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Jan 31st, 2025
“As children, we all live in a world of imagination, of fantasy, and for some of us that world of make-believe continues into adulthood.”Despite spending years fighting against the notion that puppets were nothing more than “children’s entertainment,” Jim Henson found his greatest success thus far working on a televis...
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Jan 17th, 2025
It’s time to start a brand new series here on Cinema Shock! For the next few weeks, we’ll be telling the story of Jim Henson.To truly tell the story of Henson’s life and career, we have to go all the way back to the beginning: In this inaugural episode, we’ll explore Jim’s early years, through the creation of his firs...
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Jan 3rd, 2025
"I'm afraid to close my eyes, I'm afraid to open them."1999 was a landmark year for film, and several films released that year have had a lasting impact, greatly influencing everything that followed. And with the possible exception of THE MATRIX, few films have had changed their respective genres as much as THE BLAIR ...
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Dec 13th, 2024
"We're sorta like 7-Eleven. We're not always doing business, but we're always open."For Gary’s pick for a movie from 1999, he went with an infamous film that’s thre true definition of a “cult film.” When THE BOONDOCK SAINTS was (barely) released in theaters, it had practically no impact at all, but months later, when ...
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Nov 29th, 2024
We’ve decided to wrap up 2024 with a look at a few films that are celebrating their 25th anniversary this year. 1999 has become known as one of the best movie years of all time. While we’ve already touched on some of the biggest films of that year (THE MATRIX, FIGHT CLUB), there are a handful of films from that year ...
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Nov 15th, 2024
"I'm twelve. But I've been twelve for a long time."For the latest radomly chosen Cinema Shock Roulette entry, the wheels of fate have taken us to Sweden, where we’ll explore the story behind Tomas Alfredson’s LET THE RIGHT ONE IN.Based on the novel by John Ajvide Lindqvist, LET THE RIGHT ONE IN was almost instantly r...
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Nov 1st, 2024
After working on the short first season of TWIN PEAKS, David Lynch felt the pull back to feature length filmmaking when he was given a book called Wild At Heart by Barry Gifford. The book seemed ripe for a big screen adaptation and David Lynch immediately began work on it. Within a couple of months, he found himself in...
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Oct 18th, 2024
"Diane, 11:30 AM, February 24th. Entering the town of Twin Peaks, five miles south of the Canadian border, twelve miles west of the state line. I’ve never seen so many trees in my life. As W. C. Fields would say, I’d rather be here than Philadelphia."While BLUE VELVET's success (and its Academy Award nominations) help...
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Sep 20th, 2024
"I'm seeing something that was always hidden. I'm in the middle of a mystery and it's all secret."DUNE, David Lynch's first (and only) foray into big budget studio filmmaking was an unmitigated disaster, both critically and commercially, and in the wake of its failure, his career as a film director was in question.Bu...
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Sep 6th, 2024
"I'm seeing something that was always hidden. I'm in the middle of a mystery and it's all secret."DUNE, David Lynch's first (and only) foray into big budget studio filmmaking was an unmitigated disaster, both critically and commercially, and in the wake of its failure, his career as a film director was in question.Bu...
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Interview with Max Evry, author of 'A Masterpiece in Disarray: David Lynch's Dune - An Oral History'
Aug 31st, 2024
For this special BONUS episode, we sat down for a chat with Max Evry, author of A Masterpiece in Disarray: David Lynch's Dune - An Oral History, one of the most comprehensive behind-the-scenes books that we've come across, and one that was a major resource for our episode covering the making of DUNE.In this interview,...
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Aug 23rd, 2024
After the critical and commercial success of THE ELEPHANT MAN, David Lynch was suddenly a hot commodity in Hollywood, although it soon became clear that, although many studios were seeking out the idiosyncratic director, what they wanted was another ELEPHANT MAN, and not another ERASERHEAD.While Lynch would pass on ma...
