Ekstra (2013)

Actors: Vilma Santos (actress), Vilma Santos (producer), Pilar Pilapil (actress), Eula Valdez (actress), Cherry Pie Picache (actress), Malou N. Santos (producer), Cherie Gil (actress), Cherie Gil (actress), Pilar Pilapil (actress), Cherry Pie Picache (actress), Vincent de Jesus (actor), Piolo Pascual (actor), Piolo Pascual (actor), Vincent de Jesus (composer), Charo Santos-Concio (producer),

Genres: Drama,

Off Screen Drama (2012)

Actors: Mark Oughton (actor), Nathan Bernasconi (actor), Ziggy Sassby (actress), Vanessa Dang (director), Talin Agon (actress), Guizmau Hill (actor), Sam Hilton II (actor), Rebecca Hancock (actress), Rebecca Huston (actress),

Genres: Comedy, Short,
Taglines: I think they get on too well

Gideon Verite (2010)

Actors: Larry Cedar (actor), Felix Else (miscellaneous crew), Felix Else (miscellaneous crew), Nicholas Wilder (actor), Kevin Kean Murphy (actor), Gabriel de Urioste (miscellaneous crew), Raquel Cedar (director), Raquel Cedar (writer), Angelo Angrisani (actor), Jason Altman (actor), Misha Sundukovskiy (producer), Matt Kazman (editor), Antonio Garcia Jr. (actor), Greg T. Gordon (producer), Audra Arnaudon (miscellaneous crew),

Plot: On September 4th, famous British director Smiley Stevens is murdered while shooting his latest project. Failed actor, Gideon Yeal, is chosen by the "B" Mafia to step in as "Smiley" and finish the film. For Gideon, it's the role of a lifetime, a chance to use his talents and for the first time in his life be the puppeteer instead of the puppet. But when his Aunt Rosie's life is threatened, Gideon realizes that this golden film industry opportunity comes with strings attached. And as the film wraps, so do the characters within it, leaving Gideon to come to take on yet another identity, and a dangerous new reality that has only just begun to unfold.

Keywords: character-name-in-title, two-word-title
Genres: Drama, Short,

The Digital Cinema Filmmaker's Training Course (2006)

Actors: David Landry (actor), Ivan Corona (actor), Tom Jacob (actor), Rush Hamden (director), Rush Hamden (producer), Rush Hamden (writer), Laura Renee Hoel (actress), Tatyana Ivanova (actress), Levon Navoyan (actor), John Gresch (actor), Tatiana Hamden (producer), Karl Horn (actor), Kiana Young (actress), Bill Turner (actor), Joel Svendsen (actor),

Plot: The Digital Cinema Course begins by detailed instructions on building a screenplay with proper structure and solid characters. Many screen writing textbooks have also done this, but the course is the first to do it by use of a dramatic short film teaching writers the basics of overcoming obstacles and disasters. This is then furthered by second more concise section outlining how to write in clear instructions. It categorizes specific methods and tools, and inspires writers who may have given up on dramatic storytelling. The following section describes how to physically construct a screenplay, what paper to use, how to bind it, and how to format the content. This is done with the use of computer graphics. Once the storytelling sections are complete, the course moves on to teach film editing. Starting with the history of editing and progressing to current digital nonlinear editing, the section prepares the filmmaker for the field. It abides by the rule that the best cinematographer or director is first a competent editor. After the editing section, the course moves on to discuss filmmaking equipment and gear, from the basic C-stand to the intricate use of color gels and corrective filtration. It prepares filmmakers for the technical aspect of making movies with HMI, tungsten, and fluorescent lighting. After the equipment section, it explores basic production in a controlled studio environment. Lighting, lenses, shots, depth of field, composition, and axes of movement. The course then applies all the concepts learned in the movie production section. By far the longest of the sections, at about 12 hours, it puts all the principles to the test on a real movie set. It carries with it all the variables that can assault filmmakers while trying to make a digital film. After the movie production section has been completed, the course moves on to the advanced lighting section. This is the most detailed of the sections, concentrating for hours on the art of lighting a film set with faith to the script's intention. Whether lighting to mimic candlelight, firelight, or fluorescent warehouse lighting, this section discusses the most difficult situations that a cinematographer may confront. The Digital Cinema Course is also accompanied by a color technical manual for the field, a checklist, and a preparation CD.

