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- Impressed that Linklater set and shot the film in his hometown of Austin, Texas rather than on a soundstage in a major city, Smith was inspired to become a filmmaker, and to set films where he lived.
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Jul 16, 2023 · Published Jul 16, 2023. Clerks was an underground smash that found even more life on VHS. But why does Kevin Smith's first film hold up? Miramax Films. Kevin Smith introduced the world to...
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The film, shot from June to August 2009, involves a pair of veteran cops tracking down a stolen vintage baseball card, and was released on February 26, 2010, to poor reviews; it was the first film Smith directed but did not write.
His first several films were mostly set in his home state of New Jersey, and while not strictly sequential, they frequently feature crossover plot elements, character references, and a shared canon described by fans as the "View Askewniverse"—named after his production company View Askew Productions, which he co-founded with Scott Mosier.
Oct 21, 2019 · Vancouver Film School. Kevin Smith: The first day of film school, this pretty-boy type who looked like Luke Perry with a leather jacket, total 90210, was sitting in the classroom. I hated...
- Growing Up in Highlands, New Jersey
- The Moment It clicked
- Making Clerks
Movies were my thing. I didn’t do sports. I didn’t engage in the normal activities of ’70s kids. They tried to put me on Little League, but I only think that’s because I loved the Bad News Bears—and I dropped out after two seasons. I was either out in right field or sitting on the bench. So sports just didn’t appeal to me, but sports movies did. Th...
Richard Linklater had made this film, Slacker, which I saw on the night of my 21st birthday. I closed up Quick Stop and me and my friend, Vincent Pereira, who was the only person I had known who was interested in being a filmmaker, drove up to Manhattan to go see Slacker at the Angelika Film Center. We’d read about it in the one copy of The Village...
So Scott came out to New Jersey, and he brought Dave with him. And then in March of ’93, so about a year and eight months after I see Slacker, I’m making my own film. I shoot it at this convenience store that I’ve been working at, and I’ve got the video store next door, so I tell basically a reframed, renamed version of a day in my life. I’m Dante,...
His first movie, Clerks (1994), was filmed in the convenience store in which Smith worked. He was only allowed to shoot at night after the store closed. This movie won the highest award at the Sundance film festival and was brought to theaters by Miramax. The movie went over so well that Smith was able to make another movie, Mallrats (1995 ...
Tusk is a 2014 American independent body horror comedy psychological thriller film written and directed by Kevin Smith, based on a story from his SModcast podcast. The film stars Michael Parks, Justin Long, Haley Joel Osment, Genesis Rodriguez, Lily-Rose Depp and Johnny Depp. The film is the first in Smith's planned True North trilogy, followed ...
