David Schwartz

Dec 14, 2024 | filmmakermagazine.com | David Schwartz

Back to selection by David Schwartz in Filmmaking, Post-Production on Dec 14, 2024 Editing, Elaine May, Jeffrey Wolf, John Cassavetes, Metrograph, Mikey and Nicky, Quentin Tarantino Entering to a standing ovation at a Friday-night screening of Mikey and Nicky at New York’s Metrograph on December 6, Elaine May looked out at the full house. “I was told this entire audience is made up of editors,” she said.

Nov 21, 2024 | mubi.com | David Schwartz

In a major retrospective, the photographer’s little-known films and videos playfully confuse documentary and fiction modes. In 1957, Swiss-born photographer Robert Frank was on the road. He was finishing two years of cross-country journeys, his wife and two young children in tow, snapping the 28,000 grainy black-and-white pictures that he would distill into the 83 images in his book The Americans.

Oct 11, 2024 | snowgoer.com | John Prusak |Mark Preston |Chris Woldrich |David Schwartz

The Quebec-based company that had plans to bring electric options to the snowmobile, personal watercraft and other powersports markets has a new owner. Taiga Motors announced late on Thursday, October 10, that it is being acquired by a Euro-based electric boat builder. No terms of the deal were disclosed. In July, Taiga filed for the Canadian equivalent of Chapter 11 bankruptcy, which afforded it protection from debtors while restructuring.

Sep 23, 2024 | screenslate.com | David Schwartz |Elissa Suh |Saffron Maeve

Our dispatch on the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival comes courtesy of David Schwartz, Elissa Suh, and Saffron Maeve, who offer their impressions of this year’s surprising discoveries, unexpected encounters at Midnight Madness, and adventurous programming in the Wavelengths section.

Sep 1, 2024 | screenslate.com | David Schwartz

The cinephile, personal essayist, editor, and prolific author Phillip Lopate has long been one of our finest film critics. But his film writing has always been a side gig, albeit one pursued with ardent passion; hence, the hint of illicit romance in the titles of his two critical anthologies: Totally, Tenderly, Tragically: Essays and Criticism from a Lifelong Love Affair With Movies (1988), and his wonderful new collection My Affair with Art House Cinema (2024).