Costa Botes, Harvey Weinstein, John O'Shea

Serving as a satire on the recent spate of historical documentaries made to celebrate the centenary of cinema, this mock documentary deals with the career of a supposedly forgotten pioneer of internat...( read more  read more... )ional cinema -- New Zealand filmmaker Colin MacKenzie and his 3-hour silent epic Salome.

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Unrated, 1 hr. 52 min.

Directed by: Costa Botes, Peter Jackson

Release Date: October 3, 1997

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DVD Release Date: October 26, 2004

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  • February 28, 2006
    Mockumentaries do not reach this height in day and age, and still won't later. Stands only next to its better rock influence, Spinal Tap.
  • April 15, 2008
    A rather funny mockumentary about Colin McKenzie, a man who (apparently) rivalled DW Griffiths, the Lumiere brothers, Edison, and George Melies in the early days of film. he supposedly invented the bicycle cam (and subsequently crashed it), made film emulsion from eggs (though it...( read more) took a dozen to make one minute worth of film), and captured the first flight on celluloid nine months before the Wright Bros. ever flew! Of course, none of this really happened, but apparently some viewers thought that it did, and it got Jackson in a bit of hot water with the New Zealand Film Commission. This film's worth a look.
  • February 27, 2008
    Peter Jackson does a perfect job telling the story of a filmmaker who rivals Erich Von Stroheim and D.W. Griffith in the epic department. Though I find it did get a little too audacious (would a movie with that much of a budget and so many extras really be forgotten?) it still p...( read more)layed very well. Plus, I knew it wasn't true when I watched it, so I could nitpick.
  • January 19, 2008
    Brilliant and hilarious mockumentary about a film pioneer. This is better than "Spinal Tap' in my opinion. A must see.
  • January 29, 2009
    an AMAZING MOCKUMENTARY!

    AMAZING REALLy!!
  • January 16, 2009
    Clever as all hell, but gets a bit monotonous after a while.
  • September 25, 2008
    Fantastic mockumentary.
  • June 7, 2008
    Extremely not interested
  • January 6, 2008
    What a silly movie. Peter Jackson is a well rounded director.

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