Filmmaker Chris Wilcha captured what it was like working at Columbia House during this boom time in a low-key, first-person documentary called The Target Shoots First. Wilcha—who started off in the marketing department as an assistant product manager and was soon promoted to product manager—took a camcorder to work and captured the absurdity and mundanity of the company at that moment in time. He filmed scenes not just in the company’s New York offices, but also at the massive Terre Haute, Indiana, manufacturing, customer service, and distribution center (which employed 3,300 people in 1996) as well as an amusing Aerosmith in-store appearance and a trade-show rendezvous with David Hasselhoff.
Incredibly, few people seemed to bat an eye at the camera, which allowed Wilcha to capture the weird tension between the freewheeling creative department and responsibility-burdened marketing team, the old-guard music executives and the younger employees versed in the nascent alternative music culture, and a corporate environment not quite sure what to do with the next generation. Today, Wilcha, who co-directed Knock Knock, It’s Tig Notaro and directed/co-executive produced Showtime’s version of This American Life, calls The Target Shoots First “a weird, pre-internet document of that moment [in time], like The Office before The Office,” which is a good assessment; if anything, it’s an unselfconscious (and often quaint) look at a time just before technology revolutionized both office culture and the music industry.
Fast paced Italian crime movie with the various action scenes revolving around bank robberies, street violence, car chases - cops verses the underworld at its greatest. If you have ever been interested in seeing what the Euro-crime genre is all about, watch this one!
Fifteen dead bodies. No breasts. Flaming baby. Mace-clubbing. Eyeball-ripping. Eyeball-eating. Multiple ancient curses. Exploding demon. Close-up gunshot wound to the head. Finger-hacking. Knife to the forehead. Broom handle stuffed in the mouth, exiting in rear. Arm-hacking, with maggots. Neck-chomping. Flag through the stomach. One shoot-out. Four motor vehicle chases, with two fireballs. Gratuitous zombie attack. Head rolls.
Drive-In Academy Award nominations for ...
* Max Grodenchik, as the pointy-eared, jug-nosed, cackling midget from hell, for saying, "Come, bring the pain!" and, "Thy future is harsh on thy throat!" and "I smell a baby!"
* Allyce Beasley, as the best friend who puts her hand on the ancient talisman and wishes for "an exotic male dancer."
* Kim Johnston Ulrich, as the young mom running from the "satanic little freak with pointy ears."
* Vera Lockwood, as the scary-looking antiques dealer who says, "Next time an old witch tells you not to buy something, you listen!"
* Tommy Blaze, as the talk-show-host-turned-demon-fighter who knows he's a jerk and loves himself for it.
* And Mark Jones, the writer/director, for doing things the drive-in way.
"Maria Bamford: The Special Special Special is equal parts family drama, after-midnight confession, and ballsy conceptual stunt. It’s also one of the most fearless and bracingly dark explorations of mental illness in recent memory. But since the special is the product of Bamford’s beautifully tormented mind, it has the benefit of being consistently hilarious. If it weren’t so funny, it would be unbearably sad."
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Movie comment on The Target Shoots First
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Filmmaker Chris Wilcha captured what it was like working at Columbia House during this boom time in a low-key, first-person documentary called The Target Shoots First. Wilcha—who started off in the marketing department as an assistant product manager and was soon promoted to product manager—took a camcorder to work and captured the absurdity and mundanity of the company at that moment in time. He filmed scenes not just in the company’s New York offices, but also at the massive Terre Haute, Indiana, manufacturing, customer service, and distribution center (which employed 3,300 people in 1996) as well as an amusing Aerosmith in-store appearance and a trade-show rendezvous with David Hasselhoff.Incredibly, few people seemed to bat an eye at the camera, which allowed Wilcha to capture the weird tension between the freewheeling creative department and responsibility-burdened marketing team, the old-guard music executives and the younger employees versed in the nascent alternative music culture, and a corporate environment not quite sure what to do with the next generation. Today, Wilcha, who co-directed Knock Knock, It’s Tig Notaro and directed/co-executive produced Showtime’s version of This American Life, calls The Target Shoots First “a weird, pre-internet document of that moment [in time], like The Office before The Office,” which is a good assessment; if anything, it’s an unselfconscious (and often quaint) look at a time just before technology revolutionized both office culture and the music industry.
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From JBB...Fifteen dead bodies. No breasts. Flaming baby. Mace-clubbing. Eyeball-ripping. Eyeball-eating. Multiple ancient curses. Exploding demon. Close-up gunshot wound to the head. Finger-hacking. Knife to the forehead. Broom handle stuffed in the mouth, exiting in rear. Arm-hacking, with maggots. Neck-chomping. Flag through the stomach. One shoot-out. Four motor vehicle chases, with two fireballs. Gratuitous zombie attack. Head rolls.
Drive-In Academy Award nominations for ...
* Max Grodenchik, as the pointy-eared, jug-nosed, cackling midget from hell, for saying, "Come, bring the pain!" and, "Thy future is harsh on thy throat!" and "I smell a baby!"
* Allyce Beasley, as the best friend who puts her hand on the ancient talisman and wishes for "an exotic male dancer."
* Kim Johnston Ulrich, as the young mom running from the "satanic little freak with pointy ears."
* Vera Lockwood, as the scary-looking antiques dealer who says, "Next time an old witch tells you not to buy something, you listen!"
* Tommy Blaze, as the talk-show-host-turned-demon-fighter who knows he's a jerk and loves himself for it.
* And Mark Jones, the writer/director, for doing things the drive-in way.
Four stars (out of four).
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From Nathan Rabin's review on the A.V. Club..."Maria Bamford: The Special Special Special is equal parts family drama, after-midnight confession, and ballsy conceptual stunt. It’s also one of the most fearless and bracingly dark explorations of mental illness in recent memory. But since the special is the product of Bamford’s beautifully tormented mind, it has the benefit of being consistently hilarious. If it weren’t so funny, it would be unbearably sad."
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