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June 22, 2007

1205: American Movie

This whole business about Black Cougar (which I honestly cannot stop thinking about) reminds me, naturally, of American Movie.

Wikipedia sums it up nicely:

American Movie is a documentary about the making of an independent film. Milwaukee filmmaker Mark Borchardt feverishly works to finish his independent horror film Coven, only to slip into a downward spiral of poor financing and lack of interest by his friends. American Movie was produced by Sarah Price and directed by Chris Smith.

Part of the film's theme is that while Mark seems so obsessed with making "the great American movie," he is himself chasing the American dream.

The film is given the subtitle "The Making of Northwestern" (in fact it even appears in the film itself), yet only the first fifteen minutes of the film is about the making of Northwestern and the rest of the film centers on the making of Coven.

The film was awarded the Grand Jury Prize at the 1999 Sundance Film Festival.

It's kind of like...

and some...

and a dash of...

wrapped up in the American dream!

Posted by ashley at June 22, 2007 12:58 PM

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