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BUTTERKNIFE promo: How Butterknife Came to Be

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We’re just one week away from the official premiere of Joe Swanberg’s web series, Butterknife, and to mark that exciting occasion, here’s the last in our series of Butterknife promos, made by members of the show’s cast. This fabulous little number is the work of Mary Bronstein, who co-stars in Butterknife as the wife of the detective played by her real-life husband Ronnie. Make sure to check out our Butterknife page, where you can get more info and sign up for updates before the premiere of the series on Monday, January 28.

Previous Butterknife shorts:

Frank Ross
Barlow Jacobs
Michael Tully

Under discussion:

Me and You and Everyone We Know  (2005)

Mutual Appreciation  (2005)

Goliath  (2007)

From what I hear, everyone is talking about Goliath, a film by the Zellner Brothers that premieres at Sundance this evening. But after watching the trailer, I have to wonder what has people so excited. Sure, I think it looks cheap and funny in a Me and You and Everyone We Know sort of way — which isn’t a gripe, as Miranda July’s film was my favorite at the festival back in 2005 — but it also looks like something homemade and bound for YouTube, and I’m not the only person on the internet to say so. Fortunately, the film has support from the right people. On the Goliath Facebook page, SXSW producer Matt Dentler commented that it’s “an awesome, awesome movie. Truly.”

But Sundance is very different from Austin, and just because the Zellner Brothers have a loyal following back home doesn’t mean they’ll succeed in Park City. Then again, after excitedly watching Me and You three years ago, I never thought it was going to catch on with other people at Sundance let alone be a huge hit in the real world. Of course, the Zellners have already been to Sundance — every year since 2005, in fact. It could all change this year, though, with their first feature, the simple synopsis of which is as follows: “In the wake of a divorce, a man desperately searches for the one relic of the broken marriage- his pet cat ‘Goliath’, who has gone missing.”

So, I can’t wait to hear what festivalgoers think of the film after tonight’s premiere (or even from readers who view the trailer and wish they could be there). For those of you not in Park City, you’ll have to settle for this sorta funny clip. And maybe eventually the film’s website (Goliathismissing.com) won’t be down — damn that Sundance buzz for causing the bandwith to be exceeded — and we can investigate further what is so attractive about this little movie. Is it just the association with filmmaker Andrew Bujalski (Mutual Appreciation), who appears in the film? Is it just the popularity of the Zellner’s three shorts that have shown at Sundance in the past? I guess I could just go and find those films on the interweb and see …

Goliath premieres at the Prospector Square Theater tonight at 8:30 PM. It also screens at the Library tomorrow morning and Saturday morning and then in Salt Lake City on Saturday night.

Under discussion:

Baghead  (2008)

Hannah Takes the Stairs  (2007)

Sundance 6: Promotion

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In Joe and Ronnie’s latest video dispatch, Joe follows sometime collaborators Greta Gerwig and Mark Duplass around as they do press for their Sundance Spectrum entry, Baghead. Ronnie recuses himself.

Previous Sundance video coverage from Joe and Ronnie:

The Sucker and the Crank
Opening Night
Who Killed Davey Moore?
Melee on Main Street
George Romero
Blackout

You can watch all of Joe and Ronnie???s Sundance coverage, as well as the trailer and promos for Butterknife, at our MySpace page.