Blake Eckard’s Coyotes Kill For Fun screens Saturday, November 4th at 7:00pm at The Tivoli Theater (6350 Delmar Blvd, St. Louis) as part of this year’s St. Louis International Film Festival. Ticket information can be found Here.
In “Coyotes Kill for Fun,” the latest from Northwest Missouri indie filmmaker and Sliff favorite Blake Eckard, a backwoods babysitter agrees to help an abused mother of two escape her lunatic boyfriend, but his psychotic brother is headed back to the area, and he has a fraught history with everyone involved. Filmed over three years in Missouri, Montana, and La, “Coyotes” had a long gestation: Two-thirds was first shot back in March 2014, and a trio of cinematographers — Eckard, St. Louisan Cody Stokes, and American-indie legend Jon Jost — passed the baton behind the camera. Despite the prolonged production, “Coyotes” maintains a totally consistent — and utterly original — vision. The film features such Eckard regulars as Tyler Messner,...
In “Coyotes Kill for Fun,” the latest from Northwest Missouri indie filmmaker and Sliff favorite Blake Eckard, a backwoods babysitter agrees to help an abused mother of two escape her lunatic boyfriend, but his psychotic brother is headed back to the area, and he has a fraught history with everyone involved. Filmed over three years in Missouri, Montana, and La, “Coyotes” had a long gestation: Two-thirds was first shot back in March 2014, and a trio of cinematographers — Eckard, St. Louisan Cody Stokes, and American-indie legend Jon Jost — passed the baton behind the camera. Despite the prolonged production, “Coyotes” maintains a totally consistent — and utterly original — vision. The film features such Eckard regulars as Tyler Messner,...
- 11/2/2017
- by Movie Geeks
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Blake Eckard’s Coyotes Kill For Fun screens Saturday, November 4th at 7:00pm at The Tivoli Theater (6350 Delmar Blvd, St. Louis) as part of this year’s St. Louis International Film Festival. Ticket information can be found Here.
Blake Eckard’s Backroad Blues screens Sunday, November 5th at 1:30pm at the .Zack (3224 Locust St.). The Backroad Blues screening is a free event.
In Coyotes Kill For Fun, the latest from Northwest Missouri indie filmmaker and Sliff favorite Blake Eckard, a backwoods babysitter agrees to help an abused mother of two escape her lunatic boyfriend, but his psychotic brother is headed back to the area, and he has a fraught history with everyone involved. Filmed over three years in Missouri, Montana, and La, “Coyotes” had a long gestation: Two-thirds was first shot back in March 2014, and a trio of cinematographers — Eckard, St. Louisan Cody Stokes, and American-indie legend Jon Jost...
Blake Eckard’s Backroad Blues screens Sunday, November 5th at 1:30pm at the .Zack (3224 Locust St.). The Backroad Blues screening is a free event.
In Coyotes Kill For Fun, the latest from Northwest Missouri indie filmmaker and Sliff favorite Blake Eckard, a backwoods babysitter agrees to help an abused mother of two escape her lunatic boyfriend, but his psychotic brother is headed back to the area, and he has a fraught history with everyone involved. Filmed over three years in Missouri, Montana, and La, “Coyotes” had a long gestation: Two-thirds was first shot back in March 2014, and a trio of cinematographers — Eckard, St. Louisan Cody Stokes, and American-indie legend Jon Jost...
- 10/31/2017
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
While acting in Blake Eckard’s Ghosts of Empire Prairie, the quintessential American independent writer-director Jon Jost consumed endless stories about Stanberry, Missouri. Jost's They Had It Coming absorbs those stories and spins them into fictional tales, purposefully accentuating the grandiose storytelling aspects of small town gossip. The resulting experimental visual poem captures small town middle America with more authenticity than any documentary possibly could.