Keywords: apostrophe-in-title, digital-film, digital-filmmaking, filmmaking, hamden, six-word-title
Genres: Documentary,
Taglines: A detailed documentary to help filmmakers make a better entry into the digital world.

A luci spente (2004)

Actors: Maurizio Ponzi (director), Mariangela Giordano (actress), Toni Bertorelli (actor), Maurizio Ponzi (writer), Giuliana de Sio (actress), Luca Montanari (editor), Armando De Razza (actor), Michele Melega (actor), Giulio Scarpati (actor), Sergio Albelli (actor), Andrea Di Stefano (actor), Carlo Alberto Fantacci (miscellaneous crew), Federico Scribani (actor), Filippo Nigro (actor), Barbara Busso (miscellaneous crew),

Genres: ,

Sex Is Comedy (2002)

Actors: Catherine Breillat (writer), Catherine Breillat (director), Grégoire Colin (actor), António da Cunha Telles (producer), Jean-François Lepetit (producer), Pascale Chavance (editor), Anne Parillaud (actress), Roxane Mesquida (actress), Fátima Ribeiro (miscellaneous crew), Francis Selleck (actor), Sara Dantas (miscellaneous crew), Elisabete Piecho (actress), Jean-Pierre Billard (miscellaneous crew), Sandra Maia (actress), Yves Osmu (actor),

Plot: Jeanne is a director struggling with a difficult sex scene between two actors who can't stand each other. Aided by her loyal assistant Leo, Jeanne is hell-bent on getting the scene right without compromise. Inspired by Breillat's own experiences (particularly those in "Fat Girl"), "Sex is Comedy" explores the comedy of social manipulations, sex and power that takes place within the confines of a film set.

Keywords: actor, actress, assistant-director, atlantic-ocean, bare-breasts, beach, bikini, boyfriend-girlfriend-relationship, breasts, broken-foot
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance,

Quotes:

Jeanne: Words are lies, bodies are truth - I have to show the truth.

Jeanne: Words are the best chastity belt there is.

The Actor: You're in good spirits.::Jeanne: Yes, I am. I think life is hilarious.

Maybe Baby (2000)

Actors: Ben Elton (writer), Anna B. Sheppard (costume designer), Joely Richardson (actress), David M. Thompson (producer), Colin Towns (composer), Ben Elton (writer), Rowan Atkinson (actor), Hugh Laurie (actor), Emma Thompson (actress), Joanna Lumley (actress), John Fortune (actor), Dawn French (actress), Tom Hollander (actor), Hugh Laurie (director), Ben Elton (director),

Plot: Sam and Lucy Bell are a married couple who seem to have it all: good looks, successful careers and an enthusiastic love life. The only thing they lack is the one thing they want most - a baby. They try everything in their efforts to reproduce: New Age chanting, acupuncture, creative lovemaking... but all this hectic schedule achieves is improvement in their cardiovascular systems. Ovulation charts soon replace spontaneity, when the couple reluctantly deliver themselves into the hands of medical professionals. At the same time, as Sam comes to find his job increasingly unfulfilling, he sets his sights on writing a screenplay, but writer's block strikes. Encouraged to 'look within' by his hippie friend Druscilla, Sam is inspired: he will write a comedy about a couple trying for a baby! But Lucy is horrified at the idea, and forbids him to tell their story. Sam and Lucy's love for each other, the most important thing they both have, will now truly be put to the test...with surprising results.

