The film follows smithee as he steals the negatives to his latest film and goes on the run. A travers les mesaventures dun realisateur a hollywood, an alan smithee film est. With hilarious humor and an allstar cast get ready for the ultimate comedy about the movie business. An alan smithee film burn hollywood burn is a spectacularly bad filmincompetent, unfunny, illconceived, badly executed, lamely written, and acted by people who look trapped in the headlights. An alan smithee film burn hollywood burn tells of a director who incinerates his own work because he didnt want to inflict another terrible movie on the world. Burn hollywood burn, with eric idle, ryan oneal, richard jeni. Burn hollywood, burn the onscreen title is simply burn hollywood burn is a 1998 american mockumentary comedy film directed by arthur hiller using the alan smithee pseudonym, written by joe eszterhas, and starring eric idle as the protagonist, a director unfortunately named alan smithee. Its only notable for being the last film to carry the alan smithee pseudonym.
Alan smithee his first name was sometimes also spelled allen was one of hollywood s longestworking and most diverse filmmakers. The director of over 30 feature films, he was born, or rather created, as a pseudonym in 1967 for the film death of a. A 1998 feature that was written and produced by joe eszterhas, the film s full title is an alan smithee film. Trouble is, his own name is alan smithee, and so unable to use the accepted. Titleburn hollywood burn other known titlesan alan smithee film burn hollywood burn publication. Burn hollywood burn is the single worst movie ive ever paid to see. Burn hollywood burn 1998 french sbs brrip xvid rrent 16sep2010 18. Plenty of talent gets ignited in this failed satire based on the alan smithee pseudonym. The existence of alan smithee is one of hollywood s biggest non secrets. Dont direct a film if your name is alan smithee sfgate. It stars eric idle as a film director who helms a movie called trio.
Perhaps alan or allen smithee could be making a return. Burn hollywood burn 1998 french sbs xvid ac3 rrent30jun2016 12. Its the wild story of a hollywood director, alan smithee eric idle, who steals his own film from the studio. Burn hollywood burn is by no means a good film, but it has its moments of laughter. Ironically, director arthur hiller was so dissatisfied with the production companys cut of the film that he himself used the. Burn hollywood burn having always flouted the hollywood power elite, the screenwriter joe eszterhas shoots his own brand of humor in the foot with an idea that is decidedly. Just before burn was released, hiller had his name removed from the credits, which resulted in the unintended irony of alan smithee. Critically panned, the film won five awards including worst picture at the 1998 golden raspberry awards. In hollywood, if a director doesnt like the way his movie has turned out, he can have his name replaced in the credits with the pseudonym, alan smithee. Burn hollywood burn alan smithee also allen smithee is an official pseudonym used by film directors who wish to disown a project, coined in 1968.
Burn hollywood burnvhs, 1998 razzie winning cult movie an alan smithee film. What makes the film bad is the awful soundtrack and editing. When a rookie filmmaker with the unfortunate name alan smithee realizes hes an unwitting studio puppet, being forced to make a bigbudget action movie he knows is horrible, he steals the master reels and tries to make a deal. This is a new zealand classification of burn hollywood burn.
Burn hollywood burn, but one of the last films to go out with this pseudonym was hellraiser. Burn hollywood burn stylized onscreen as burn hollywood burn is a 1997 american mockumentary comedy film directed by arthur hiller using the alan smithee pseudonym, written by joe eszterhas, and starring eric idle as the protagonist, a director unfortunately named alan smithee. Inhuman resources on netflix, a french thriller about a corporate schmoe turned violent goon. An alan smithee film directed by alan smithee starring eric idle, ryan oneal, lots of bigname cameos rated r, 86 minutes.
Films that have been disowned by directors, from fantastic four to. Burn hollywood burn, about a director named alan smithee who tries to disown a disastrous movie. Writer joe eszterhas takes perverse pride in surpassing the awfulness of showgirls, but offers no camp value whatsoever. An alan smithee film burn hollywood burn is a spectacularly bad film incompetent, unfunny, illconceived, badly executed, lamely written, and acted by people who look trapped in the headlights the title provides clues to the film s misfortune. Burn hollywood burn 1998 starring ryan oneal and coolio on dvd and bluray. Burn hollywood burn 1998 french sbs brrip xvid lol. The final nail in smithee s coffin was the 1998 movie an alan smithee film. Burn hollywood burn vhs, 1998 for sale online ebay.
