JEFF OF THE CINEFILES & UNFINISHED BUSINESS: HALL OF FAME - FILE #0071: SIDEWALK STORIES (1989)

 

Written & Directed By: Charles Lane 

Cinematography: Bill Dill 

Editor: Charles Lane and Ann Stein 

Cast: Charles Lane, Nicole Alysia, Ellia English, Edie Falco, Toni Ann Johnson, Bill Sage, Ed Kershen, Luis Ramos, Tanya Cunningham, Attila Hoosier, Michael Baskin, Robert Clohessy, 

Nearly silent comedy filmed in black and white follows a street artist, who rescues a baby after her father was murdered. The artist then sets off to find the mother, but has to first learn how to care for the child. Ultimately he ends up in a horse drawn chase of the murderers.

APOLLO 10 1/2: A SPACE AGE CHILDHOOD (2022)

 

Written & Directed By: Richard Linklater  Cinematography: Shane F. Kelly Editor: Sandra Adair

Cast: Jack Black, Zachary Levi, Glenn Powell, Bill Sage, Milo Coy, Lee Eddy, Josh Wiggins, Natalie L’Amoreaux 

The story of the first moon landing in the summer of 1969 from two interwoven perspectives. It both captures the astronaut and mission control view of the triumphant moment, and the lesser-seen bottom up perspective of what it was like from an excited kid's perspective, living near NASA but mostly watching it on TV like hundreds of millions of others. It's ultimately both an exacting re-creation of this special moment in history and a kid's fantasy about being plucked from his average life in suburbia to secretly train for a covert mission to the moon.

FENDER BENDER (2016)

Written & Directed By: Mark Pavia 
Cinematography By: Tyler Lee Cushing 
Editor: Lana Wolverton 


Cast: Cassidy Freeman, Mackenzie Vega, Lora-Martinez-Cunningham, Bill Sage, Dre Davis, Steven Michael Quezada 


In a small New Mexico town, a 17-year-old high school girl who just got her driver's license gets into her first fender bender, innocently exchanging her personal information with an apologetic stranger. Later that stormy night, she is joined in her desolate suburban home by a couple of her school friends who try their best to make a night out of it, only to be visited by the stranger she so willingly handed all of her information to -- a terrifying and bizarre serial killer who stalks the country's endless miles of roads and streets with his old rusty car, hungrily searching for his next unsuspecting victim.