“The Story of a Teen-Age Fire-Bomb! Look out! She’s set to explode!” (The Green Eyed Blonde, 1957)
With the making of my new short film, Condemned, I found myself watching and re-watching many Women-In-Prison (WIP) films. Recently catching up with a curious 1957 picture, The Green Eyed Blonde, I was inspired to write about the “Reform [...]
Talk Normal released their new music video today. It was directed by Pastor Alvarado & Genn Leong, who did production design and costumes on my upcoming short, Condemned. It’s excellent, check it out…
My last update featured photos of of Mexican Lobby Cards I got from my friend, Roy Frumkes, who found them at a visit to a vintage store in Huntington, NY. Roy, Rob Neilson, Glenn Andreiev and I ventured out there to scavage more memorabilia…
This resulted in many more Mexican Lobby Cards, from classic Hollywood to [...]
My friend, Roy Frumkes, picked up these stunning (vintage!) Mexican Lobby Cards for me at an old thrift store. 3 exploitation features from the 1960’s (The Choppers, Girl in Trouble & The Mini-Skirt Mob), and one by Frank Tashlin and Jerry Lewis.
The Choppers (1961)
Started work on a new short film titled, CONDEMNED. A 1950s prison drama. To be shot in NYC sometime in late-August.
I’m looking for the 3 lead actresses:
Female Prisoner #1031: 26-30, once lively, now worn out, beaten down, fighting to stay alive.
Laura: 28-32, A Mamie Van Doren-type, wannabe 50s movie-star behind bars.
The Night Guard: 40s/50s, a [...]
My review of the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival is now up at The Brooklyn Rail. Also available in print around the Brooklyn area.
It features reviews of Black Dynamite, Don McKay, Stay Cool, The Girlfriend Experience, The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia, Transcendent Man, Soul Power, Blank City and Burning Down the House: The [...]
Menahem Golan turns 80 today. To celebrate the birthday of this filmmaking giant, the Tel-Aviv Cinematheque Magazine in Israel put out a special tribute issue. I was happy to contribute a piece about the history of Canon Films, the American production company of Golan’s and his cousin’s, Yoram Globus.
Scans can be found below. Click on [...]
Uploaded “Heavy Soul” to Vimeo
Heavy Soul from Oren Shai on Vimeo.
The music video I co-directed with Tom Shoval this past August is now online. It is spun-off the previous Adam Sandler film, “You Don’t Mess with the Zohan”, and features Ido Mosseri as Oori and Rob Schneider as himself. Shot in Israel.
The video is up on Vimeo and YouTube and here in quicktime format – [...]
For the past few months I have been working on revamping the Films In Review website. FIR is edited and owned by Roy Frumkes, who took it over in 1996. Formerly it was the film publication of the National Board of Review.
In addition to the new design, articles from the magazine’s 50+ years in print [...]
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