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Independent film - An (or indie film) is a film initially produced without financing or distribution from a major movie studio. According to MPAA data, January through March 2005 showed approximately 15% of US domestic box office revenue was from independent or indie studios.
American Movie - American Movie is a documentary about the making of an independent film. Milwaukee filmmaker Mark Borchardt feverishly works to finish his independent horror film Coven, only to slip into a downward spiral of poor financing and lack of interest by his friends.
Florida Film Critics Circle Award for Best Foreign-Language Film - The Florida Film Critics Circle Award for Best Foreign(-Language) Film is an award given by the Florida Film Critics Circle to honor the finest achievements in filmmaking.
New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Animated Film - The New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Animated Film is an award given by the New York Film Critics Circle, honoring the finest achievements in animated filmmaking.
Investrum Film Financing - Provides film financing for producers. Complete project information forms available online.
Peacefulfish - Consulting company specializing in film financing, corporate finance and digital distribution in the audiovisual industry.
UK Film Finance Handbook - Information on the book including interviews and news.
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John Cassavetes: Five Films (Special Edition) : John Cassavetes has been called a genius, a visionary, and the father of independent film. But all this rhetoric threatens to obscure the humanism and generosity of his art. The five films included here represent his self-financed works made outside the studio system of Hollywood, on which he was afforded complete control. While about beatniks, hippies, businessmen, actors, housewives, strippers, club owners, gangsters, and children, all of them are beautiful, emotional testaments to compassion. Cassavetes has often been called an actor's director, but this body of work-even greater than the sum of its extraordinarily significant parts-reveals him to be an audience's director. We are proud to present stunning new transfers of "Shadows," "Faces," "A Woman Under The Influence," "The Killing of a Chinese Bookie," and "Opening Night." Criterion's eight-disc box set also featuring a wide range of supplemental materials, including new video interviews with key Cassavetes collaborators Gena Rowlands, Ben Gazzara, Peter Falk, Seymour Cassel, Leila Goldoni, Lynn Carlin, and Al Ruban; a 17-minute alte...
Our Daily Bread And Other Films Of The Great Depression (Full Frame) : Franklin Roosevelt's 1933 inauguration marked a rebirth of hope among Americans and inaugurated an era of government activity and social experiment designed to pull the country out of the great economic depression in which it had been mired for years. Although Hollywood movies, especially those made under the Production Code, were intended as escapist entertainment and seldom addressed issues of the time, the independent "Our Daily Bread" and the superb nonfiction films in this collection not only accurately mirror the 1930s but also are eloquent works of artistic merit. "Our Daily Bread" (1934) is a landmark of socially conscious films, produced and directed by King Vidor, who made such earlier masterworks as "The Big Parade", "The Crowd", "Hallelujah!", and "The Champ". This deeply personal work was rejected by the studios, nor could Vidor obtain bank financing for a film reflecting unfavorably on banks. In the end he mortgaged his home and most of his possessions to finance "Our Daily Bread", which was released by United Artists at the insistence of its partner and Vidor's friend, Char...
Dog Day Afternoon [Blu-ray] (WSE) : Based on a true 1972 story, Sidney Lumet's 1975 drama chronicles a unique bank robbery on a hot summer afternoon in New York City. Shortly before closing time, scheming loser Sonny Al Pacino and his slow-witted buddy, Sal John Cazale, burst into a Brooklyn bank for what should be a run-of-the-mill robbery, but everything goes wrong, beginning with the fact that there is almost no money in the bank. The situation swiftly escalates, as Sonny and Sal take hostages; enough cops to police the tristate area surround the bank; a large Sonny-sympathetic crowd gathers to watch; the media arrive to complete the circus; and police captain Moretti Charles Durning tries to negotiate with Sonny while keeping the volatile spectacle under control. When Sonny's lover, Leon Chris Sarandon, tries to talk Sonny out of the bank, we learn the robbery's motive: to finance Leon's sex-change operation. Sonny demands a plane to escape, but the end is near once menacingly cool FBI agent Sheldon James Broderick arrives to take over the negotiations. ~ Lucia Bozzola, All Movie Guide. The Making of Dog Day Afternoon:...
El Mariachi (Widescreen, Special Edition) : All he wants is to be a mariachi, like his father, his grandfather and his great grandfather before him. But the town he thinks will bring him luck brings only a curse of deadly mistaken identity. Forced to trade his guitar for a gun, the mariachi is playing for his life in this critically-acclaimed film debut from director Robert Rodriguez. Financed with earnings from a month-long stay in a research hospital, this astonishing action adventure was shot with no second takes, using borrowed equipment and a talented cast of unknowns. The riveting result is a wild bullet-dodging ride through a world of bandido violence, from the suspense of the opening shoot-out to the tragedy of the unexpected conclusion. With little more than a great story and a lot of heart, Rodriguez has created pure movie pleasure, setting new standards for independent filmmaking, and establishing himself as an unquestionable talent. "An enormously entertaining movie." (Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-times). Scene Selection. Director's Commentary, New film transfer from original negatives supervised by Robert Rodriguez, ...
