Charles B. Pierce: Portrait of an Arkansas Maverick
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On April 17, Filmmaker Magazine ran my lengthy piece on Arkansas regional filmmaker Charles B. Pierce (1938-2010), director of The Legend of Boggy Creek (1972), Winterhawk (1975), The Town That Dreaded Sundown (1976), Grayeagle (1977), and many others. Placing Pierce's films within a larger context of American regional filmmaking old and new, I consider the potential impact of such endeavors and how Pierce realized the "art of the possible" with his films.
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The ConFluence-Film Blog is dedicated to discussions, studies, and casual pieces concerning a variety of topics relating to film, filmmaking, media studies and cinema history. More generally, it showcases the rambling observations of a film-loving, filmmaking bloke named Daniel Kremer. Please feel entirely free to post responses to any of the posts made. Welcome!
Films by Daniel Kremer
- Charles at the Threshold (2006) (short)
- Yarns Yet To Be Spun (2007) (short)
- Sophisticated Acquaintance (2007)
- A Trip to Swadades (2008)
- A Collection of Chemicals (2009) (short)
- Ceiling-Head Angel (2010) (short)
- The Idiotmaker's Gravity Tour (2011)
- In the Womb of the Cauldron (2012) (short)
- A Simple Game of Catch (2012)
- Raise Your Kids on Seltzer (2015)
- Ezer Kenegdo (2017)
- Overwhelm the Sky (2018)
- Even Just (2019) (in post-production)
- Surface Pressures (2020, in production)
- Sidney J. Furie: Fire Up the Carousel! (2019) (in production)
- I Forgive Swissvale (2020) (in production)
- Precious Wheels Above (2020) (in pre-production)
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- Mon Oncle Antoine (Jutra, 1971)
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- Ride the High Country (Peckinpah, 1962)
- The Sugarland Express (Spielberg, 1974)
- Chronicle of the Years of Fire (Lakhdar-Hamina, 1975)
- Apocalypse Now (Coppola, 1979)
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- Medicine Ball Caravan (Reichenbach, 1971)
- Route One U.S.A. (Kramer, 1989)
- Being There (Ashby, 1979)
- City Lights (Chaplin, 1936)
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- A Canterbury Tale (Powell & Pressburger, 1944)
- City for Conquest (Litvak, 1940)
- A Double Life (Cukor, 1947)
- Crimes and Misdemeanors (Allen, 1989)
- O Lucky Man! (Anderson, 1973)
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- Rope (Hitchcock, 1948)
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- The Human Condition (Kobayashi, 1960)
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- In a Lonely Place (Ray, 1949)
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- Mikey and Nicky (May, 1976)
- They Shoot Horses Don't They? (Pollack, 1969)
- The Night of the Following Day (Cornfield, 1968)
- Kings and Desperate Men (Kanner, 1981)
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- Malpertuis (Kumel, 1972)
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- Ninotchka (Lubitsch, 1939)
- The Last Detail (Ashby, 1973)
- Up Down Fragile (Rivette, 1995)
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- Breaking the Waves (Von Trier, 1996)
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- Taking Off (Forman, 1971)
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- Soldier of Orange (Verhoeven, 1978)
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- Mouchette (Bresson, 1967)
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- The Apartment (Wilder, 1960)
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- A Time to Love and a Time to Die (Sirk, 1958)
- Something for Everyone (Prince, 1970)
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About the Writer
Daniel Kremer grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and lives in San Francisco, California. While residing in Philadelphia and New York City, he wrote and directed many films of both short and feature-length. The black-and-white super-16mm feature-length narrative A Trip to Swadades and the autobiographical documentary short subject Yarns To Be Spun on the Way to the Happy Home have been screened in international film festivals and across the country, and both have won many awards (including a Best Feature Film prize, the Motion Picture Award and three Best Documentary prizes, respectively). In 2011, he directed his second feature, the acclaimed The Idiotmaker's Gravity Tour, filmed predominantly in India. In 2013, he started shooting feature films in the San Francisco Bay Area. He is currently in post-production on Ezer Kenegdo and Raise Your Kids on Seltzer, both due out in 2015.
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