In a beginning film course at USC Cinema during 1969, Carpenter wrote and directed an 8-minute short film, "Captain Voyeur". The film was rediscovered in the USC archives in 2011 and proved interesting because it revealed elements that would appear in his later film, "Halloween" (1978). The next year he collaborated with producer John Longenecker as co-writer, film editor, and music composer for "The Resurrection of Broncho Billy" (1970), which won an Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film. The short film was enlarged to 35 mm, sixty prints were made, and the film was released theatrically by Universal Studios for two years in the United States and Canada.
1960s: Student films and Academy Award
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John Carpenter | 1960s: Student films and Academy Award
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In a beginning film course at USC Cinema during 1969, Carpenter wrote and directed an 8-minute short film, "Captain Voyeur". The film was rediscovered in the USC archives in 2011 and proved interesting because it revealed elements that would appear in his later film, "Halloween" (1978). The next year he collaborated with producer John Longenecker as co-writer, film editor, and music composer for "The Resurrection of Broncho Billy" (1970), which won an Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film. The short film was enlarged to 35 mm, sixty prints were made, and the film was released theatrically by Universal Studios for two years in the United States and Canada.
John Carpenter | 1960s: Student films and Academy Award
Carpenter was born on January 16, 1948 in Carthage, New York, the son of Milton Jean ("née" Carter) and Howard Ralph Carpenter, a music professor. He and his family relocated to Bowling Green, Kentucky during 1953. He was interested in films from an early age, particularly the westerns of Howard Hawks and John Ford, as well as 1950s low-budget horror films such as "The Thing from Another World" and high-budget science fiction like "Forbidden Planet", and began filming horror short films with 8 mm film even before starting high school. He attended Western Kentucky University, where his father chaired the music department, then transferred to the University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts during 1968, but quit to make his first feature film.
John Carpenter | Early life
John Howard Carpenter (born January 16, 1948) is an American film director, producer, screenwriter, and composer. Although Carpenter has worked with various film genres, he is associated most commonly with horror, action, and science fiction films of the 1970s and 1980s. Most films of Carpenter's career were initially commercial and critical failures, with the notable exceptions of "Halloween" (1978), "The Fog" (1980), "Escape from New York" (1981), and "Starman" (1984). However, many of Carpenter's films from the 1970s and the 1980s have come to be considered as cult classics, and he has been acknowledged as an influential filmmaker. The cult classics that Carpenter has directed include "Dark Star" (1974), "Assault on Precinct 13" (1976), "The Thing" (1982), "Christine" (1983), "Big Trouble in Little China" (1986), "Prince of Darkness" (1987), "They Live" (1988), and "In the Mouth of Madness" (1995).
John Carpenter | Introduction
The film was the first time Carpenter worked with Debra Hill, who played prominently in the making of some of Carpenter's most important films. Carpenter assembled a main cast that consisted of experienced but relatively obscure actors. The two main actors were Austin Stoker, who had appeared previously in science fiction, disaster, and blaxploitation films, and Darwin Joston, who had worked primarily for television and had once been Carpenter's next-door neighbor.
John Carpenter | 1970s: From student films to theatrical releases
Carpenter's films are characterized by minimalist lighting and photography, static cameras, use of steadicam, and distinctive synthesized scores (usually self-composed). With the exception of "Someone's Watching Me!", "Elvis", "The Thing", "Starman", "Memoirs of an Invisible Man", and "The Ward", he has scored all of his films (though some are collaborations), most famously the themes from "Halloween" and "Assault on Precinct 13". His music is generally synthesized with accompaniment from piano and atmospherics. Carpenter is an outspoken proponent of widescreen filming, and all of his theatrical films (with the exception of "Dark Star" and "The Ward") were filmed anamorphic with a 2.35:1 or greater aspect ratio.
John Carpenter | Techniques
Carpenter's first major film as director, "Dark Star" (1974), was a science fiction comedy that he co-wrote with Dan O'Bannon (who later went on to write "Alien", borrowing freely from much of "Dark Star"). The film reportedly cost only $60,000 and was difficult to make as both Carpenter and O'Bannon completed the film by multitasking, with Carpenter doing the musical score as well as the writing, producing, and directing, while O'Bannon acted in the film and did the special effects (which caught the attention of George Lucas who hired him to work with the special effects for the film "Star Wars").
John Carpenter | 1970s: From student films to theatrical releases
Carpenter received praise for his ability to make low-budget films. Carpenter's next film was "Assault on Precinct 13" (1976), a low-budget thriller influenced by the films of Howard Hawks, particularly "Rio Bravo". As with "Dark Star", Carpenter was responsible for many aspects of the film's creation. He not only wrote, directed, and scored it, but also edited the film using the pseudonym "John T. Chance" (the name of John Wayne's character in "Rio Bravo"). Carpenter has said that he considers "Assault on Precinct 13" to have been his first real film because it was the first film that he filmed on a schedule.
John Carpenter | 1970s: From student films to theatrical releases
Carpenter's 1990s career is characterized by a number of notable failures: "Memoirs of an Invisible Man" (1992), "Village of the Damned" (1995), and "Escape from L.A." (1996) are examples of films that were critical and financial failures. Also notable from this decade are "Body Bags", a television horror anthology film that was made in collaboration with Tobe Hooper, "In the Mouth of Madness" (1995), yet another Lovecraftian homage, which did not do well either commercially or with critics but now has a cult following, and "Vampires" (1998), which featured James Woods as the leader of a band of vampire hunters in league with the Catholic Church.
John Carpenter | 1990s: Commercial decline and "Halloween H20: 20 Years Later"
Many of Carpenter's films have been re-released on DVD as special editions with numerous bonus features. Examples of such are: the collector's editions of "Halloween", "Escape from New York", "Christine", "The Thing", "Assault on Precinct 13", "Big Trouble In Little China", and "The Fog". Some were re-issued with a new anamorphic widescreen transfer. In the UK, several of Carpenter's films have been released as DVD with audio commentary by Carpenter and his actors ("They Live", with actor/wrestler Roddy Piper, "Starman" with actor Jeff Bridges, and "Prince of Darkness" with actor Peter Jason). Carpenter has been the subject of the documentary film "John Carpenter: The Man and His Movies", and American Cinematheque's 2002 retrospective of his films.