Guns on the Clackamas : "Guns On The Clackamas" is a peek into the film industry in the spirit of "Spinal Tap". Nigel Nado, the notable documentary filmmaker, is trying to make a movie about some people trying to make a movie. But everything is going wrong. The subject of his documentary, the Western Guns on Clackamas is plagued with problems. The lead actress has a severe stutter. And since she also happens to be the Executive Producer's mistress, there's not much that can be done to remedy the situation. Unsuccessful in turning the movie into a yodeling extravaganza, they decide to fire the actress. This results in having her irate beau pull the plug on the film's financing. The beginning of the end, cast members are dropping like flies due to any number of reasons. Bad macaroni salad. Bad chili. (Bad caterer.) A camera dolly runs over a crew member, severing some key limb or another. Then since no cast member has survived, and the film's producers can't hire replacements, the "Guns On The Clackamas" makers must resort to solutions at once startling and hilarious.
Quicksand (Full Frame, Widescreen) : A New York banker, Martin Raikes, flies to France to check on some "suspicious" transactions of a film production that his company is funding. Things start off calm as he visits the filming location where he meets Jake Mellows, the lead actor in the movie who seems to have mysterious affiliations to the company and the company's main liaison who seems to have an agenda of her own. However as Martin gets deeper and deeper in his investigations of the film's finances certain investors want him out of their affairs for good and they set him up to take the fall in an assassination of an important government official. Realizing he has been set up, Martin takes off running to prove his innocence...before the corrupt Chief of Police finds him. Now the only two people who can help him find the evidence he needs to set the record straight, are the same two people who can betray him and put him away for good. Behind The Scenes Featurette, NTSC.
Pal Joey : "Pal Joey" stars Rita Hayworth, Frank Sinatra and Kim Novak in a sophisticated musical comedy. Sinatra plays Joey Evans, a cabaret singer who romances wealthy socialite Hayworth into financing his own nightclub, but then falls for voluptuous chorine Novak. "Pal Joey" took 17 years to get to the screen. Based on a series of stories written as letters by John O'Hara for The New Yorker, the letters were all signed "Your Pal Joey" by a mythical dancer. O'Hara later adapted the stories as a book for the Broadway musical which starred Gene Kelly. When Columbia bought the film rights, studio chief Harry Cohn wanted Kelly for the lead and Hayworth for the younger role of Linda. But Kelly was already contracted to MGM and the project was shelved. At one time, Billy Wilder was interested in doing the picture-with Marlon Brando and Mae West-but the studio passed. It finally took the combined talents of Hayworth, Sinatra and newcomer Kim Novak to brinG "Pal Joey" to the screen. The gossip columns were filled with stories of an impending battle over credits. Sinatra was at the height of his film populari...
Desperado Special Edition/ El Mariachi Special Edition (Collector's Box Set, 2 discs) (Widescreen) : "Desperado" (1995): Antonio Banderas, Joaquim De Almeida, Salma Hayek, Steve Buscemi, Cheech Marin and Quentin Tarantino star in this stylish shoot-'em-up described as a south-of-the-border Pulp Fiction. Director Robert Rodriguez follows up his legendary debut film, El Mariachi, with this sexy sequel about a mysterious guitar player (Banderas) searching for vengeance against the men who murdered his girlfriend. "El Mariachi" (1993): All he wants is to be a mariachi, like his father, his grandfather and his great grandfather before him. But the town he thinks will bring him luck brings only a curse of deadly mistaken identity. Forced to trade his guitar for a gun, the mariachi is playing for his life in this critically-acclaimed film debut from director Robert Rodriguez. Financed with earnings from a month-long stay in a research hospital, this astonishing action adventure was shot with no second takes, using borrowed equipmentand a talented cast of unknowns. The riveting result is a wild bullet-dodging ride through a world of bandido violence, from the suspense of the opening shoot-out to t...
