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Lloyd Kaufman is the man largely synonymous with Troma Entertainment, known for its creation and distribution of low-budget horror (and otherwise g...
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Lloyd Kaufman is the man largely synonymous with Troma Entertainment, known for its creation and distribution of low-budget horror (and otherwise generally cheesy) flicks like Toxic Avenger and Poultrygeist. And he's damn proud of it. As he should be: Troma is responsible for giving Matt Stone and Trey Parker, Oliver Stone, and Billy Bob Thornton their movie debuts as actors and/or directors. Kaufman continues to extend a hand to the younger generation with a series of books about filmmaking, including his latest, Sell Your Own Damn Movie! In that spirit of first breaks, we gave Kaufman a jingle on his celly to talk about his early cinematic inspirations.
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I was going to be a teacher or social worker, to try to make the world a better place. It was the '60s, so I was going to teach people with hooks for hands to fingerpaint, and bums how to paint smiley faces on beads. Something along those lines. But then I made the mistake of going to Yale University, and God f***ed my life, because he put me freshman year with a movie nut [for a roommate]. We were in a tiny bedroom. Our beds were head to toe and at night I would inhale his stinkin' feet. The aroma d'Troma started to be born in a horrible virus that caused me to drift into the Yale Film Society, which my roommate ran. He works for the New York Times now: Robert Edelstein.
There was no film department then, there was one history of film course, and there was a guy who was teaching filmmaking, but he only let six people into his course. And because I hadn't made a feature-length film he wouldn't let me in. His name was Murray Lerner. At any rate, there were two guys out of a thousand who were film fanatics. One was in my bedroom, and the other was next door. Eric Sherman -- his father was Vincent Sherman, a big-time Hollywood director who directed movies like All Through The Night with Humphrey Bogart -- lived next door. I caught the virus. I would drift into the Yale Film Society and would see movies like John Ford's My Darling Clementine. Movies you wouldn't normally think of that he did. Long Voyage Home. Tobacco Road. She Wore A Yellow Ribbon. Cheyenne Autumn.
Because I speak French, those guys had the magazines of the French cinematheque, Cahiers Du Cinéma, the notebooks of cinema. Those magazines were written by critics. They weren't filmmakers. In the early '60s they started making movies, and propounded the auteur theory of cinema. That the filmmaker should be the author of his movies -- they should have total control. Filmmaking is the filmmaker's event. When people ask, "Who's in your movie?" I don't give a s***. It's who directed it. That's what it's all about in my head. This steered me to the auteur directors. People like John Ford, Howard Hawks, and those kinds of directors. I'd go see The Steel Helmet by Samuel Fuller, and there'd be two other people in the audience, but I'd be totally knocked out by it.
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Lloyd Kaufman is the man largely synonymous with Troma Entertainment, known for its creation and distribution of low-budget horror (and otherwise g...
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Lloyd Kaufman is the man largely synonymous with Troma Entertainment, known for its creation and distribution of low-budget horror (and otherwise generally cheesy) flicks like Toxic Avenger and Poultrygeist. And he's damn proud of it. As he should be: Troma is responsible for giving Matt Stone and Trey Parker, Oliver Stone, and Billy Bob Thornton their movie debuts as actors and/or directors. Kaufman continues to extend a hand to the younger generation with a series of books about filmmaking, including his latest, Sell Your Own Damn Movie! In that spirit of first breaks, we gave Kaufman a jingle on his celly to talk about his early cinematic inspirations.
Poultrygeist Trailer
I was going to be a teacher or social worker, to try to make the world a better place. It was the '60s, so I was going to teach people with hooks for hands to fingerpaint, and bums how to paint smiley faces on beads. Something along those lines. But then I made the mistake of going to Yale University, and God f***ed my life, because he put me freshman year with a movie nut [for a roommate]. We were in a tiny bedroom. Our beds were head to toe and at night I would inhale his stinkin' feet. The aroma d'Troma started to be born in a horrible virus that caused me to drift into the Yale Film Society, which my roommate ran. He works for the New York Times now: Robert Edelstein.
There was no film department then, there was one history of film course, and there was a guy who was teaching filmmaking, but he only let six people into his course. And because I hadn't made a feature-length film he wouldn't let me in. His name was Murray Lerner. At any rate, there were two guys out of a thousand who were film fanatics. One was in my bedroom, and the other was next door. Eric Sherman -- his father was Vincent Sherman, a big-time Hollywood director who directed movies like All Through The Night with Humphrey Bogart -- lived next door. I caught the virus. I would drift into the Yale Film Society and would see movies like John Ford's My Darling Clementine. Movies you wouldn't normally think of that he did. Long Voyage Home. Tobacco Road. She Wore A Yellow Ribbon. Cheyenne Autumn.
Because I speak French, those guys had the magazines of the French cinematheque, Cahiers Du Cinéma, the notebooks of cinema. Those magazines were written by critics. They weren't filmmakers. In the early '60s they started making movies, and propounded the auteur theory of cinema. That the filmmaker should be the author of his movies -- they should have total control. Filmmaking is the filmmaker's event. When people ask, "Who's in your movie?" I don't give a s***. It's who directed it. That's what it's all about in my head. This steered me to the auteur directors. People like John Ford, Howard Hawks, and those kinds of directors. I'd go see The Steel Helmet by Samuel Fuller, and there'd be two other people in the audience, but I'd be totally knocked out by it.
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Got to met my all time favorite director after the screening of his movie Fathers Day, which is btw AWESOME. Signed my poster and gave me a kiss on...
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Got to met my all time favorite director after the screening of his movie Fathers Day, which is btw AWESOME. Signed my poster and gave me a kiss on the cheek, badass night :)
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Got to met my all time favorite director after the screening of his movie Fathers Day, which is btw AWESOME. Signed my poster and gave me a kiss on...
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Got to met my all time favorite director after the screening of his movie Fathers Day, which is btw AWESOME. Signed my poster and gave me a kiss on the cheek, badass night :)
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