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13 July 2010 12:14 AM, PDT | The Moving Arts Journal | See recent The Moving Arts Journal news »

It takes about three months to make a movie — a Hollywood movie — excluding post and preproduction.  Some take longer.  Nightmarish production on Francis Ford Coppola’s “Apocalypse Now” took 238 days.  Stanley Kubrick’s penultimate masterpiece, “Eyes Wide Shut,” took more than 15 months.

Nonsense.

Jim Wynorski, the most prolific filmmaker you’ve never heard of, can shoot a full-length feature film in only three days. That’s like if Michaelangelo had completed the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in a couple of months.  His actors cook their own food, do their own makeup and drive themselves to the set.  And what of the massive crew of grips, gaffers, script supervisors, stand-ins, technical and historical advisors and assistants essential to producing a professional, polished movie?

Balderdash!

Try a cameraman, boom operator and two lights.  That’s how Wynorski, one of the most celebrated and infamous B-movie directors in the industry works.  And the hilarious documentary, »

- Eric M. Armstrong

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