Oncinema.com’s Ioncinephile of the Month feature focuses on an emerging filmmaker from the world of cinema. This November, we feature Sean Baker, an independent filmmaker whose fourth film, Starlet premiered at this year’s SXSW Film Festival, then continued onwards to Locarno, BFI London and most recently AFI Film Fest before being released theatrically via Music Box Films on Friday November 9th. Below is our follow-up interview where we learn more about Baker’s process and about the films that have influenced the filmmaker. Here’s Sean Baker’s personal Top Ten films of all time.
Eric Lavallee: During your childhood…what films were important to you?
Sean Baker: When I was in first grade, my mother brought me to the local library where they were screening selected scenes from the Universal monster films on 16mm. I remember watching the burning windmill sequence from James Whale’s...
Eric Lavallee: During your childhood…what films were important to you?
Sean Baker: When I was in first grade, my mother brought me to the local library where they were screening selected scenes from the Universal monster films on 16mm. I remember watching the burning windmill sequence from James Whale’s...
- 11/8/2012
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
[1] Today's TV Bits is a severely mixed bag, as we get updates on two returning shows and a few other shows that are dead or close to it. After the jump: NBC confirms that Community will be back in the spring AMC sets a return date for Mad Men Showtime releases the season premieres of Shameless and Californication online Fox cancels Allen Gregory, begins developing new late-night animated block Fox's Fringe seems likely to get cancelled Fox decides against Glee spin-off, but devises a plan to keep its biggest stars on the show. Let's start with some good-ish news. NBC's Community, which was put on hiatus [2] at the end of last year, will definitely be back, says NBC entertainment chairman Robert Greenblatt. "I wanted to dispel any notion that it’s quietly disappearing from the schedule," he told journalists at the Television Critics Association winter press tour. The network said as much back in November,...
- 1/10/2012
- by Angie Han
- Slash Film
Fox is launching a new unit for development and production of alternative animated series, shorts and user-adapted material. It will be used for the network’s Saturday 11 Pm-12:30 Am late-night block, once home of MadTV and the Spike Feresten and Wanda Sykes talk shows and currently airing reruns. The new late-night animated programming block, which will feature four new series per season, will launch in January 2013. Nick Weidenfeld, former head of program development at Adult Swim, has been tapped to run the unit, whose product will also be used for a new digital multi-platform network, which will be distributed online, on mobile apps, game consoles and video-on-demand. It kicks off in 2012 and will feature 50 original short-form pieces per year, online windows of Fox animated shows, and user-adapted content. The network has also tapped producer Hend Baghdady (Warren The Ape) as the executive in charge of production for the new division.
- 1/8/2012
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
In tonight’s episode of Warren The Ape (MTV, 10:30 p.m. Et), the D-list actor and fabricated American reaches out to his old Greg the Bunny costar Seth Green for cash — at the worst possible time. Watch the clip below. Perhaps if Warren had waited until Saturday, after Green’s Robot Chicken had finally won the Emmy for Outstanding Short-Format Animated Program, he would’ve had better luck.
As for Warren’s answers to the questions submitted for him last week on PopWatch:
Q: Warren, how can you live with yourself?!? — Jose
A: “Practice,” Warren says. “I’ve been doing it all my life.
As for Warren’s answers to the questions submitted for him last week on PopWatch:
Q: Warren, how can you live with yourself?!? — Jose
A: “Practice,” Warren says. “I’ve been doing it all my life.
- 8/23/2010
- by Mandi Bierly
- EW.com - PopWatch
.Warren the Ape. previews for tonight's show are here. Dan Milano's fabricated American, Warren The Ape, is a parody of "the life of a celebrity" reality show. Warren is a D-grade celebrity puppet who is attempting to clean up his act, patch up his relationships and scramble his way back into the Hollywood limelight with the help of his doctor, Dr. Drew Pinsky. Warren "The Ape" Demontague is a brash, cantankerous, out-of-work actor. Having had a brief taste of success on the former sitcom "Greg the Bunny", Warren's life has been in a downward spiral ever since the show got cancelled. Over the past few years, Warren has paid more attention to drugs, booze and women than his...
