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Wednesday, April 28, 2010 11:05:26 AM
Daniel Kraus wrote a blog post titled Breakdown: the Eugene Brinkmeister Story:
Daniel said, "At long, long last, a movie I'm not embarrassed to post!Long overdue (and sorely welcome) was the debut performance of Matt N. He plays Eugene, a budding lunatic whose dense psychotherapist is too busy shooting up (and smoking joints and snorting..." more
Wednesday, April 28, 2010 11:05:26 AM
Daniel Kraus wrote a blog post titled The Goat Show - Chicago event:
Daniel said, "If this blog isn't enough self-torture for you, get your butt over to Collaboraction Sound Stage on Wednesday, September 30, to witness Francis Ford Iowa on the big screen.That's right, two surprise selections from FFI will be projected to the..." more
Wednesday, April 28, 2010 11:05:26 AM
Daniel Kraus wrote a blog post titled The Bastard Chicken Clock from Hell:
Daniel said, "My oft-made gripe is that I didn't have any editing equipment. But what if I had? Today, an experiment! I re-edit one of my movies.The movie in question is The Bastard Chicken Clock from Hell. I had this clock. It was plastic, shaped like a chicken,..." more
Wednesday, April 28, 2010 11:05:26 AM
Daniel Kraus wrote a blog post titled Trailers #3:
Daniel said, "Give me some credit. Even as a teen, I knew I had a future cult hero in Joe. His train-wreck performances quickly became the stuff of legend. White Lightning was a movie purported to be written and directed by Joe, and the joke is that he was as..." more
Wednesday, April 28, 2010 11:05:26 AM
Daniel Kraus wrote a blog post titled Record AFTER previews, Dad.:
Daniel said, "Recently my old high school invited me back to speak about my novel, and I took the opportunity to plunder the cardboard-box catacombs of my dad's basement. Like Indiana Jones, I was on the hunt for the most fabled of treasures from the storied..." more
Wednesday, April 28, 2010 11:05:26 AM
Daniel Kraus wrote a blog post titled The Godfathers:
Daniel said, "Although it would be The Godfathers: Part Two that would implode Danman Productions, this is the one that paved the way for the overdue extinction. Clocking in at around 50 minutes, it was ambitious. Not good, mind you. Just ambitious. (And,..." more
Wednesday, April 28, 2010 11:05:26 AM
Daniel Kraus wrote a blog post titled Ice Hot Ravioli:
Daniel said, "Surely inspired by the art-film non sequiturs of "Sprockets", this is our uninformed take on the "experimental film." Senseless and idiotic. But let me tell the story behind the story:It was the dead of winter. Ice had been pounding down all night...." more
Wednesday, April 28, 2010 11:05:26 AM
Daniel Kraus wrote a blog post titled The Lottery:
Daniel said, "Here's a weird one for you.Due to my incalculable fame, a movie was chosen as the special project in my Advanced Speech class. After picking a story--Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery"--all we had to do was adapt it to script form, assign ourselves..." more
Wednesday, April 28, 2010 11:05:26 AM
Daniel Kraus wrote a blog post titled Harvest of Wrath:
Daniel said, "Recently I was invited back to my high school to talk about my book, and during a Q&A someone asked me to relate my favorite high-school memory. My response: I really enjoyed not going to my senior prom. The answer drew applause, though it was..." more
Wednesday, April 28, 2010 11:05:26 AM
Daniel Kraus wrote a blog post titled Trailers X:
Daniel said, "As I explained earlier, it was no less than a miracle to uncover this long-lost artifact. And what a find! The first three groups of trailers can't hold a candle to the disturbing goings-on found in these precious five minutes.First up: the infamous..." more
Wednesday, April 28, 2010 11:05:26 AM
Daniel Kraus wrote a blog post titled Evening of Fear:
Daniel said, "When I pillaged my dad's basement looking for mythic Danman oddities, I was shocked (and then, after I watched it, appalled) to find the single extant copy of Evening of Fear. It is hands-down the most embarrassing footage of me in existence. Yes,..." more
Wednesday, April 28, 2010 11:05:26 AM
Daniel Kraus wrote a blog post titled Merry Christmas:
Daniel said, "During the latter days of Danman Productions, I was a subscriber to Movieline. There wasn't much in the way of video stores in my town, and it fell to this mag to open up to me the world of cinema. It was where I first heard of Quentin Tarantino,..." more
Wednesday, April 28, 2010 11:05:25 AM
Daniel Kraus wrote a blog post titled Chuckles the Clown:
Daniel said, "You can feel the panic in these final few videos. College was probably only weeks away. Friends were departing. There was hardly anyone left to put in front of the camera. The result was improvisational garbage like this that was more about my need..." more
Wednesday, April 28, 2010 11:05:25 AM
Daniel Kraus wrote a blog post titled Dirt 2:
Daniel said, "What can one say about perfection? I choose to say nothing."
