchman Quentin Dupieux again in March (I had the please of interviewing Dupieux during the AFI festival as well.) , just four short months after his new art house horror film Rubber premiered to U.S. audiences at the 2010 AFI Film Festival that Dupieux appears slightly tired, waking from a quick nap to begin a round table interview at the Four Seasons [...]

  

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  Independent cinema’s foothold in 2011: The pendulum is shifting

  March 27, 2011 at 7:49 pm / Indie Boy Ryan

  If you’re anything like me, a bit skeptical or a touch cynical, you probably now sigh in defeat every time you hear of the latest big studio project in the works, for you know it will be marketed to death and will make a boat-load of money, which is a great comparison because that lump of money would fit perfectly aboard a studio executive’s boat.  You probably even bow and shake your head to mourn [...]

  

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  INDIE KID RYAN: Harmony Korine’s “Umshini Wam” and Rainn Wilson’s “The Blitzen Trapper Massacre” debut at SXSW

  March 19, 2011 at 5:53 pm / Film Festivals, Indie Boy Ryan

  This week, two videos were debuted at Austin’s South by Southwest music and film interactive festival (SXSW) from highly celebrated cult film heroes Harmony Korine and Rainn Wilson.  From Korine, praised writer of “Kids” and writer-director of “Gummo” came the absurd “Umshini Wam,” a short film starring the South African male-female duo of Die Antwoord as wheel-chair bound wanna-be gangsters.  The second video came from the “Office” star in which Wilson directs and stars as an obsessive fan of the [...]

  

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  WhiteWater Films Roundtable: How has the past year changed the outlook for Independent film?

  March 5, 2011 at 8:04 pm / Indie Boy Ryan, Interviews

  It may not seem so, but today’s films are getting smarter.  With the outpour of sequels and re-boots and Jennifer Aniston-starring rom-coms flooding theaters, it may be easy to overlook the fact that the “independent” market has stepped up its game big time.

  This was just one of the topics analyzed by a panel of industry professionals during my afternoon at WhiteWater Films lunch and roundtable.  WhiteWater Films, an independent production company, has started the trend of networking between industry professionals [...]

  

  

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