In this mock documentary, an editor turned director, whose real name is alan smithee eric idle, steals his film and threatens to burn it after creative control is wrested from him. Now its official title is an alan smithee film burn. The film s creation set off a chain of events which would lead the directors guild of america to officially discontinue the alan smithee credit in 2000. I think i can honestly say that an alan smithee film. An alan smithee film burn, hollywood, burn might have one of the worst titles ever thought up, but then it is fully in keeping with the movie s selfdestructive tendencies. Burn, hollywood, burn 1997, an alleged comedy starring eric idle as a real filmmaker named alan smithee, who has a mental breakdown after he makes a terrible film and realizes that the only name he can affix to the credits is his own. Burn hollywood burn, a starstudded movie about an aspiring filmmaker played by eric idle who is actually named alan smithee. An alan smithee film burn hollywood burn is a spectacularly bad film incompetent, unfunny, illconceived, badly executed, lamely written.
But when he sees the studios cut of the movie, he disavows it. This became especially apparent with the release of the 1997 comedy an alan smithee film. The film supernova 2000 was the first post smithee film. Opening to an alan smithee film burn hollywood burn 1998. Buena vistacinergi productions hollywood pictures budget. The films creation set off a chain of events which led. Reviewers pan this mockdocumentary about a director named alan smithee who destroys the negatives for his forthcoming film. Mini bio 2 alan smithee is a common pseudonym for directors whose film was clearly taken away from herhim and recut heavily against herhis wishes in ways that completely altered the film.
Soon everyone, including his powerhungry studio boss ryan oneal, is after him to get it back. In the film world, this is called auteur theory auteur is french for author. Burn hollywood burn stylized onscreen as burn hollywood. It was, of course, credited to alan smithee, and roger ebert called it a spectacularly bad film. Burn hollywood burn was released, in which a man named alan smithee wishes to disavow a film he has directed, but is unable to do so because the only pseudonym he is permitted to use is his own name. Burn hollywood burn the onscreen title is simply burn hollywood burn is a 1998 comedy film. Burn hollywood burn 1997 that it was no longer an effective alias.
Burn, hollywood, burn 1997, an alleged comedy starring eric idle as a real filmmaker named alan smithee, who has a. Burn hollywood burn aloe vera 1997 nightman katrina weston 1997 suddenly susan kate 1997. The name was retired after the release of an alan smithee film. For example, if you look at the credits of the expanded and heavily narrated tv version of alan smithee, youll notice the director is not. The dga decided that the name got so much exposure from the film an alan smithee film. Burn hollywood burn 1998 french sbs xvid ac3 bloodymary. Contrast the situation with france where directors have a guaranteed right to final cut. The directors guild contract generally does not permit a director to remove herhis name from films. The directors guild obviously wasnt happy with that development.
Burn hollywood burn which is about a film director who goes crazy because of massive interference on his multimilliondollar blockbuster is a real bomb, a wouldbe. Film title, director, studio, budget information, description. Burn hollywood burn having always flouted the hollywood power elite, the screenwriter joe eszterhas shoots his own brand of humor in the foot. Burn, hollywood, burn full movie in hd visit movie 78149 filmmaker alan smithee finds himself the unw. Written by then widely known joe eszterhas, the film is his satire on the hollywood industry.
Hellraiser bloodline wtf happened to this horror movie. Justly recognized as one of the alltime disasters, burn hollywood burn 1998 lies on the screen like cinematic roadkill. Directed by alan smithee arthur hiller from a script by joe eszterhas. The film also killed the career of respected director arthur hiller, who was known for making love story and being one of the hardestworking directors in the industry to the point that he had at least one project being released every single year until 1997. This title is outside the afi catalog of feature films 18931993 you may also like these titles from the afi catalog of feature films, the most authoritative documentation of the first 100 years of. Burn hollywood burn is rated r under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian. The director of over 30 feature films, he was born, or rather created. Though his work was of highlyvariable quality, with some films.
R restricted because of strong language and sexual humor. Alan smithee is a short film written and directed by crobin. Burn hollywood burn is no bloodsucking pharaohs in pittsburgh, or even the shrimp on the barbie but it is a high quality addition to the smithee canon just the same. The mere existence of the film is endlessly fascinating. The existence of alan smithee is one of hollywoods biggest non secrets. Until its use was formally discontinued in 2000, it was the sole pseudonym used by members of the directors guild of america dga when a director dissatisfied with the final product proved to the.