December 28, 2009
Annual "best-of" lists rule, especially when you are included in them. Current TV named "Facebook Status-Off" #3 of the Top 5 Comedy Viral Videos of 2009, surpassing the likes of Sarah Silverman and something about a cat playing a keyboard... further legitimizing our motto of "Genius filmmaking for the easily impressed." (Update: It seems Silverman did not like her ranking and the video below has since been removed, but here is a link the the blog post).
December 26, 2009
Untucked birthday wishes go out to our elder statesman, Steve.
Also, a farewell to 2009, and an enthusiastic welcome to 2010. We hope to make lots of new stuff and have a kick-ass screening in the next coming months. So don't forget about us.
December 01, 2009
Happy birthday to Jonathan. I plan to give him a gift in the form of verbal harassment for leaving Trouser Mouse to die a slow cyber death. Bring it back!
November 05, 2009
And it's up - check out our interview on The Reel Good Show with Bobby Miller (below).
October 30, 2009
We were on the Reel Good Show last night, and Bobby Miller is dreamy! Look for that to come out late next week. We'll post it here too.
We are very excited to get back to shooting. We've got a good one planned for tomorrow involving Williamsburg and a cape.
Also, awhile back we were on TV. And for archival purposes, we decided to post the intros below.
Happy Halloween, everyone. Get weird.
October 28, 2009
Check us out on the Reel Good Show with Bobby Miller tomorrow evening (Oct. 29) at 6:30pm EST at this address. It's supposedly streamed live with a live chat, so you can ask us questions online that you are too afraid to ask us to our faces. (We are big proponents of the anonymity of the internet). We are also bringing a very special guest!
September 21, 2009
Happy birthday to Chuck, the Untucked editor extraordinaire.
September 20, 2009
We're a little tardy reporting our latest accolade, but the fine folks at the 2009 Bushwick Film Festival awarded "Best Short Comedy" to The Funeral, and excuse our juvenile excitement, but we got a personalized silver flask! Check it out below.
Photo by Patrick Armitage.Below are a couple of more pictures from the festival.
The Funeral Q&A with Randal, the host, and Lewis.
Lewis on a panel about web-based viral videos with the College Humor guys.(From left to right): boat shoes w/ legs crossed at 4 o'clock, boat shoes w/ legs crossed at 4 o'clock, boat shoes w/ legs crossed at 3:30ish, and non-boat shoes w/ legs crossed at 5 o'clock.
August 21, 2009
Three years running, the kind girls over at the Bushwick Film Festival will be showing some of our stuff. It's always a mystery to us what they plan to show, but we give them free reign and they give us free beer. Go out and support them, NYC. It's next weekend at the Lumenhouse at 47 Beaver Street. Films and art all three nights, with Untucked stuff showing Friday.
August 17, 2009
Alberta loves us! The Funeral will now be showing in both Calgary, as mentioned below, and Edmonton in the Edmonton International Film Festival. And it's the exact same week - September 25 through October 3. What other festivals along Hwy 2 can we get involved with? (We're talking to you Athabasca.)
July 23, 2009
Just found out that The Funeral will be showing in yet another film festival, this time in Canada at the Calgary International Film Festival. The festival will take place from September 25 to October 4, 2009.
July 01, 2009
We've finished the debut music video for our friends, the Generationals, and their song "Angry Charlie." Check it out here or also posted on the label's youtube site.
Much credit and thanks goes to the contributions from Patrick Armitage (AD) and Eric Ramistella (online editor), but also especially to Mandy and Tim Hutchings, who did all the animations and After Effects work.
And go buy Con Law. It's amazing.
June 12, 2009
We've had some nice blog buzz for Facebook Status-Off, which we'd like to share. Thanks to these folks for posting it.
June 09, 2009
New Untucked Short Alert! Click here to watch our latest comedy, "Facebook Status-Off." After viewing, go here to sign up for the newest online craze, Bojanjo.
May 28, 2009
Untucked news to note...
1) Chuck's quietly been busy developing some branded campaign work for both Office Depot and Sony Ericsson, which can now be viewed on our Commercials page.
2) As mentioned prior, The Funeral is screening this Sunday in the Hoboken Film Festival at the Cedar Lane Cinemas. If Irish pubs aren't your scene, perhaps a dark theatre is.
3) For our diehard fans, we've replaced the Atom version of How To Get Gonorrhea with the original version as seen at our 2008 screening.
4) We've posted a little silent short that Lewis made for his friend, Ritchie. Shot on super 8 in Portland, Oregon, it's not the usual Untucked project but rather a memento of sorts. It's called The Poison Tree.
