Chris Smith and Sarah Price's Sundance-winning first documentary feature, 'American Movie,' remains an iconic and thoroughly modern film to revisit or to experience for the first time.
Like all truly great documentaries, it's ostensibly about a finite thing: hardscrabble, complicated Midwestern working-class 30-year-old lives at home, delivers newspapers, works at a local cemetery, and has big dreams of writing, producing, directing, and acting in films... but it's also about so much more: friendship, alcoholism, Midwestern blue-collar life, filmmaking, and nothing less than the pursuit of the American Dream.
Watch Mark Borchardt's film Coven here.
Read about the origins of the film.
Where Are They Now (from a while ago).
Mike Schank's Obit & Celebrity Remembrances
Chris Smith and Sarah Price's Sundance-winning first documentary feature, 'American Movie,' remains an iconic and thoroughly modern film to revisit or to experience for the first time.
Like all truly great documentaries, it's ostensibly about a finite thing: hardscrabble, complicated Midwestern working-class 30-year-old lives at home, delivers newspapers, works at a local cemetery, and has big dreams of writing, producing, directing, and acting in films... but it's also about so much more: friendship, alcoholism, Midwestern blue-collar life, filmmaking, and nothing less than the pursuit of the American Dream.
Watch Mark Borchardt's film Coven here.
Read about the origins of the film.
Where Are They Now (from a while ago).
Mike Schank's Obit & Celebrity Remembrances
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