War Of The Worlds / When Worlds Collide, The : This double feature presents two of the greatest 1950s sci-fi classics: "The War Of The Worlds" (1953), H.G. Wells' chilling novel of a Martian invasion of Earth becomes even more frightening in this 1952 film adaptation that's widely regarded as one of the greatest sci-fi movies of all time. An Oscar. winner for Best Special Effects, "The War Of The Worlds" delivers eye-popping thrills, laser-hot action and unrelenting, edge-of-your-seat suspense. No one who has seen the film's depiction of the swan-shaped Martian machines-ticking and hissing menacingly as they cut their path of destruction-will ever forget their ominous impact! "When Worlds Collide" - An impending collision with a runaway star signals the destruction of earth. The government refuses to listen to scientists, but private industrialists finance the building of a spaceship, which will carry a limited number of people to another planet to begin a new civilization. As doomsday approaches, they race against time and the panic of those who will be left behind. The potential pulverizing impact of the collision, the massive tidal ...
Ifp/Los Angeles Independent Filmmaker's Manual : Backed by the resources of Independent Feature Project/West, co-authors Nicole Shay LaLoggia and Eden H. Wurmfeld have written the definitive low-budget production manual. Using examples from the Swingers and Kissing Jessica Stein, this comprehensive manual offers the independent filmmaker a single volume reference covering every aspect of making a film: script rights and rewrites, financing, breakdown, scheduling and budgeting, pre-production, production, postproduction, and distribution. A resource guide listing useful references and organizations, as well as a glossary, complete this guide. The companion CD-ROM features interviews with important figures in the independent film industry, including Billy Bob Thornton and Ang Lee. Forms that are illuminated in the text are also included on the CD for ease of use. The new edition is updated with thorough coverage of digital and HD" how to decide which to shoot on, what the financial impact is, and the effect on preproduction. There is also a new chapter on distribution and expanded material on postproduction.
Robert Rodriguez Mexico Trilogy: El Mariachi/Desperado/Once Upon A Time In Mexico : "El Mariachi" - All he wants is to be a mariachi, like his father, his grandfather and his great grandfather before him. But the town he thinks will bring him luck brings only a curse of deadly mistaken identity. Forced to trade his guitar for a gun, the mariachi is playing for his life in this critically-acclaimed film debut from director Robert Rodriguez. Financed with earnings from a month-long stay in a research hospital, this astonishing action adventure was shot with no second takes, using borrowed equipment and a talented cast of unknowns. The riveting result is a wild bullet-dodging ride through a world of bandido violence, from the suspense of the opening shoot-out to the tragedy of the unexpected conclusion. With little more than a great story and a lot of heart, Rodriguez has created pure movie pleasure, setting new standards for independent filmmaking, and establishing himself as an unquestionable talent. "An enormously entertaining movie." (Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-times) "Desperado" - Antonio Banderas, Joaquim De Almeida, Salma Hayek, Steve Buscemi, Cheech Marin and Quentin Tar...
Anthony Trollope Collection : "The Anthony Trollope Collection" contains three masterpieces and over 15 hours of timeless film from one of the greatest nineteenth-century novelist. Visit the fascinating world of Victorian England through the eyes of Anthony Trollope, as the prolific and respected novelist illustrates the penetrating conflicts of the day. "The Barchester Chronicles" - The cozy community of Barchester is rocked from its complacency when a crusade against the Church of England's practice of self-enrichment misfires. Overnight, Septimus Harding (Donald Pleasence) becomes the pawn in a political battle begun by his younger daughter's beau, John Bold, and kept kindled by his older daughter's husband, Archdeacon Grantly (Nigel Hawthorne). "He Knew He Was Right" - Behind their neat facades of Victorian propriety, Anthony Trollope's characters are bursting with life. A flirtatious vicar, two squabbling sisters, an ingenue and her meddling aunt... these are the friends and relations who surround Louis and Emily Trevalyan in the first blissful year of their married life. But things take a darker turn when the rogu...
Family Fun Pack Quadruple Feature: Big Fat Liar / Johnny English / Thunderbirds / Adv Of Rocky & Bullwinkle : "Family Fun Pack Quadruple Feature" includes: "Big Fat Liar" - A take on the classic tale 'The Boy Who Cried Wolf', this is the story of a 14-year-old boy named Jason Shephard who lies for the fun of it. Jason loses an important story assignment, entitled 'Big Fat Liar' in movie producer Marty Wolf's limo, which Wolf then turns into a film. When Jason sees a movie preview of his story, he and best friend Kaylee go to Los Angeles to make Wolf confess to using Jason's story as well as to clear Jason's name and to get him out of having to attend summer school. The teen liar then has to match wits with Wolf, who also turns out to be a big liar. "Johnny English", a British secret agent who dreams of rising beyond his menial job within the MI-7 organization, is hired to protect the Crown Jewels after all the other agents are bumped off. When the jewels are stolen, he eventually uncovers a plot to replace England's monarch with what the British fear the most: a French king. "Thunderbirds" - Having narrowly averted a major disaster on an oil rig, the Thunderbirds have just returned home to their sec...
