Welcome to WILLIAMSBURG: the hip, upstart, intellectual mecca of New York City, the land where people would rather be artists than make art. Brad Saville’s award-winning “Williamsburg” is a voyeuristic picture about seven artists living in Williamsburg, Brooklyn and their comical, usually absurd, intertwining lives.
The Collector’s Edition DVD has special features, including commentary with film [...]
A Night With Mark is Brad Saville’s gritty, black-and-white movie of jazz legend Mark Murphy’s February 2006 performance at the Iridium Jazz Club on 51st and Broadway. “A Night With Mark Murphy” captures the beat-Jazz side of the six-time Grammy-nominated vocalist.
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Brad Saville’s music video spec to Portishead’s “Only You.” Stars Olja Hrustic, Evertz I. Saenz-Perez, and Russ Russo. It was shot while in October 2005 while on production of his feature film, “Williamsburg.”
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Exerts: “No other recent Brooklyn product defines its people by the nature of their neighborhood more than Brad Saville’s Williamsburg. A riff on Richard Linklater’s Slacker, Williamsburg basically unfolds as a series of static shots following various despondent personalities, each of whom claims to be an artist but fails to produce any actual art.
Saville, a playwright in [...]
Williamsburg is “a comedy dressed in Noir clothes… A great cast and a sympathetic director.”
-John Lingan, SpliceToday.com
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The chronology hops all over the map in this Brooklyn-based indie comedy, which somehow links the travails of insufferable writer Truman (Penny Bittone) with a chain-smoking sidewalk painter named Brother James (Russ Russo), music-video director Will (David Marcus), budding filmmaker and part-time mugger Miguel (Evertz I. Saenz-Perez), his sister Anna (Anna Lamadrid) and sultry Slovakian [...]
WILLIAMSBURG
by Phil Hall
(2006-07-31)
2006, Un-rated, 99 minutes, Cadillac Films
Aspiring cinematographers would do well to seek out a small indie feature called “Williamsburg” to study and gain inspiration from what cinematographer Will Sargent and director Brad Saville achieved from behind the camera. Shot in black-and-white, “Williamsburg” has a striking visual style that is uncommon in today’s independent [...]
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