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Circle
Releasing Corp Ben Barenholtz May 1986 LETTER TO BRESHNEV
https://www.nytimes.com/1986/05/02/movies/the-screen-letter-to-brezhnev.html
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5o02tl
best quality of all trailers for Letter
to Breshnev
Interview with Margi Clarke 2016, 35
years later...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7T5poyTgbAY
As of Sept. 11th 2001, Mr. W. B. Hall III is accepting new proposals. His telephone number in Washington,
DC is 202-681-3738. Give him a call with your script or proposal, today!! William Hall, who coined the name of the film
company CQN (Cine Qua Non), ... still at large after
the shooting of "SKINNER" [charming photos below] back in 1993
WILLIAM B. HALL in sunglasses (Publicist Todd Henry in beret cap) 202-681-3738
Old 1993 TRAILER for SKINNER
Distributor: Worldwide USA
Cinequanon International Pictures: Dan Sales; Chris
Hanley; William Hall
ROSS MCCONNELL, who interviewed the Coen Brothers before their earliest release of BLOOD SIMPLE
Production Company:
Skinner Films
Executive Producers:
Nelson Korchak
Mark Beychok
ROCKETS REDGLARE, friend of William Hall and well known to cineastes of East Village independent films.
"SKINNER"
Producers:
Brad Wyman,
Jeff Pollon
Director:
Ivan Nagy
Screenplay: Paul Hart-Wilden
Director of Photography:
Gregory Littlewood
Editor:
Peter Schenk
Music: Contagion
Cast: Ted Raimi
Traci Lords
Ricki Lake
Richard Schiff
David Warshofsky
"One of Dennis Skinner's early victims is a young woman [featured above].
You see in the early days, Dennis was still trying to get to grips with the
difficulties of his job. So he whacks people, then
proceeds to skin them. The problem with his first victim was that she wasn't
quite dead when he began skinning her. Now to make things even worse, Dennis
was interupted... leaving this poor girl half dead
and half skinned."
Film viewer's testimonial: "My favourite scene
is undoubtedly the skinning scene. It's not just the gorehound
in me but also the fact that it's a real full body skinning - in your face.
Nice one!! I know they do a skin removal in 'Hellraiser
III' but the one in 'Skinner' is real."
"SKINNER" new 2019 Blu-Ray release trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wBLz9yQqUE
... an
unforgettable movie directed by Hungarian Hollywood "rabbi" & "godfather"
in LA "underground," Ivan Nagy, who everyone remembers fondly
as the X-boyfriend of Heidi Fleiss, Madame of Hollywood, when this film was
first released.
Dennis 'Skinner' is a likeable
& oddly handsome man, who is driven by his abusive childhood. He freelances
as an LA slasher-style serial killer who is sweet on hookers, but his victims
are not limited to only working girls. He flays his victims alive and then
wears their skins, hair, and faces as camouflage for his next attack, he is the ultimate chameleon.
On his trail is Heidi, Traci Lords, a prostitute and junky, who survived one of
his brutal partial skinnings and now seeks her sick revenge.
HEIDI spotted recently in
Hollywood, not the same beauty anymore as in the mid-90s!
"After growing up in Greenwich village with misguided fantasies of becoming a bassoonist profundo in the New York Philharmonic under Leonard
Bernstein, I found my way to George Washington University, where I proceeded to
attain the minimum requirements to graduate in the arts -- from a school
devoted to spies, the CIA, and real estate. I found my passion selling movies
to colleges and universities up and down the East Coast. I always wanted more
-- and gradually became a veteran of independent movie production and
distribution. It was a godsend when throughout the 1980s I worked one-on-one
with Ben Barenholtz, in his intimate Upper East Side
townhouse, with the preeminent maverick of movie indies,
who discovered such film directors as David Lynch (ERASERHEAD) and the Coen Brothers (BLOOD SIMPLE)."
