George Hickenlooper
1963 - 2010Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse
Eleanor Coppola, George Hickenlooper
Francis Ford Coppola, Eleanor Coppola
A chronicle of the production problems — including bad weather, actors' health, war near the filming locations, and more — which plagued the filming of Apocalypse Now, increasing costs and nearly destroying the life and career of Francis Ford Coppola.
Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse
Corman's World
Alex Stapleton
Roger Corman, Gary J. Tunnicliffe
A chronicle of the long career of American filmmaker Roger Corman, the most tenacious and ingenious low-budget producer and director in the US film industry, a pioneer of independent filmmaking and discoverer of new talent.
Corman's World
Some Folks Call It a Sling Blade
George Hickenlooper
Billy Bob Thornton, Molly Ringwald
25 years after committing a double murder, Karl Childers is going to be released from an institution for the criminally insane. A local reporter comes to talk to him, and listens in horror about his life leading up to the crime. This is the short film that inspired the full-length "Sling Blade".
Some Folks Call It a Sling Blade
Picture This: The Times of Peter Bogdanovich in Archer City, Texas
George Hickenlooper
Peter Bogdanovich, Antonia Bogdanovich
A visceral deconstruction of Academy Award nominated Peter Bogdanovich and the nervous breakdown he nearly had while shooting THE LAST PICTURE SHOW.
Picture This: The Times of Peter Bogdanovich in Archer City, Texas
The Man from Elysian Fields
George Hickenlooper
Энди Гарсия, Julianna Margulies
A failed novelist's inability to pay the bills strains relations with his wife and leads him to work at an escort service where he becomes entwined with a wealthy woman whose husband is a successful writer.
The Man from Elysian Fields
Factory Girl
George Hickenlooper
Sienna Miller, Guy Pearce
In the mid-1960s, wealthy debutant Edie Sedgwick meets artist Andy Warhol. She joins Warhol's famous Factory and becomes his muse. Although she seems to have it all, Edie cannot have the love she craves from Andy, and she has an affair with a charismatic musician, who pushes her to seek independence from the artist and the milieu.
Factory Girl
Monte Hellman - American Auteur
George Hickenlooper
"This documentary persuasively positions cult figure Monte Hellman as emblematic of an entire generation of American directors. From UCLA film school and Roger Corman hireling to working with Jack Nicholson and independent filmmaking in the 1970s, to his subsequent retreat from directing, Hellman's career illustrates the ups and downs of an artist working in a medium where the lines between art and commerce are often blurred."
Monte Hellman - American Auteur
Dogtown
George Hickenlooper
Rory Cochrane, David Shackelford
Philip Van Horn, who left his small town a long time ago to become a Hollywood actor and hasn't had any success at that, returns to the town for a visit. There he is uniformally met like some kind of celebrity and movie star. He uses it to impress his (and everybody's) school love Dorothy, her life now a grey boring experience.
Dogtown
The Real Edie
Danny Fields, Sam Green
A documentary about Edie Sedgwick, illustrated with photos of her and clips from "Factory Girl", narrated by her real-life friends and loved ones, including her brother Jonathan, cousin John Sedgewick, roommate Danny Fields, artists Richie Berlin and Gerard Malanga, photographer Nat Finkelstein, designer Betsey Johnson, and others.
The Real Edie
Persons Unknown
George Hickenlooper
Joe Mantegna, Kelly Lynch
When former cop and current security expert Jim Holland has a one night stand with Amanda after getting in her way roller-blading. That introduction turns out to be a well thought out plan by Amanda and her sister Molly, to obtain security codes. The girls and their cohorts rob his client and stash the loot. All the while, detective Jim has been following them and he grabs the money for himself. Then his conscience gets the best of him and he falls in love with Molly. His client turns out to be drug dealers and he's forced to risk his life to protect Molly and Amanda.
Persons Unknown
Grey Knight
George Hickenlooper
Corbin Bernsen, Adrian Pasdar
During the Civil War, Confederate soldiers accidentally free an evil voodoo entity brought back by slave traders. The entity possesses the dead bodies of both Union and Confederate soldiers creating an army of its own bent on conquest.
Grey Knight