Brandon Harris' Redlegs (his feature film debut), a Kickstarter-funded project featured right here last spring, is now available on home video (DVD), courtesy of FilmBuff. Long-time readers of S&A will recall 2 of Brandon's short films which were highlighted on this site - his short erotic thriller Evangeleo. and Happiness is No Fun (a "black" spoof of Godard's Breathless). His feature debut, Redlegs, as described, is "a comedic drama set amongst grieving twenty-something man-boys in the industrial Midwest who's black friend was recently murdered in a historically troubled part of Cincinnati, Ohio." It's a film I've yet to see, so can't offer any...
- 10/17/2013
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
Directly following a week of Sundance announcements, the Slamdance Film Festival, which takes place in Park City between January 18 to 24, has revealed its competition lineup. The narrative competition features films from five different countries — including, interestingly, three from Germany — and the film that I will definitely try to catch from that strand is Nadia Szold’s Joy de V., which stars both Evan Louison (the lead in Filmmaker contributor Brandon Harris’ feature debut Redlegs) and the legendary Claudia Cardinale. In the doc section, Where I Am (whose logline reads, “The courageous story of Gay American writer Robert Drake and his …...
- 12/5/2012
- by Nick Dawson
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
While in Cannes I bumped into critic and programmer Aaron Hillis, who told me about the new Brooklyn-based endeavor he’ll be starting upon returning home — running a video store. Hillis, who already programs reRun, the independent cinema and gastropub located in Filmmaker’s building in Dumbo (and currently playing Contributing Editor Brandon Harris’s debut feature, Redlegs), recently bought the established Cobble Hill business Video Free Brooklyn. At a time when the independent film world is obsessed with VOD, downloads and streaming, Hillis is time-traveling back to the world of plastic cases, late fees, and, on the more positive side, savvy clerks who know you, your tastes, and are vocal in their recommendations. I’ll let him fill you in on the rest.
Filmmaker: So, you bought a video store?
Aaron Hillis: I did buy a video store. I have this bad habit of getting into failing industries. I...
Filmmaker: So, you bought a video store?
Aaron Hillis: I did buy a video store. I have this bad habit of getting into failing industries. I...
- 5/28/2012
- by Scott Macaulay
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
For his micro-budget debut feature Redlegs, which resides comfortably alongside work by Aaron Katz (Quiet City) or Bradley Rust Gray (The Exploding Girl) both tonally and dramatically, Filmmaker magazine contributing editor Brandon Harris (with whom I share this column) returned to his hometown of Cincinnati with three actors and a tiny crew hoping to dramatize the moment when childhood camaraderie dissolves in the face of adult realities and overdue reckonings. Very loosely modeled after John Cassavetes’ Husbands, the film trails three young men — brooding ex-actor Marco (Nathan Ramos), sensitive Willie (Evan Louison), and aggressively obnoxious parking-lot owner Aaron (Andrew Katz) — over the course of a long, aimless weekend as they bitch, argue, get high, and wander through town. Having been reunited after the murder of Ricky, a close friend whose absence overshadows their low-key collegial misadventures, the argumentative trio cope by revisiting some of their old stomping grounds and try,...
- 5/23/2012
- by Damon Smith
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Following a night of short films and a video installation "Green|Red" displayed under the Manhattan Bridge, Scene:Brooklyn took over Dumbo's reRun Gastropub Theater for a special preview screening of Brandon Harris' "Redlegs," a feature following a trio of childhood friends brought together after the murder of another chum. Harris, a regular editor/critic for Filmmaker Magazine and occasional cohort of The Playlist (here he chats with the eternal New Yorker Abel Ferrara), raised the appropriate funds on Kickstarter and ventured to his stomping grounds of Cincinnati to create his debut comedy-drama.
Ohio homebodies Aaron and Wilbur meet Marco, someone they've been out of touch with for a substantial amount of time, at the train station en route to the recently deceased Ricky's funeral processions. It's revealed that Marco had abruptly quit urban life to get his hands dirty in the country, a decision that still stings those he had abandoned (namely,...
Ohio homebodies Aaron and Wilbur meet Marco, someone they've been out of touch with for a substantial amount of time, at the train station en route to the recently deceased Ricky's funeral processions. It's revealed that Marco had abruptly quit urban life to get his hands dirty in the country, a decision that still stings those he had abandoned (namely,...
- 5/6/2012
- by Christopher Bell
- The Playlist
With the doors of the Tribeca Film Festival already closed, what are New York cinephiles to do in the long stretch of time between the next iteration of the Brooklyn or New York Film Festival? Well, they can certainly wet their whistle at Scene:Brooklyn, an independent film and media arts series put on by the Brooklyn Arts Council. Containing dozens of shorts, features (including "The Iran Job" by Till Schauder and Sara Nodjoumi and "Redlegs" by Brandon Harris), and other presentations/masterclasses, there's plenty to chew on to keep the festival spirit going. Running from May 2-6 (check out the events here), the series kicked off with "Brooklyn In Brief," a collection of over fifteen shorts broken up into two sets: 8 narrative and 7 documentaries.
Those who can barely stomach the generic micro-budget template will be happy to know that the burgeoning filmmakers represented here are aiming higher. Michael Tyburski's "Angelfish" follows a somewhat shy,...
Those who can barely stomach the generic micro-budget template will be happy to know that the burgeoning filmmakers represented here are aiming higher. Michael Tyburski's "Angelfish" follows a somewhat shy,...
- 5/4/2012
- by Christopher Bell
- The Playlist
Over the last year Filmmaker Contributing Editor Brandon Harris has been making his first feature, Redlegs, and it receives a sneak preview next Thursday at Brooklyn’s reRun, sponsored by the Brooklyn Arts Council. It then opens for a week on May 25 at that same venue. Check out the trailer below. (There’s also a Tumblr blog, where Harris is promising “goofy, poignant and otherwise unmissable stuff.”)
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- 4/26/2012
- by Scott Macaulay
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
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