John Carpenter | Legacy
Robert also appeared in two other John Carpenter movies; namely "Someone's Watching Me!" (1978) and "Starman" (1984). His other film credits include "Three Days of the Condor" (1975), "Just You and Me, Kid" (1979), "Zoot Suit" (1981), "The Gladiator" (1986) and "Impulse" (1990).
Robert Phalen | Introduction
Despite production problems and mostly negative critical reception, "The Fog" was another commercial success for Carpenter. The film was made on a budget of $1,000,000, but it grossed over $21,000,000 in the United States alone. Carpenter has said that "The Fog" is not his favorite film, although he considers it a "minor horror classic".
John Carpenter | 1980s: Continued commercial success
Before applying, O'Bannon was pursuing a psychology degree. It was at USC that he met John Carpenter and collaborated with him on the science fiction student film "Dark Star" (1974).
Dan O'Bannon | Early life
Carpenter had just made "Dark Star", but no one wanted to hire him as a director, so he assumed he would make it in Hollywood as a screenwriter. The filmmaker went on to do other films with the intention of making "Escape" later. After the success of "Halloween", Avco-Embassy signed producer Debra Hill and him to a two-picture deal. The first film from this contract was "The Fog". Initially, the second film he was going to make to finish the contract was "The Philadelphia Experiment", but because of script-writing problems, Carpenter rejected it in favor of this project. However, Carpenter felt something was missing and recalls, "This was basically a straight action film.
Escape from New York | Pre-production
Carpenter met his future wife, actress Adrienne Barbeau, on the set of his 1978 television film "Someone's Watching Me!". Carpenter was married to Barbeau from January 1, 1979, to 1984. During their marriage, Barbeau starred in "The Fog", and also appeared in "Escape from New York". The couple had one son, John Howard Jr. (born May 7, 1984), nicknamed "Cody" to avoid confusion with his father. Carpenter has been married to producer Sandy King since 1990. King produced Carpenter's later films "In the Mouth of Madness", "Village of the Damned", "Vampires", and "Ghosts of Mars". She earlier had been the script supervisor for his films "Starman", "Big Trouble in Little China", "Prince of Darkness", and "They Live".
John Carpenter | Personal life
Carpenter followed up the success of "Halloween" with "The Fog" (1980), a ghostly revenge tale (co-written by Hill) inspired by horror comics such as "Tales from the Crypt" and by "The Crawling Eye", a 1958 film about monsters hiding in clouds. Completing "The Fog" was an unusually difficult process for Carpenter. After viewing a rough cut of the film, he was dissatisfied with the result. For the only time in his filmmaking career, he had to devise a way to salvage a nearly finished film that did not meet his standards. In order to make the film more coherent and frightening, Carpenter filmed additional footage that included a number of new scenes.
John Carpenter | 1980s: Continued commercial success
The film began as a 45-minute 16mm student project with a final budget of six thousand dollars. Beginning with an initial budget of one thousand dollars from USC in 1970, Carpenter and O'Bannon completed the first version of the film in 1972. Carpenter had to replace the voice of Pahich with his own as Talby. To achieve theatrical length, an additional fifty minutes were filmed with the support of Canadian distributor Jack Murphy (credited as "Production Associate"). Through John Landis, a friend of O'Bannon, the film came to the attention of producer-distributor Jack H. Harris, who obtained the theatrical distribution rights to the film, and insisted on extensive cuts to the existing film as well as the shooting of additional 35mm footage to bring the movie back up to feature film length O'Bannon would later lament that as a result of the padding into a feature-length movie, "We had what would have been the world’s most impressive student film and it became the world’s least impressive professional film".
Dark Star (film) | Filming
In 1967 Longenecker attended the UCLA Film School. In 1968 he enrolled in film production classes at the University of Southern California – USC Cinema Department. He produced "The Resurrection of Broncho Billy" (1970) at USC Cinema. For his film crew Longnecker invited now-noted film directors Nick Castle and John Carpenter to work with him on the senior year project. The unusual spelling "Broncho" in the short's title was an homage to Broncho Billy Anderson, considered filmdom's first cowboy star. Castle was the cinematographer for the short, Carpenter was the film editor and composed the music for the picture, and James Rokos directed the short film.
John Longenecker | Academy Award – Live Action Short Film
Hubert Humphrey also joined after losing the 1968 United States presidential election.) One of John Barnes' 1953 contributions, "The Living City", earned an Academy Award nomination. The following year, he filmed a series of historical subjects in England, among them the socially conscious "The Pilgrims", "Captain John Smith, Founder of Virginia", and "Roger Williams: Founder of Rhode Island". Some of these gained praise even by mainstream theatrical film critics who traditionally ignored school films, like Howard Thompson of the "New York Times" (July 3, 1955).
Encyclopædia Britannica Films | EB's Golden Age
Carpenter would also make a featured appearance in Wood's 1959 film, "Night of the Ghouls". By the 1960s, western film work had dried up and Carpenter's output decreased, with his last film role being in 1961's "Tomboy and the Champ".
Johnny Carpenter | Film career
The 43-minute film "" (1987) was directed by Todd Haynes and was withdrawn from circulation in 1990, after Haynes lost a copyright infringement lawsuit filed by Richard. The film's title is derived from The Carpenters' 1971 hit song, "Superstar." Over the years, it has developed into a cult film and is included in "Entertainment Weekly"'s 2003 list of top 50 cult movies. Carpenter helped in the productions of the documentaries "" (1997) and "" (2007).
Richard Carpenter (musician) | Documentaries
The grandson of a film sound engineer, Carpenter was born in Van Nuys, California in 1950 to a family of six. After his parents divorced in 1960, he moved with his mother and 4 siblings to Orange County, where he took up Super 8 films as a hobby. He enrolled in San Diego State University to study television directing, but later changed his major to English. To pay for school, he worked at a local public broadcasting channel, where he learned the ropes of documentary filmmaking. After graduating, he moved back to Orange County, where he shot educational films and documentaries.
