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17 June 2009 12:20 PM, PDT | Filmmaker Magazine - Blog | See recent Filmmaker Magazine news »

It's June, so that means it's time for the Sundance Labs, where emerging writers, directors and composers hone their skills in preparation for their next films. This year, we'll be featuring a number of Lab participants blogging from the Sundance Institute, and to launch the series we're really happy to have actor and writer/director Keith Gordon (A Midnight Clear, Mother Night, Waking the Dead) conveying his experiences as an advisor to the Directing Fellows. In this first post, penned in the middle of his drive from L.A. to Utah, he writes about the reasons he goes back to Sundance year after year. Check back regularly this month for more reports. I’m writing this from a Comfort Inn motel in St. George Utah. This will be my ninth …

- Scott Macaulay

26 February 2009 3:30 AM, PST | ifc.com | See recent IFC news »

Rock stars want to be movie stars and movie stars want to be rock stars; models want to be designers and designers want to tooth-tug Keira Knightley's ear on the cover of Vanity Fair. These are known facts, demonstrable often to a shudder-inducing degree. What to make, though, of the latent career ambitions suggested by the humble novelist's propensity for cameos? Do they all want to be comedians? Professional winkers? Or just slightly richer?

From Saul Bellow playing the "Man in Hallway" in an adaptation of his novel "Seize the Day" 30 years after it had been first published to Michael Chabon taking abuse in a bookstore in the upcoming adaptation of his 1988 novel, "The Mysteries of Pittsburgh," many authors can't resist the idea of essentially walking into their own novel when put to celluloid. Below are a few of those, and a few more whose motivations are more elusive. …

- Michelle Orange

2 articles from 2009