OFF THE BLACK
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THINKFILMCOMPANY.COM, OFFTHEBLACK.BLOGSPOT.COMInfluences
Bob Rafelson, Charles Burnett, John Darnielle, Ralph Eugene Meatyard, Mike Leigh, Hal Ashby, Kenji Mizoguchi, David Hockney, Agnes Varda, Terry Southern, Paul Mazursky, John Ford, Todd Hido, David Berman, Arthur Penn, Todd Haynes, Ken Loach, Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Michael Roemer, Raymond Carver, Billy Wilder, Jean Renoir, Krzysztof Kieslowski, Werner Herzog, Wayne White, Skip Spence, Robert Frank, Michael Cimino, Will Oldham, Daniel Clowes, Aki Kaurismaki, Robert Altman, Lina Wertmuller, Woody Allen, Robert Stone, Monte Hellman, Syd Barrett, Chantal Akerman, Robert Bresson, Nicholas Ray, William Eggleston, Victor Nunez, John Cassavetes, Henry Darger, Bill Callahan, Claire Denis, Michael Ritchie, John Sayles, Howard Finster, Stephen Shore, Vic Chesnutt, Barry Hannah, Tom KalinDirectors
James PonsoldtFestivals
2006 SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL, 2006 STOCKHOLM INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL, 2006 WOODSTOCK FILM FESTIVAL, 2006 WILLIAMSTOWN FILM FESTIVAL, 2006 ORLANDO FILM FESTIVAL, 2006 CINE-WORLD FILM FESTIVAL, 2006 FILM FEST KANSAS CITY, 2006 THREE RIVERS FILM FESTIVALProfessional Affiliations
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- Apr 16, 2007 10:14 PM DVD of "Off the Black" out tomorrow!
- Dec 22, 2006 9:22 AM "OFF THE BLACK" opens in BOSTON and WASHINGTON D.C.!
- Dec 16, 2006 12:43 AM Thank you, MySpace!
- Dec 15, 2006 6:56 PM TREVOR MORGAN in CHICAGO!
- Dec 15, 2006 6:51 PM "OTB" in Chicago, San Francisco, Berkeley, and Minneapolis...
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.."Off the Black" premiered at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival and was acquired for worldwide distribution by THINKFilm. It stars NICK NOLTE, TREVOR MORGAN, and TIMOTHY HUTTON, is the feature debut of writer/director JAMES PONSOLDT, was produced by FORENSIC FILMS ("Raising Victor Vargas," "Gummo," "Clean"), filmed by cinematographer TIM ORR ("George Washington," "All the Real Girls," "Raising Victor Vargas"), features songs from TOWNES VAN ZANDT, SKIP SPENCE, SYD BARRETT, LOUDON WAINWRIGHT III, MARY JANE HOOPER, MAVIS STAPLES, and original music by CLAIRE CAMPBELL (HOPE FOR AGOLDENSUMMER) and GARY LOURIS (THE JAYHAWKS, GOLDEN SMOG). "OFF THE BLACK"
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- Status: Single
- Zodiac Sign: Virgo
- Children: Someday
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Television
All In the Family, The Johnny Cash Show, The Ren & Stimpy Show, 120 Minutes, First Person, The Richard Pryor Show, Twin Peaks, Fawlty Towers, The Adventures of Pete & Pete, The Simpsons, Alternative Nation, The Black Adder, Sanford and Son, Arrested Development, The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, What's Happening!!, A Fine Romance, Da Ali G Show, The Cosby Show, Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, Northern Exposure, The Jonathan Winters Show, The Singing Detective, Knowing Me, Knowing You With Alan Partridge, The Bugaloos, TV Nation, A Charlie Brown Christmas, It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown, Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood (I thought he was my real father until I was seven!), Good Times...(Eric Monte and Norman Lear are geniuses)Books
George Saunders, Tony Earley, Yannick Murphy, Tracy Kidder, James M. Cain, Robert Stone, J.P. Donleavy, Elfriede Jelinek, John Fante, Walker Percy, Elmore Leonard, David Mitchell, Raymond Carver, Franz Kafka, Harry Crews, James Agee, J.D. Salinger, Junichiro Tanizaki, Steven Millhauser, Barry Hannah, William Faulkner, Denis Johnson, Anton Chekhov, Willa Cather, James Joyce, Carson McCullers, Dashiell Hammett, Nathaniel West, Ray Bradbury, Nikolai Gogol, Alan Lightman, Mickey Spillane, Haruki Murakami, Raymond Chandler, Charles BukowskiHeroes
Can't go wrong with Studs Terkel, Harry Smith, Willie Mays, Eric Monte, Groucho Marx, and Robert Wyatt...