Russell Carpenter | Early life and education
Carpenter originally wrote the screenplay for "Escape from New York" in 1976, in the aftermath of Nixon's Watergate scandal. Carpenter said, "The whole feeling of the nation was one of real cynicism about the president." He wrote the screenplay, but no studio wanted to make it because, according to Carpenter, "[i]t was too violent, too scary, [and] too weird". He had been inspired by the film "Death Wish", which was very popular at the time. He did not agree with this film's philosophy, but liked how it conveyed "the sense of New York as a kind of jungle, and I wanted to make a science-fiction film along these lines".
Escape from New York | Development and writing
It was typical of John during those lean days. He made the very best of whatever talent and facilities he had around him." Carpenter drew storyboards for key sequences, including the "ice cream truck" sequence, the death of the white warlord, Napoleon Wilson struggling to get the keys of the guard after the siege starts, and the failed escape by prisoner Wells.
Assault on Precinct 13 (1976 film) | Pre-production
For a recent interview, Carpenter stated that it was his father's work, as a music teacher, which first sparked an interest in him to make music. This interest was to play a major role in his later career: he composed the music to most of his films, and the soundtrack to many of those became "cult" items for record collectors. A 21st-Century revival of his music is due in no small amount to the Death Waltz record company, which reissued several of his soundtracks, including "Escape from New York", "Halloween II", "", "Assault on Precinct 13", "They Live", "Prince of Darkness", and "The Fog".
John Carpenter | Film music and solo records
John Carpenter is an American film director, producer, writer and composer. He has contributed to many projects as either the producer, writer, director, actor, composer or a combination of the five.
John Carpenter filmography | Introduction
Carpenter did not want to write the project himself, after recently completing work on "Escape from New York" (1981), and having struggled to complete a screenplay for "The Philadelphia Experiment" (1984). He was wary of taking on writing duties, preferring to let someone else do it. Once Carpenter was confirmed as the director, several writers were asked to script "The Thing", including Richard Matheson, Nigel Kneale, and Deric Washburn. Bill Lancaster initially met with Turman, Foster and Cohen in 1977, but he was given the impression that they wanted to closely replicate "The Thing from Another World", and he did not want to remake the film.
The Thing (1982 film) | Writing
He would not always use these kinds of camera movements ("The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg" has none), but his most famous films all have them.
John J. Mescall | Introduction
His films included "Joanna" (1968), "Hostile Witness" (1968), "Some Girls Do" (1969), "Zeppelin" (1971), "I, Monster" (1971), "Lady Caroline Lamb" (1972), "Royal Flash" (1975), and "Crossed Swords" (1977).
Richard Hurndall | Films
John Carpenter (born 1948) is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, actor, and film music composer. John Carpenter may also refer to:
John Carpenter (disambiguation) | Introduction
Carpenter's mastery of wide-screen and almost uncanny talent at crafting suspense and action sequences make "Assault" such a nerve-racking experience that you may have to reupholster your easy chair after watching it at home. In 1988, Alan Jones of "Starburst" said "Assault" is "arguably still the best film [Carpenter] ever made." In 2000 John Kenneth Muir placed the film at No. 3 on his rated list of John Carpenter's filmography, behind "The Thing" and "Halloween". In October 2007, Noel Murray and Scott Tobias of The A.V. Club also ranked "Assault" at No. 3 of John Carpenter's best films ("The Essentials"), saying, "The first John Carpenter film that really "feels" like a John Carpenter film, this homage to Howard Hawks Westerns suggests a path that Carpenter's career might've taken if "Halloween" hadn't become such a hit.
Assault on Precinct 13 (1976 film) | Legacy and remake
The film was shot in eighteen days. "I had some control over it," said Carpenter. "I was able to shoot only what I wanted, I wouldn't cover it... I just gave them what I wanted and it got okayed." Carpenter worked with Adrienne Barbeau, whom he married in 1979, for the first time when making "Someones Watching Me!". Barbeau later starred in "The Fog" (1980) and had a supporting role in "Escape from New York" (1981). The television station Leigh Michaels gets a job at is named KJHC. The last three letters are a secret wink to the writer and director's full name: John Howard Carpenter.
Someone's Watching Me! | Shooting
The impact on Carpenter was immediate—he lost the job of directing the 1984 science fiction horror film "Firestarter" because of "The Thing"s poor performance. His previous success had gained him a multiple-film contract at Universal, but the studio opted to buy him out of it instead. He continued making films afterward but lost confidence, and did not openly talk about "The Thing"s failure until a 1985 interview with "Starlog", where he said, "I was called 'a pornographer of violence' ... I had no idea it would be received that way ... "The Thing" was just too strong for that time.
The Thing (1982 film) | Aftermath
"The Ward" was filmed in Super 35, the first time Carpenter has ever used that system. Carpenter has stated he feels that the 35mm Panavision anamorphic format is "the best movie system there is", preferring it to both digital and 3D film.
John Carpenter | Techniques
Moreover, during 2006, the United States Library of Congress deemed "Halloween" to be "culturally significant" and selected it for preservation in the National Film Registry. During 2010, writer and actor Mark Gatiss interviewed Carpenter about his career and films for his BBC documentary series "A History of Horror". Carpenter appears in all three episodes of the series. He was also interviewed by Robert Rodriguez for his "The Director's Chair" series on El Rey Network.
John Carpenter | Legacy
, Carpenter was more involved with his music career than filmmaking, although he was involved in 2018's "Halloween" reboot.
John Carpenter | Film music and solo records
Actor Crispin Alapag notably on Big Time In Hollywood FL, Ray Donovan, General Hospital and VR Troopers Power Rangers. Former students have won at least five Academy Awards. Steven Spielberg (Class of 1969, BA 2002) won two Oscars for Best Directing for "Schindler's List" and "Saving Private Ryan" and has directed a number of other successful movies such as "Jaws", "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial", and "Jurassic Park". Former industrial design major John Dykstra, who has been nominated five times for Academy Awards, won two Oscars for his special effects work on the George Lucas film "Star Wars" and the Sam Raimi film "Spider-Man 2".