- 5/5/2015
- by Don Simpson
- SmellsLikeScreenSpirit
Review by Dane Marti
Missouri: I love the state I was born in / I hate the state I was born in. Like many environments around the world, even places that seem tranquil or picturesque on the exterior can hide places, people and situations far from pleasant and uplifting. If viewers are clamoring for a picture postcard view of Missouri, please look elsewhere. ‘Ghosts of the Empire Prairie’ doesn’t shy away from some of the nastier, more disturbing aspects of the state and its rural folks. The filmmaker, Blake Eckard has a formidable track record in creating stories shot on very small budgets. However, not having a plethora of money to play around with does not always make for a superb film, of course.
Director, Eckard knows how to bring forth essential elements within the story which effectively highlight what’s important.
The film’s main character, Lonnie Enright, returns...
Missouri: I love the state I was born in / I hate the state I was born in. Like many environments around the world, even places that seem tranquil or picturesque on the exterior can hide places, people and situations far from pleasant and uplifting. If viewers are clamoring for a picture postcard view of Missouri, please look elsewhere. ‘Ghosts of the Empire Prairie’ doesn’t shy away from some of the nastier, more disturbing aspects of the state and its rural folks. The filmmaker, Blake Eckard has a formidable track record in creating stories shot on very small budgets. However, not having a plethora of money to play around with does not always make for a superb film, of course.
Director, Eckard knows how to bring forth essential elements within the story which effectively highlight what’s important.
The film’s main character, Lonnie Enright, returns...
- 11/23/2013
- by Movie Geeks
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Blake Eckard is what you’d call a “micro-budget” filmmaker. This means precisely how it sounds. Movies made on little to no budget, independent fare created by artists driven to have their visions come to fruition, regardless of any financial obstacles that would otherwise restrict such an endeavor. Eckard’s newest film is titled Bubba Moon Face, which he wrote and directed. With a title as odd as Bubba Moon Face, you may imagine the film being equally strange. On some level, this is certainly true, but its a subtle quirkiness that underlies the entire film, primarily a drama about a drifter named Horton (Tyler Messner) that returns to his rural roots for his mother’s funeral. While back home, his car breaks down and is forced to stay with his brother Stanton (Joe Hammerstone).
Horton is a reserved man, not an entirely happy man, and clearly removed from his...
Horton is a reserved man, not an entirely happy man, and clearly removed from his...
- 11/12/2011
- by Travis Keune
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Sorry to all for the week off. A little festival called Sundance was happening, and this column would have been lost in the hustle and bustle. Plus, I’ve become agoraphobic after editing Orphaned for three weeks straight now. I no longer possess social skills and hygiene. (But the movie looks good so far!) After our second article posted, Blake Eckard contacted me and thought I needed to talk to someone Asap. It could only be one person, Jon Jost (pictured below). Jon is one of Blake’s favorite film directors and he is a legendary indie filmmaker. It was a no-brainer. But what did he want to talk about? Jon (who’s last name is eerily similar to mine.) was on his way to premiere his latest film Imagens de uma cidade perdida at this year’s Rotterdam Film Festival, and had festivals on the brain. He sent me...
- 2/1/2011
- by John Yost
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
This week we hear from the Micro-Budget Filmmaker Blake Eckard. After I had put my first feature up on the web for free downloading, Blake contacted me and we began a three-year conversation on the highs and lows of micro-budget filmmaking. I think Blake’s take on the subject is one of importance and it needs to be shared.
“Orson Welles, by his own admission, didn’t believe in artists so much as “works.” He also hated (or liked people to believe he hated) talking about himself and his films. Although it may be fashionable to say it, I don’t think there’s any damn way in hell filmmakers are, or ever have been making films solely for themselves. That is to say, going through the entire process only to watch a completed work, a year or more later, on a computer monitor. We all want people to see our films,...
“Orson Welles, by his own admission, didn’t believe in artists so much as “works.” He also hated (or liked people to believe he hated) talking about himself and his films. Although it may be fashionable to say it, I don’t think there’s any damn way in hell filmmakers are, or ever have been making films solely for themselves. That is to say, going through the entire process only to watch a completed work, a year or more later, on a computer monitor. We all want people to see our films,...
- 1/12/2011
- by John Yost
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
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