Frank Anderson just posted this piece for his film students: 100 Things You Should Know Before You Graduate, Part I”. “I put this together for my students. Thanks to Charlie Chaplin, Charlie Bowers, Harold Lloyd, Buster Keaton, Lillian Gish, Mae Marsh, George Melies, Abel Gance, The Lumiere Brothers,Thomas Edison and so many more from the… more »
Kumar Pallana visited our offices today and treated us all to some old fashioned Mickey Mouse Club plate spinning and magic tricks! He is in town shooting scenes for Frankie Latina’s next Milwaukee opus, SNAP SHOT. UPDATE: While Kumar was here, Frankie directed this piece for the DearMKE series.
We are excited to announce that IFC Midnight is acquiring all North American and U.K. rights to Chris James Thompson‘s documentary “The Jeffrey Dahmer Files”, which retraces the life of the infamous Milwaukee serial killer. In addition to directing, Thompson produced the documentary and co-wrote the script with Andrew Swant and Joe Riepenhoff, with Michael Vollmann… more »
The new American Masters documentary on Johnny Carson debuted last night and it reminded me of a story that I was told by the late, great Charles Nelson Reilly. It was 2004, and Johnny was still alive. We were filming a documentary on CNR and some of us who were working on the film were hanging out… more »
Jeff, a truly unique take on Jeffrey Dahmer, will be making its premiere at the prestigious and fun SXSW Film Festival this March in Austin, Texas. If you’re down there, come out and see director Chris James Thompson’s fearless Dahmer film.
We thought this day would never come… “The Life of Reilly”, Directed by our own Barry Poltermann and Frank Anderson featuring Charles Nelson Reilly. (Yeah, that Charles Nelson Reilly) is finally available streaming on Netflix. The film is being distributed by FilmBuff and is now also available on numerous streaming sites, such as iTunes, et. al. The film is “Certified Fresh” and… more »
“The Life of Reilly”, Directed by September Club’s own Barry Poltermann and Frank Anderson featuring Charles Nelson Reilly. (Yeah, that Charles Nelson Reilly) is finally available streaming on Netflix. The film is “Certified Fresh” and remains among the best reviewed films of 2007, but CNR’s words ring true today more than ever. Check it out! Of course you can still… Buy the DVD on… more »
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.
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.”
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 »
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 »
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.
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 »
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 »
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 »
