The AV Club just posted this new video from our friends from the band Maritime (including our own head of post-productin, Dan Didier). As the AV Club says — Maritime was born from the ashes of The Promise Ring in 2003–and has some big news to announce: They just signed to Dangerbird Records, home of… more »
Barry Poltermann and Chris Smith editing THE POOL. FilmandFestivals.com just announced the UK release of THE POOL. The film was directed by Chris Smith and edited by Barry Poltermann: The Pool received the Special Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival and was selected by the Museum of Modern Art in New York as one of the Best… more »
Tonight was the NY Premiere of COLLAPSE, the latest documentary Barry edited for Chris Smith. From Barry: “When I saw the first raw footage that Chris was shooting in Los Angeles I knew it would be a polarizing film. If we did our jobs well the reception would be wildly unpredictable, from both the left and… more »
Weird Al’s new video tribute to Charles Nelson Reilly dropped recently. We recently had the chance to meet him and give him a copy of “The Life of Reilly”. Looks like he enjoyed it — see this recent interview from Bullz-Eye: BE: With “CNR,” your tribute to Charles Nelson Reilly, was there no way to work… more »
This year is Jack Daniel’s 159th birthday. Manny Marquez made this tribute (shot by his girlfriend, the lovely Leigh Wilson).
Thanks to Chris Thompson for creating the featurette “The Making of The Pool”, which is premiering this week at the Milwaukee International Film Festival. The 55-minute film chronicles the team making, you guessed it, “The Pool”, Chris Smith‘s latest. It documents pretty nicely the editing process — in a nail biting sequence — featuring our own Barry… more »
The reviews are in from the premier of our latest editorial effort, COLLAPSE, which just premiered at the Toronto Film Festival. From ALL THESE WONDERFUL THINGS: Acclaimed filmmaker Chris Smith (AMERICAN MOVIE, THE YES MEN) returns to nonfiction (after a brief dalliance with narrative THE POOL) to tell the story of Michael Ruppert, a former LAPD officer… more »
Score one for our good friend Matt Frost! Matt just won a contest sponsored by WNYC’s Leonard Lopate for his “STOP THE WAR” T-shirt designed for the highly acclaimed feature doc “The Life of Reilly” (starring the late, great Charles Nelson Reilly, and directed by our very own Barry Poltermann and Frank Anderson). Isaac Mizrahi was the… more »
We will miss Dom DeLuise, who passed away yesterday. He was kind enough to record commentary track for the DVD release of our film “The Life of Reilly”, about his friend Charles Nelson Reilly. This video was captured during the recording of the DVD commentary track.
Directors Barry Poltermann and Frank Anderson give the inside story behind the delayed release of the wildly acclaimed Charles Nelson Reilly masterpiece “The Life of Reilly”. While supplies last, get a free DVD at www.charlesnelsonreilly.com!
We just came across this analysis of “The Pool” on JJ Murphy’s Independent Cinema blog… with a lot of discussion on the role of the editor, our fearless leader Barry Poltermann: “Smith would shoot a scene and editor Barry Poltermann would assemble a rough cut on the fly. They would view it and then proceed from there…. more »
A lot of us here at the September Club helped director Frankie Latina produce the dedicated cult opus “Modus Operandi”. It just premiered at CineVegas 2009 Two briefcases with mysterious contents are stolen from top Presidential candidate Squire Parks, setting off a deadly series of double-crosses and betrayals. The film stars Randy Russell, American Movie‘s Mark Borchardt, Reservoir Dogs‘ Michael Sottile,… more »
We are proud to be sponsors of our own Andrew Gorzalski’s latest project, the Mondo Lucha Variety Show — debuting at Turner Hall Ballroom at 7 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 27. Mondo Lucha draws inspiration from performance art’s strange, seedy past with enough retro kitsch to fill a historic ballroom. It takes the art of Mexican… more »
THE POOL’s NY Premiere was a great time. It was Wednesday night at the Film Forum in NYC and the party after was across the street at Steak Frites. From The New York Times: In “The Pool,” a recurrent image that develops into a symbol of the gap between affluence and poverty shows the waiflike Indian protagonist, Venkatesh… more »
I first met Manny Marquez in 2004. My friend Donita Sparks introduced me to Manny. Donita is a musician (you may remember her as the lead singer of punk/grunge band L7) and Manny was part of the music video scene in Los Angeles. Manny stopped by the office and showed us some footage of… more »
Our own Barry Poltermann spent five months in India back in 2006 editing Chris Smith’s latest, “The Pool”, which won the Special Jury Prize at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. “The Pool” opens this weekend in New York at the Film Forum. This is the second time that Barry has collaborated with Chris, the first being… more »
From Milwaukee Magazine: Local filmmaker Frankie Latina brings some national attention to Milwaukee’s film underground with his latest project, “Modus Operandi.” The film, which is described on IMDB as “a revenge tale about a desperate C.I.A. agent on a mission to find the man who murdered his wife,” is still in production but associate producer… more »
This is kind of cool… San Francisco’s A+E Interactive names their top ten concert docs of all time. “Rock the Bells”, directed by September Club directors Denis Henry Hennelly and Casey Suchan, makes the list at number 6. Denis and Casey join the likes of Demme, Pennebaker and Scorcese. Lot’s of us involved with this one: directed and… more »
As we reach the end of 2007, September Club luminaries Barry Poltermann and Frank Anderson’s “The Life of Reilly” retains a perfect “100% Fresh” rating from critics at Rotten Tomatoes and is currently listed as the best reviewed film of 2007. Here is the trailer from the SXSW premiere: In case that isn’t cool enough, the film has appeared… more »
“The Life of Reilly” had a great premiere tonight at the Cinema Village in New York. We had a pre-party at the Paris Commune. After the screening Stiller and Meara joined us for a great Q&A, excerpted in this video. Wish CNR could have made it… you were missed.
