Shooting a New Maritime Video
2/1/2011
Director Barry Poltermann somehow convinced us to film Maritime’s new music video during the largest snowstorm in years. UPDATE: You can see the finished video here.
News
Hard Copy: ‘Didier’s World’
12/20/2010
Happy Holidays, from our friends at Bluemark Productions. Hard Copy: ‘Didier’s World’ featuring Didier Leplae and Mark Belling. “Blood was going to pour in the streets of Glendale.”
Aswang Review
11/20/2010
Finally, Decapitated Zombie Vampire Bloodbath got around to reviewing AWANG: Things get sinister when they arrive at the mansion, which looks like it was designed by Stanley Kubrick. The only inhabitants are the sickly mother, who keeps sucking on oxygen, a strange Filipino maid named Cupid, and an exotic white chicken who roams the premises… more »
Mark P. Lands a Role on “The Office”
10/21/2010
HAHAH!!! Our own Mark Proksch just got a part on NBC’s The Office. Last May Mark – posing as an eco-loving yo-yo master – EASILY got onto morning TV news broadcasts around Wisconsin (and beyond), making a minor mockery of mid-market news mongers. Remember Kenny Strasser? In the hugely massively successful show’s Oct. 14 episode, Dwight (played by Rainn Wilson)… more »
Tina Fey’s First Commercial
9/29/2010
A couple of years ago we posted a spot on our vimeo page from the DEEEP archives. It was a spot we did (through Purple Onion) for Mutual Savings Bank in 1995 with Tina Fey. It was apparently her ONLY spot before joining SNL. She sees it for the first time on The Jimmy Fallon Show.
A Marriage Proposal, September Club Style
6/18/2010
Last weekend Manny Marquez proposed to his long time girlfriend Leigh Wilson by making a short documentary called HWY 9: A Story About Love. He then convinced his local theater in Hood River, OR to show it right before a screening on The A-Team. This is the story behind it, as told by Manny to Barry Poltermann in… more »
‘Yo-Yo Guy’ Kenny Strasser’s Real Identity Revealed?
5/18/2010
It appears that there is suspicion that yo-yo man Kenny Strasser’s real name is Mark Proksch — our own social media assistant. Strasser’s the yo-yo guy that strung along T.V. stations, and has been successfully hiding his true identity since his prank began about a month ago. We officially deny any knowledge of this. Strasser made… more »
Maritime covers Depeche Mode – The AV Club
4/27/2010
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 »
THE POOL’s UK Theatrical Release
1/23/2010
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 »
Collapse Polarizes the Critics
11/6/2009
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 Gives CNR Some Love
11/6/2009
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 »
Jack Daniel’s Birthday Shave
10/10/2009
This year is Jack Daniel’s 159th birthday. Manny Marquez made this tribute (shot by his girlfriend, the lovely Leigh Wilson).
The Making of The Pool
9/23/2009
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 »
COLLAPSE Premiere at TIFF
9/16/2009
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 »
“The Life of Reilly” wins… T-Shirt contest?
6/10/2009
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 »
Actor Dom DeLuise Dead at 75
5/5/2009
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.
Free “Life of Reilly” DVD!
4/10/2009
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!
Editing on “The Pool”
1/28/2009
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 »
Modus Operandi
1/28/2009
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 »
Mondo Lucha Debuts
9/23/2008
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 »