![]() The movie is Olive (2012), a drama about a girl with magical powers and her interaction with three lonely souls. Preceding any known iPhone feature film and starring a downright screen goddess in Gena Rowlands, one of the first-ever smartphone feature films was actually shot on a Nokia N8, albeit using actual cinema lenses. The films that emerge from this mindset may not always be among the best of their respective years (let alone of all time), but for the sheer fact of having been made at all they'll always be worth more than a passing mention. It's not about the technology, they seem to say, it's simply about getting out there and doing it. These filmmakers are willing and able to make a movie using whatever gear they can get their hands on. Moviemaking is increasingly a digital business, though there are some filmmakers, Quentin Tarantino and Christopher Nolan among them, who have gone to bat for making, and screening, film the traditional way – that is, using film.Īt the other end of the spectrum are the crazy-brave few who have opted to go full gonzo. People were allegedly heard to gasp on hearing this. This owed something to the film's subject matter, but it had a lot to do with the fact that writer-director Sean Baker had photographed it using only three 5s iPhones. > jimmy: you tweeted something yesterday while here in austin.One of the hottest tickets on the film festival circuit this year (MIFF included), Tangerine was the talk of Park City, Utah, when it premiered at Sundance in January. martha stewart is sitting two seats away from me and in a few minutes i'm going to get up there and say something very mean about her private parts. it's weird when you have to say something about martha stewart's vagina right in front of her. i tried out my roast jokes during my standup set and they went fine. was that a fun experience? > it was really fun. > jimmy: did snoop dogg say something mean to you? > he said some mean stuff. snoop dogg's thinking of weird to say to me right now. ![]() also knowing other people want to dance snoop dogg. Weeks to just think of the foulest things you can say about somebody. i was in a hotel a couple of nights and i was going to stay, asked them if i could get > jimmy: you weren't originally planning to be here tonight, you stayed for us? > i stayed for you guys. > jimmy: we said, yeah, we'd love to have you do the show and here you are, like magic, unbelievable. then i saw you doing the show, i asked to do your show. was this part of the tour? > this was - i did a last-minute gig with funny or die in austin. > jimmy: so this is kind of a big stop in the middle of the tour. you go all over the country? > all over, everywhere. > jimmy: are you in the middle of your comedy tour? > yeah, i've been touring since october. sometimes yeah, up to an hour and ten minutes. > jimmy: and you're working probably like sometimes almost an hour a day, right? > yeah, man. > jimmy: hitting it pretty hard? > time moves slow when you're destroying yourself. > jimmy: what do you think about next season? do you feel strong about it? > jimmy: do you feel that the team will be as good as it was last year? he's well deserving of everything that's come his way. after it was done i could not get myself to call him over two days. he's got one or two opportunities in his career to really get paid for what he's done, put all his time and effort in. sometimes they're business decisions, you can't fault him in that regard. > jimmy: did you call them and say, i wish you well? did you have a farewell shower or anything together? > i talked to him throughout the weekend before, obviously try to tell him how much we loved him and wanted him. jimmy: is it more upsetting when he goes to a rival like the eagles? it's not like a team - i imagine this is a team that you - yes? > yeah, i do not like them.
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