California State University, Long Beach | Notable people
Carpenter denies writing sexually active teens to be victims in favor of a virginal "final girl" survivor, though subsequent filmmakers copied what appeared to be a "sex-equals-death" mantra. When shown an early cut of "Halloween" without a musical score, all major American studios declined to distribute it, one executive even remarking that it was not scary. Carpenter added music himself, and the film was distributed locally in four Kansas City theaters through Akkad's Compass International Pictures in October 1978. Word-of-mouth made the movie a sleeper hit that was selected to screen at the November 1978 Chicago Film Festival, where the country's major critics acclaimed it.
Slasher film | 1978
Captain Voyeur (1969) was the first short film by director John Carpenter while a student at USC Cinema. The 8-minute film is about a bored computer worker who becomes fixated on a woman at work and follows her back to her home. The film remained in the USC's Hugh M. Hefner Moving Image Archive until 2011, when it was rediscovered by archivist Dino Everett. The film is notable because it includes several elements that would appear in Carpenter's later horror film, "Halloween". Everett says that the similarities include a striking resemblance between the lead actresses. The film was selected in 2011 for preservation by the National Film Preservation Foundation because of its historical significance in showing Carpenter's development as a filmmaker.
Captain Voyeur | Introduction
John Carpenter won the 1978 annual British Film Institute award for the "originality and achievement of his first two films", "Dark Star" and "Assault", at the 1977 London Film Festival. The film is recognized by American Film Institute in these lists:
Assault on Precinct 13 (1976 film) | Awards and honors
Enrolled at Columbia University as a physics student, De Palma became enraptured with the filmmaking process after viewing "Citizen Kane" and "Vertigo". After receiving his undergraduate degree in 1962, De Palma enrolled at the newly coed Sarah Lawrence College as a graduate student in their theater department, earning an M.A. in the discipline in 1964 and becoming one of the first male students among a female population. Once there, influences as various as drama teacher Wilford Leach, the Maysles brothers, Michelangelo Antonioni, Jean-Luc Godard, Andy Warhol, and Alfred Hitchcock impressed upon De Palma the many styles and themes that would shape his own cinema in the coming decades.
Brian De Palma | 1960s and early career
Institutions at which he taught include: His former students at USC include George Lucas, Robert Zemeckis, John Carpenter and Randal Kleiser. His former film history students at the City College of New York Institute of Film Techniques include Donald Swerdlow (now Don Canaan), an award-winning journalist and film editor.
Arthur Knight (film critic) | Film teacher
Carpenter wrote the film in the mid-1970s in reaction to the Watergate scandal. After the success of "Halloween" (1978), he had enough influence to begin production and filmed it mainly in St. Louis, Missouri, on an estimated budget of $6 million. Debra Hill and Larry J. Franco served as the producers. The film was co-written by Nick Castle, who had collaborated with Carpenter by portraying Michael Myers in "Halloween".
Escape from New York | Introduction
Carpenter earned the Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering Science at Pennsylvania State University in 1957 and the Master of Science and Doctor of Philosophy degrees in Nuclear Engineering at the University of Michigan in 1958 and 1963, respectively. His dissertation is entitled "Prediction and Measurement of Neutron Chopper Burst Shapes."
John M. Carpenter | Education
Carpenter appeared in occasional films, but was mostly active on British TV in the 1960s as a character actor, on one occasion opposite Tony Hancock in one of his last shows for the BBC, commonly known as "The Bowmans". Other TV shows in which he appeared in the 1960s included "Z-Cars", "Dixon of Dock Green", "Gideon's Way", "Sherlock Holmes" and "The Baron". In 1969, Carpenter created "Catweazle", the children's series about an unfortunate wizard from the 11th century who is accidentally transported to the present day. This changed the course of his career substantially. Carpenter earned international recognition and a Writers' Guild award for creating the cult children's TV series.
Richard Carpenter (screenwriter) | Career
In 2002, Carpenter completed his master's degree in "19th Century British Theatre" at New York University. Previously, he received the Bob Hope Scholarship for graduate study at Southern Methodist University’s Meadows School of the Arts MFA Theatre program. He received his BFA from Boston University School of Fine Arts, where he graduated Cum Laude as the Harold C. Case Scholar. He has attended many workshops and seminars, the most extensive of which was a semester long FEDAPT program: “Producing for the Professional Theatre.”
Larry Carpenter | Education
Carpenter was nominated for the 1979 Edgar Award of Best Television Feature or Miniseries for the film.
Someone's Watching Me! | Awards
O'Bannon was born in St. Louis, Missouri, the son of Bertha (née Lowenthal) and Thomas Sidney O'Bannon, a carpenter. He attended the art school of Washington University in St. Louis, where he did stand-up comedy routines, did make-up for campus theater productions, and provided illustrations for Student Life, the student newspaper. While there he roomed with future movie producer Michael Shamberg. O'Bannon moved home briefly after Washington University and attended Florissant Valley Junior College where he wrote and directed a short science fiction satire titled "The Attack of the 50-foot Chicken." O'Bannon also attended MacMurray College in Jacksonville, Illinois. According to O'Bannon, he was reading an issue of "Playboy" when he found an article discussing the best film schools, which led him to apply to the University of Southern California (USC).
Dan O'Bannon | Early life
The following is a list of unproduced John Carpenter projects in roughly chronological order. During a career that has spanned over 40 years, John Carpenter has worked on projects which never progressed beyond the pre-production stage under his direction. Some of the films were produced after he left production.
John Carpenter's unrealized projects | Introduction
Carpenter was then in a legal dispute with "They Live" production company Alive Films regarding his contract. He had had several projects fall through: a film with Cher called "Pincushion", "Exorcist III", and a version of "Dracula". He was reluctant to make "Memoirs" at first. “When you have lots of money and lots of time, it's really grueling. I enjoy being an independent, and it’s not possible to be one in this situation. But then I thought. ‘Why not?’ I hadn’t done a movie for a long time.” The actor had to convince Warner Bros. that Carpenter, who they still saw as a horror director, could work well for the picture.
