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    watch "Crooked Features" - trailer

    The humour in my movie is a lot more subtle and underplayed than in UHF, so I hope you're not disappointed! Another indirect influence on the movie has been Chris Morris and the likes of "The Day Today" and "BrassEye". I see he's also behind the recent Nathan Barley, which I haven't seen at all...
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    watch "Crooked Features" - trailer

    Heh heh, stuff like Spatula City and Wheel of Fish will stay with me for ever. Raoul's Wild Kingdom ... oh!
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    watch "Crooked Features" - trailer

    There is some "in film" footage, yes. I'm not familiar with Waiting for Guffman, but I would say other influences are things like Living In Oblivion, UHF and The Wizard of Speed and Time - which are all films about the making of films/TV though with conventional narrative (well, mostly -...
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    watch "Crooked Features" - trailer

    Any influence was subliminal, but similarities have been noted by those that have seen it. I'm now also in the process of getting an electronic press kit together, which you can read about and download here: http://harp28.kicks-ass.net/mt_slog/archive/2005/02/hot_off_the_pre_1.html And we have...
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    Your "real" job

    Working in IT pays the mortgage and feeds the family. IT is a comedy goldmine that I plan to exploit at some point ...
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    Episode III

    Star Wars is what intrigued me enough to want to make my own movies in the first place. I was disappointed by Menace, but pumped up by Clones and the Sith trailer looks promising. You can bitch about special effects all you want, that's the problem when audiences get more sophisticated to the...
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    Just saying hello

    Hello. I'm a UK based indie filmmaker who hates IT with a passion. I suspect I'm one of the older filmmakers here, but that's ok cos it means I have several pieces of trivia to share with you: http://harp28.kicks-ass.net/trivia.html I also have an imdb entry: http://imdb.com/name/nm1470021/...
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    watch "Crooked Features" - trailer

    Hi there, I'm new here. Thought I'd start by posting the trailer to my feature-length documentary that has already been compared to Spinal Tap. Hope you enjoy it. 16MB Quicktime http://www.archive.org/download/cf_tease/cf_tease.mov 3MB Quicktime...
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