Jason Summers

Birth : 1978-09-14, San Francisco, California, USA

Movies

Mama's Boy
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Traveling back to the places where he grew up, Dustin Lance Black explores his childhood roots, gay identity and close relationship with his mother, who overcame childhood polio, abusive marriages and Mormon dogma, while becoming Black’s emotional rock and, ultimately, the inspiration for his activism. With a wealth of personal photographs and candid memories from Black’s family, colleagues, and friends, this documentary embraces the personal to tell a universally hopeful tale of resilience and reconciliation through the power of love and shared stories.
Natalie Wood: What Remains Behind
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Explore the personal and professional triumphs and challenges of actor Natalie Wood, which have often been overshadowed by her premature death.
Schindler's List: 25 Years Later
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This piece presents an on-stage discussion following a 2018 screening at The Beacon Theater for the Tribeca Film Festival. Participants include Director Steven Spielberg and Actors Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley, Caroline Goodall, and Embeth Davidtz. The discussion is moderated by Film Critic Janet Maslin. Discussions include Spielberg reminiscing about seeing the film for the first time in many years, how he became involved in the production, performance qualities, memories from the production, viewing the film once again with an audience, film construction, casting details, interactions with the cast, the film's importance, and more. The piece is intercut with film footage and behind-the-scenes clips.
The 'Scarface' Phenomenon
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This all-new documentary presents "Scarface" as a unique phenomenon in cinema history. It explores how a film plagued by controversy leading up to its release has become a Hollywood classic, influencing a whole new generation of filmmakers and leaving a lasting imprint on popular culture.
Return to Jurassic Park
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A multi-part documentary about the making of the Jurassic Park trilogy. Each part walks through the making of part of one of the films, including the hurricane during the shooting of the first film, and how advances in CGI for Jurassic Park helped change the world of special effects forever. All interviews for these retrospective documentaries come with comments from Spielberg, Johnston, Neill, Dern, Goldblum, the effects crews, the child actors, and Peter Stormare. This documentary is broken into five parts: Dawn of a New Era (25 min) Making Prehistory (20 min), the Next Step in Evolution (15 min), and the Third Adventure (25 min), Finding the Lost World (28 min), and Something Survived (16 min).
A Discussion with Filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich
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A Q&A with the director with an emphasis on THE LAST PICTURE SHOW
Adventures in Post-Production
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A behind the scenes look at editing, sound design and music score recording during post production work on "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" (2008).
Revolution! The Making of 'Bonnie and Clyde'
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The making-of documentary of Bonnie and Clyde.
The Making of 'Dog Day Afternoon'
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A documentary chronicling the making of the 1975 film "Dog Day Afternoon."
Hitchcock's Confession: A Look at I Confess
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Documentary short focusing on the making of Alfred Hitchcock's 1953 film I Confess.
The Ring
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Rachel Keller is a journalist investigating a videotape that may have killed four teenagers. There is an urban legend about this tape: the viewer will die seven days after watching it. Rachel tracks down the video... and watches it. Now she has just seven days to unravel the mystery of the Ring so she can save herself and her son.