Midnight Movies: From the Margin to the Mainstream
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Stuart Samuels's popular documentary Midnight Movies: From Margin to Mainstream grounds itself in the thesis that six revolutionary American motion pictures - Night of the Living Dead (1968), El Topo (1970), Pink Flamingoes (1972), The Harder they Come (1972), The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) and Eraserhead (1976) - invented the concept of "midnight movies" and thus permanently reshaped the American film industry per se and the composition of the average U.S. film audience, creating a new "brand" of viewer. Samuels and his team tell the story of this odd subgenre as it evolved, peaked in popularity, and then faded gradually from view. The bulk of the picture consists of a myriad of interviews with the directors of these films per se (John Waters, Alejandro Jodorowsky, David Lynch, Perry Henzel, George Romero - Jim Sharman appears in archive footage only), cast members, theater owners who found their business reinvigorated by this trend, critics such as Roger Ebert who reflect on the era, and of course the films' fans. The documentary also features extended clips from the movies and period news footage about the rise in popularity of the said titles. ~ Nathan Southern, RoviCast
Lou Adler; Ben Barenholtz; Perry Henzell; Alejandro Jodorowsky; David Lynch; George A. Romero; Robert Shaye; Peter Suschitzky; Alan Douglas; Roger Ebert; Richard O'Brien; John Waters; J. Hoberman; Larry Jackson; Jonathan Rosenbaum; Salvatore Paul Piro; Bill Quigley; Seth Willenson; Chuck Zlatkin; Mick RockCredit
Victor Kushmaniuk - Associate Producer, Andrew Stewart - Associate Producer, Andrea Stewart - Associate Producer, Ben Barenholtz - Consultant/advisor, Seth M. Willenson - Consultant/advisor, Victor Kushmaniuk - First Assistant Director, Stuart Samuels - Director, Mike Bembenek - Editor, Robert Coleman - Editor, Lorenzo Massa - Editor, Kevin Rollins - Editor, David M. Fox - Executive Producer, Stephan Shelanski - Executive Producer, Ian Dimerman - Executive Producer, Andrew Stewart - Line Producer, Eric Cadesky - Composer (Music Score), Nick Dyer - Composer (Music Score), Euan Hunter - Musical Direction/Supervision, Richard Fox - Cinematographer, Stuart Samuels - Producer, Andrian Tucker - Sound/Sound Designer, Stuart Samuels - Screenwriter, John Denniston - Additional Cinematography, Mary Luz Meija - Post Production Coordinator, Kelly Rerrie - Production Coordinator, Nancy Gomes - Production Accountant, Mike MacDougall - Graphic Design| Midnight Movie Madness (1987 Film), Midnight Movie (2008 Film) | |
| Midnight Mystery (1930 Film), Midnight Offerings (1981 Film) |
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| Directed by | Stuart Samuels |
| Written by | Stuart Samuels Victor Kushmaniuk |
| Cinematography | Richard Fox |
| Release date(s) | 13 May 2005 |
| Running time | 88 minutes |
| Country | Canada United States |
| Language | English |
Midnight Movies: From the Margin to the Mainstream is a 2005 documentary written and directed by Stuart Samuels, based on his book on the subject.[1]
The film chronicles the period between 1970 and 1977 in which six low budget films shown at midnight transformed the way films are made and watched: El Topo (1970), Night of the Living Dead (1968), The Harder They Come (1973), Pink Flamingos (1972), The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975), and Eraserhead (1977).
Also portrayed in the film are the films Freaks (1932) and Reefer Madness (1936), which gained notoriety and a huge cult following thanks to midnight showings. Providing interviews are filmmakers George A. Romero, Alejandro Jodorowsky, John Waters, Perry Henzell, David Lynch, and Richard O'Brien, as well as film critics Roger Ebert, Jonathan Rosenbaum, and J. Hoberman and Ben Barenholtz.
The film was screened out of competition at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival.[2]
References
- ^ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0457414/
- ^ "Festival de Cannes: Midnight Movies: From the Margin to the Mainstream". festival-cannes.com. http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/4282745/year/2005.html. Retrieved 2009-12-13.
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