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Cool! Thank you, Ret! :)
I’ve posted this on the film submission thread, but I think it might be better if I post it here…
The still currently up for The Return of the Living Dead is from the wrong movie. I’ve made a couple in the right size, if needed:
The still currently up for the recently added Four Flies on Grey Velvet is actually from Deep Red. Some stills from the correct movie:
Thanks you Kurt, Ret and auters team, for all the awesome changes!
Cast Listed Twice:
Patty Hearst
Patricia Hearst
(If I get annoying, a punch in the mouth should do) ;)
Wow, that was fast. Thanks a bunch, Kurt!
Film missing Synopsis and Picture:
Picture:
Link:http://i263.photobucket.com/albums/ii135/guessthefilm/3ringcircus.jpg
Synopsis: Two ex-GIs use their discharge money to finance a trip to Florida, where Jerry Hotchkiss hopes to find work as a circus clown. Pete Nelson isn’t quite as ambitious, though he decides to stick around when he meets gorgeous circus owner Jill Brent. Soon Pete finds himself assisting temperamental aerialist Saadia, while Jerry does his best as the assistant to lion tamer Schlitz. Jerry’s big break comes when Puffo the Clown drinks himself into oblivion and Jerry takes his place. – Yahoo! Movies
This movie was directed by Marcelo Piñeyro, not Marcelo Pi (who, btw, need his DIRECTOR status).
Wrong picture used for The Evil Cameraman
Picture:
Direct Link:http://i263.photobucket.com/albums/ii135/guessthefilm/evil.jpg
Sorry, best color picture I could find.
Some more Pictures and quotes for directors (if interested)
Picture: 
Link: http://i263.photobucket.com/albums/ii135/guessthefilm/ottopreminger1.jpg
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Picture: 
Link:http://i263.photobucket.com/albums/ii135/guessthefilm/kapsaskis.jpg
Quote: “If all had the same death, there wouldn’t be any heroes.”
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Picture: 
Link:http://i263.photobucket.com/albums/ii135/guessthefilm/zedd.jpg
Quote: “We propose that all film schools be blown up and all boring films never be made again.” – Nick Zedd in the Cinema of Transgression Manifesto.
Bio
Okay, Apocalypse Salem’s & Ralch’s requests fulfilled.
Keep them coming!
Wow, that was Quick! Thank you so much, Kurt!
Cory McAbee and Michele Soavi are directors! I want them to appear in my list!!
Also, “Ron Pearlman” and “Sherri Moon Zombie” don’t exist. (It’s Ron Perlman and Sheri Moon Zombie)
(Thanks in advance)
Two more suggestions:
- One should be abble to unvote a movie. It sounds silly but it has happened to me more than once to click the rating by mistake.
- Also, once I have voted a movie I would like to be abble to see the overral score instead of only my vote.
^ You can cancel a movie rating by clicking SEE ALL next to RATINGS and then CANCEL.
Here would be yours.
Profile informations for Jonas Mekas
Image:
http://img683.imageshack.us/img683/5572/jonasmekas.png
Quote:
“In Lithuania, I am known as a poet, and they don’t care about my cinema. In Europe they don’t know my poetry; in Europe, I am a filmmaker. But here, in the United States, I am only a maverick!”
Biography:
Jonas Mekas was born in 1922 in Semeniskiai, Lithuania. He currently lives and works in New York. In 1944, Jonas Mekas and his brother, Adolfas, were taken by the Nazis and imprisoned in a forced labor camp in Nazi Germany for eight months. After the War, he studied philosophy at the University of Mainz from 1946-48 and at the end of 1949, he emigrated with his brother to the U.S. settling in Williamsburg, Brooklyn in New York. Two weeks after his arrival, he borrowed the money to buy his first Bolex 16-mm camera and began to record moments of his life. He discovered avant-garde film at venues such as Amos Vogel’s pioneering cinema 16, and he began screening his own films in 1953. He has been one of the leading figures of American avant-garde filmmaking or the “New American Cinema,” as he dubbed it in the late ‘50s, playing various roles: in 1954, he became editor and chief of Film Culture; in 1958 he began writing his “Movie Journal” column for the Village Voice; in 1962 he co-founded the Film- Makers’ Cooperative (FMC) and the Filmmakers’ Cinematheque in 1964, which eventually grew into Anthology Film Archives, one of the world’s largest and most important repositories of avant-garde films. His own output ranging from narrative films (Guns of the Trees, 1961) to documentaries (the Brig, 1963) and to “diaries” such as Walden (1969); Lost, Lost, Lost, (1975); Reminiscences of a Voyage to Lithuania, (1972); Zefiro torna, (1992) and As I was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty (2001) have been screened extensively at festivals and museums around the world. Recently, the Brooklyn Academy of Music and the American Museum of the Moving Image screened Letters from Greenpoint and the Mead Gallery at the University of Warwick, England, Monash University Museum of Art, and Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Australia, held exhibitions for Mekas this past fall. In May 2006, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C. held a lecture entitled “meet the artist” and screened Reminisces of a Journey to Lithuania. The Directors Guild of America awarded Anthology Film Archives a DGA Honors recognizing the center’s dedication to preserving the art of cinema. In its annual selection of 25 films, Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania was esteemed by the United States National Film Preservation Board to be selected for preservation at the Library of Congress’ National Film Registry. His films were also screened at Art Basel Miami and Mekas was honored at the Los Angeles Film Critics Association’s award ceremony for his significant contribution to American film culture. Most recently, the Jonas Mekas Visual Arts Center was established in Vilnius, Lithuania and exhibitions will focus on art and film collections by Mekas and his friend and artistic collaborator George Maciunas, founder of the Fluxus art movement. Opening in late 2007, the Center will house an extensive avant-garde film archive and library and has plans to build a Fluxus Research Institute. (http://www.jonasmekas.com/bio.php)
Your wish is my command: Jonas Mekas
Samantha, your requests are now taken care of.
