Our friends at Grolsch Film Works have a website where you can find out what they’ve been up to and read/watch interesting stuff about films. Every week we'll be plucking the highlights. This is that.THE WORST MOVIE EXTRAS OF ALL TIME
We're constantly being told how ruthless a place Hollywood is. I would be moved to disagree, as it takes an incredible act of kindness and understanding of human flaws to have let the following dim-witted extras have their five seconds in the sun and be allowed a place on the silver screen, as well as receiving that all-important paycheck. However, before we indulge ourselves in a chuckle-fest of stupidity, maybe we should take a moment to consider that we might just be looking at this from the wrong perspective: this isn't a list of the ten worst movie extras, this is a list of the ten most misunderstood, misguided geniuses of our time.READ FULL STORYPETE DOHERTY TEAMS UP WITH LARRY CLARKWell, we didn't see this one coming. Ex-Libertine Pete Doherty, whose recent performance in Confession of a Child of the Century was unanimously panned, has been cast in Larry Clark's upcoming Paris-set film. Entitled The Smell of Us, Clark's follow-up to Marfa Girl will center around a group of self-destructive skateboarders in Paris. The film will be entirely shot in the capital, and acted in the French language; so no doubt this will raise a few hurdles for the American filmmaker, non?READ FULL STORYAN INTERVIEW WITH HAL HARTLEYAmerican Independent Cinema in the 1990s. There's a handful of directors' names that spring to mind: Richard Linklater (Slacker), Larry Clark (Kids), Kevin Smith (Clerks), Steven Soderbergh (Sex, Lies and Videotape), Todd Solondz (Happiness), and yes, Hal Hartley (Amateur). It's Hartley, arguably more than any of the aforementioned, who has remained truest to his indie roots.
With a bunch of great DVD re-releases coming out from Artificial Eye, we spoke to the uncompromising director about the state of indie cinema, growing up in Long Island (which is also, incidentally, the home of De La Soul and Walt Whitman), composing music for his own films, and that classic Godardian dance sequence from Simple Men (1992), which he shot while "deathly ill".READ FULL STORYTHE WEEK IN GIFS
While it's all good and well to try and re-cap the week's movie news, we realise that it's the end of the week and the daily grind has probably all but frazzled your brain, to the point where you can't concentrate on actual words or things that aren't brightly coloured. This is where the internet sensation for GIFs come in, because why try and explain things when you can simply capture all your emotions in one constantly looping moving image.READ FULL STORYKeep your peepers peeled for more Grolsch Film Works updates next week. Go to grolschfilmworks.com to see what’s happening right now.
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