Wednesday, April 28, 2010 11:05:25 AM
Daniel Kraus wrote a blog post titled Coming Soon: The Godfathers Part Two:
Daniel said, "The Godfathers: Part Two was so big, it required hype. Above is the sole existing copy of the promotional artwork drawn by Matt K. As you can see, I began to gather the signatures of all the cast members during shooting but never finished. I hope to..." more
Wednesday, April 28, 2010 11:05:25 AM
Daniel Kraus wrote a blog post titled The Godfathers: Part Two:
Daniel said, "At long last, here it is. The final Danman Production.(Watch or embed the full YouTube playlist.)Originally, this epic sequel clocked in at 2 hours and 40 minutes. Neither you, I, nor the internet had any interest in uploading that much crap, much..." more
Wednesday, April 28, 2010 11:05:25 AM
Daniel Kraus wrote a blog post titled The Danny Awards!:
Daniel said, "When I posted about aborted projects, I forgot The Danny Awards. They were to be Danman's answer to the Oscars, complete with clips of the nominated films, shots of my actors crossing their fingers and looking tense, and, of course, bloated and..." more
Wednesday, April 28, 2010 11:05:25 AM
Daniel Kraus wrote a blog post titled Sex, Drugs, & Film: The Rise and Fall of Danman Productions - Part I:
Daniel said, "Danman Productions was dead. Long live Danman Productions![Note: first 7 minutes has a bad echo--fight through it!]It was three years later when I found myself in a college class called Video Art. If the title doesn't tip you off, it was the kind of..." more
Wednesday, April 28, 2010 11:05:25 AM
Daniel Kraus wrote a blog post titled The Vault of Horror:
Daniel said, "What you are looking at is an artifact of untold value. It is the original handwritten script to Kat Killer, the very first Danman Production. All over it are the scribbles, revisions, and doodles of yours truly. From whence did this veritable..." more
Wednesday, April 28, 2010 11:05:25 AM
Daniel Kraus wrote a blog post titled Circle:
Daniel said, "All that stuff about how The Godfathers: Part Two was the final Danman Production? Yeah, that wasn't true. Circle, which utilized the same company of actors, was technically the last movie. I could've sworn it wasn't branded with the illustrious..." more
Wednesday, April 28, 2010 11:05:25 AM
Daniel Kraus wrote a blog post titled Abandoned Projects:
Daniel said, "When I wrote (longingly! wistfully!) about four missing masterpieces, I was relying on the old noggin, which I guess isn't what it used to be. The recent unsealing of the vaults revealed that I was far more prolific than I remembered. Below I break..." more
Wednesday, April 28, 2010 11:05:25 AM
Daniel Kraus wrote a blog post titled WORLD PREMIERE: Sex, Drugs, & Film: The Rise and Fall of Danman Productions - Part II:
Daniel said, "Fifteen years after being shot, the sequel to Sex, Drugs, & Film is finally complete!A LITTLE BACKGROUND FIRST...Filmed simultaneously with Part One, it was supposed to have been edited directly afterward. But because of the limitations of ye..." more
Wednesday, April 28, 2010 11:05:25 AM
Daniel Kraus wrote a blog post titled A Final Word:
Daniel said, "I've posted 35 movies. Logged 51 posts. Re-edited a masterpiece. Handed out awards. World premiered lost films. Written another novel. Finished another documentary. It's been a hell of a year.Out of all this effort, one bona fide superstar was..." more
Wednesday, April 28, 2010 11:05:25 AM
Daniel Kraus wrote a blog post titled THE END.:
Daniel said, "CLOSED FOR BUSINESS[Comments remain open.]Keep updated @danielkraus.com (books),workseries.com (movies),& Facebook."
Wednesday, April 28, 2010 11:05:26 AM
Daniel Kraus wrote a blog post titled Trailers #2:
Daniel said, "As the feature presentations themselves got bigger and bolder, the trailers that preceded them got worser and worser. As if the preview to Como Estas? hadn't been offensive enough, Como Estats? Dos! claims to be from both Spain and Mexico. I can..." more