SECOND REPORT

Greeting: 

CARIDAD: Good morning.

                  Welcome to a new presentation of our program Cinema Hello!.

Presentation of the critics present in the set: 

CARIDAD: Today I am accompanied on set with two independent film critics very important, they are: Linda Rodriguez and Juan Herrera, both are people his opinion in the independent film world has a great influence.

Introduction to Independent Film: 

CARIDAD: To all our viewers that we report tuning, both domestically and internationally, and do not know independent film, I would say that this genre is characterized by films that are not produced in large film studios, productions are usually budget of a small producer. Well, our guests have the possibility of extend a little more about these issues and other more independent film.

CARIDAD: Why not start our program by talking a bit about the history of independent film...

LINDA: In 1920, as a result of high taxes they had to pay, the filmmakers decided to unite to create their own organizations. Called themselves independents, but were called illegal. With the crisis of 1929, the filmmakers began making films class B, because they represented less expense. Subsequently, their organizations grew and became the great film industry. The first production of an independent character what managed to be distributed by a major was Easy Rider (1969), distributed by Universal. Independent productions have always been far from the "big" Hollywood blockbusters.

CARIDAD: Now we have some more ideas in the history of independent film, not to speak about the directors and film major independent film throughout history.

JUAN:

There are a lot of indie directors, however, most of the renowned directors around the world are from United States and Europe, ironically many of them began as independent directors but later became famous Hollywood directors, an example of this are John Waters and Quentin Tarantino.  The funny thing about this is that basically nobody can say that is a director if they dont have at least enough funding for their productions. Out there are a lot of confussion about this indie topic, one of the differences are the low budget film and other is where a film came up without the support of any famous studio. Also, the sad about this is that for some filmakers the word 'independent' is just an adjective that inpire style,irreverence and market more that anything else. 

Other director is Robert Rodriguez, from El Mariachi a movie from 1992. This movie launched rodriguez into great studios, and later in 1994 he release Desperado, another success far from the indie scene. 

Sofia Coppola, the daughter of Francis Ford is probably the most deary writer and director right now. One of her movies is The Virgin suicides. 

CARIDAD: We've talked a lot about what happened in independent films, We haven't talked about today, the latest movies in this genre:

LINDA: According to the Internet Movie Database (IMDb) the top 5 independent film is:

1.      "Pulp Fiction" (1994) by Quentin Tarantino and starring John Travolta, Samuel L.Jackson and Uma Thurman.

2.      "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" (1975). The film was directed by Milos Forman and starring Jack Nicholson

3.      "Usual Suspects" (1995), directed by Bryan Singer and starring Suzy Amis, StephenBaldwin, Gabriel Byrne and Paul Bartel.

4.      "How I, Dr Strangelove" (1964) directed by Stanley Kubrick and starring Peter Sellers,George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden, and Keenan Wynn.

5.      "Psycho" (1960) directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles and John Gavin.

CARIDAD: Finally and finalizing our program, why not tell us what Linda and Juan have recently seen movies that we can recommend?

JUAN:There are a lot of important films, i just want to mention a couple of them.

City of God, City of men, Nosferatu, Memento, run lola run, The secret in their eyes. Most of this films films are remembered by the revolution that led in their moment due by the conceptual load, or experimental techniques.

Here i have a couple of trailers showing the work of another directors.

The first is from a German movie directed by Wim Wenders, who explore in this film the new way of making movies, new effects, new camera movements...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wY8uDNkOLHM

And the last one is from John Waters... Pink Flamingos, not for everybody.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIH3fPlpRcs

LINDA: My favorite independent film is “Zeitgeist, The movie” directed by Peter Joseph because its content is very interesting. It shows another side of reality.

Farewell: 

CARIDAD:unfortunately we ran out of time, we hope to have you on another occasion in our Film program Hi! Thank you very much to all our viewers, and do not forget to place your views on our blog: http://independent0film.blogspot.com/

Farewell, and until our next program.