Memoirs of an Invisible Man (film) | John Carpenter
He took on different jobs, when—after a seven-year hiatus—he was again accepted to the film school in 1959. In the same year he made his first student film, a short entitled "Játék" ("Game") about two prisoners playing chess with the shadow of their bars when the sun shines unto their cell. Huszárik's graduation film was another short entitled "Groteszk" ("Grotesque") in 1963 about a strange train voyage of an artist carrying his own picture.
Zoltán Huszárik | Introduction
The film was withdrawn from circulation in 1990 after Haynes lost a copyright infringement lawsuit filed by Karen's brother and musical collaborator, Richard Carpenter. The film's title is derived from The Carpenters' 1971 hit, "Superstar". Meanwhile, over the years "Superstar" has developed into a cult film, has notably been bootlegged, and is included in "Entertainment Weekly"s 2003 list of top 50 cult movies. Its apparent metamodern purpose as a film, including multiple perspectives on anorexia nervosa, the pop music industry, The Carpenters themselves, and the definition of a biographical film, has also given it a legacy among fans of avant-garde cinema; Guy Lodge, writing for "The Guardian", expressed that 'while Haynes is working in a vein of very rich irony, there’s not a hint of snark here'.
Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story | Introduction
In 2003, Hull was one of eight students invited to enter the Director's Program at the Norman Jewison created Canadian Film Centre (CFC), Canada's foremost school for advanced training in film, television and new media. He graduated in 2004 with the short film "Squeezebox", a tragicomedy starring Canadian cult rock heroine, actress and singer-songwriter Mary Margaret O'Hara. The film is the story of a teen accordion prodigy who struggles to reunite the family band after his father's suicide. "Rewind", a five-minute film made shortly after Hull's graduation from the Canadian Film Centre, paid homage to film noir and was loosely based on Martin Amis' book "Time's Arrow".
Andrew Hull | Film career
Some of the award-winning student films have themselves been nominated for and/or won the Academy Award in the short film categories, including "Chicks in White Satin", "The Janitor", "", "The Lunch Date", "9", "Quiero ser (I want to be...)", "The Red Jacket", "On the Line (Auf der Strecke)", "God of Love", "The Confession" and "4.1 Miles".
Student Academy Awards | Description
In 1974, Carpenter contributed his expertise to the 54-part series "The American Presidency: The Men and the Office" on CBS-TV. The 1976 book "Power and the Presidency" discusses the scholarship presented in the series.
John A. Carpenter | Faculty career
He graduated from USC in 1990, and was a member of Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity. Singleton considered pursuing computer science, but enrolled in USC's Filmic Writing program under Margaret Mehring. The program was designed to take students directly into the Hollywood system as proficient writer/directors. He cited the original "Star Wars" film as one of his strongest influences and the work of Steven Spielberg as a source of inspiration.
John Singleton | Early life
This is a list of films directed by John Carpenter that grossed more than $10 million at the US box office according to Box Office Mojo. Carpenter's films have grossed domestically a total of more than $282 million, with an average of $18 million per film.
John Carpenter filmography | Highest-grossing films
Teague was born in Brooklyn, New York. Teague fell in love with films at age 14 when he saw "The Steel Helmet" (1951) He dropped out of high school at age 17 and enrolled in the army, serving for three years in Germany. He studied film at New York University, where his short films included "Sound and the Painter" (1962) and "It's About a Carpenter", which was circulated through public libraries. In 1963 he won a scholarship for being the most promising student at the school. He left the school in 1963 without completing a degree when he was offered a job working on "The Alfred Hitchcock Hour".
Lewis Teague | Biography
Historian Nicholas Rogers notes that film critics contend that Carpenter's direction and camera work made "Halloween" a "resounding success." Roger Ebert remarks, "It's easy to create violence on the screen, but it's hard to do it well. Carpenter is uncannily skilled, for example, at the use of foregrounds in his compositions, and everyone who likes thrillers knows that foregrounds are crucial . ... " The opening title, featuring a jack-o'-lantern placed against a black backdrop, sets the mood for the entire film. The camera slowly moves toward the jack-o'-lantern's left eye as the main title theme plays. After the camera fully closes in, the jack-o'-lantern's light dims and goes out.
Halloween (1978 film) | Aesthetic elements
Carpenter was nominated for three Academy Awards for Best Art Direction:
Claude E. Carpenter | Selected filmography
In 2003 he was inducted into the USC Athletic Hall of Fame. Carpenter appears in Leni Riefenstahl's film "Olympia" about the 1936 Olympic Games. He is also mentioned by Viktor Chemmel, a character in Markus Zusak's 2006 bestselling novel "The Book Thief".
Ken Carpenter (athlete) | Introduction
"Craftsmanship in Clay is" a series of six 16 mm films featuring and scripted by Martz and produced by the (then) Indiana University Audio-Visual Center. The films were produced between 1948 - 1954. In 1975, he did a 25 min film titled, "possibilities in clay," and also featured Thomas Marsh, Ginny Marsh, Kathy Salchow, and John Goodheart.
Karl Martz | Films
American Library Association Outstanding Academic Title in Film Studies, 2007 Nominee, U.S. Professor of the Year award, The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, Fall 1999 Nominee, Most Influential Professor, Quest For the Best, Office of the Vice President, San Diego State University, Spring 1999 Associated Students’ "Outstanding Faculty," The Associated Student Government of SDSU, San Diego State University, 1994-1994
William Nericcio | Awards
In addition to twenty Academy Award nominations and three wins, Sanger has won a Christopher Award, a BAFTA ( BAFTA Award for Best Film ), a César Award, Scholastic Magazine's Bell Ringer Award, and a Cine Golden Eagle Award CINE. Sanger was named Filmmaker-in-Residence at Chapman University's Dodge College of Film And Media Arts during the Spring semester of 2010, and was made Adjunct Professor in 2011, teaching a course in Creative Producing. He has been a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences since 1981, and a member of the Directors Guild of America (DGA) since 1971, serving on its National Board.
