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An account of a Midwestern filmmaker's effort to make an independent picture. Mark Borchardt is passionate about cinema, and his dream project is a film called "Northwestern". But he is serious debt, ...( read more
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The worst thing a documentary could be is exploitative with it's subjects. A film like "Trekkies", while largely enjoyable, seems to distance itself from it's characters and instead say "look at these whackos". In "American Movie", however, director Chris Smith seems to admire th...( read more)
It's great the way this guy throws 1000% of himself into getting the movie made. Then you see the movie and it pretty much blows. Sometimes it's about the journey and not the destination.
Sometimes more pathetic than funny. However, Mark Borchardt is funny, disturbing, yet inspiring, which is what makes this movie so interesting.
Spoof documentry about a film makers way to long journey on making a feature film that he's seemingly destined to never make due to debt and lack of funding so he goes about trying to finish a previous short film in an attempt to make funding for his dream project, Northwestern.U...( read more)
Wonderful stuff.
I saw this one at round about the same time as Adaptation (same week I think) and again it floored me. The visits to his uncle and trips out with his uncle are very memorable...and Marks determination to get it done, combined with being depressed and wanting to ...( read more)
The people in this movie are so real where they're from they seem like very well written and acted characters. It's crazy, so many funny moments and a time capsule for sure case in point: "It's a new thing from Coke it's called Surge"
you would think a movie like this would have a ton of fan clubs online. i couldn't find nary a one. i set up a page at this social networking site FRIENJA. if you're a fan, please sign up (it's free) and add a comment, video, what-evuh! be one of the first there.
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