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Christopher Greenbury
Christopher Greenbury (September 24, 1951 – January 4, 2007) was an English film editor with more than thirty film credits dating from 1979's ''The Muppet Movie''. With Tariq Anwar, he won the BAFTA Award for Best Editing for '' American Beauty'' (1999), which he was also nominated for an Academy Award for Best Film Editing. ''American Beauty'' is a serious drama, but in general Greenbury edited comedy films, including six directed by the Farrelly brothers commencing with 1994's ''Dumb and Dumber''. Greenbury was a member of the American Cinema Editors (ACE)., webpage archived by WebCite frothis original URLon March 4, 2008. Filmography Based on Greenbury's filmography at the Internet Database. The director and release date of each film are indicated in parenthesis. *''The Sex Thief'' (Campbell – 1973) *''The Day of the Locust'' (Schlesinger – 1975) *''The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother'' ( Wilder – 1975) *''The World's Greatest Lover'' (Wilder – 1977) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Film Editing
Film editing is both a creative and a technical part of the post-production process of filmmaking. The term is derived from the traditional process of working with film stock, film which increasingly involves the use Digital cinema, of digital technology. The film editor works with raw footage, selecting Shot (filming), shots and combining them into Sequence (filmmaking), sequences which create a finished Film, motion picture. Film editing is described as an art or skill, the only art that is unique to cinema, separating filmmaking from other art forms that preceded it, although there are close parallels to the editing process in other art forms such as poetry and novel writing. Film editing is often referred to as the "invisible art" because when it is well-practiced, the viewer can become so engaged that they are not aware of the editor's work. On its most fundamental level, film editing is the art, technique and practice of assembling shots into a coherent sequence. The job ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
On The Air Live With Captain Midnight
''On the Air Live with Captain Midnight'' is a 1979 American comedy-drama, comedy-drama film directed by Beverly Sebastian and Ferd Sebastian with Tracy Sebastian as Marvin Ziegler, also known as Captain Midnight (not to be confused with the Captain Midnight serial character from the 1930s and 1940s), who runs his own pirate radio station and becomes an underground cult hit. The film was released in 1979 although it was filmed in 1977. The film is about a teenager who has a mobile broadcast transmitter in his van that allows him to take over the airwaves as a renegade disc jockey. Veteran Los Angeles DJ Jim Ladd co-stars in the film as a disc jockey. In popular culture Drawing upon the pirate radio themes in the film, the protagonist's name was later used in the 1986 Captain Midnight (HBO), Captain Midnight pirate satellite broadcast on HBO protesting scrambling equipment and high fees. References External links * Vansploitation films 1979 films Films about pirate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Heavenly Kid
''The Heavenly Kid'' is a 1985 American romantic comedy fantasy film directed by Cary Medoway and starring Lewis Smith, Jason Gedrick, Jane Kaczmarek and Richard Mulligan. Plot In the early 1960s, Bobby Fontana ( Lewis Smith), a young greaser-type rebel, challenges Joe Barnes (Mark Metcalf) to a game of chicken for making a pass at his girlfriend Emily (Jane Kaczmarek). Bobby wins the race easily when Joe dives out of his car, but Bobby is unable to get out of the car in time due to his bracelet getting caught on the gearshift. He dies as his car plummets over the cliff into a fiery wreck. Bobby awakens to find himself aboard a speeding train, which stops at a station housing a huge escalator going up into a bright white light, which one of the attendants refers to as "Uptown". Bobby is denied entry, and Rafferty (Richard Mulligan) appears and explains that he is not yet considered ready and needs to carry out an "assignment" in order to earn his ticket Uptown. After many yea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Woman In Red (1984 Film)