Jonathan Sanger | Other achievements
Cundey would go on to work with Carpenter and Hill again on the films "The Fog", "Escape From New York", "The Thing", "Halloween II", and "". He would also return to work with Carpenter for the last time on the 1986 big budget science fiction/comedy adventure "Big Trouble in Little China". Cundey also served as Director of Photography on the 3D movie "Honey, I Shrunk the Audience!" which ran in five Walt Disney theme parks around the world.
Dean Cundey | Other noteworthy films
when he graduated in 1961. Four years later (1965), the Carpenters settled in Mill Valley, California. Carpenter taught English for two years before publishing his first novel "Hard Rain Falling" (1966). From the late 1960s to the early 1980s Carpenter lived in and out of Hollywood writing screenplays for movies. Carpenter wrote a screenplay for the film "Payday" which was filmed in 1972 and starred Rip Torn as a country singer. He also wrote a teleplay for an episode of the 1960s television series "The High Chaparral" called "Once on a Day in Spring". He also wrote three Hollywood novels between 1975 and 1981.
Don Carpenter | History
Johnny began working in Hollywood in the mid-1940s, mostly in bit parts in B-Westerns. By 1950, Johnny had graduated to larger roles in films produced by Jack Schwarz, including "Border Outlaws" and "Cattle Queen", his breakout film. He starred in several more B-westerns, all the while continuing to do stunt work in higher profile films. From 1953 to 1956, Carpenter produced four movies independently; "Son of the Renegade" (1953), "The Lawless Rider" (1954), "Outlaw Treasure" (1955) and "I Killed Wild Bill Hickok" (1956). These four films have drawn comparisons between Carpenter and his friend Ed Wood, who actually helped produce "The Lawless Rider" and may have worked on "Son of the Renegade", as well.
Johnny Carpenter | Film career
Some of Wood's students have also become notable film scholars, including Andrew Britton and Tony Williams. His former student Bruce LaBruce is now an underground film director. Former student Daniel Nearing is director of the experimental Chicago Heights and Hogtown.
Robin Wood (critic) | Legacy
Graduating to 35mm film, other short films were produced during this time: "Legacy" (1979), "Dinosaur" (1980), "The Creation" (directed by Joan Gratz, 1981, Oscar nominated), "The Great Cognito" (directed by Barry Bruce, 1982, Oscar nominated), and early music videos: a longform "video" called "A Christmas Gift" for Paul Stookey of Peter, Paul and Mary, and "Vanz Kant Danz" (1987) for Creedence Clearwater Revival's John Fogerty. VHS video compilations of these films were released in the 1980s as "Festival of Claymation" and "Son of Combo II". Vinton, no longer performing animation himself, later produced special effects scenes for TV shows and movies, including a sequence for Bette Midler's "Divine Madness!" movie (1980), an Emmy-winning sequence for the "Moonlighting" TV series (1987), the opening and closing title sequences for the feature comedy film "Brain Donors" (1992), and his own feature-length movie, "The Adventures of Mark Twain" (1985).
Will Vinton | 35mm years
Kate Christensen (class of 1980) received the 2008 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. Stefan Schaefer has directed more than fifteen feature films.
Green Meadow Waldorf School | Notable Alumni
Everett plans to raise the funds to properly preserve each film in the anthology, which includes films by former USC alumni John Carpenter and Dan O'Bannon.
Hugh M. Hefner Moving Image Archive | Introduction
Carpenter was educated at the Episcopal Academy of Philadelphia, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts (studying under Thomas Eakins), the Philadelphia School of Industrial Art and the New York Art Students League.
Horace Thompson Carpenter | Education
The Carpenter is a 1988 horror film directed by David Wellington, and written by Doug Taylor.
The Carpenter (film) | Introduction
The first version was a student film for USC School of Cinematic Arts titled "". The run time was 15 minutes. It was released as a bonus feature on the 2004 Directors' Cut.
THX 1138 | 1967 student film
Hood graduated from Brown University, with a double major in pure mathematics and studio art, and then spent several years working in Hollywood as a set dresser, prop assistant and art director working with filmmakers as diverse as James Cameron, David Fincher and David Lynch. He continued his studies at the USC School of Cinematic Arts, graduating in 1997 with an MFA in production. His student short film, "The Shy and the Naked" won a grant from the Sloan Foundation for the positive portrayal of science.
Sean Hood | Early life
This is one of the few John Carpenter films not scored by the director, with Shirley Walker composing the music instead. Unlike prior collaborators Ennio Morricone on "The Thing" and Jack Nitzsche on "Starman", Walker would re-team with Carpenter – the two co-scored the subsequent "Escape From L.A.".
Memoirs of an Invisible Man (film) | Music
the Extra-Terrestrial" to appeal only to children. While finalizing the film, Universal sent Carpenter a demographic study showing that the audience appeal of horror films had declined by 70% over the previous six months. Carpenter considered this a suggestion that he lower his expectations of the film's performance. After one market research screening, Carpenter queried the audience on their thoughts, and one audience member asked, "Well what happened in the very end? Which one was the Thing...?" When Carpenter responded that it was up to their imagination, the audience member responded, "Oh, God. I hate that." After returning from a screening of "E.T.
The Thing (1982 film) | Release
During his time at the Academy, Lewis was the technical advisor for a silent movie shot on campus. "Classmates" was directed by John S. Robertson and was released in 1924.
Henry Balding Lewis | Interwar years
Actors and directors such as Sir Ian McKellen, Eleanor Bron, Miriam Margolyes, Sir Derek Jacobi, Sir Michael Redgrave, James Mason, Emma Thompson, Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie, John Cleese, John Oliver, Freddie Highmore, Eric Idle, Graham Chapman, Graeme Garden, Tim Brooke-Taylor, Bill Oddie, Simon Russell Beale, Tilda Swinton, Thandie Newton, Georgie Henley, Rachel Weisz, Sacha Baron Cohen, Tom Hiddleston, Sara Mohr-Pietsch, Eddie Redmayne, Dan Stevens, Jamie Bamber, Lily Cole, David Mitchell, Robert Webb, Mel Giedroyc and Sue Perkins all studied at the university, as did directors such as Mike Newell, Sam Mendes, Stephen Frears, Paul Greengrass, Chris Weitz and John Madden.
