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Aug 4, 2016 · For “Joe Dante at the Movies,” a retrospective at BAMcinématek running Friday through Aug. 24, the programmers let that director pair his movies, including “Gremlins,” “Innerspace ...
Jun 8, 1984 · Gremlins: Directed by Joe Dante. With Hoyt Axton, John Louie, Keye Luke, Don Steele. A young man inadvertently breaks three important rules concerning his new pet and unleashes a horde of malevolently mischievous monsters on a small town.
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Joseph James Dante Jr. (born November 28, 1946) is an American filmmaker, producer, editor and actor. His films—notably Gremlins (1984) alongside its sequel, Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990)—often mix the 1950s-style B movie genre with 1960s radicalism and cartoon comedy. Dante's output includes the films Piranha (1978), The Howling (1981), Explorers (1985), Innerspace (1987), The 'Burbs ...
Jul 26, 2012 · Continuing Dante’s recent run of offbeat work-for-hire projects, he shot the 2003 “4-D” short Haunted Lighthouse for a Sea World attraction, working from an R.L. Stine story. And in 2009 ...
Apr 10, 2023 · Anthology Film Archives in New York City is currently hosting a Joe Dante retrospective oriented around the nearly five-hour supercut collage film The Movie Orgy (screenings of which are free, per tradition), first assembled in 1966 by Dante and Jon Davison and recently converted to a DCP by American Genre Film Archives.
Jun 9, 2023 · A conversation with Joe Dante. The thing that gave us the idea to do “The Movie Orgy” was the reissue of the 1943 “ Batman ” serial. To promote the new TV show, it was re-released to art theaters, so that all 15 chapters could be watched one after another. And after about five hours of this, your brain started to rot.
Feb 16, 2024 · The Creeping Comforts of Living in. The ‘Burbs. A neighbor stepping in dog shit. Tom Hanks chowing down on a slippery, slimy sardine. Human femurs excavated from the ground. A gas line exploding ...
