Due to its scarcity, safety may be the most precious commodity of all in a warzone. And since scarcity raises prices, it's the rich and well connected who can afford the most security -- or at least the perception of it. No one knows this as well as Fidelis Cloer, a salesman who has spent nearly twenty years selling high-priced, German-made luxury armored cars to kings, presidents, dictators and officials in some of the world's most unstable and dangerous regions. Cloer is the subject of the documentary Bulletproof Salesman, co-directed by Petra Epperlein and Michael Tucker, the duo behind the documentaries Gunner Palace and The Prisoner or: How I Planned to Kill Tony Blair. The film follows Cloer as he enters Iraq shortly after the fall of Baghdad, confident that he'll find plenty of eager customers for his cars amidst...
- 4/19/2010
- by Jonathan Kim
- Huffington Post
Fans of Ewan McGregor, Kristen Stewart and James Van Der Beek (!) will be seeing double this spring, as arthouses and multiplexes host an array of indie films ranging from the travails of septuagenarian New Yorkers looking for love ("The Last New Yorker") to 13-year-old assassins on the hunt for their first kill ("Kick-Ass"). If real life is more your speed, there are new documentaries about reviving animation strips (the Disney doc "Waking Sleeping Beauty") and stripping down (the burlesque history "Behind the Burly Q"), while foreign wonders like the French crime epics "A Prophet" and "Mesrine" mix with Korean treasures "Mother" and "The Good, The Bad and The Weird."
But of course, why limit yourself to just what's playing in the first-run theater near you? We've also included a look at the films that will be playing Anywhere But a Movie Theater (online, on demand, and on DVD) in the next few months,...
But of course, why limit yourself to just what's playing in the first-run theater near you? We've also included a look at the films that will be playing Anywhere But a Movie Theater (online, on demand, and on DVD) in the next few months,...
- 2/16/2010
- by Stephen Saito
- ifc.com
First Run Features has acquired Michael Tucker and Petra Epperlein's feature documentary "Bulletproof Salesman," a look at war profiteer Fidelis Cloer.
An early 2010 theatrical release is planned, with home video and broadcast releases to follow.
Tucker and Epperlein are the husband-and-wife documentary filmmaking team behind the 2004 doc "Gunner Palace" as well as 2007's "The Prisoner: Or How I Planned to Kill Tony Blair."
Their latest work, "How to Fold a Flag," is at the Toronto International Film Festival.
"Salesman" was repped by Josh Braun at Submarine and produced by Pepper & Bones Films.
An early 2010 theatrical release is planned, with home video and broadcast releases to follow.
Tucker and Epperlein are the husband-and-wife documentary filmmaking team behind the 2004 doc "Gunner Palace" as well as 2007's "The Prisoner: Or How I Planned to Kill Tony Blair."
Their latest work, "How to Fold a Flag," is at the Toronto International Film Festival.
"Salesman" was repped by Josh Braun at Submarine and produced by Pepper & Bones Films.
- 9/10/2009
- by By Gregg Kilday
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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