Hair in the Gate (2012)

Actors: Karl Francis (director), John Ninnis (producer), Roger Nott (producer), Roger Nott (actor), Roger Nott (writer), Gary Knowles (actor), Nathan Sussex (actor), John Jenner (actor), Jenni Davies (actress), Stacey Daly (actress), Bill Bellamy (actor), Elliot Albarran (actor),

Genres: Short,

The Life and Times of an American Playboy (2011)

Actors: Jeri Rafter (producer), Annie Wright (actress), Andrew Rizzo (actor), Ryan Rundle (writer), Paul Chirico (actor), Ryan Rundle (director), Ryan Rundle (editor), Aaron Roos (actor), Marty Fromm (actor), Ross Thies (miscellaneous crew), Lee McAfee (actress), Tyler Grutsch (producer), Lindsey Zachariasen (actor), Mike Houser (actor), Ross Thies (miscellaneous crew),

Plot: Looking for his next fix at the bottom of a bottle, Teddy Lancaster finds a new way of supporting his habit: starring in Marv Barsky's 'Hobohos 5.' But as the production unravels, so too does its vicious nature. Now, Teddy must face the inequities of his once-glamorous past or lose the prospect of his potentially short future.

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Short,

The Cherry Tree (2007)

Actors: Peter Batchelder (actor), Peter Batchelder (composer), Ryan Plato (writer), Lance Miller (actor), Iverson White (actor), Joe Spang (producer), Joe Spang (producer), Don Unverrich (editor), Carlo Besasie (director), Wendi Bazar Besasie (actress), Dan Warren Patterson (actor), Joel Talacko (actor), Dawn Emanuele (actor), Katie Bock (actor),

Plot: A reality-show submission gone horribly awry. February 2007, on the coldest day of the year, a reality-show submission video was filmed for "On The Lot" here in Wisconsin. What you are about to see, is quite possibly the last reality-show submission video ever made.

Genres: Comedy, Short,

Too Many Boys (2005)

Actors: Johan Paulik (actor), Marty Stevens (actor), Johan Paulik (producer), Sebastian Bonnet (miscellaneous crew), Marty Stevens (director), B.K. Sun (composer), Mel Roberts Jr. (miscellaneous crew), Mel Roberts Jr. (editor), Marty Stevens (editor), Ron Thomas (editor), Marc Vidal (actor), Roman Chaykin (miscellaneous crew), Ethan Clarke (actor), Joey Amis (actor), Tim Hamilton (actor),

Genres: Adult,

Monday Night Gig (2005)

Actors: Todd A. Robinson (actor), David F. Walker (producer), Michael J. Prosser (actor), C.K. Lichenstein II (producer), C.K. Lichenstein II (miscellaneous crew), C.K. Lichenstein II (actor), K. Adithya Ashok (miscellaneous crew), K. Adithya Ashok (actor), Vincent Caldoni (actor), David Emerson Jackson (actor), Drew Barrios (actor), Susan Moen (actress), Gray Eubank (actor), Haley Talbot (actress), Jamie Pulliam (miscellaneous crew),

Plot: The French isn't your ordinary band. Their lead guitarist is an accountant obsessed with breath mints. The bassist talks to his leg and lives by the train tracks. The drummer works to smash the state. They have no fans, no fame, and no future, but try telling that to lead singer Christian. Monday Night Gig is a comedy for anyone who's followed their dreams, no matter where they lead. And for anyone who just pulled up their skirts... and played.

Keywords: bad-breath, bong-hits, christian, dream, female-drummer, folk-music, french, hooker, rock-band
Genres: Comedy, Music,
Taglines: Pull up your skirt and play!

