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Art Is Theft
“Art is theft…” — Pablo Picasso I love the film ALL ABOUT EVE — can you tell?
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The Reason I Make Movies
I absolutely love this @christinarose12 @grking Mom thought @schermannsong was fabulous! twitter.com/robist/status/… — Stu Robinson (@robist) May 13, 2013 To see my film getting out there and being watched and enjoyed by perfect strangers…there’s nothing better.
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My Favorite Altman Films
Robert Altman is one of my all-time favorite filmmakers. I love how he was so prolific. He made me fall in love ensemble casts and multiple storylines as well as the camera zoom shot and not to be afraid of it. “The only advice I can give is to never take advice from anybody.” – Robert Altman Here are the ones that top my list. THE LONG GOODBYE (1973) CALIFORNIA SPLIT (1974) NASHVILLE (1975) A Conversation with Robert Altman (Part [...]
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4 Monologues I Love
The art of the monologue — hard to write — damn hard (and impressive) for actors to pull off. I have a few tough ones in HOW DO YOU WRITE A JOE SCHERMANN SONG that I’m proud of how Mark DiConzo and Christina Rose perform them. These 4 stick out in my mind as ones I’ll never forget growing up as a kid. Hand picked from when I first saw them in the 80s/90s. Alec Baldwin “I am God” in [...]
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WATCH: great interview with actor Robert Forster & the importance of patience
Here’s Robert Forster & the importance of patience when a filmmaker says they want to work with you.
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My Top 5 Movie Musicals
ON THE TOWN (1949) (dirs. Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly) This is my go-to musical when I need a pick me up. There’s something magical about the New York City that those sailors experience…an innocence and yet I still recognize it when I walk through the subways today. And nothing beats the “Miss Turnstiles Ballet” sequence…simply breathtaking. SINGIN IN THE RAIN (1952) (dirs. Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly) A pure classic. When Gene Kelly pitches GOTTA DANCE to the studios and we [...]
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Join the SCHERMANN cast & me on Twitter April 1st! #JSSparty
CLICK IMAGE TO ENLARGE HOW DO YOU WRITE A JOE SCHERMANN SONG released worldwide on Tuesday March 26th! To celebrate, a bunch of the cast and myself will be taking to Twitter on Monday APRIL 1 (10pm EST / 7pm PST) to live tweet during the viewing of the movie. Want to get in on the experience? It’s pretty easy. Step 1: Rent/Buy the movie! It’s available on iTunes and on most cable VOD systems. I’ll update this blog with [...]
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If I Were Going to the Phoenix Film Festival…
Looks like another great lineup this year for the Phoenix Film Festival. I had the pleasure of screening HOW DO YOU WRITE A JOE SCHERMANN SONG there last year and connected with so many wonderful people. Although I’m dying to, I don’t think I can make it this time. However these are the films that would be on the top of my list to experience with that great festival crowd. And most of the filmmakers will all be there for [...]
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SCHERMANN SONG (Filmmaker Exclusive Blu-ray)
Own the exclusive Special Edition Blu-ray* of the award-winning HOW DO YOU WRITE A JOE SCHERMANN SONG!! *This Blu-ray special edition is only available through this site. BONUS FEATURES: 3 Commentaries: – Filmmaker Gary King with cast Joe Schermann, Christina Rose & Debbie Williams – Gary King and Joe Schermann with Ken Lampl (composer), Keith Ukrisna (sound designer) & Daryl Ray Carliles (actor/producer) – Gary King with Christina Rose Featurettes: – The Making of HOW DO YOU WRITE A JOE [...]
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WATCH: The Slanted Screen: Battling Hollywood’s Asian Male Stereotype
I don’t know how long these YouTube clips will be online — however I wanted to share a fascinating 1-hour long doc about the Asian male stereotype and how we’re presented in Hollywood…for the most part rather poorly. This is an extremely personal subject to me. Thankfully this decade is slowly changing what for many years I’ve been having to deal with, and you’ll learn about it from this movie. In fact, I’ve been developing a feature film with an [...]
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WATCH: Interview with the collaborators of SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK
SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK was in my Top 5 films I saw in 2012. It’s such a treat to see the major collaborators talk in-depth about the film. Seeing them talk about the glory of collaboration gets me itchin’ to get back on the film set!
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SCHERMANN SONG – Worldwide Release March 26th
AVAILABLE WORLDWIDE ON MARCH 26: I’m very excited to share the news that HOW DO YOU WRITE A JOE SCHERMANN SONG will be available in all English-speaking territories around the world. And the best part is it will be on a ton of various platforms, so you can watch our film the way you want to. I’m so excited and proud of my team. It’s been quite a journey for us and I couldn’t be happier. Film Info Page Official [...]
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NOW CASTING: “Agent of Death” (Short film)
Film Title: AGENT OF DEATH Directed by Gary King Written by Paul Singleton Logline: When an Agent of Death comes calling, a married couple has five minutes to explain why their spouse deserves to die. Casting: (Union/Non-Union) AGENT OF DEATH (any ethnicity, age, gender): A serious professional with no time for nonsense or other people’s silly mistakes. Once found the job cool and exciting, but has grown weary of it. Audition Dates: Feb 25-26 (Mon-Tues) in NYC; I’m open to [...]
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“Schermann Song” Theatrical Tour (Help Me TUGG It To Your Town)
Great news! I’m hitting the road with my movie musical HOW DO YOU WRITE A JOE SCHERMANN SONG in Spring 2013 – bringing the film to your local movie theater. The planning begins now as to where we will take our film — ideally to your town via TUGG! I need your help deciding what cities to visit during this March and April. I’ll be hopping in a car with some of the cast and driving from city to city [...]
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ICE CREAM GIRL: My Film That Never Was (But Will Be Someday)
2012 was a very good year for me. I couldn’t have asked for anything more. However, with success also comes those speed bumps…the set backs…the almosts. So today I’d like to share with you a secret film project that I actually started shooting in December 2011 — but never finished (yet). Click Picture to Enlarge I shot SCHERMANN SONG in July 2010, so while in post-production I was itchin’ to get back on the set. In December 2011, I [...]
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WATCH: Interview with filmmaker Joe Carnahan and Liam Neeson
It’s no secret I love THE GREY. It topped the list of my favorite films I saw in 2012. Here’s the duo that collaborated on it and made it happen.
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My Top 17 Films of 2012
My Yearly Top Films List is a tad different — it includes films from any year that I just happened to catch for the first time during 2012. Here was my list from 2011. I’ve been so busy this year that I didn’t get to see nearly as many as I’d wished (see the very bottom of this blog for the complete list of films I watched in 2012). So here we go… 17. Les Miserables (2012) – made the [...]
