Forgotten Silver (DVD)
DIRECTED BY - Peter Jackson, Costa Botes
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RUNTIME - 55 minutes
RATING - Not Rated
YEAR - 1997
LANGUAGE - English
ATTRIBUTES - Widescreen
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DVD Features:
Region [unknown]
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Widescreen - 1.85
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GENRES - biography, comedy, documentary
Film Info
New Zealanders Peter Jackson and Costa Botes conspired to create this witty mockumentary about Colin MacKenzie, a fictional film pioneer who, in the early 1900s, invented the tracking shot, the close-up, color film, and the talkie. MacKenzie's colorful career centered around the making of his three-hour epic masterpiece, SALOME, for which he single-handedly rebuilt the city of Jerusalem in the jungles of remotest New Zealand. The documentary film team sets out in search of MacKenzie's lost city and unexpectedly discovers a mysterious tomb in which he buried reels and reels of his work to prevent the mob and maybe even the Soviets (two of his backers) from gaining possession of it.
| CAST | |
|---|---|
| Sam Neill | Himself - Actor/Director |
| Costa Botes | Himself - Filmmaker |
| Peter Jackson | Himself |
| Leonard Maltin | Himself - Film Historian |
| Harvey Weinstein | Himself - Miramax Films |
| Jeffrey Thomas | Narrator |
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Awards
- Audience Jury Award (Winner)
1997 Fantasporto: Porto International Film Festival (Porto, Portugal) - Best Director - Drama/Comedy (Winner)
1996 New Zealand Film and TV Awards (New Zealand)
Press
"...A classic mockumentary, a charming tongue-in-cheek jest that is both cleverly conceived and exceptionally well executed..."
- Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times
"...Marvelous....SILVER is a single joke, which it tells extraordinarily well. Like great gags, this 'mockumentary' is serious at all the right times..."
- Kevin M. Williams, Chicago Sun-Times
