Fog City Mavericks: The Filmakers of San Francisco From:Peter Coyote , Marcia Gay Harden , Richard Schickel , Carroll Ballard , Brad Bird , STARZ HOME ENTERTAINMENT , Steven Spielberg;Michael Douglas;Anthony Minghella;Milos Forman;Frank Darabont;Gary Leva , ANCHOR BAY ,
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Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: STARZ HOME ENTERTAINMENT
EAN: 0013138303585
Format: Color
Format: DVD-Video
Format: NTSC
Weight: 100 hundredths-pounds
Label: ANCHOR BAY
Manufacturer: ANCHOR BAY
Number Of Items: 1
Packaged Height: 60 hundredths-inches
Packaged Length: 750 hundredths-inches
Packaged Weight: 20 hundredths-pounds
Packaged Width: 530 hundredths-inches
Publisher: ANCHOR BAY
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2008-04-08
Running Time: 120 minutes
Studio: ANCHOR BAY
Theatrical Release Date: 2007
Product Description:
Features interviews, commentaries and unforgettable moments from some of the most visionary movies ever created such as American Graffiti, the Star Wars film series, the Indiana Jones film series, The Godfather trilogy, Toy Story, Lost in Translation and many more! Includes all-new interviews with those who have worked with Bay Area mavericks: Steven Spielberg, Michael Douglas, Anthony Minghella, Milos Forman and Frank Darabont.
Customer Reviews:
1 of 1 customers found the following review helpful:
Fog City Mavericks - Filmmaking History Brought To Life, 2008-09-11
Fog City Mavericks: The Filmakers of San Francisco is at once compelling and straight to the point. This documentary style interview film profiles the many film-makers, directors, writers, and producers of San Francisco. Some people were born there and some made their careers there, but the film attempts to draw paralells between all of them for their non-conventional works and careers.
First and foremost, I don't think there is much instruction here to replace the training that anybody would get in film school. But there is plenty of inspiration. And there are plenty of examples of the kinds of attitudes that helped these people produce some of the greatest films ever made, even when they had to go up against the resistance of most or all of the Hollywood elite of the time.
The film also includes excerpts from the movies created by the artists profiled, including American Graffiti (Collector's Edition), Star Wars Trilogy (Widescreen Edition with Bonus Disc), Indiana Jones - The Adventure Collection (Special Editions of Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark / Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom / Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade), The Godfather DVD Collection (The Godfather/ The Godfather - Part II/ The Godfather - Part III), One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Toy Story (10th Anniversary Edition), and Lost in Translation among others.
Francis Ford Coppola, Sophia Coppola, Frank Lucas, Steven Spielberg, Michael Douglas, Anthony Minghella, Milos Forman and Frank Darabont are just some of the filmmakers who are profiled.
And the narration of Peter Coyote is, as always, perfect to set the mood of the piece. This movie is an important piece of film history and has helped to put many of these productions into context.
If you love movies and want to learn a little bit more of the behind the scenes stories of how they were made, then this is the film for you.
Definitely check it out!
Enjoy.
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