The Star (1952 film)

Recommended by Enrique (2014)

Actors: Sarah Swinwood (actor), Lino Varela (actor), Rania Attieh (producer), Mahalia Cohen (producer), Iván Eibuszyc (producer), Daniel Garcia (producer), Alice Kharoubi (producer), Outpost (producer), Rania Attieh (writer), Daniel Garcia (writer), Daniel Garcia (composer), Rania Attieh (director), Daniel Garcia (director), Rania Attieh (editor), Daniel Garcia (editor),

Plot: An aspiring actress and an aging cowboy arrive in the small border town of Del Rio, Texas each with a different pursuit. But when things don't go exactly as planned for either of them--the actress slowly begins to realize that the film she came to town for is not at all what she expected (the 'director' is nowhere to be found, the set is run by a group of teenagers), and the associate that the cowboy was supposed to meet had to leave town unexpectedly--the two are forced to wait out their time, exploring the town, and its people. A Latino tale of mysticism, tradition, and the dream of celebrity.

Genres: Adventure, Crime, Western,

The Last Call (2013)

Actors: Antonia Farina (actor), Debbie Farina (actor), Rebecca Farina (actor), Ryan Hickey (actor), Stephen Levine (actor), Megan Murray (actor), Quinn Ochoa-Morales (actor), Gregory Quinlan (actor), Leore Riven (actor), Stephan Berger (producer), Rebecca Farina (producer), Rebecca Farina (producer), Stephan Berger (writer), Stephan Berger (writer), Rebecca Farina (writer),

Genres: Drama, History, Short,

The Best Movie Ever Filmed (2013)

Actors: Aris Kaplanidis (actor), Elias Roumeliotis (actor), Constantina Georganta (actress), Michael Schlicht (producer), Vasilis Paraskevas (writer), Aris Kaplanidis (director), Aris Kaplanidis (editor),

Genres: Action, Short,
Taglines: They promised her the leading part in the best movie of all time...

The Star (2010)

Actors: Mark Cray (actor), Kendra Star (actress), Robert Kotabish (producer), Robert Kotabish (writer), Gregory Irving (composer), Robert Kotabish (director), Robert Kotabish (editor), Daniel Prischak (editor),

Genres: Comedy, Short,

Sides (2008)

Actors: Coolio (actor), Christopher DeMaci (actor), Michael Phillip Edwards (actor), Marc Gomes (actor), John O. Nelson (actor), John Pittman (actor), Spencer Scott (actor), Don Swaby (actor), Teri Benjamin (actress), Peppur Chambers (actress), Keena Ferguson (actress), Melinda Rochelle (actress), Jasmine Waltz (actress), D'Araun Brown (producer), Michael Phillip Edwards (producer),

Genres: Comedy,

Andre Royo's Big Scene (2004)

Actors: Jonas Chaka (actor), Christopher Scott Cherot (actor), Christopher Corts (actor), Hill Harper (actor), Morocco Omari (actor), Andre Royo (actor), JoNell Kennedy (actress), Tamika Lamison (actress), Paula M. Neiman (actress), Christopher Scott Cherot (producer), Dana Offenbach (producer), David Seligman (producer), Christopher Scott Cherot (writer), Andre Royo (writer), Christopher Scott Cherot (director),

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Short,
Taglines: The amazingly true (and increasingly familiar) story of one independent film actor's first day on a big studio movie.

Fast Backwards (2001)

Actors: Chuck Connors (actor), Lee Fulkerson (actor), Michael J. Metzger (actor), Jon Wesslen (actor), David S. Williger (actor), Caroline Jeffrey (actress), Gregory Heim (producer), Gregory Heim (writer), Gregory Heim (director),

Genres: Comedy, Short,

Die Alive (2001)

Actors: Donald Briard (actor), Daniel Giroux (actor), Eric Lamarche (actor), J.F. Leduc (actor), Jeffrey Matte (actor), J.F. Leduc (producer), J.F. Leduc (writer), Eric Fontaine (composer), J.F. Leduc (director), J.F. Leduc (editor),

