On the Waterfront, A Place in the Sun, Citizen Kane, The Hustler, The Killers, Rebel Without a Cause, East of Eden, The Misfits, The Wild One.
Television
Studio One, Actor's Studio, Playhouse 90, Kraft Television Theatre, General Electric Theatre, Dragnet, Naked City
Books
Charles Bukowski-Women, Post Office, Factotum, Love Is a Dog From Hell, Sometimes You Get So Alone That It Just Feels Right, North By No South.
J.D. Salinger-Nine Stories, Cather In the Rye
John Steinbeck- East Of Eden
Heroes
Marlon Brando,
James Dean,
Paul Newman,
Elia Kazan,
Charles Bukowski,
Orson Welles,
Bob Dylan,
Jack Kerouac,
John Ford,
Martin Scorsese,
Montgomery Clift,
Steve McQueen,
Gracy Kelly,
Katherine Hepburn,
Howard Hughes,
Fritz Lang,
Bruce Springsteen.
About me:
Paroled after serving four years in prison for armed robbery, James Winton is coming home.
He's uncertain of his future with his family...
He's unable to resist his friends temptations and influences...
And he's hounded by two police detectives determined to make him pay for his past.
Own FAIRVIEW ST. SOUNDTRACK
Who I'd like to meet: Fairview St. is my first feature film that I wrote & directed. It's a personal project and is near and dear to my heart.
Any filmmaker will tell you that going into such an endeavor takes passion, heart and a lot of insanity.
The premiere for FAIRVIEW ST. went so well that Celebration Cinema brought the film back in Feb. for a two-day run.
FAIRVIEW ST. has also been accepted to it's first film festival and closed out the Muskegon Film Festival May 31st.
muskegonfilmfestival.com
FAIRVIEW ST. was well received and won the BEST FEATURE FILM AWARD at the festival!
Please check the FAIRVIEW ST. trailer out and pass it along to any and everyone you know.
Thank you and support truly independent art!
Michael McCallum
writer/director-FAIRVIEW ST.
Likewise! It's exhausting, this filmmaking/festival-running stuff. But hell, it's fun. Steph and I will be in L.A. starting late next week for a little while, so hoping to catch up with a few helpful contacts to help get our next project off the ground.
Gotta say, I'm impressed with you guys for doing not just indie film, but FEATURES. Whew... you have more balls than I do. :) Can't wait to see you again, man! Be that in MI or PA or somewhere else entirely!
Damn the bear used to take some beatings but he handed out a few himself haha. So many memories but I guess the one thats fresh in my mind is the memories from the Fairview showing. Talk about starting 2009 with a bang and making the year great so far ! Thank u for putting it together almost perfectly and making the whole expierence something I will cherish forever !
First off..Congratulations on your well deserved success. I love you very much. So the question posted was to recall a memory of the two of us. Hmmmm...which one? So many!! The morning we woke up to 11 empty bottles of Boone's Farm Sangria was a good time...or the time we tried to out drive other Mike. Wow! i used to be young, and alive and not boring. What the hell happened to me??