missing image for Waves
here’s one…
Thanks Adam!
Profile informations for Andy Warhol
Quote:
“If you want to know all about Andy Warhol, just look at the surface of my paintings and films and me, there I am. There’s nothing behind it.”
Biography:
American pop artist Andy Warhol became a pop icon himself, symbolizing the wild decadence of the “beautiful people” of the 1970s. Born Andrew Warhola in Pennsylvania, he studied at the Carnegie Institute of Technology before designing advertisements for women’s shoes. After gaining notoriety for his pop-art renditions of things such as Campbell’s Soup cans and silk screens of Marilyn Monroe, Warhol began making experimental films during the early ‘60s. Most of his early works were little more than passive chronicles of the ordinary. For example, in the film Sleep, he simple recorded a man sleeping for several hours. Such endeavors were heralded as groundbreaking by other experimental filmmakers, but the public and most critics generally regarded them as wastes of film, and their time. Still, Warhol continued making these plotless films until he eventually began adding crude soundtracks and sketchy scripts. Many of these films are filled with his “players”: the beautiful people, “freaks,” and wealthy dilettantes that constantly surrounded the artist and his “Factory,” an art studio he founded in 1962. His films became a form of cinéma vérité, a voyeur’s delight of strange people doing equally strange things. Some of the players Warhol turned into underground celebrities included Candy Darling, Viva, Holly Woodlawn, and Ingrid Superstar. Simply playing versions of themselves, they left the viewer to decide if they were, in fact, real people or simply fantastical figures. Many of Warhol’s films were centered on sex and death, and the sex in his films was often explicit and transcended traditional gender boundaries. In 1968, Warhol was wounded by a disgruntled Factory reject, an incident which inspired the 1996 movie I Shot Andy Warhol. While healing, he began to withdraw from filmmaking, closed the Factory, and turned the reins of his operation over to filmmakers such as Paul Morrissey, who helped make subsequent movies more commercially accessible. Morrissey was behind Warhol’s best known films Flesh for Frankenstein and Blood for Dracula, both of which were shot while in Rome in 1973. Although Warhol never fully recovered from the attempt on his life and had stopped making films, he did continue his voyeurism of the strange lives of his illustrious friends via the Polaroid camera he carried with him until he died in 1987 from complications following surgery. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
missing image for Ayitha Ezuthu
here’s one…
there are few films with not so good stills, can we fix this please?
Here’s a long overdue profile pic for Satyajit Ray.
http://img687.imageshack.us/img687/7482/rayxb.jpg
Damn right Marc…
here’s one more
We also need a good quote, Filmy.
“What is attempted in these films is of course a synthesis. But it can be seen by someone who has his feet in both cultures. Someone who will bring to bear on the films involvement and detachment in equal measure.” ~ S. Ray
Thanks, Nohea. That one is great.
Great Nohea, I almost zeroed in on that one…sounds apt for his profile…
“It was only after Pather Panchali had some success at home that I decided to do a second part. But I didn`t want to do the same kind of film again, so I made a musical.” ~ S. Ray
I wasn’t aware he did musicals.
Ray made Jalsaghar after PP, while not a musical as in having song and dance numbers, it is about a declining feudal system in Bengal told with heavy use of Indian classical music as a tool.
tinch
@Apocalypse Salem – Bocaccio ’70 has been updated: http://www.theauteurs.com/films/19209
Thank you!