Bayview Entertainment announced that Bruce Brown’s Oscar-nominated documentary, On Any Sunday, will be getting a 50th Anniversary special edition DVD release (with a new digitally-enhanced soundtrack supervised by Emmy Award-winner Chris Drozdowski) on Mar. 22.
Bruce Brown was the surf god; the surf dude of film … he would go out and film surfers, turn the material into a feature-length film, add in music and then find as many beach venues that he could and rent theatres (four-wall is what it was called) to exhibit his films.
In 1965, he hit the motherlode with the release of The Endless Summer, which was picked for national theatrical distribution by Cinema V Distributing (an indie that quickly developed a reputation for cutting-edge films … Putney Swope, Gimme Shelter, The Hellstrom Chronicle, etc.) and became a huge hit. It put surf dude, Bruce Brown, on the map.
He remembered the iconic scene of Steve McQueen jumping barbed wire fences on a motorcycle in the 1963 film release of The Great Escape, and, as they say, one thing led to another and Bruce Brown ends up tracking down McQueen, asks him about doing a film and the next thing you know he is making a motorcycle documentary with Steve McQueen.
But it gets better, McQueen’s own company, Solar Productions, bankrolls the film and, of course, Cinema V Distributing was all over it — after the success of The Endless Summer — and handles the distribution. McQueen, motorcycles, and Bruce Brown, it proved to be a winning combination, On Any Sunday was an indie smash hit … and was nominated for the Oscar for Best Documentary, ironically losing out to Cinema V Distributing’s release of The Hellstrom Chronicle.
In other release news this past week from Bayview Entertainment, Mar. 22 will also be street date for the latest entry in the company’s popular “HNN Presents” line of horror films from around the globe.
The directing team of Tilke Hill and David R. Williams, working with actor/writer Aaron Krygier, have come up with a pure 70s/80s splatter throwback in the form of HNN Presents: Rust Belt Driller.
Renn Maxwell (Aaron Krygier) has it all, a following as an artist, a trophy bride, Carol (Jillian Geurts) and a manager, Abel (Stephen Jakiel), who keeps the art sales humming for Renn. Renn, you see, has a style, a following and his art is, well, creepy. Unique.
As with any “gifted” artist, Renn is perhaps not always dealing with reality … and as things progress that “reality” goes off the deep end, but sales of this very dark “art” are booming. You see, Renn is nuts, he gets his “inspiration” from the various murders he commits … and things are starting to get a little too close to home!!
HNN Presents: Rust Belt Driller is a marvelous splatter throwback … indeed, grab your copy of director Abel Ferrara’s The Driller Killer (as any good genre fan certainly has in their film library), pop the popcorn and settle in for a deep red double feature come Mar. 22.
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