''The Woman in Red'' is a 1984 American romantic comedy film directed by and starring Gene Wilder. Wilder also wrote the script, adapting it from the Yves Robert film ''Pardon Mon Affaire'' (''Un éléphant ça trompe énormément''). It co-stars Charles Grodin, Gilda Radner, Joseph Bologna, Judith Ivey, and Kelly LeBrock. The film won an Academy Award for Best Original Song for "I Just Called to Say I Love You", written and performed by Stevie Wonder. Plot San Francisco advertising man Theodore "Teddy" Pierce is amused by, then infatuated with Charlotte, a beautiful woman whose red dress goes billowing over her head by a gust of wind from crossing over a ventilation grate, and exposing her red satin string bikini panties. Despite his interest, Teddy is already happily married to Didi, but he cannot get this woman out of his mind. When his friend Joe, who has an affair of his own, is abandoned by his wife, who leaves with everything, Teddy gets cold feet and decides to forget i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dick Lowry
Dick Lowry (born 15 September 1944 in Oklahoma) is an American director and film producer. Productions List films were all made for television unless otherwise indicated. *1975: ''The Drought'' (theatrical film) *1980: '' OHMS'' *1980: '' Kenny Rogers as The Gambler'' *1980: ''The Jayne Mansfield Story'' *1981: '' Angel Dusted'' *1981: ''Coward of the County'' *1981: '' A Few Days in Weasel Creek'' *1982: '' Rascals and Robbers: The Secret Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn'' *1982: '' Missing Children: A Mother's Story'' *1983: '' Living Proof: The Hank Williams Jr. Story'' *1983: '' Smokey and the Bandit Part 3'' (theatrical film; also actor, as Sand Dumper) *1983: '' Kenny Rogers as The Gambler: The Adventure Continues'' *1984: '' Pigs vs. Freaks'' *1984: '' Wet Gold'' *1984: '' The Toughest Man in the World'' *1985: ''Murder with Mirrors'' *1985: '' Wild Horses'' *1986: ''Dream West'' (three-part miniseries) *1987: '' American Harvest'' *1987: '' Kenny Rogers a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Smokey And The Bandit Part 3
''Smokey and the Bandit Part 3'' is a 1983 American action comedy film and a second and final sequel to ''Smokey and the Bandit'' (1977) and ''Smokey and the Bandit II'' (1980), starring Jackie Gleason, Jerry Reed, Paul Williams, Pat McCormick, Mike Henry and Colleen Camp. The film also includes a cameo near the end by the original Bandit, Burt Reynolds. With one of the main titular characters missing, the plot of the film revolves instead around Sheriff Buford T. Justice ("Smokey"), with the presence of the Bandit merely being suggested through him being impersonated by Cledus ("Snowman"). The film received negative reviews and was a box office bomb. Plot Big Enos and Little Enos offer retiring Sheriff Buford T. Justice a wager, betting $250,000 against his badge on his ability to transport a large stuffed fish from Florida to Texas. Buford rejects the wager and retires, but goes through all sorts of mishaps before finally realizing retirement is not all it is cracked up to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doctor Detroit
''Doctor Detroit'' is a 1983 American comedy film directed by Michael Pressman with writing by Bruce Jay Friedman, Carl Gottlieb, and Robert Boris. The film stars Dan Aykroyd, Howard Hesseman, Lynn Whitfield, Fran Drescher, and Donna Dixon, with a special appearance by James Brown. It was the first film Aykroyd made after the death of John Belushi, and the first one in which he is not sharing top bill with other actors. Aykroyd and his co-star Dixon married soon after the film's release. Plot Introverted geek Clifford Skridlow (Dan Aykroyd) is a professor of comparative literature at the financially strapped Monroe College in Chicago. Smooth Walker (Howard Hesseman), a pimp, owes $80,000 to "Mom" (Kate Murtagh), a gruff Chicago mob boss. Attempting to weasel out of his debt, Smooth invents a fictitious mobster, the flamboyant "Doctor Detroit", a ruthless chiropractor who allegedly is overrunning Smooth's turf. Smooth sees Clifford out to dinner alone at a restaurant, and decides ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Pressman
Michael Pressman is an American film and television producer and director. Early life A native of Manhattan, Pressman was born into a theatrical family. His mother, Sasha, a modern dancer, was an original member of Martha Graham's renowned first dance troupe. His father, David Pressman, was a well-known theatrical and television director who helped launch Boston University’s distinguished school of theater and helmed Broadway plays, including ''The Disenchanted'', Jason Robards' first Broadway appearance; and the original '' Actor’s Studio'' Anthology Series in the late 1940’s, for which he discovered and cast an unknown Grace Kelly. David Pressman’s pioneer career in live television in the early 1950’s was suddenly derailed when he was targeted by Senator Joseph McCarthy during his blacklisting of alleged communist sympathizers. Unable to work in television for close to 15 years, he survived the blacklist by teaching. When the Blacklist itself derailed in the early ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Some Kind Of Hero
