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• Actors: Seymour Cassel, Kelly Maguire, David Price, Liam O Mochain, Francesco Quinn
• Format: Color, HiFi Sound, Dolby, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 2
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: BCI / Eclipse
• DVD Release Date: April 13, 2004
• Run Time: 338 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• ASIN: B0001WTVNY
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #273,073 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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In an effort to celebrate the art of filmmaking we proudly present our Independent Film Makers Series. Independent film has a very important and powerful voice in our society that encourages diversity and opens doors for filmmakers around the world. Independent film gives artists the opportunity to express their views and create their own vision without the intervention of outside parties. Enjoy these four groundbreaking films that truly encapsulate the passion and essence of filmmaking!Cannes ManSy Lerner-producer director and a legend within the industry-has announced his next major film. Now all the stars at Cannes are lining up to sign up script-unseen. But what sort of plan does Sy really have? This time he's bet a fellow film executive that he can turn a complete nobody into a star by the time the Cannes Film Festival has come to a close. This satirical look at the film industry shot on location at Cannes France features special appearances by Johnny Depp Treat Williams Jim Jarmusch and many others.Raw FishA college comedy about a guy named Fish and his frat buddies who enter a contest to determine "who can shoot the farthest" in order to win a scene with a famous porn star. Fish and his buddies prepare by trying to remain celibate for an entire week prior to the contest as comedy ensues with mishaps and gags.InterruptionsJust when you thought everything has been said about the dysfunctional family along comes Interruptions an edgy comic take on a chaotic clan that turns the typical Woody Allen-neurotic vision into a comparative paradise. Wendy Shuman returning home after a year away at college finds you don't have to leave home to fall down a rabbit hole of surreal characters-you only have to come home. The Book That Wrote ItselfVincent Macken has written his Magnus Opus but nobody will publish it. To prove to the publishers and his detractors that his novel is great he decides to live out the story of his novel. He hires a filmmaker to help him docu

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3.0 out of 5 stars Indie ain't in Indiana, January 11, 2008

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This review is from: The Independents 4 Movie Pack (DVD)

When BCI's THE INDEPENDENTS 4 Movie Pack was released in 2004, it was touted as a celebration of the independent film maker. Being a "maverick" brings with it the freedom to create, unhampered by interference from above. [...]

CONTENTS:

THE BOOK THAT WROTE ITSELF-- To prove his latest writing is credible, an author acts his book out and simultaneously makes it into a movie. Later at the Venice Film Festival, he queries several prominent actors during a Q&A, again with his camera rolling. Stars the screenwriter/director.

CANNES MAN-- An astounding roster of actors. directors and producers appear briefly in this movie-biz spoof. At the Cannes Film Festival, a producer hypes a fictional "greatest writer since Hemingway" and the supposed author's latest work, "Cannes Man" (pronounced "con").

INTERRUPTIONS-- A single summer day in the life of an on-vacation New York college student who's returned to her dysfunctional family in L.A.

RAW FISH-- Sophomoric and unsavory "guy" flick about three frat buddies who enter a contest to see who can "shoot the farthest," the winner receiving a cameo appearance with a famous adult movie starlet. Includes characters identified as: Crotchman, Tampon Girl, Gay Guy, Lisa Swells, etc.

CULT FICTION 4 Movie Pack (also from BCI / Eclipse) offers another unusual sampling of little-seen indie cinema.


BRENTWOOD's 4-fers are nicely priced movie bundles. Video and sound quality of these digitally unrestored public domain films is generally fine. Discs are dual-side recorded.

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Parenthetical numbers preceding titles are 1 to 10 viewer poll ratings found at a film resource website.

(5.2) The Book That Wrote Itself (Ireland-1999) - Liam O Mochain/Antoinette Guiney/Orlaith Rafter (unwitting cameos: George Clooney/Kenneth Branagh/Melanie Griffith/Chazz Palminteri/Warren Beatty/Catherine Deneuve/Annette Benning)

(5.4) Cannes Man (1996) - Seymour Cassel/Francesco Quinn/Rebecca Broussard (cameos: Johnny Depp/Treat Williams/Jim Jarmusch/Lara Flynn Boyle/James Brolin/Jon Cryer/Ann Cusack/Benecio Del Toro/Robert Evans/Dennis Hopper/Julian Lennon/John Malkovich/Chris Penn/Kevin Pollak/Luana Anders/Peter Gallagher/Harvey Weinstein/Menahem Golan

(???) Interruptions (1997) - Kelly Maguire/Harry Cohn/Grace McClure/Jessica Renae Miller

(1.6) Raw Fish (2001) - David Price/Russel Rashed/Ben Haas