Keywords: acupuncture, adaptation-directed-by-original-author, african-anglo, alternative-comedy, baby, baby-boy, based-on-novel, basset-hound, bathtub, bbc
Genres: Comedy, Romance,

Quotes:

Lucy Bell: [writes in her diary]Carl Phipps came into work today all brooding and Byronic. He looked like the dispossessed lord of a bleak Mooreland estate. I swear his aftershave smelled of heather.

Sheila: Well Mr. Phipps, you are in perilous danger of turning me back into a heterosexual.

Ewan Proclaimer: "Sick Junkie" is a comedy about a group of normal, ordinary kids - all heroin addicts, of course. Possibly Welsh, maybe Irish, probably Scottish. We see a week in their ordinary, mundane lives. They inject heroin into their eyeballs. They have babies in toilets. They get AIDS. They try and raise veins on their private parts in order to inject more heroin. They kill a social worker. They have anal sex in exchange for heroin, which turns out to be cut with bleach, and kills them. They have abortions. They're raped by gangs of English policemen.::Sam Bell: [interrupting] Excuse me. Um, I just want to make sure I'm following this... This is a comedy we're discussing, is it?::Ewan Proclaimer: It's total comedy. But real comedy about what's actually happening to kids today. Not escapist English crap.

Ewan Proclaimer: Isn't that amazing? Grown men and women that have to be taught how to use a hypodermic needle. It's extraordinary.

Lucy Bell: [reading] Samuel Bell: sperm test. 30% sluggish.::Sam Bell: Sluggish? Is that the word they use? [Lucy nods] Well, couldn't they have found a nicer way of putting it? Like relaxed or unhurried? Relaxed, laid back sperm I can handle, but sluggish?::Lucy Bell: Motility poor.::Sam Bell: Oh, that is just an outrageous slur!::Lucy Bell: 41% swimming in the wrong direction.::Sam Bell: They're in a plastic pot! How are they supposed to know what the right direction is?

Ewan Proclaimer: This stuff is great... but it occurs to me that we might be missing out on some comedy. What if Rachel's fertility meds gets mixed in with Colin's drug stash and she injects that instead?::Sam Bell: [sarcastically] Yes, that would be good, except, damn! Colin doesn't take drugs.

Ewan Proclaimer: What do you think?::Sam Bell: Honestly, with the disappearance of the rainforests, I thought it was ecologically unsound for him to turn in such a wooden performance. Anal, repressed, and uptight.::Ewan Proclaimer: Exactly! A totally convincing Englishman.

Sam Bell: [singing] I've my sperm test tomorrow and my pot is on the shelf. I've got my sperm test tomorrow and my pot is on the shelf. I'm gonna have to go in, sit down, and abuse myself.

Lucy Bell: [about Sam's sperm test] Conclusion...::Sam Bell: I've got slack, stupid sperm. That's the bloody conclusion. The stuff's been dawdling back up my dick all these years, bumping into each other, getting their abnormal tails tangled.

George: [of Dave the comedian] Is he getting better or have I finally lost the will to resist?

Celebrity (1998)

Actors: J.K. Simmons (actor), Steven Randazzo (actor), Sam Rockwell (actor), Joe Mantegna (actor), Peter McRobbie (actor), Larry Pine (actor), Leonardo DiCaprio (actor), Kenneth Branagh (actor), Michael Lerner (actor), Dylan Baker (actor), David Margulies (actor), Adrian Grenier (actor), Hank Azaria (actor), Ian Somerhalder (actor), Tony Sirico (actor),

Plot: Lee Simon, unsuccessful journalist and wanna-be novelist, tries to get a foot into the door with celebrities. After divorcing his wife Robin, Lee gets to meet a lot folks of the rich and / or beautiful, partly through journalism, partly because he has a script to offer. But life among those from out-of-this-world is hard, and his putative success always results in defeat. Meanwhile Robin meets a very desirable TV-producer and takes the first steps in the world of celebrities herself.

Keywords: actor, actress, analyst, anger, aspiring-writer, aston-martin, atlantic-city-new-jersey, autograph, banana, basketball-player
Genres: Comedy, Drama,
Taglines: A funny look at people who will do anything to get famous... or stay famous.