5) And lastly, check back soon(ish) for a new comedy short from Jonathan and a music video directed by Lewis for our friends, the Generationals.
May 01, 2009
A quick reminder that The Funeral is making its NYC debut and The Wildflower is showing again this upcoming Monday night at Galapagos in Dumbo, Brooklyn. Weekends are for amateurs. Come out on a Monday. Screening begins at 7pm.
And we are pleased to say that one month after the Dumbo screening, The Funeral will be showing two rivers over in the Hoboken Film Festival at the Cedar Lane Cinemas on Sunday, May 31.
April 16, 2009
The Funeral trailer is now posted.
April 15, 2009
We're back from Aspen, and three Funeral screenings, numerous Q&A's, and a few too many sidecars later, we gotta admit: we had a damn good time.
Untucked easily won the festival award for largest entourage, as we hauled 14 folks out west for the week of films and skiing.
Below is a picture of J. Emmerling, J. Harford and some of the other festival filmmakers at a local high school, taken before they gave lectures on the unfortunate side effects of filmmaking. Following the lecture, the teacher asked the kids for their homework, and Emmerling blanched. Harford was then stuffed into a locker by Brandon Battersby, age 17.
Check out IndieWire's recap of the festival. And thanks to the festival folks for hosting such a fun festival and showing such quality films. If you ever get a chance to see something at the Wheeler Opera House in Aspen, you should - it's beautiful.
March 18, 2009
More film festival news...
Aspen has released their schedule, and The Funeral is 1 of 56 chosen and is one of the few with multiple screenings over the course of the festival. There's a bunch of us making the trip, and we can't wait to see Jansen Weatherly showcase his skills on a black diamond.
Phoenix's schedule is also posted at their website, and The Funeral is showing twice over the weekend of April 3.
Laid Off By Lehman was recently accepted by the Palm Beach International Film Festival. So that'll be happening April 23-27.
And lastly, The Funeral got into a festival you can just take a subway to! And even better, they also accepted The Wildflower, which will be shown the same night - May 4. This is for the Brooklyn Arts Council, and the screening is at an art space in Dumbo called Galapagos that seats 175 and has a 1600-foot indoor lake... so bring your swim trunks.
March 11, 2009
We're pleased to announce that Laid Off By Lehman won the Audience Award last Friday at the NYC Iron Mule Comedy Festival, and we have the (conservative) clap-o-meter reading to prove it.
March 05, 2009
Laid Off By Lehman has another public screening coming up, this time at the NYC Downtown Short Film Festival Audience Screening on March 21st. Click here for tickets and come exercise your $10 right-to-vote.
March 03, 2009
The Funeral is now premiering at this year's Aspen ShortsFest. We're pretty pysched for audiences in both Aspen and Phoenix (as previously announced) to screen our most ambitious film to-date, not to mention the chance for some winter skiing in the Rockies. See the blurb below detailing the highlights of the Aspen ShortsFest, and come west with us. We're told that The Funeral will be shown the aftenoon of Saturday, April 4th. We'll post more informtation as it's released.
Widely recognized as one of the world’s premiere showcases for short film and video, Aspen Shortsfest offers an intimate international forum for emerging artists, established film professionals, and film-loving audiences. Aspen Shortsfest is one of only a few festivals worldwide recognized by the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences able to send its top prize winners to compete for the Oscars. With the proliferation of film and video content websites, the short film has enjoyed a renaissance fueled by easy access and the desire for new, unencumbered, on-demand entertainment. Aspen Film celebrates and honors this concise popular film art form in a spotlight all its own.
February 25, 2009
The Untucked collective would like to congratulate Steve and Nicole and welcome our newest cast member, Isabella Giraldi.
February 24, 2009
The Funeral, the sixteen minute dramedy we shot last summer, will make its debut at the 2009 Phoenix Film Festival. Congratulations to everyone involved, which was pretty much everyone we know. It's not available to watch here, but we can arrange for a private screening if you ask nicely.
February 23, 2009
Laid Off By Lehman was selected by the NYC Iron Mule Comedy Festival, which is screening Friday, March 6th at the 92Y Tribeca. Yep, right in the backyard of those broker folks.
February 21, 2009
A happy belated birthday to Lewis. Cheers.
February 02, 2009
Here's the brand new video for the Señors of Marseille for their song "Coolest Girl in New York." The video stars Merritt Gurley, Rahmel Long, Sui Keung Wong, Claudia Apicella and of course the band. Also, many thanks to our resident DP, Patrick Armitage, and the various Columbia Street establishments for their continued tolerance of Untucked Films.
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