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Aug 9th, 2024
ERASERHEAD’s success on the Midnight Movie circuit didn’t suddently thrust David Lynch onto Hollywood’s A-list but it did turn some heads. Some of those who were impressed by his debut feature included producer Stuart Cornfeld (THE FLY) and legendary filmmaker Mel Brooks (BLAZING SADDLES), who recruited Lynch to direct...
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Jul 26th, 2024
After spending his youth pursuing "the art life," David Lynch dipped his toe into the medium of film with his shorts THE ALPHABET and THE GRANDMOTHER. With THE GRANDMOTHER, he received attention from the American Film Institute, who invited him to move to the West Coast, where he'd spend a whopping five years worki...
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Jul 12th, 2024
In our new series, David Lynch: Absurd Encounters, we'll be taking a deep dive into the first chapter of David Lynch's career, covering everything from his early short films through his success on the midnight circuit, his disastrous attempt to film Frank Herbert's Dune, his controversial Palm d'Or win, and everything ...
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Jul 10th, 2024
Join us for a live screening of Frank Henenlotter’s cult classic BASKET CASE with an introduction by the Cinema Shock team!DATE: Tuesday, July 16, 2024The feature debut of director Frank Henenlotter (BRAIN DAMAGE, FRANKENHOOKER), 1982’s BASKET CASE is a riotous and blood-spattered “midnight movie” experience!Synopsi...
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Jun 26th, 2024
When we started our Alejandro Jodorowsky series last year, we began a loose exploration of the history of the Midnight Movies phenomenon of the 1970s (as documented in J. Hoberman and Jonathan Rosenbaum's iconic book on the subject).Before we wrap up that discussion with David Lynch's ERASERHEAD (coming soon!), we cou...
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Jun 5th, 2024
In this standalone episode, we're discussing Richard Kelly's modern cult classic DONNIE DARKO!DONNIE DARKO's journey to the screen was one fraught with difficulties from the very beginning: Few studios were willing to take a chance on a young, unproven director, and once the film did finally get made, getting it relea...
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May 15th, 2024
For the final episode in our series David Fincher: Rules of the Game, we're taking a look at the story behind his 2007 true crime drama ZODIAC.For his follow-up to the crowd-pleasing popcorn thriller PANIC ROOM, David Fincher went in a far different direction with a meticulously researched look at the investigation in...
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May 1st, 2024
FIGHT CLUB had been a grueling shoot for David Fincher and, at least upon first release, had alienated both audiences and critics alike.So when it was time for Fincher to move on to his next film, he sought out something a little simpler, something that wouldn't involve the hundreds of locations that he'd dealt with o...
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Apr 17th, 2024
After back-to-back successes with SE7EN and THE GAME, David Fincher found himself at the top of Hollywood's A-list, proving that he could produce hit films without abandoning his dark sensibilites. His next project, however, would put his reputation to the test. Although it's now considered a classic — and may very we...
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Apr 3rd, 2024
After the success of SE7EN, David Fincher returned to a film that he'd started developing before deciding to prioritize the serial killer film that would put him on the map.That film was THE GAME, a twist-filled thriller that's often overlooked and underappreciated during discussions of the director's filmography, but...
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Mar 20th, 2024
After his disastrous experience on ALIEN 3, David Fincher retreated back into the world of music video and commercials, vowing to never again direct a feature film.That is, until a script by a young, first-time screenwriter named Andrew Kevin Walker crossed his desk. That script — about a serial killer who chooses his...
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Mar 6th, 2024
After spending years in Development Hell, the production of ALIEN 3 finally moved forward once first-time feature director David Fincher came on board.But it wasn't smooth sailing from there. The story of ALIEN 3's production is one of a legendary disaster, one where studio interference turned the film into one that w...
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Feb 20th, 2024
"People will say, 'There are a million ways to shoot a scene', but I don't think so. I think there're two, maybe. And the other one is wrong." — David FincherDavid Fincher has a reputation for being an exacting, meticulous director, one who sees an entire film in his head and who will do whatever it takes to get that ...
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