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Trash Cult Tuesdays: American Movie

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Tue, Dec 27 / 9:05pm
Dir. Chris Smith
1999, USA, 107 min
New Restoration

American Movie is the story of filmmaker Mark Borchardt, his mission, and his dream. Spanning over two years of intense struggle with his film, his family, financial decline, and spiritual crisis, American Movie is a portrayal of ambition, obsession, excess, and one man’s quest for the American Dream.

Reviews

Watching this at a time when everyone has an HD camera and edit suite in their pocket, it’s amazing to watch a group of people who probably have no formal training actually shooting, tracking, and cutting their own movie together. Using a camcorder to make a cheapo SOV version of Coven or Northwestern would’ve been copping out — they wouldn’t be movies.
- Elizabeth Purchell, Letterboxd
That's why American Movie cuts so deep: It's about the American dream, about not giving up, about being true to yourself.
- Edward Guthmann, San Francisco Chronicle
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