University of Cambridge | Literature
In 1957, Carpenter joined the faculty of Washington and Jefferson College in Washington, Pennsylvania as an assistant professor of history and political science. He received a promotion to associate professor in 1960. Carpenter taught at the school until 1965 when he joined the faculty of the Department of History at Fordham University in the Bronx. He served in that role through 1978 and held the position of chair of the department. During his faculty career, the National Endowment for the Humanities awarded Carpenter grants to fund his research on the Freedmen's Bureau. The American Philosophical Society also funded his research.
John A. Carpenter | Faculty career
Carpenter studied engineering at Oklahoma A&M University and Mississippi State College before entering the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York, in 1935, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in military science in 1939. After graduation, he attended the U.S. Army Air Corps flying schools at Tulsa, Oklahoma, Randolph Field, Texas and Kelly Field, Texas, receiving his pilot wings in June 1940.
John Wilson Carpenter III | Education
Among fans, "Someones Watching Me!" is often referred to as "the lost Carpenter film" due to its scarce availability on home video for many years. It was originally called "High Rise". Carpenter was hired by Warner Bros. in 1976 to write a feature script based on a true story about a woman in Chicago. He spent three months writing it and handed it in. Eight months later Warners contacted him saying they wanted to do it as a TV movie and offered Carpenter chance to direct it. "I thought it was a really, really good idea," said Carpenter. So I had my first experience with television.
Someone's Watching Me! | Development
Born and raised in Brockport, New York, Carpenter became involved in the theatre at age 12. In his hometown, SUNY Brockport offered a Theatre Arts major and produced a semi-professional summer theatre where he worked as a backstage hand and as a young actor with such touring stars as Peggy Wood, Ann Harding, John Kerr and Leo G. Carroll. He enrolled in Boston University's School of Fine and Applied Arts as an undergraduate designer and director. He graduated as a director and actor and spent the next several years acting, singing and dancing with the Oregon and San Diego Shakespeare Festivals, the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco and with the American Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford, CT.
Larry Carpenter | Early life and career
Carpenter was born to Charles Francis Carpenter and Marion Jewett Carpenter in Boonton, New Jersey on August 1, 1921. His father's active interest in the Civil War piqued his own childhood interest and later career focus. After attending St. John's School (now Wilson School) in Mountain Lakes, New Jersey,Carpenter graduated from Morristown School in Morristown, New Jersey in 1938. He completed his bachelor's degree at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1942. Carpenter attended Harvard through a scholarship from the Harvard Club of New Jersey. During his studies at the university, Carpenter played on the rowing team, and he participated in the glee club.
John A. Carpenter | Early life and education
Carpenter received his MD from Harvard University in 1964.
David O. Carpenter | Education
In these university years Strehlow also reviewed theatre and film and, from 1968 until graduation, ran the student film society there.
John Strehlow | Early life
In 1959, Carpenter joined anthropologist Raoul Naroll at San Fernando Valley State College (California State University-Northridge) and was appointed an assistant professor and founder of an experimental interdisciplinary program of Anthropology and Art, where students were trained in visual media, including filming. As the only faculty member in the new department, Carpenter went on to hire more faculty. In 1960, he was promoted to the rank of associate professor. In 1961, he was made chairman of the anthropology department. With award-winning filmmaker Robert Cannon, he made an innovative documentary about "surrealist" Kuskokwim Eskimo masks. Carpenter also co-authored "Georgia Sea Island Singers" (1964), a film documenting six traditional African-American songs and dances by Gullahs of St.
Edmund Snow Carpenter | Visual media
He also played the score from "Escape from New York" for Morricone as an example. Morricone made several more attempts, bringing the score closer to Carpenter's own style of music. In total, Morricone produced a score of approximately one hour that remained largely unused, but was later released as part of the film's soundtrack. Carpenter and his longtime collaborator Alan Howarth separately developed some synth-styled pieces used in the film. In 2012, Morricone recalled: I've asked [Carpenter], as he was preparing some electronic music with an assistant to edit on the film, "Why did you call me, if you want to do it on your own?" He surprised me, he said – "I got married to your music.
The Thing (1982 film) | Music
Carpenter attended St. Charles grade school, and St. Charles Borromeo Catholic Church in Kansas City, Missouri. At North Kansas City High School, his hard work and determination earned him a spot as a National Merit Scholar and he received a scholarship to the University of Southern California. While at school in Los Angeles, Carpenter interned for four-term U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein. He served as Financial Director and later President of the USC College Democrats. He graduated magna cum laude with a degree in Political Science and a minor in International Relations. After graduation, he returned to the state and married his wife Midori.
Jon Carpenter | Early Life
Navy students who were being taught documentary cinematography, Lucas directed the short film "", which won first prize at the 1967–68 National Student film festival. Lucas was awarded a student scholarship by Warner Bros. to observe and work on the making of a film of his choosing. The film he chose was "Finian's Rainbow" (1968) which was being directed by Francis Ford Coppola, who was revered among film school students of the time as a cinema graduate who had "made it" in Hollywood. In 1969, Lucas was one of the camera operators on the classic Rolling Stones concert film "Gimme Shelter".
George Lucas | 1965–1969: Early career
Howarth's collaborations with John Carpenter include: "Escape from New York", "Halloween II", "", "Christine", "Big Trouble in Little China", "Prince of Darkness" and "They Live". His music has been featured in films like "The Osterman Weekend", "The Lost Empire", "Retribution", "", "", "", "The Dentist" and "The Dentist 2", "Boo", "Evilution", "Basement Jack", "Hansel and Gretel", "Zombie Night", and "Brutal". His award-winning sound designs have appeared in "", "", "", "", "", and "", "Raiders of the Lost Ark", "Poltergeist", "Back to the Future Part II", "Back to the Future Part III", "The Little Mermaid" and "Total Recall". His team received Academy Award awards for Best Sound Effects for "The Hunt for Red October" and "Bram Stoker's Dracula" directed by Francis Ford Coppola.