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W.B. Hall III bio:
According to his colleagues, friends, and even enemies, Hall also nurtured and
helped develop the careers of dozens of aspiring film artists -- keeping food
on their tables by hiring them to direct and produce hundreds of music videos.
He gave them an opportunity to make enough cash so they could do their art
while using the "left-overs" on the "floor" to tell their
stories.
Hall did a lot of traveling throughout the media web and around the planet,
examining the absurdities of the the so-called
"industry," knowing well, that 99% of independent producers were
neither producers nor independent.
Mr. W. B. Hall is accepting proposals from any and all comers with new
distribution and/or production prospects!
(Call him today or his publicist Todd Henry 202-681-3738)
Hall formerly worked with Cinequanon Pictures
International, a company he helped create --
continuing a passion that has lasted some twenty years. Getting good movies to
the right audience -- despite the pretensions, ... and
loving it.
Mr. W. B. Hall is currently accepting new proposals. His telephone number in Washington, DC, is 202-681-3738. Give him a call, today!!
wbh2001@hotmail.comThe success of "Fantastic Planet" is
directly attributable to "William Burton Hall's 'Studio 2001'
Company" and Mr. Hall is now accepting proposals, prospects, scripts and
other re-releases, if need be, now that Fantastic Planet has had its Second
Awakening. Both fresh out of the cocoon and newly arrived Quentin Crisps or
newly born Quentin Tarrantinos are welcome to present
their talent to William B. Hall, in godspeed!
He can be reached at
Mr. W. B. Hall is currently
accepting new proposals. His telephone number in Washington, DC is 202-681-3738. Give him a call, or his publicist Todd Henry, today!!
THE RABBI WHO KNEW TOO MUCH
The KUBRICK Tribute!!
René Laloux tells us a lot
about his aesthetics in this excerpt from his revealing interview:
"MAKING A FILM IS WARFARE"
Extrait de la planete sauvage
(R.Laloux)
Excerpts from
René Laloux interview here:
" ... Two frenchmen,
perhaps three, have managed to make a long animation film :
Paul Grimault (with Jacques Prévert) with
"Le Roi et l'Oiseau",
and René Laloux with "La planète
sauvage", "Gandahar",
"Les maîtres du temps". That's all. So in fact he's a kind of legend
in french animation.
His integrity is well-known and at the age of 68 he is now at the head of a
digital image laboratory at the CNBDI. We met the "grand monsieur"
who once again proves that he's not going to make any concessions.
"Making a film is warfare. I had to work with communist countries to
produce my films, and of course, with small budgets, you're always disappointed
at the end of the day; you'd like the animation to be perfect. Funnily enough,
I'm better known in Japan and the States than here... I'm not sour but I just
don't want to spend time chasing after a producer. Now I write and paint, and
since TV production gets more and more trite, my films are looking better than ever !" That sentence may be ironic, but it's not just
a joke.
Long animation film production doesn't exist, so you have to go through TV,
which refuses to accept the idea of adult cartoons. Of course, Laloux isn't interested in Disney, his only newspaper is
"Le monde diplomatique" (serious and
totally independent left-wing weekly) so it's quite natural that he should rage
on against "big brother", our wonderfully subsidized television.
"It's terrifying".
"In France, comments Laloux, there's no other
option than short films if you want to stay clear of marketing
constraints." So we think of the twenty kids that Laloux
instructs : "It's going to be worse for
them..."
Joss Xavier arrived at the lab at the same time as René. he
prefers "the language of truth and honesty. How many battles have been
lost because of the lack of faith of the troops. We're
planting the seeds, standing up for individual ethics." "We work
directly from the students' work, in order to give them the maximum. At first I
didn't know anything about digital imagery, and I was very critical. Too many
people are slaves of instruments. So we base our selection on talent."
With synthetic imagery, the application fields and public are much wider;
"it opens hundreds of doors, but it all depends on who is opening
them." But most important, Laloux's experience
will be passed on to the younger generation; he doesn't quite see it that way
round though : "it's a present that the younger
generation are giving us."
