A Band Apart

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A Band Apart is a production company created by Quentin Tarantino and Lawrence Bender. Its name is a play on the French New Wave classic, Bande à part ("Band of Outsiders") by filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard, whose work was highly influential on the work of the company's members.

Thanks in part to the popularity of Quentin Tarantino's and Robert Rodriguez's films, the company quickly gained cult-like status within Hollywood. In their review of the All-Time 100 Best Films, TIME states Pulp Fiction "is (unquestionably) the most influential American movie of the 90s." ^[1]

In the summer of 1995, A Band Apart added a division for commercial and music video production, adding a third co-owner Michael Bodnarchek.^[2]

The company's logo was a stylized image of the robbers from Reservoir Dogs, the debut film of A Band Apart member Quentin Tarantino. Subsequently, several legal entities within the company were named after the film's characters. Mr. Pink LLC was for music video production budgets, and Mr. Brown LLC was for commercials.

Members included Quentin Tarantino, Robert Rodriguez, John Woo, Tim Burton, Steve Buscemi, Darren Aronofsky, John Landis, Joseph McGinty Nichol, Nigel Dick, Andy Dick, Marcel Langenegger, Wayne Isham, Scott Gillen, Coodie & Chike, Osbert Parker, Chris Applebaum, Luc Besson, Adam Christian Clark, Andre 3000, Michael Palmieri, and Moses.

Movies / TV shows produced

• Inglourious Basterds (2009)
• Build or Bust (TV) (2005)
• Voces inocentes (2004)
• Kill Bill Volume 2 (2004)
• Kill Bill Volume 1 (2003)
• Stark Raving Mad (2002)
• Lost in Oz (2002)
• When Incubus Attacks (2002)
• From Dusk Till Dawn 3: The Hangman's Daughter (2000)
• From Dusk Till Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money (1999)
• Debtors (1999)
• Metallica: Cunning Stunts (1998)
• Jackie Brown (1997)
• Curdled (1996)
• From Dusk Till Dawn (1996)
• The Whiskey Heir (1995)
• White Man's Burden (1995)
• Four Rooms (1995)
• Pulp Fiction (1994)

Company closure

A Band Apart closed in June 2006. Feature film work now goes through owner Lawrence Bender's other production company, Lawrence Bender Productions. Some A Band Apart members have found new roots at Holmes Defender of the Faith, which does most of its business in music videos and television commercials. Holmes Defender of the Faith was formed by former A Band Apart managing director Jeff Armstrong. A Band Apart members that have moved to Holmes Defender of the Faith are Andy Dick and Marcel Langenegger.^[3]. As the company is listed as studio for the movie "Inglourious Basterds", it must have been resurrected. Details about the current structure of the company as of 2009 are however scarce.

External links

• A Band Apart at the Internet Movie Database
• An Archive of the Company's Website circa 2001
• City Pages feature on Michael Bodnarchek, co-founder of A Band Apart

References

1. ^ "The All-Time Greatest 100 Films", Time Magazine 2005.
2. ^ "City Pages Article", City Pages 2007
3. ^ Holmes Defender of the Faith Official Listing of Directors