Clinton Stark

It might be time to replace my Canon EOS 80D.

Ivan Tverdovsky. If you're the kind of cinephile who enjoys tracking up-and-coming talent, you may want to Google that name and keep tabs on him. The 27 year-old writer-director has a film in this year's Mill Valley Film Festival (MVFF) and it's a humdinger. Zoology is a "droll fable" about a middle-aged woman...

More news of interest to indie film lovers in and around the San Francisco Bay Area from the good folks at the Mill Valley Film Festival (#MVFF39). A screening of Jackie has been added and director Pablo Larraín (Neruda, also a selection this year) is scheduled to attend. Jackie is Larraín's...

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Iranian films scheduled for the 39th edition of the Mill Valley Film Festival (#MVFF39).

We've been working through advance screeners, and have some brief capsules on three films that made it through the rotation here on Stark Insider.

Since I started shooting videos for Stark Insider in 2006 I've tried as hard as possible to make our stuff look like film. I haven't always succeeded, that's for sure. But there's something about the video-ish footage that comes out of a lot of cameras and camcorders that drives...

I didn't see this one coming. Then again, when you're talking about David Lynch and John Malkovich the word "predictable" doesn't readily come to mind. Instead, we've got an insane, cool, weird project unfolding over the next week in a series of daily vignette. In the web series Playing Lynch...

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Meanwhile, I'm trying to create as much as possible, to work my way through, and make at least 39 bad films as quickly as possible.