- 6/21/2010
- by April MacIntyre
- Monsters and Critics
Monday sees our favorite afflicted, addicted and porn obsessed fabricated-American, Warren the Ape of MTV fame, hook up with his showbiz mentor Greg the Bunny in an all-new adventure. Warren The Ape lampoons "the life of a celebrity" reality shows we are inundated with, and focused on the trials and tribulations of a D-grade celebrity puppet who is attempting to clean up his act, patch up his relationships and scramble his way back into the Hollywood limelight with the help of his doctor, Dr. Drew Pinsky. Boozy, skirt-chasing Warren "The Ape" Demontague is a cantankerous, out-of-work actor. A taste of fame on the former sitcom "Greg the Bunny" has made Warren's life a downward spiral ever...
- 6/19/2010
- by April MacIntyre
- Monsters and Critics
Filed under: Features, Celebrity Interviews
Way, way back in January, MTV introduced the nation's critics at the TCA press tour to Warren The Ape. But it was a re-introduction to many. Warren -- a failed actor / successful drunk named Warren Demontague who is a fuzzy ape with a soft helmet on his head -- is familiar to fans of the various 'Greg the Bunny' shows, which have appeared on IFC and Fox since the early 2000s.
This time, though, the focus is on Warren and his bumpy life. During the series, we see Warren trying out for roles, getting pulled over by the cops, and going to meetings. Lots of meetings. He's a fabricated American (PC for "puppet") with a lot of vices, and we tag along with him as he tries to work it out, including to his weekly therapy sessions with Dr. Drew Pinsky (yes, the real Dr.
Way, way back in January, MTV introduced the nation's critics at the TCA press tour to Warren The Ape. But it was a re-introduction to many. Warren -- a failed actor / successful drunk named Warren Demontague who is a fuzzy ape with a soft helmet on his head -- is familiar to fans of the various 'Greg the Bunny' shows, which have appeared on IFC and Fox since the early 2000s.
This time, though, the focus is on Warren and his bumpy life. During the series, we see Warren trying out for roles, getting pulled over by the cops, and going to meetings. Lots of meetings. He's a fabricated American (PC for "puppet") with a lot of vices, and we tag along with him as he tries to work it out, including to his weekly therapy sessions with Dr. Drew Pinsky (yes, the real Dr.
- 6/14/2010
- by Joel Keller
- Aol TV.
Jennifer Aniston has reportedly been spotted chatting with the Jersey Shore cast in Hollywood. According to E! Online's Marc Malkin, the former Friends actress was seen talking to Snooki, J-Woww, Ronnie and Sammi at Trousdale last night. She was also reportedly asked to take a photograph with Hard Times Of Rj Berger star Paul Iacono, and spoke with Dr Drew Pinsky at the event for Hard Times and fellow MTV show Warren The Ape. The cast of Jersey Shore had attended the MTV Movie Awards over the (more)...
- 6/8/2010
- by By Lara Martin
- Digital Spy
"Warren the Ape" comes to the airwaves June 14 at 10:30pm Et/Pt The brainchild of Dan Milano, Greg the Bunny's creative "dad," is the latest "Fabricated-American" superstar with a crooked halo: Warren The Ape. Milano's "Warren" pokes a big banana at the pathos of "the life of a celebrity" reality show, focused on the trials and tribulations of a D-grade celebrity puppet who is attempting to clean up his act, patch up his relationships and scramble his way back into the Hollywood limelight with the help of his doctor, Dr. Drew Pinsky. His new show .Warren the Ape. premieres June 14 at 10:30pm Et/Pt on MTV. It all began with Warren getting bitten by the fame bug...
- 6/2/2010
- by April MacIntyre
- Monsters and Critics
Warren “The Ape” Demontague is a brash, cantankerous, out-of-work actor. Having had a brief taste of success on the former sitcom Greg the Bunny, Warren’s life has been in a downward spiral ever since the show got cancelled. Over the past few years, Warren has paid more attention to drugs, booze and women than his career, which as of late has mostly consisted of a series of seedy exploitation films, obscure industrials, low-rent theatre productions and a regrettable string of skin flicks.
A parody of “the life of a celebrity” reality show, Warren The Ape focuses on the trials and tribulations of the D-grade celebrity puppet who is attempting to clean up his act, patch up his relationships and scramble his way back into the Hollywood limelight with the help of his doctor, Dr. Drew Pinsky, as you can see in thsi clip:
Warren The Ape was created by Sean Baker,...
A parody of “the life of a celebrity” reality show, Warren The Ape focuses on the trials and tribulations of the D-grade celebrity puppet who is attempting to clean up his act, patch up his relationships and scramble his way back into the Hollywood limelight with the help of his doctor, Dr. Drew Pinsky, as you can see in thsi clip:
Warren The Ape was created by Sean Baker,...
- 3/11/2010
- by Phil
- Nerdly
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