Between the Sheets (2003)

Actors: Dom DeLuise (actor), Leigh Scott (actor), David DeLuise (actor), Jack McGee (actor), Jim Lau (actor), Ted Raimi (actor), Ted Raimi (actor), Jason Schombing (actor), Peter DeLuise (actor), Peter DeLuise (writer), Jonathan Brandis (actor), Dan Bell (actor), Michael DeLuise (producer), Michael DeLuise (director), Caroline B. Marx (costume designer),

Plot: Hollywood. An actor and an actress fake a relationship for the publicity in this movie within a movie, only "cut" could be called at anytime! Is it live or is it "Memorex"?! A romantic comedy where entertainment shows are spoofed: Divine intervention suggested and true love is realized with the passing of gas!

Keywords: independent-film
Genres: Comedy,

Der Stand der Dinge (1982)

Actors: Wim Wenders (writer), Paulo Branco (producer), Robert Kramer (writer), Roger Corman (actor), Patrick Bauchau (actor), Viva (actress), Christoph Holch (producer), Renée Gundelach (producer), Robert Kramer (actor), Artur Semedo (actor), Wim Wenders (actor), Samuel Fuller (actor), Allen Garfield (actor), Geoffrey Carey (actor), Jim Jarmusch (composer),

Plot: On location in Portugal, a film crew runs out of film while making their own version of Roger Corman's _Day the World Ended, The (1956)_. The producer is nowhere to be found and director Munro attempts to find him in hopes of being able to finish the film.

Keywords: film-crew, film-in-film, filmmaking, independent-film, making-a-film, pastiche
Genres: Drama,
Taglines: They didn't want to kill him. They just wanted a story.

Quotes:

Mark: You know, I take pictures, photographs, but I never really thought in black and white before I saw our rushes. Do you know what I mean? You can see the shape of things.::Joe: Life is in colour, but black and white is more realistic.

Kravgi gynaikon (1978)

Actors: Jules Dassin (director), Manos Katrakis (actor), Giannis Markopoulos (composer), Despo Diamantidou (actress), Jules Dassin (writer), Georges Klotz (editor), Ellen Burstyn (actress), Dimitris Papamichael (actor), Dimitris Papamichael (actor), Faidon Georgitsis (actor), Andreas Filippides (actor), Giannis Voglis (actor), Euripides (writer), Costas Arzoglou (actor), Melina Mercouri (actress),

Genres: Drama,

The Carpetbaggers (1964)

Actors: William Meader (actor), Charles Lane (actor), Martin Balsam (actor), John McKee (actor), Don 'Red' Barry (actor), Herman Hack (actor), Alan Ladd (actor), Frankie Darro (actor), Lew Ayres (actor), Len Hendry (actor), Leif Erickson (actor), Arthur Franz (actor), Paul Frees (actor), Robert Cummings (actor), George Peppard (actor),

Plot: George Peppard plays a hard-driven industrialist more than a little reminiscent of Howard Hughes. While he builds airplanes, directs movies and breaks hearts, his friends and lovers try to reach his human side, and find that it's an uphill battle. The film's title is a metaphor for self-promoting tycoons who perform quick financial takeovers, impose dictatorial controls for short-term profits, then move on to greener pastures.

Keywords: 1920s, 1930s, abuse, actor, actress, airplane, attorney, aviator, bachelor, based-on-novel
Genres: Drama,
Taglines: This is adult entertainment! It is unlikely that you will experience in a lifetime all that you will see in... THE CARPETBAGGERS.

Quotes:

Jonas Cord: What's the wildest thing you've ever done?::Monica Winthrop: I hope I haven't done it yet.

Jonas Cord: What do you want to see on your honeymoon?::Monica Winthrop: Lots of lovely ceilings!

Jonas Cord, Sr.: What are you trying to prove? That you're a man? Well, a man is judged by what's in his head, not in his bed.

Jonas Cord: [referring to a porn film] As for this, I've seen it. Twice. You had good lighting and a bad director.

Rina Marlowe Cord: I'll give you a geography lesson some time.::Dan Pierce: [looking her over] I think I've just had one.

Rina Marlowe Cord: I like men. Maybe I hate them. I'm not always sure.

