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Film List: Independent Film: for Love Not Money. All of the Below Films Film List: Independent Film: For Love Not Money. All of the below films are available to view free on You Tube: • Workers Leaving the Factory (1885, Dir: Louis and Auguste Lumière) • Meshes of the Afternoon (1943, Dir: M. Deren ) • Fireworks (1943, Dir: Kenneth Anger) • Fear and Desire (1952, Dir: Stanley Kubrick) • Killer’s Kiss (1955, Dir; Stanley Kubrick) • Little Fugitive (1955, Dirs: Ray Ashley, Morris Engel & Ruth Orkin) • Five Guns West (1955, Dir; Roger Corman) • Dementia 13 (1963, Dir: Francis Coppola) All the films below are available on DVD and/or Blu Ray (Amazon) Easy Rider (1969, Dir: Dennis Hopper) Sweet Sweetback’s Baaadasssss Song (1971, Dir: Melvin Van Peeples) THX 1138 (1971; Dir: George Lucas) Last House on the Left (1972, Dir: Wes Craven) Black Christmas (1974, Dir: Bob Clark) Dark Star (1973, Dir: John Carpenter) Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974, Dir: Tobe Hooper) The Godfather (1972, Dir: Francis Coppola) The Conversation (1974, Dir: Francis Coppola) Jaws (1975, Dir: Steven Spielberg) Star Wars (1977, Dir: George Lucas) Grand Theft Auto (1977, Dir: Ron Howard) Mad Max (1978, Dir: George Miller) Rabid (1978, Dir: David Cronenberg) Piranha 2: The Spawning (1981, Dir: James Cameron) The Evil Dead (1981, Dir: Sam Raimi) Blood Simple (1984, Dir: Joel Coen & Ethan Coen) Brother From Another Planet (1984, Dir: John Sayles) Repo Man (1984, Dir: Alex Cox) She’s Gotta Have It (1986, Dir: Spike Lee) Bad Taste (1989, Dir: Peter Jackson Roger And Me (1989, Dir: Michael Moore) Sex Lies and videotape (1991, Dir: Steven Soderbergh) Slacker (1992, Dir: Richard Linklater) The Wedding Banquet, (1992, Dir: Ang Lee) Reservoir Dogs (1992, Dir: Quentin Tarantino) Aileen Wuornos: The Selling of a Serial Killer (1992, Dir: Nick Broomfield) {available on Netflix Canada as is Broomfield’s follow-up Aileen: Life and Dead of a Serial Killer} El Mariachi (1993, Dir; Robert Rodriguez) Clerks (1994, Dir: Kevin Smith) The Brothers McMullen (1995, Dir: Edward Burns) High Art (1998 Dir: Lisa Cholodenko) Cube (1998, Dir: Vincenzo Natali) Cold Mountain (1998, Dir: Anthony Minghella) American Beauty (1999, Dir: Sam Mendes) The Blair Witch Project (1999, Dir: Ed Sanchez, Daniel Myrick) Lost in La Mancha (1999, Dir: Louis Pepe, Keith Fulton) Taxi To the Dark Side (2006, Dir: Alex Gibney) Purple Violets (2007, Dir: Edward Burns) Once (2007, Dir: John Carney) {John Carney’s subsequent films Begin Again & Sing Street are both available on Netflix Canada} The Corporation (2003, Dir: Mark Achbar Jennifer Abbot) Baaadasssss (2004, Dir: Mario Van Peeples) Monsters (2010, Dir: Gareth Edwards) {also on Netflix Canada} Sarah Palin: You Bet’cha!! (2010, Dir: Nick Broomfield, Joan Churchill) Pilgrim Hill (2013, Dir: Gerard Barrett) Cold Season, (2014, Dir: Carley Smale) {available on YouTube, free} The Long Night (2017, Dir: Gregory Breen) {available soon Free on Vimeo} Tangerine (2015, Dir: Sean Baker) {also on Netflix Canada} The Florida Project (2017, Dir: Sean Baker) {also on Netflix Canada} To be released in Theatres in 2018 Unsane (2018, Dir: Steven Soderbergh) The Man Who Killed Don Quixote (2018, Dir: Terry Gillaim) Further Info: Eclectic Boogaloo: The Wild Untold Story Of Canon Films (2014, Dir: Mark Hartley) The Hamster Factor: The Making of Twelve Monkeys (1995, Dir: Louis Pepe, Keith Fulton) {available on YouTube, free} Side By Side (2012, Dir: Keanu Reeves, Christopher Kenneally) Every Frame a Painting, (Tony Zhou Free On Youtube) Books: In The Blink of and Eye by Walter Murch Very Naughty Boys: The True Story of Handmade Films By Robert Sellers Easy Riders, Raging Bulls By Peter Siskind Down and Dirty Films: Miramax, Sundance and the Rise of Independent Film By Peter Siskind Rebel Without a Crew: How a 23 Year Old Filmmaker with $7000 became a Hollywood Player By Robert Rodriguez Independent Ed: What I learned from my Career of Big Dreams, Little Movies and the 12 best Days of My Life By Edward Burns Hope For Film By Ted Hope .
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