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Met Calvin Lee Reeder (Sundance Film Festival, Writer / Director) at this year's Sundance Episodic Labs. Turns out he'd already been to Sundance Film Festival FIVE TIMES before. Woah. Dat cray. We talk about how to produce your own films, whether we're allowed to laugh at Kim K's robbery, phones in movies, and answer questions from 1703. Find Calvin's films here: http://www.calvinleereeder.com/ song: Bugg'n artist: TNGHT
Director/Actor/Musician Calvin Lee Reeder Reeder started his career in the weirdo wilds of Seattle public access, his variety show Jerkbeast www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BKpVuDHVxQ (hosted by a guy in a paper mache monster head), gaining an international following. Reeder is currently king of the Sundance Fest midnight circuit, directing numerous surreal, horror/punk shorts and two features, The Oregonian and The Rambler. Learn more at - www.calvinleereeder.com
Director/Actor/Musician Calvin Lee Reeder Reeder started his career in the weirdo wilds of Seattle public access, his variety show Jerkbeast www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BKpVuDHVxQ (hosted by a guy in a paper mache monster head), gaining an international following. Reeder is currently king of the Sundance Fest midnight circuit, directing numerous surreal, horror/punk shorts and two features, The Oregonian and The Rambler. Learn more at - www.calvinleereeder.com
This week, Adam and Kevin review Claudia Llosa's Aloft and Collin Schiffli's Animals before getting director Calvin Lee Reeder (The Oregonian, The Rambler) back on the show to talk about two shorts he's works on (as well as a surprise announcement). Other films discussed include Polytechnique, Tomorrowland,Girlhood, Chappie, A Zed & Two Noughts, and Massacre Gun. 00:01:19 - Aloft review00:20:04 - Animals review00:33:25 - Calvin Lee Reeder interview (Kickstarter Page)00:47:10 - Watch list featuring Polytechnique, Tomorrowland,Girlhood, Chappie, A Zed & Two Noughts, and Massacre Gun.01:14:30 - Movie predictions, new on VOD, DVD and Blu-ray releases web: filmpulse.nettwitter: twitter.com/filmpulsenetfacebook: facebook.com/filmpulsepatreon: patreon.com/filmpulse intro music by: Matt Oakley outro music by: SJMellia
Calvin Lee Reeder has been kicking around the avant gutter for a long time now. His 16mm shorts weirded out audiences at film festivals and then two feature films did - THE OREGONIAN and THE RAMBLER. His layers of vivid color and texture in the film's images and constructed soundtrack pumps electricity into the genre characters and plots they inhabit. We work those ideas out, talk about losing confidence, a thing named Jerkbeast, and his day jobs and bands along the way.
Movie Meltdown - Episode 235 This week, we're back for our annual coverage of Flyover Film Festival. It was a terrific line-up of films this year, and we continue our on-going interview series on directors as we sit down with three amazing independent filmmakers. First we talk to David Lowery, director of "Ain't Them Bodies Saints" starring Casey Affleck, Rooney Mara, Ben Foster and Keith Carradine. Next we talk with Jillian Schlesinger about her film "Maidentrip". Her documentary features years of footage chronicling 14 year-old Laura Dekker's journey as she attempts to become the youngest person to sail around the world. And we round out the episode talking with Calvin Lee Reeder, director of "The Rambler", a surreal odyssey starring Dermot Mulroney and Lindsay Pulsipher. And as we address the specifics of loitering around film fests, we also mention... Star Wars, furniture building, Scarecrow Video, a children's guide to film making, acid westerns, Monica Vitti, better home sound systems, America's greatest living surrealist, looking at raw footage, Labyrinth, Wild and Woolly Video, The Shooting, Pioneer, Storytelling... in all forms, digging ditches and playing rock and roll, fighting to shoot on film, the Canary Islands, The Hired Hand,trusting your instincts, evolving as a filmmaker, shredded by rats, Woody Guthrie, editing is my strong suit, the universal growing-up process, psychotronic, Desolation Row, being a schizophrenic director, Cat's Eye, Guy Clark, Repo Man, the American troubadours of the West, Monte Hellman, I Will Walk Like a Crazy Horse, I was trying to hatch a new plan, Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Videodrone, The Hustler, there's a television show... a movie... and a band within the movie, pretty faces and big explosions, fighting a Government to pursuit her dream, St. Nick, the spirit of the project, being a skater kid, 'Z for Zachariah, Don't Look Now, using a camcorder, collaborating with someone, 1 2 3 4 5 6 hamster, Walker, live your life courageously, Townes Van Zandt, Ride in the Whirlwind, David Gordon Green, an unholy pile of trash in his front room, lighting with practicals, having a very specific time period and subject, being 6'8" tall, artistic integrity, what is the narrative that naturally exists, using older equipment, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Jerry Jeff Walker, being a forklift driver and Jerkbeast. "You walk past all the trucks and all the crew members, and it really comes down to you and the cinematographer and the actors."
This week, in honor of The Rambler hitting theaters, we make Ryan watch The Oregonian. As a bonus, we surprise Ryan by having the film's director Calvin Lee Reeder drop in as a guest. Ryan's Score: 4/10 Ryan's Synopsis: "This lady wrecks her car and that's about all I understood."
This week we kick off part 1 of a 3 part series on SXSW 2013. First, we interview director Matt Spicer on his film It's Not You It's Me starring Fran Kranz, Gillian Jacobs, and Rob Huebel Then we talk about our thoughts on some of the films we viewed so far including Upstream Color, Evil Dead, LICKS, Prince Avalanche, Drinking Buddies, Haunter, I Am Divine, The Rambler, Euphonia, and 12 O'Clock Boys Be sure to check out our: Interview with Calvin Lee Reeder on The Rambler Interview with Jeffrey Schwarz on I Am Divine Interview with Danny Madden on Euphonia Interview with Lotfy Nathan on 12 O'Clock Boys Interview with Vincenzo Natali on Haunter