Alan Howarth (composer) | Films
After viewing Carpenter's film "Assault on Precinct 13" (1976) at the Milan Film Festival, independent film producer Irwin Yablans and financier Moustapha Akkad sought out Carpenter to direct a film for them about a psychotic killer that stalked babysitters. In an interview with "Fangoria" magazine, Yablans stated: "I was thinking what would make sense in the horror genre, and what I wanted to do was make a picture that had the same impact as "The Exorcist"." Carpenter agreed to direct the film contingent on his having full creative control, and was paid $10,000 for his work, which included writing, directing, and scoring the film.
Halloween (1978 film) | Concept
His two student films there, "Phases" and "Tube Tales", were nominated for Student Academy Awards.
Henry Selick | Early life
Even so, the success of Ridley Scott's 1979 science fiction horror film "Alien" helped revitalize the project, at which point Carpenter became loosely attached following his success with his influential slasher film "Halloween" (1978). Carpenter was reluctant to join the project, for he thought Hawks's adaptation would be difficult to surpass, although he considered the film's monster to be unnotable. Cohen suggested that he read the original novella. Carpenter found the "creepiness" of the imitations conducted by the creature, and the questions it raised, interesting. He drew parallels between the novella and Agatha Christie's mystery novel "And Then There Were None" (1939), and noted that the story of "Who Goes There?" was "timely" for him, meaning he could make it "true to [his] day" as Hawks had in his time.
The Thing (1982 film) | Development
Carleton Carpenter began his performing career as a magician and an actor on Broadway, beginning with David Merrick's first production, "Bright Boy", in 1944, followed by co-starring appearances in "Three to Make Ready" with Ray Bolger, "John Murray Anderson's Almanac" and "Hotel Paradiso". He was a featured player on the very early television program "Campus Hoopla", which was produced by NBC, via WNBT in New York City, and which aired from 1946-47. Carpenter was brought to Hollywood in 1949 by independent producer Louis de Rochemont to play the boyfriend in "Lost Boundaries". De Rochemont later cast him again, in "The Whistle at Eaton Falls" (1951).
Carleton Carpenter | Acting career
Stephen Carpenter, born in Weatherford, Texas, and raised in Kansas City, Missouri, is an American writer, director, and cinematographer with nine films and two television works to his credit, and more in development. Carpenter has been writing since 7th grade. He graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles School of Theater, Film and Television. He lectures on writing and story structure at the University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts. His screenplays include "The Man", starring Samuel L. Jackson and Eugene Levy, "Blue Streak", starring Martin Lawrence, and others. He has written and directed several thrillers, including "Soul Survivors", starring Eliza Dushku and Casey Affleck.
Stephen Carpenter (writer) | Introduction
The film was an official selection at New York University's FirstRun Film Festival, and the New York International Independent Film and Video Festival, and won several awards including Best Short Film at the Black Earth Film Festival. "Hotel Harbor View" was his first film to be produced and released under the then-newly incorporated Creative Impulse Entertainment banner, and was instrumental in securing the financing for his next film, the martial arts themed "Justice-For-Hire", which was also his senior thesis film at NYU. "JFH" was one of two subjects of the textbook "Making Movies" from Pearson Publishing, an educational publication on independent filmmaking, shared with filmmaker Spike Lee.
Jan Lucanus | Filmmaking
In 2008, Block's short film "No Lies" (1973) was selected for the National Film Registry by the Librarian of Congress. Only a handful of the 550 films on the registry (as of 2011) are short films made by students. In 2016, film critics for the website "IndieWire" selected "No Lies" as one of the ten best short films ever made.
Mitchell Block | Works
His films caught the attention of viewers and critics, and entered student film festivals. Also while still at FAMU, Hřebejk and Jarchovský wrote a comedy screenplay inspired by Hřebejk's background at a pioneer summer camp, entitled "Let's Sing A Song" (also known as "Let's Sing All Around"). This screenplay was filmed in 1990 as a full-length feature by director Ondřej Trojan and cameraman Asen Šopov. In 1992 Hřebejk filmed a version of his FAMU graduate thesis, an interpretation of Egon Hostovský's "The Charity Ball".
Jan Hřebejk | Life and career
CSULB has more than 320,000 alumni . Alumni have written, acted and directed screenplays that have attracted Oscar-caliber talent. David Twohy (BA) co-wrote the screenplay for the Academy Award winning film "The Fugitive". Linda Woolverton (BA 1974) wrote the screenplays for the Academy Award-winning, Disney animated films "Beauty and the Beast" and "The Lion King", and the live-action 2010 film "Alice in Wonderland" directed by Oscar-nominated director Tim Burton and starring Oscar-nominated actor Johnny Depp. J. F. Lawton (BA) wrote the screenplay to "Pretty Woman", starring the Oscar-winning actress Julia Roberts. Mark Steven Johnson (BA 1989) has co-written and directed the films "Daredevil", starring Oscar-winning actor Ben Affleck, and "Ghost Rider", starring Oscar-winning actor Nicolas Cage.
California State University, Long Beach | Notable people
Films preserved by the Film Study Center include "Passages from James Joyce's Finnegans Wake" (directed by Mary Ellen Bute) and "The Boy Who Saw Through" (produced by Bute and directed by George C. Stoney); "Our Union," directed by Carl Marzani; "To Be a Man", directed by Murray Lerner; and four films by animator Frank Mouris: "Quick Dream", "You're Not Real Pretty But You're Mine...", "Chemical Architecture", and "Coney Island Eats". In 2018, the Film Study Center completed preservation of director Nicholas Doob's 1979 film "Street Music," which features performances by 19 street musicians including "Oliver "Pork Chop" Anderson," Brother Blue, Bongo Joe Coleman, Jimmy Davis, Guy Mosley, Gene Palma, and "The Automatic Human Jukebox." The Film Study Center also preserved 2-inch videotapes containing a 1972 broadcast by WTIC of "What's Happening," a local news program that covered the visit to Yale by Duke Ellington and other jazz musicians including Eubie Blake, Dizzy Gillespie, Jo Jones, Charles Mingus, Max Roach, and Mary Lou Williams.
Yale Film Study Center | Preservation