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.
How weird is this: A post about unknown/forgotten gems on dvd that includes ASWANG, JOSEY AND THE PUSSYCATS (starring our friend Rachel Leigh Cook) and AMERICAN MOVIE. Did you ever see this, John? You gotta show Rachel. About ASWANG: The unnecessary plot takes the East Asian baby sucker, and sticks it into a (then) modern Rosemary’s… more »
Purple Onion is the September Club’s “Mother Ship”. And Andy Gorzalski is flying the flag. Although Milwaukee’s collective film consciousness is arguably somewhat newly developed, Purple Onion’s stake in independent film is anything but. Celebrating its 20th birthday this year, the company began producing commercials in 1987, back when there was virtually “nothing like that going… more »
Sad news today. Our friend Charles Nelson Reilly passed away over the weekend. From the New York Times: Charles Nelson Reilly, who acted and directed on Broadway but came to be best known for his campy television appearances on talk shows and “Match Game,” died on Friday in Los Angeles. He was 76 and lived… more »
The “New York Times” gave us a great review today for ROCK THE BELLS to make for the perfect beginning to the film’s NYC theatrical premiere. “Rock the Bells” is the story of one man’s labor of love to reunite the original members of the Wu-Tang Clan for a 2004 hip-hop concert in San Bernardino,… more »
Profile on the film “The Life of Reilly” on HDNet’s HIGHER DEFINITION, hosted by film critic Robert Wilonsky.
THE LIFE OF REILLY, directed by Barry Poltermann and Frank Anderson premiered today at 6:30 at the Austin Civic Center. It was reported in IndieWire like this: A sizeable crowd showed up at the convention center in Austin for the world premiere screening of directors Barry Poltermann and Frank Anderson‘s “The Life of Reilly,” a… more »
(“Making of” Featurette, 2005) In the fall of 2004 we spent one incredible week with the iconic television and stage star, Charles Nelson Reilly, shooting his stage show (which would later be released as “The Life of Reilly”. This series of short documentaries, shot by the September Club’s David Dahlman, and edited by our team,… more »