Quotes:

Robin Simon: There aren't any ticks around here, are there? I'd hate to get Lyme disease.::Priest at Catholic Retreat: We haven't had any casualties.

Nicole Oliver: I can't have sex with you! My body belongs to my husband and there is no way that I could betray him in that way. But what I do from the neck up is a different story.

[sighting celebrities at a screening]::Tony Gardella: Oh, and getting out of the elevator I see there's a famous critic.::Robin Simon: Him, I recognize.::Tony Gardella: Oh, he used to hate every movie. Then, he married a young, big-bosomed woman, and now he loves every movie.

Robin Simon: I've become the person I've always hated, but I'm happier.

Robin Simon: No matter what the shrinks, or the pundits, or the self-help books tell you, when it comes to love, it's luck.

[talking about Papadakis]::Tony Gardella: He's very arty, pretentious, one of those assholes who shoots all his films in black and white.

Supermodel: You're not afraid of catching germs? And you know, I'm coming down with a cold and everything...::Lee Simon: From you I'd be willing to catch terminal cancer.

Tony Gardella: Tom Dale. *Big* star. He's in New York filming an adaptation of a sequel of a remake.

Waiting Room Nurse: I'm sorry, the doctor just doesn't do penis enlargements. We don't have the space.::Waiting Room Patient: We're talking about 3 inches here!

Robin Simon: [affecting a Southern accent] I have always depended on the kindness of strangers...

Dangerous Game (1993)

Actors: Anthony Redman (editor), Kristi Frankenheimer (miscellaneous crew), Victor Argo (actor), Abel Ferrara (director), Leonard L. Thomas (actor), Kimberly Edwards (miscellaneous crew), Anthony Redman (actor), Jesse Long (actor), Madonna (actress), James Russo (actor), Glenn Plummer (actor), Richard Belzer (actor), Harvey Keitel (actor), Ante Novakovic (miscellaneous crew), Rachel Aberly (miscellaneous crew),

Plot: Eddie Israel is a moviemaker. He is beginning the shooting of "The mother of mirrors", starring Francis Burns and Sarah Jennings. "The mother of mirrors" is the story of the last night of a couple falling into decay. Eddie is very demanding with the actors, and the heavy atmosphere of the film acts upon the daily life of the protagonists.

Keywords: divorce, drugs, film-in-film, filmmaking, independent-film, psychological-drama
Genres: Drama,

Quotes:

Eddie Israel: Either do more coke or more booze or less! But give me what I need!

Francis Burns: I need these things!

Eddie Israel: We could talk about this for decades.

Stand-In (1937)

Actors: John George (actor), Ralph Brooks (actor), Art Baker (actor), Humphrey Bogart (actor), Pat Flaherty (actor), Charles K. French (actor), Jack Carson (actor), Pat Gleason (actor), C. Henry Gordon (actor), Jim Farley (actor), Al Hill (actor), Al Hill (actor), Leslie Howard (actor), Olin Howland (actor), Rollo Lloyd (actor),

Plot: Atterbury Dodd is an efficiency expert who believes everything can be reduced to mathematics. He is sent to Hollywood to see whether Colossal Pictures is a good investment. He soon learns that movie production doesn't fit his formulaic mindset.

Keywords: bank-president, based-on-novel, camera-shot-of-feet, director, drunkenness, female-stockinged-feet, frame-up, hollywood-california, jealousy, man-oblivious-to-woman-who-loves-him
Genres: Comedy, Romance,
Taglines: Hail! The conquering hero comes!

Quotes:

Atterbury Dodd: Hasn't anyone an answer for stupidity besides "that's the picture business"?::Studio Employee: I'm sorry Mr. Dodd, but that's the only answer.

Koslofski: Great pictures are not made... they are remade!

Doug Quintain: [to Atterbury Dodd] Say, honey, if you could cook, I'd marry ya!