A Star Is Born (1954)

Actors: Phil Arnold (actor), Chick Chandler (actor), Benny Burt (actor), Irving Bacon (actor), Jack Carson (actor), Paul Bryar (actor), Rudolph Anders (actor), Don Beddoe (actor), Rodney Bell (actor), Charles Bickford (actor), James Brown (actor), Paul Brinegar (actor), Willis Bouchey (actor), Marshall Bradford (actor), Heinie Conklin (actor),

Plot: Norman Maine, a movie star whose career is on the wane, meets showgirl Esther Blodgett when he drunkenly stumbles into her act one night. A friendship develops, then blossoms into romance before tensions increase as Esther's career takes off while Norman's continues to plummet.

Keywords: academy-award, actor, actress, alcoholic, alcoholism, ambition, arrest, audition, award, backstage
Genres: Drama, Musical, Romance,
Taglines: Destiny came at her with a leer! The applause of the world -- and then this! "IT IS SOMETHING TO SEE THIS 'STAR IS BORN'! STUNNING!" N.Y. Times (original ad - mostly caps) "A BRILLIANTLY STAGED, SCORED AND PHOTOGRAPHED FILM WORTH ALL THE EFFORT!" Life Magazine (original ad - mostly caps) "THE ENTIRE PICTURE IS AN UNFORGETTABLE EXPERIENCE! I WAS SORRY IT ENDED!" Ed Sullivan

Quotes:

Esther Blodgett: [seeing Norman drunk] Mr. Maine is feeling no pain!

Esther Blodgett: Hello, everybody. This is Mrs. Norman Maine.

Matt Libby: [after being introduced to Esther] Esther Blodgett? Well, we'll do something about that. Anyway, nice to have you with us.

Oliver Niles: You know Libby you missed a lot not knowing Norman Maine.::Matt Libby: Not knowing him? I spent my life knowing him. I knew what he was going to do before he did it. I knew him backwards.::Oliver Niles: You didn't know him at all. He was quite a guy.

Esther Blodgett: [Norman has finished looking through Esther's scrapbook] You know as much about me as I do myself. But...you see how long it's taken me to get this far. Now, all I need is just a little luck.::Norman Maine: What kind of luck?::Esther Blodgett: Oh, the kind of luck that every girl singer with a band dreams of--one night a big talent scout from a big record company might come in and he'll let me make a record.::Norman Maine: Yes, and then?::Esther Blodgett: Well, the record will become number one on the Hit Parade, it'll be played on the jukeboxes all over the country...and I'll be made [laughs self-deprecatingly at the implausibility] End of dream.::Norman Maine: There's only one thing wrong with that.::Esther Blodgett: I know--it won't happen!::Norman Maine: No, it might happen pretty easily--but the dream isn't big enough.

Esther Blodgett: [Norman has returned to find Esther in a nightclub. Esther walks over to him with a small laugh] Hello, Mr. Maine. You turn up in the strangest places.::Norman Maine: Don't I now?::Esther Blodgett: [stops laughing, suddenly shocked] And you're cold sober.::Norman Maine: Well, you'd better make the most of it!

Norman Maine: Do you ever go fishing? [Esther looks confused] Well, do you like prizefi--have you ever watched a great fighter?::Esther Blodgett: I-I uh--::Norman Maine: I'm trying to tell you how you sing.::Esther Blodgett: Do you mean like a prizefighter or a fish?::Norman Maine: Look...em--[leads her into a kitchen] There are certain pleasures that you get--[realizes that the sound of clanging dishes is intolerable and they depart for the outside] There are certain pleasures you get, little-little jabs of pleasure when a swordfish take a hook, or-or when you see a great fighter get in right for the kill, see? [Esther still looks confused] You don't understand a word I'm saying, do you?::Esther Blodgett: No, not yet. Why don't you try bullfights?

Judge George J. Barnes: Were you Norman Maine the actor?::Norman Maine: Yes.

Matt Libby: This is the way the world ends, not with a bang, with a whimper.