Mark Pellington

Again, directed by Emily Noblet, the film is rated TVMA and it's streaming on Netflix.

The documentary This Is Buzz is about the MTV series of the 1990s, the film directed by Mark Pellington.

Katie?

Another media studies documentary for you.

It was only on for one season.

It was like too expensive for them to make.

But it was a guy named Mark Pellington who also directed the documentary.

He he was doing promos at MTV.

But that was my moment in the sun with Oliver Stone.

His bedside manner is definitely very different than any other director, don't you think?

No question.

And, you know, for me, I had him so early.

So, bro, I have got a little piece of filmography for you to go watch to answer your question.

I did a movie called I Melt With You.

It is a very obscure indie shoestring budget by the great director Mark Pellington, who is known for his music videos with REM and Pearl Jam and on and on and on.

And it's the story of addiction.

And so they just, like, stopped, and then someone came and refurbished it.

And I know quite a few directors, um, like Mark Pellington just showed a movie there, uh, This Is Buzz.

And then, um, Adam Rifkin's Last Train to Fortune premiered there-

Mm-hmm

I've never seen it, but I'm going to check it out.

This is a 2002 supernatural horror film directed by Mark Pellington.

It stars Richard Gere, Laura Linney, Will Patton, Deborah Messing.

It's based on a 1975 book of the same name by parapsychologist and author John Keel.

By the way, if you want to know more about the moth man, uh,

There's a number of documentaries, but I particularly like this one, Eyes of the Mothman.

I like it in part because it's written, produced, and directed by, get this, Matthew J. Palowski, which was awfully close to Mark Pellington.

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And I was working freelancing at MTV at the time.

And I got into an elevator with this guy mark pellington who was a director i was writing interstitials the stuff in between the videos that got people to hang around on mtv they'd have like these cute little it's like little movies actually little 30 second things and um and i got into an elevator with this guy that i sort of knew but not that well and he said we got out on the 24th floor mtv was on the 24th floor And he said, hi Karen, how are you? What's new? Like, not like a big conversation, but I was like, oh my gosh, I just finished my novel.

I'm so excited.

And I think he felt my exuberance, but I had nothing.

met people on Going All the Way, which starred Ben Affleck and Rachel Weisz and Jeremy Davies.

Mark Pellington, who made that film, was in town from L.A., and they were just very supportive, saying, like, you make funny faces real good.

You should move to L.A. You should get into the business.

And I foolishly was like, Mom, the director said I make funny faces, so I'm moving to Hollywood.

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Lake- Lakeshore Entertainment cut 2 million from the budget just days before shooting began, and the director was furious, Mark Pellington.

Evidently, the studio's always messing with them.

They, they had equal confidence.

But that's not the case.

100%.

Uh, the director Mark Pellington was the bartender and also the voice of Indrid Cold, uh, Indrid Cold during the, uh, phone call.

How about that?