Like many of you, I've been watching this season's
Project Greenlight with degrees of amusement, empathy and recognition. But it wasn't until just now that I flashed on the tidbit of trivia that ties PGL director John Gulager and his dad Clu to today's indie film scene.
Father Clu, a veteran character actor who plays the bartender in his "contest-winner" son's PGL horror movie
Feast, has only one directing credit to his name, but it's an evocative short that inspired the career of one of today's most interesting filmmakers. In fact, Gulager's 1969
A Day with the Boys, which d.p. Tim Orr discovered one day lying around the North Carolina School of the Arts and went on to show his friend, director David Gordon Green, influenced Green so much that he included it on the
Criterion DVD release of his first feature,
George Washington.
Here's Orr in
IndieWIRE: "[
A Day with the Boys] was actually a good influence on
George Washington. I found this short film made by Clu Gulager, who was a character actor (
The Last Picture Show) in the '70s and '80s and he directed this short film that Laszlo Kovacs shot. It's a very wild and great picture called
A Day with the Boys about these kids who take this businessman guy in the woods and they kill him. We watched it three times in a row. It filtered in, in a way, among other things."
The kicker? One of the boys is played by none other than a nine-year-old John Gulager.
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# posted by Scott Macaulay @ 5/07/2005 11:10:00 AM
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I am so glad I found this story. I love John Gulager and I have always enjoyed Clu Gulager's work. I can't wait till Feast comes out and I will see it the first day! I look forward to John Gulager's career as a seminal filmmaker.
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posted by @ 5/29/2005 4:01 PM
I heard DGG was also filming the adaptation of Lord Vishnu's Love Handles.
http://print.google.com/print/doc?articleid=7H2uX0Dh5DJ
There's a website called www.psychiccow.com but that's all I can find.
heard anything?
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posted by @ 5/30/2005 5:38 PM
A day with the Boys, the film. I worked with Clu and John on the film as the Art Director. Did the special effects, sets, art work integration. I was finishing up at the Chouinard Art Institute, LA, at the time we shot this. As well an additional cameraman was used (Johonny got His Gun" Jules Brenner))in finishing the last scenes.I can provide in detail Bio information on all aspects of this
of this production/film for Universal.
I can be contacted at: colorfield@cox.net
I am located in a fishing village on the East Coast.
Tom Dixon, Art Director, A Day With The Boys"
3/11/06
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posted by @ 3/11/2006 9:05 AM
I grew up with John and lived across the street from him. I appeared in the film 'A day with the boys' and wa introduced to hockey by his dad Clu. ai have'nt seen him since about 1980. We had many great times going to many movies with Tommy, Miriam, and of course Clu. Itwas great finding out that he is into what he is doing what he really loves. best of everything-------- Artie Conkling
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posted by @ 8/30/2006 10:06 PM