How It All Went Down (Widescreen) : In order to finance his newest film, Carmine "Istante" Cavelli (Silvio Pollio) returns to the streets where he grew up to sell cocaine. But drug-dealing isn't without its consequences as the lives of everyone around him come tumbling down. Deleted Scenes, Trailers.
All Creatures Great & Small: The Complete Series 2 Collection : Filmed on location in the Yorkshire Dales, "All Creatures Great And Small" brings the world of veterinarian James Herriot to life with all the warmth and humor of the original stories. Series 2 continues the true-life story of James Herriot (Christopher Timothy), as he finds that there is no end to the joy and heartache that go with caring for "all creatures great and small." Episodes: Disc 1 "Cats And Dogs" - Work at Skeldale Veterinary Surgery continues apace. All is not sunny, however, as it almost literally rains cats and dogs. "Attendant Problems" - Lambing time in the Yorkshire Dales is hard but rewarding work. James and Siegfried, however, have a worrying problem. "Fair Means Fowl" - Siegfried means to help finances by acquiring a flock of guinea fowl. Tristan settles a lawsuit incurred while he was treating a cow for bloat. "The Beauty Of The Beast" - Segfried manages to find the right payment for ill-treatment when he attends to a stallion belonging to a scrap merchant. Disc 2 "Judgement Day" - The Darrowby Show is a happy event for everyone except James. Siegfried is called upon to...
Michael Moore's The Awful Truth: Seasons One & Two : From acclaimed filmmaker and author Michael Moore comes "The Awful Truth," the most daring documentary show to hit the American public since Moore's own "TV Nation". Now, for the first time, this Emmy nominated series is available in one complete DVD set. In the spirit of his award-winning film "Bowling for Columbine," Moore skewers politicians and the public alike, placing himself squarely in the middle of today's most controversial issues and events. Join Moore as he goes on a crusade for justice with Cracker, The Corporate Crime Fighting Chicken, spreads holiday cheer to deserving tobacco executives with the "Voice Box Choir," and brings a street pimp to congress as the answer to campaign finance reform. Shot in Moore's trademark "guerrilla video" style, each of 24 half-hour episode is filled with scathingly funny observations and humorous rants that boldly and ironically provide valuable commentary on today's cultural landscape. Michael Moore?s behind the scenes commentary on four of his favorite episodes; Extra Lenny ?The Bookie? odds not featured in original episodes; Moore Awful T...
Delusions Of Grandeur (French) (Widescreen) : "Delusions Of Grandeur" is a period comedy/farce, set in 17th Century Spain and based (quite loosely) on Victor Hugo's play "Ruy Blas." Don Salluste (Louis de Funes) is a reprehensible Minister of Finance who is hated by both the people and the Queen. She develops a case against him and manages to have the King drive Salluste out of his royal court and exile him to the countryside. Determined to exact revenge, Salluste enlists his valet, Blaze (Yves Montand), to impersonate the long lost Prince Cesar to romance the Queen and create a scandal. Ironically, Blaze really does fall in love with the Queen and manages to get himself ensconced into the Royal Court, setting up what will inevitably be a reckoning in the future! Filmed with a lavish production budget for its time, "Delusions Of Grandeur" delivers an entertaining story along with magnificent scenery and the great physical comedy of Louis de Funes in an absolutely French comedy classic!.
Confessions Of A Shopaholic (2-Disc) (Blu-ray) (With Digital Copy) (Widescreen) : Get ready to fall in love with the adorable Becky Bloomwood (Isla Fisher) in the hilarious romantic comedy "Confessions Of A Shopaholic". Living in glamorous New York, Becky desperately wants a job writing for a high-fashion magazine. She gets her stilettos in the door when she gets a job writing a personal finance column at a sister publication. Much to her surprise, her column, "The Girl In The Green Scarf," not only becomes a hit, but she falls head over high heels for her overworked yet handsome boss (Hugh Dancy). But Becky has a secret that leads to some hilarious high jinks that could unravel it all. From the best-selling novel, and featuring the perfect comedic cast, it's the feel-good must-have romantic comedy you'll fall in love with over and over again. Behind The Scenes Featurette, Blooper Reel, Deleted Scenes, Music Videos. Bloopers Of A Shopaholic; "Behind The Fashion": Behind-The-Scenes featurette includes "Wardrobe By Patricia Field", "Temple Of Shopping", "The Green Scarf", "New York Fashion Central", "Sample Sale Madness" and "Window Shopping"; "Stuck With Each Other...
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