Genres: Comedy,

Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson (1976)

Actors: Dennis Corrie (actor), E.L. Doctorow (actor), Robert DoQui (actor), Humphrey Gratz (actor), Alex Green (actor), Joel Grey (actor), Mike Kaplan (actor), Frank Kaquitts (actor), Harvey Keitel (actor), Ken Krossa (actor), Burt Lancaster (actor), Fred N. Larsen (actor), Gary MacKenzie (actor), Kevin McCarthy (actor), John Considine (actor),

Plot: Buffalo Bill plans to put on his own Wild West sideshow, and Chief Sitting Bull has agreed to appear in it. However, Sitting Bull has his own hidden agenda, involving the President and General Custer.

Keywords: 1880s, acting, american-frontier, american-indian, annie-oakley, backstage, based-on-play, buffalo-bill's-wild-west-show, buffalo-bill-cody, caged-bird
Genres: Comedy, Western,

Quotes:

William F. 'Buffalo Bill' Cody: My daddy was killed trying to keep slavery out of Kansas.::Oswald Dart: How did he do that?::William F. 'Buffalo Bill' Cody: Well, my daddy hated slavery with such a passion that rather than let the coloreds get in as slaves, he just fought to keep 'em out of the state.

William F. 'Buffalo Bill' Cody: Where were ya?::William Halsey: It's the first of the moon.::Nate Salisbury: That's not what Buffalo Bill asked ya! Now where in the hell have you been?::William Halsey: During the first day of the first moon, Sitting Bull visits the sun in the mountains while his squaws move the teepees to the moon path.::Nate Salisbury: Damn it, Halsey! Stop sunning and mooning us! Now where the hell have you been?

President Grover Cleveland: Where will you sleep, Buffalo Bill?::Ed Goodman: You can sleep with me, Uncle Will.::William F. 'Buffalo Bill' Cody: No, Ed, I will sleep out on the prairie underneath the moon and listen to the lullaby of the coyotes. You see, I ain't always been a comfortable man.::President Grover Cleveland: You know, it's a man like that that made this country what it is today!

Maj. John M. Burke: Don't worry about how you feel about where you ought to be... just come on over here where you should be.

William Halsey: Great Father, Sitting Bull has waited to ask you a very simple thing for his people.::President Grover Cleveland: Mr. Halsey, I remind you that in government, nothing is simple.

[explaining why Sitting Bull should be in Buffalo Bill's show]::Ned Buntline: A rock ain't a rock once it becomes gravel.

William F. 'Buffalo Bill' Cody: The difference between a white man and an injun in all situations is that an injun is red. And an injun is red for a very good reason. So we can tell us apart.

Crutch: Come here, Mr. Buntline! Come over here and look at Sitting Bull! The son-of-a-bitch must be seven feet tall!::Ned Buntline: He's getting smaller every year.

Ned Buntline: I bring up this dream business because, well, because things are beginning to take on an unreal shape. Now I was thinking about Sitting Bull. Just put yourself in that Injun's place. You sit in your tepee and dream. And then yu go to wherever the dream may take you... it might come true. And you wait for real life to catch up.

Ned Buntline: Injuns gear their lives to dreams. And what an injun dreams, no matter how farfetched, will wait until he dies to come true. The white men - they're different. The only time they dream is when things are going their way. I'm no expert on the subject, but it seems to me that what Sitting Bull does is a hell of a lot cheaper than mounting a wild west show... which is dreaming out loud.

The Life and Death of 9413, a Hollywood Extra (1928)

Actors: Robert Florey (actor), Jules Raucourt (actor), George Voya (actor), Adriane Marsh (actress), Robert Florey (producer), Robert Florey (writer), Slavko Vorkapich (writer), Robert Florey (director), Slavko Vorkapich (director),

Plot: This short experimental film tells the story of a man who comes to Hollywood to become a star, only to fail and be dehumanized (he is identified by the number 9314 written on his forehead), after which he dies and goes on to Heaven where the number is removed.

Keywords: avant-garde, number-in-title
Genres: Drama, Short,