Sphinx productions comic book confidential

Sphinx productions llc, is an international film and television production company. Sphinx productions see more show more on imdbpro technical specs. It will have enough minor defects that it is in clearly worse condition than a brand new freshly published comic, magazine, or book. Title comic book confidential videorecording a sphinx productions in association with don haig, martin harbury, charles lippincott. Home subscribe store new releases comic books events store hours contact us zombie tramp exclusive american sign language variant cover 951 5434459 7000 indiana ave. Black and white interior dimensions standard modern age us. The video quality of the film is significantly degraded since the cds storage capacity is very limited. Not to be confused with the egyptian sphinx, sphinx is a creature of greek myth who lives on paradise island along with other mythical creatures, such as pegasus and chiron. Comic book confidential 20th anniversary edition on itunes. Please send me product updates and event information. In this feature documentary twist, mann traces the history of popular dance postww2 and the rise of the adolescent demographic.

Set to the rock n roll that fuelled the hearts of a generation, and featuring fascinating archival material from the 60swith narration by paul evitts. Oscars best picture winners best picture winners golden globes emmys san diego comiccon new york comiccon sundance film festival toronto intl film. Sphinx productions, 50 baldwin street, toronto, on, m5t 1l4. Ronald mann born june, 1958 is a canadian documentary film director focusing primarily on aspects of canadian and american popular culture, including his acclaimed 1988 documentary comic book confidential he does most of his work through his company sphinx productions, while also running a film distribution company on the side called filmswelike. Sphinx productions voyager company combines historical footage, interviews, animation, and live action to trace the history of comic books from 1933 to 1988. Comic book confidential is an americancanadian documentary film, released in 1988. Directed by ron mann and written by mann and charles lippincott, the film is a survey of the history of the comic book medium in the united states from the 1930s to the 1980s, as an art form and in social context. Comic book confidential 1988 is a featurelength documentary that profiles twentytwo of the most significant artists and writers working in comic books, graphic novels and stripart in north america at the time.

Sphinx productions is a production company that delivers high quality, professional narrative films, commercials and web entertainment. This might be the best documentary on comic book history ever made, even if it is thirty years old and might feel a bit dated now. A documentary on director robert altman will be produced by sphinx productions and directed by ron mann twist, comic book confidential. The film is coproduced by sphinx productions, whose awardwinning theatrical documentaries include imagine the sound best documentary, chicago film festival, comic book confidential and grass both genie award winners. Mels write up is excellent and it has me convinced this is a book worth hunting down and picking up, my copy has to be crisp and tight of course. A free oneshot comic book promoting the 1989 documentary film, comic book confidential, which features interviews with all of the creators profiled in the comic. Brown has also done a certain amount of illustration work.

The first sphinx, anathna mut, was the chief wizard under ramses ii. Twist includes music and interviews from little richard, chubby checker, frankie avalon, hank ballard and fats domino, among others. Comic book confidential 1988original movie poster27x41. Comic book confidential is a featurelength documentary that profiles twentytwo of the most significant artists and writers working in comic books, graphic novels and stripart in north america today. In an entertaining and informative combination of interviews, historical footage and stateoftheart animation techniques, comic book confidential provides a positive answer to that burning. Comic book confidential was rereleased on cdrom in 1994. In 1988, sphinx productions released a promotional comic as a companion to the film under sphinx comix. Toronto filmmaker ron mann is one of canadas foremost documentary filmmakers. The director ron mann, who also chronicled the state of american counterculture in documentaries like grass 1999 and comic book confidential 1988, follows unobtrusively with his camera as the activists encounter various california eccentrics. In an entertaining and informative combination of interviews, historical footage and stateoftheart animation techniques, comic book confidential. A guy that used to work at my local video store gave me his personal copy to borrow and i had to copy it. We can thank spotlight fan mel taylor for this one.

From the awardwinning director of comic book confidential and grass comes tales of the rat fink, ron manns wildly inventive bio about renaissance man ed big daddy roth, who engineered a shift in midtwentieth century culture with his customized cars, monster tshirts and americas alternative rodent rat fink. Comic book confidential is a featurelength documentary that profiles twentytwo of the most significant artists and writers working in comic books, graphic novels and stripart in. Sphinx productions comic book confidential a film by ron mann 1988 post by stoepsel. Ron mann, the acclaimed director of such pop culture documentaries as twist and comic book confidential has brought an ironic sensibility to the convoluted and colourful story of rochdale. You are about to exit the epix press site for the epix screening room. A survey of the artistic history of the comic book medium and some of the major talents associated with it. Consultants to the production include kathryn reed altman, widow of robert altman and matthew seig, film producer who worked closely with. Combining interviews, historical footage, animation, and montages of comic book art, comic book confidential traces the development of the comic book from the very first funnies on parade, in 1933, through counterculture favourites fabulous furry freak brothers to the hippest representatives of the 1980s comic book revival the dark knight. Sphinx productions comic book confidential a film by. Mann established his international reputation while in his twenties with a series of awardwinning theatrical documentaries, including imagine the sound 1981, poetry in motion 1982, comic book confidential 1988, twist 1992, and grass 1999. Ronald mann is a canadian documentary film director focusing primarily on aspects of canadian and american popular culture, including his acclaimed 1988 documentary comic book confidential he does most of his work through his company sphinx productions, while also running a film distribution company on the side called filmswelike. Original movie poster for the film released in 1988 other ebay dealers are saying 1985 but that is incorrect poster is rolled, never folded, stored rolled in our gallerys dark storage. The majority of the 16 page comic is devoted to biographies of the creators referenced in the film, but there are quite a few small.

The companys managing director and driving force is ahmed radwan, producer and director with egyptian roots who has established an extensive network of partners within the international film industry. Demigods and monsters curse of the sphinx book 2 by raye wagner 4. Comic book confidential is a featurelength documentary that profiles twentytwo of the most significant artists and writers working in comic books. Comic book confidentialdvdrip1988sphinx productions. Comic book confidential was cowritten and directed by canadian documentarian ron mann of sphinx productions. The video quality of the film is significantly degraded. Comic book confidential, grass, altman, is what a stubbornly offthebeat concoction it is.