The first episode of Himalayan Cats with AK-47s and Eating Disorders is now out!  Enjoy!

Himalayan Cats with AK-47s and Eating Disorders auditions to be the newest house team at the NYUCK Theater.

Phil: Paul Magbitang
Dan: Dan Blumbriel
Christine: Christine Holt
Kate: Kate DeFeo
Brad: Brad Anderson
Conrad: Phil Casale

Produced by Mark L. Feinsod
Story by Dan Blumbriel, Mark L. Feinsod and Paul Magbitang
Written and directed by Mark L. Feinsod
Camera by Mark L. Feinsod and Deirdre Lorenz
Edited by Mark L. Feinsod
Theme composed and performed by Richard Bennett

© 2012 Dan Blumbriel, Mark L. Feinsod and Paul Magbitang

For more information, please email himalayancatsimprov@gmail.com

thepit-nyc:

PITtv team, TSPR presents: The Taste of Coffee.

An improvised short about a man reluctantly sharing his apartment with his live-in girlfriend and the ghost of her last boyfriend.

Please watch this short that I made with Phil Magbitang, Phil Casale and Gaby Dunn.  We improvised it over the course of a single day, and it was a lot of fun to make.  The performances have a nice, natural feel that I enjoy, and I’m happy with how the lone special effect in it came out.

I don’t want to spoil anything, so you’ll have to watch this to see for yourself.

We shot this in September, and ended up with about 4 1/2 hours worth of material.  I’d promised my PITtv team that I’d get it down to under 5 minutes, so it took a very long time to complete.  There’s also a lot of funny stuff that I couldn’t include.  But enjoy this!

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Seeking an Inexpensive NYC Performance/Theater Space to Shoot in on October 22nd During the Day

Minimal crew, plus a few actors. It should preferably have a stage, but that’s not a dealbreaker if the location is otherwise right. Help appreciated. Thanks!

youngmanhattanite: richardrushfield: MOVIE JEWS, STEALTH JEWS AND FLAG WAVING SCREEN JEWS As noted in my review, The Debt raised some questions (but no eyebrows) about gentiles playing jews on the screen, jews playing gentiles and oi gevalt, what a mess!  No doubt it makes the world a better place for ethnicities to portray each other willy nilly, but it bears some keeping track of just for the last vestiges of our ethnic pride.  An incomplete tally of On Screen and Off Screen Jews follows: JEWS ON SCREEN BUT NOT OFF Eva Marie Saint, Sal Mineo, Eric Bana, Daniel Craig, Ciaran Hinds, Jessica Chastain,Willem Dafoe, Ingrid Bergman, Laurence Olivier, Jeffrey Hunter, Max Von Sydow ,Jim Caveizel , Ben Kingsley, Robert DeNiro, James Woods.Elizabeth McGovern,Jennifer Connolly, Don Cheadle, Al Pacino, Charlton Heston  JEWS OFF SCREEN BUT NOT ON Robert Redford, Paul Newman (except for Exodus), Tony Randall, Goldie Hawn, Harrison Ford, Leonard Nimoy, Nell Carter, James Caan, Jane Seymour (excluding Jewish metaphor Battlestar Galatica), Judd Nelson, Natalie Portman, Michael Landon, Mila Kunis, Scarlett Johannsen, Paula Abdul, Shia LeBeouf  JEWS ON SCREEN AND OFF, SUNRISE AND SUNSET (very partial list) Zero Mostel, Richard Benjamin„ Larry David, Dustin Hoffman, Albert Brooks, Jesse Eisenberg, Judd Hirsch, Adrien Brody, Eli Roth, Kevin Kline, Mandy Patikin, Amy Irving One correction: While Natalie Portman has said she tries to “stay away from playing Jews” and “I get like 20 Holocaust scripts a month but I hate the genre,” she did play an Orthodox wife in New York, I Love You. I wish we could add Eric Cantor to the top list.  I find it really hard to believe the Rep. from VA is one of the Chosen People.
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youngmanhattanite:

richardrushfield:

MOVIE JEWS, STEALTH JEWS AND FLAG WAVING SCREEN JEWS

As noted in my review, The Debt raised some questions (but no eyebrows) about gentiles playing jews on the screen, jews playing gentiles and oi gevalt, what a mess!  No doubt it makes the world a better place for ethnicities to portray each other willy nilly, but it bears some keeping track of just for the last vestiges of our ethnic pride.  An incomplete tally of On Screen and Off Screen Jews follows:

JEWS ON SCREEN BUT NOT OFF

Eva Marie Saint, Sal Mineo, Eric Bana, Daniel Craig, Ciaran Hinds, Jessica Chastain,Willem Dafoe, Ingrid Bergman, Laurence Olivier, Jeffrey Hunter, Max Von Sydow ,Jim Caveizel , Ben Kingsley, Robert DeNiro, James Woods.Elizabeth McGovern,Jennifer Connolly, Don Cheadle, Al Pacino, Charlton Heston 

JEWS OFF SCREEN BUT NOT ON

Robert Redford, Paul Newman (except for Exodus), Tony Randall, Goldie Hawn, Harrison Ford, Leonard Nimoy, Nell Carter, James Caan, Jane Seymour (excluding Jewish metaphor Battlestar Galatica), Judd Nelson, Natalie Portman, Michael Landon, Mila Kunis, Scarlett Johannsen, Paula Abdul, Shia LeBeouf 

JEWS ON SCREEN AND OFF, SUNRISE AND SUNSET (very partial list)

Zero Mostel, Richard Benjamin„ Larry David, Dustin Hoffman, Albert Brooks, Jesse Eisenberg, Judd Hirsch, Adrien Brody, Eli Roth, Kevin Kline, Mandy Patikin, Amy Irving

One correction: While Natalie Portman has said she tries to “stay away from playing Jews” and “I get like 20 Holocaust scripts a month but I hate the genre,” she did play an Orthodox wife in New York, I Love You.

I wish we could add Eric Cantor to the top list.  I find it really hard to believe the Rep. from VA is one of the Chosen People.

Source: richardrushfield

Eric Rohmer, French Movie Master, Dies at 89 - TIME

Source: TIME

Friday was Robert Bresson’s birthday.  He would’ve been 108.  Strange that this received almost no attention, since he’s pretty much universally acknowledged as having been one of the greatest filmmakers in the history of the medium. In news that most people will be more interested in, Roman Polanski was arrested in Zurich and may be extradited to the U.S. in connection with his very well-known decades-old sex charge.
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Friday was Robert Bresson’s birthday.  He would’ve been 108.  Strange that this received almost no attention, since he’s pretty much universally acknowledged as having been one of the greatest filmmakers in the history of the medium.

In news that most people will be more interested in, Roman Polanski was arrested in Zurich and may be extradited to the U.S. in connection with his very well-known decades-old sex charge.

I’m so thankful for Criterion.  Especially because they just released Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles on DVD. It’s not easy viewing - the film is a deliberately-paced, extremely long movie about a single mother who makes extra money as a part-time prostitute - but, since it doesn’t seem to be shown on the big screen in New York very often, seeing it on TV is certainly better than not having the chance to ever watch it.
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I’m so thankful for Criterion.  Especially because they just released Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles on DVD.

It’s not easy viewing - the film is a deliberately-paced, extremely long movie about a single mother who makes extra money as a part-time prostitute - but, since it doesn’t seem to be shown on the big screen in New York very often, seeing it on TV is certainly better than not having the chance to ever watch it.

Q&A: Michael Moore

The Hollywood Reporter: Have you ever considered leaving the U.S.?

Michael Moore: Thank you for asking! I had never considered this idea until you mentioned it, and now that you have, it doesn’t sound like such a bad idea! I guess if I were going to live outside the U.S., I would live in Texas.

Moore is really a national treasure.  You can read the rest of this here.