New Toy Story 3 Trailer

Just saw it...looks amazing!

Pixar Awards

The One That Makes Me Cry


The One That is the Prettiest


The One That Has Sentimental Value


The One That Should Have Been Nominated For or Won Best Picture


The Only One That Shouldn't Have Been Made


The Funniest


Honorable Mention


My Favorite (Tied with Wall-E)

Hansons "The Pigs" given the green light

Set to film November 20-22, 2009

Director: Matt Hanson
Director of Photography: Jordan Crabtree
Editor: Aaron Kessinger
Assistant Director: Daniel Viramontes
Producer: Ellie Pappuleas
Producer: Jadon Gauthier
Production Design: Justine Eliasson
UPM: Rachel Van der Merwe
Boom Operating: Tyler Corea
Script Consultant/Supervisor: John Hudson


More to come...

Kessinger editing "The Pigs"

Aaron signed on today...still working on Ellie

A New Appreciation...

I've always appreciated legendary director Akira Kurosawa and have loved his movies Seven Samurai and Throne of Blood, but today my appreciation has grown to a whole new level. In my class solely devoted to Kurosawa, we watched his film Drunken Angel. To be perfectly honest, I didn't expect a whole lot, I wanted to see samurai fighting and really nothing else but I was pleasantly surprised with how well done the movie was.

The movie stars Takashi Shimura as an alcoholic doctor in postwar Japan who treats a young, small-time hood named Matsunaga (Toshirō Mifune, in his first role working with Kurosawa), after a gunfight with a rival syndicate. The doctor diagnoses the young gangster with TB, and convinces him to begin treatment for it. The two enjoy an uneasy friendship until the gangster's former boss is released from prison and seeks to take his gang over once again. The sick young man then stops following the doctor's advice, slips back into old habits and threatens to kill him, while his life is further endangered by his gangster lifestyle.



Well directed and well acted, I recommend this for anyone who appreciates foreign films or at lest is willing to try something knew. Also I recommend it for Andrew Price and Tim Wecks...cause I know they'll like it

Jordan Crabtree agrees to DP "The Pigs"

I have the privilege of working with Jordan yet again. Crabtree agreed to DP my next project "The Pigs," a story about a man seeking to redeem himself in order to find value in life. Jordan has been my 1st AC and Editor for 15/13 and I've loved working with him. More news about "The Pigs" to come.

Hanson to write Germany Script

Dean Yamada, Director of Jitensha (Official selection of Venice Film Festival), is set to lead a film team again this Summer. However instead of Japan (like the last two Biola CMA trips) he's leading them to Germany. I attended the meeting yesterday and am currently writing a new script to submit for the Germany trip.

This script has been a little more personal and my younger brother has been the inspiration for it. I just need to brush up on my German.

Coppola in his own words...

(More)

-In a sense, I think a movie is really a little like a question and when you make it, that's when you get the answer.

-I just feel that at a certain point you have to go back to the beginning again. The best thing for me at this point in my life is to become a student again and make movies with the eyes I had when I was enthusiastic about it in the first place.

-Anything you build on a large scale or with intense passion invites chaos.

-I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

-Lots of people have criticized my movies, but nobody has ever identified the real problem: I'm a sloppy filmmaker.

-If you don't bet, you don't have a chance to win.

-Most directors have one masterpiece by which they are known, or possibly two. Kurosawa has at least eight or nine.

-The easiest way to make sure a movie is successful is to make a traditional movie very well. If you make a slightly unusual movie or [don't] exactly follow the rules as everyone sees them, then you get in trouble or, like with Apocalypse, wait 20 years to hear that was really good.

-There's something in my heart that isn't yet fulfilled. Maybe it's a sickness. But I'm definitely not satisfied. It's not do to with money - I'm richer than I ever thought I would be. It's not fame - I'm more famous than I've ever been. It's something else. Something personal. I would like to leave ten films that I have written, original work. That would satisfy this itch.

-I'm in a unique situation. I'm like now an elderly retired guy who made a lot of money, and now I can just, instead of playing golf, I can make art films.

-As I grow older, I realize that I always wanted to be a writer. With The Godfather (1972) being such a success, I was launched into a more industry-type career, which is wonderful, but I always wanted to be the director of my own material. I have always credited the writer of the original material above the title: Mario Puzo's The Godfather, Bram Stoker's Dracula, or John Grisham's The Rainmaker. I felt that I didn't have the right to Francis Coppola's anything unless I had written the story and the screenplay. I view Tetro (2009) as the second film of my second career. From now on I'm always going to writing the scripts, and every film will be personal. I'm going to be the kind of filmmaker I wanted to be when I was beginning.

Screentest for 15/13

It's been a long time but...

Things are on the move, and they're moving quick. In two weeks I'm directing a project that I wrote this summer entitled "15/13." It's a short about a man who is life is sacrificed to save his brother. Told from the perspective of John, the saved brother, now he must find a way to deal with the questions that keep haunting him. Starring Chris Mellon.

Parked Teaser

Summer Projects

I've been in talks lately about three possible projects for the Summer.

The Village Idiot
A college idiot believes that the next world war is near and instead of getting drafted, he decides to move into the Wilderness. However, after a few days of a lack of food, water, and human contact, he begins to go mad.

The Tell-Tale Heart
Based from the short story by Edgar Allen Poe

Manalive or The Trial of Innocent Smith
Based from the book by G.K. Chesterton

More news to come

Frank Oz...

is a genius

VA 2008

Stupid Golden Globes...

I didn't like 30 Rock or Slumdog...lame