Mike White (writer; filmmaker)
Encyclopedia
Mike White initially came to fame when, in a series of articles in the pages of his Cashiers du Cinemart
fanzine, he took director Quentin Tarantino
to task for failing to credit director Ringo Lam
's City on Fire (1987 film)
as an influence upon the making of Reservoir Dogs
. White claimed that many key elements of Reservoir Dogs were borrowed from City on Fire, a claim he later attempted to illustrate via his own short film, "Who Do You Think You're Fooling?, while Rotten Tomatoes attempted to do the same via one of their "Homage or Stealing?" features.
More recently, White began his own film podcast, titled "The Projection Booth".
White also recently released a collection of his Cashiers du Cinemart
articles and interviews in book form as Impossibly Funky: A Cashiers du Cinemart Collection.
Cashiers du Cinemart
Cashiers du Cinemart is a magazine and a webzine about independent film, published and edited by Mike_White_.The print version began in 1994 as a zine and evolved over the late 1990s into a more typical magazine format. The title is a parody of the French film magazine, Cahiers du cinéma. It ceased...
fanzine, he took director Quentin Tarantino
Quentin Tarantino
Quentin Jerome Tarantino is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, cinematographer and actor. In the early 1990s, he began his career as an independent filmmaker with films employing nonlinear storylines and the aestheticization of violence...
to task for failing to credit director Ringo Lam
Ringo Lam
Ringo Lam Ling-Tung , born in 1955 is a Hong Kong film director, producer and scriptwriter.He is known for gritty, dark and realistic action thrillers. He was born in Hong Kong and studied film at York University film school in Toronto...
's City on Fire (1987 film)
City on Fire (1987 film)
City on Fire is a gritty and stylish 1987 Hong Kong action crime drama film produced and directed by Ringo Lam, and starring Chow Yun-fat, Danny Lee and Sun Yueh...
as an influence upon the making of Reservoir Dogs
Reservoir Dogs
Reservoir Dogs is an American crime film marking debut of director and writer Quentin Tarantino. It depicts the events before and after a botched diamond heist, but not the heist itself. Reservoir Dogs stars an ensemble cast: Harvey Keitel, Steve Buscemi, Tim Roth, Michael Madsen, Chris Penn, and...
. White claimed that many key elements of Reservoir Dogs were borrowed from City on Fire, a claim he later attempted to illustrate via his own short film, "Who Do You Think You're Fooling?, while Rotten Tomatoes attempted to do the same via one of their "Homage or Stealing?" features.
More recently, White began his own film podcast, titled "The Projection Booth".
White also recently released a collection of his Cashiers du Cinemart
Cashiers du Cinemart
Cashiers du Cinemart is a magazine and a webzine about independent film, published and edited by Mike_White_.The print version began in 1994 as a zine and evolved over the late 1990s into a more typical magazine format. The title is a parody of the French film magazine, Cahiers du cinéma. It ceased...
articles and interviews in book form as Impossibly Funky: A Cashiers du Cinemart Collection.
Non-fiction
- Impossibly Funky: A Cashiers du Cinemart Collection (BearManor Media) 978-1593935474
Reviews
External links
- Official blog
- Podcast interview with Radiodrome
- Podcast interview with badmoviepodcast.com
- Podcast interview with ggtmc.com
- Interview at FilmYap.com
- Interview at City Paper
- "Who Do You Think You're Fooling?"