''Some Kind of Hero'' is a 1982 American comedy-drama film starring Richard Pryor as a returning Vietnam War veteran having trouble adjusting to civilian life. Soon he is involved in an organized crime heist. It co-stars Margot Kidder and was directed by Michael Pressman. Although James Kirkwood and Robert Boris are jointly credited with the screenplay, the script was in fact Boris' rewrite of Kirkwood’s adaptation of his novel. Originally intended to be a straight drama, the studio insisted that Pryor perform comedic scenes as well. However, Pryor agreed with the importance of the screenplay's serious tone and maintained a dramatic performance when filming. Plot Eddie Keller is one of the last POWs to be brought home from Vietnam, after several years of torture and deprivation at the hands of the Vietcong. During his captivity, he resists signing a "confession" admitting to war crimes repeatedly, but finally consents to save the life of another prisoner. Having returned home ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liar's Moon
''Liar's Moon'' is a 1982 film directed by David Fisher and starring Matt Dillon, Cindy Fisher, Yvonne DeCarlo, and Hoyt Axton. It tells the story of two star-crossed lovers in 1940s Texas—a working-class teen and the banker's daughter who elope to much strife. Texas band Asleep At The Wheel provided multiple songs for the film. Synopsis In 1940s east Texas, Jack Duncan, a high school graduate from a blue-collar family, falls in love with Ginny Peterson, who has just returned to town from four years of boarding school. Ginny's father Alex is the town's wealthy banker and was formerly high school sweethearts with Jack's mother, Babs. However, Alex strenuously objects to Ginny's relationship with Jack. At the end of the summer, Jack and Ginny elope in Louisiana—where 17-year-olds can marry without their parents' permission. Jack gets a job in the oil fields while Ginny earns money for household work in the boarding house they now live in. Alex hires private eye Ray Logan to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Lowell Rich
David Lowell Rich (August 31, 1920 – October 21, 2001) was an American film director and producer. He directed nearly 100 films and TV episodes between 1950 and 1987. He was born in New York City. He began directing on a regular basis in 1950. Rich won an Emmy for Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Miniseries, Movie or a Dramatic Special, outstanding direction of a special in 1978 for ''The Defection of Simas Kudirka''.Roberts, JerryEncyclopedia of Television Film Directors pp. 474–75, 657 (2009) His brother was director John Rich (director), John Rich. Selected filmography * ''Have Rocket, Will Travel'' (1959) * ''See How They Run (1964 film), See How They Run'' (1964) * ''Madame X (1966 film), Madame X'' (1966) * ''The Plainsman (1966 film), The Plainsman'' (1966) * ''Rosie!'' (1967) * ''Eye of the Cat'' (1969) * ''Northeast of Seoul'' (1972) * ''The Judge and Jake Wyler'' (1972) * ''Satan's School for Girls (1973 film), Satan's School for Girls'' (1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chu Chu And The Philly Flash
''Chu Chu and the Philly Flash'' is a 1981 American comedy film starring Alan Arkin, Carol Burnett, Jack Warden, Ruth Buzzi, Adam Arkin and Danny Aiello. It was directed by David Lowell Rich and produced by Jay Weston, with the screenplay being written by Arkin's wife, Barbara Dana. Arkin plays a down-on-his-luck former baseball player and Burnett plays a Carmen Miranda-style performer. It was released in 1981 by 20th Century Fox. The film received negative reviews from critics and was a box office bomb. Many of the scenes, particularly the exterior scenes of Chu Chu's home, were filmed in San Francisco's Potrero Hill district. Plot Flash used to be a talented baseball player, but now he's a homeless recovering alcoholic who sells stolen watches on the streets of San Francisco, California. Elsewhere, Emily Laedecker, better known as Chu Chu, is a one-woman Latin band who wears a Carmen Miranda-inspired outfit who performs on the waterfront to make money, but she is angered when Fl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
