Archives for the ‘Updates’ Category

Talk Normal

By • Oct 27th, 2009 • Category: Music Videos, Uncategorized, Updates

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…

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The Great Mexican Lobby Cards Caper

By • Jul 28th, 2009 • Category: Updates

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 [...]

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Mexican Lobby Cards

By • Jul 22nd, 2009 • Category: Updates

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)

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Pre-Production & Casting – CONDEMNED

By • Jul 13th, 2009 • Category: Updates

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 [...]

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The 2009 Tribeca Film Festival

By • Jun 4th, 2009 • Category: Updates, Writings

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: [...]

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“Our Only Crime is That We Love Cinema”: Menahem Golan @ 80

By • May 31st, 2009 • Category: Updates, Writings

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 Cannon Films, the American production company of Golan’s and his cousin’s, Yoram Globus. Scans can be found below. Click [...]

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“Heavy Soul” on Vimeo

By • Jan 10th, 2009 • Category: Heavy Soul, Updates

Uploaded “Heavy Soul” to Vimeo Heavy Soul from Oren Shai on Vimeo.

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The Poontachat Song

By • Dec 30th, 2008 • Category: Music Videos, Updates

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 [...]

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The New ‘Films In Review’

By • Jul 23rd, 2008 • Category: Updates

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 [...]

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‘Heavy Soul’ Streaming on IMDB

By • May 31st, 2008 • Category: Updates

‘Heavy Soul’ is now available for viewing on IMDB as a streaming video: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0800062/ The IMDB Theaters section seems to only work in certain regions, if it doesn’t, it is available for viewing below… Get the Flash Player to see this player. var FO = { movie:”https://media.dreamhost.com/mediaplayer.swf”,width:”420″,height:”335″,majorversion:”7″,build:”0″,bgcolor:”#000000″, flashvars:”file=http://www.rockingoren.com/wp-content/video/heavysoulfull.flv&showdigits=true&autostart=false” }; UFO.create(FO,”heavysoulfull.flv”);

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