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	INTERVIEW: "American Movie"'s Mark Borchardt, An Inspiration for Filmmakers Everywhere
		Borchardt is accompanying the filmmakers on their grueling press tour because he is as disarmingly charismatic in real life as he is..
		At Sundance, Mark was a flash of the purest desire for artistic integrity in a town full of comparative darkness; he reflected the filmmaking audiences' innocent, film-loving, sellout-hating side, and his story was a big hit.
		Borchardt: Oh, it could be both, man. Because for the lower man on the fiscal totem pole who engages in, like, what I did, of course it becomes comical because you have to use other means other than monetary means to make things happen.
	www.indiewire.com /people/int_Borchardt_Mark_991103.html (2049 words)

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		Borchardt's brown eyes are framed by large square glasses with tape holding together one side; his teeth could use an introduction to orthodontia.
		The frat-house atmosphere of the Mancow show turns out to be the perfect forum for the beer-drinking Borchardt and Schank, 30, whose spacey demeanor and deadpan giggle were among the highlights of "American Movie." At one point during the four-hour show, a visiting Penthouse centerfold removes her shirt and invites Schank to explore.
		Borchardt drives to a nearby office building that he has been eyeing, next to what was once the Starlight Outdoor Theatre (featured in "Coven") and not far from the Design House window-shutter factory where he worked until September.
	www.jsonline.com /enter/movies/feb00/mark13020900.asp?format=print (2077 words)

	American Movie
		Mark Borchardt is one driven individual and this film which documents his quest to finish his short movie, Coven (pronounced COE-ven)and ultimately his longer feature, Northwestern, succeeds wonderfully.
		Mark Borchardt wants to be a filmmaker, to tell the story of what it means to grow up a poor working (or unemployed) stiff on the Northwest side of Milwaukee.
		Mark Borchardt and his dream of becoming a huge filmmaker are the subject of this riotous documentary that follows him on his journey to complete the low-budget horror film "Coven".
	blog.markwshead.com /info2/American-Movie.html (14011 words)

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		In a fight scene, Borchardt nearly bashes in the brains of one his actors when a cabinet door fails to break apart as it's supposed to.
		Borchardt has cast his aging and apparently alcoholic uncle Bill in a bit part, and we watch at first in mirth and then with increasing discomfort as Borchardt tries to get the old man to remember two sentences of dialogue.
		Moreover, Borchardt is seen as arrogant and abrasive by his brothers and, though she doesn't employ the term, as pathetically delusive by his mother.
	www.bestofneworleans.com /mov/revarch/amermovie.html (743 words)

	American Movie
		Borchardt's life is a daily cliffhanger involving poverty, desperation, discouragement and diehard ambition.
		If Mark's mother is supportive, his father stays out of sight, sticking his head around a doorway occasionally to warn against bad language.
		Mark has two brothers who are fed up with him; one says he would be "well suited to factory work," and the other observes, "his main asset is his mouth."
	www.ebertfest.com /two/american_movie_rev.htm (645 words)

	americanmovie
		To see Mark in action is to hear a volley of expletives; to watch Coven actually being filmed is to watch an actor hit his head against a kitchen cabinet while his Swedish-American mother does the cinematography, even though she doesn't know how to operate a camera.
		Mark's vacuous friend Mike Schank is a victim of acid drugs, having had his brain scrambled and is now completely off drugs and booze but the repercussions are that he talks like a zombie and is not able to complete a thought.
		Mark is indomitable in pursuit of his dream and Chris Smith has done a fine job of editing the film and nailing down his subject as accurately as he could, so that the dark side is balanced with the rosy picture Mark paints for himself.
	www.sover.net /~ozus/americanmovie.htm (845 words)

	The Austin Chronicle Screens: American Filmmaker: Texas Documentary Tour: Chris Smith and American Movie (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		When Mark Borchardt wandered into Smith's life, there was little question in his mind that Borchardt's drive and passion was something that needed to be documented.
		When Mark went over and got the $3,000 from Uncle Bill we weren't there because we asked him that day what he was doing and he said, "Oh, I'm just going to work on the script today." And then we'd talk to him the next day and he'd say, "Man, I got fed up.
		Mark Borchardt's 40-minute horror film, "Coven," which is profiled in American Movie, will screen at midnight; vouchers for free admission will be given to all American Movie ticket purchasers.
	www.austinchronicle.com /gyrobase/Issue/story?oid=oid:74286 (2798 words)

	American Movie (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Mark Borchardt, 30-year-old high-school dropout and part time newspaper deliverer and cemetery groundskeeper, has wanted to be a filmmaker since he and his pals shot Super 8 shorts with titles like "More the Scarier 3" in the local graveyard.
		Borchardt is too savvy for the former, too messed-up for the latter.
		Or Mark's mother, Monica, whose Swedish-accented common sense doesn't stop her from pitching in when her son needs a hooded extra to help drag him repeatedly through an icy swamp for a key scene.
	www.bostonphoenix.com /archive/movies/99/12/16/AMERICAN_MOVIE.html (1285 words)

	Filmmaker Magazine \| Winter 1999: NORTH BY NORTHWESTERN
		Mark Borchardt is the subject of a documentary by Chris Smith and Sara Price called American Movie –; a film about filmmaking that, at its core, has almost nothing to do with filmmaking at all.
		For Borchardt, an aspiring feature director, filmmaking is the only a pathway to the proverbial American Dream, and it is his remarkable journey, replete with emotional crisis, financial trauma, and unexpected setbacks, that provides the film’s real-life drama.
		Borchardt’s story reads like every other film school student’s admission essay — he’s been making Super-8 films since he was ten, casting his friends in neighborhood homages to ’70s slasher films.
	www.filmmakermagazine.com /winter1999/northwestern.php (2246 words)

	Chasing the American Dream, One Corpse at a Time
		Such a challenge would be difficult for anyone, but for slasher-film aficionado Borchardt and his inept but lovable friends and family (who reluctantly double as Mark's producers, actors, and cameramen), this task often proves as difficult as it is hilarious.
		The hard-drinking, dope-smoking Borchardt (who one brother describes as a potential serial killer) is still producing backyard horror films with his buddies and dreaming of a life beyond the dismal, frigid Wisconsin winters.
		In this respect, American Movie is not so much about Borchardt's quest to finally complete the seemingly snake-bit Coven (The title of which he stubbornly refers to as "Coa-ven" because its proper pronunciation sounds "too much like oven.") as it is a testament to one man's pursuit of the American Dream.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/cult_cinema/44334 (499 words)

	Josh Becker: "American Movie"
		Although the portrayed filmmaker, Mark Borchardt, technically understands the craft of filmmaking, and certainly has his own warped sense of tenacity, he is obviously clueless and clearly has no interest in really figuring out what he’s doing.
		Unlike Borchardt, Jackson has a much clearer idea of what he’s doing and why -- although he too is bordering on clueless -- and actually has a producer who went so far as to cut off his finger to receive benefits so that he could finance the movie -- now that’s dedication.
		But Mark Borchardt can’t get his shit together because ultimately he’s an irresponsible, alcoholic dimwit that won’t figure out how to do what he seems strangely compelled to do.
	www.beckerfilms.com /AmericanMovie.htm (740 words)

	Amazon.com: American Movie: DVD: Mark Borchardt,Tom Schimmels,Monica Borchardt,Alex Borchardt,Chris Borchardt,Ken Keen ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Struggling filmmaker Mark Borchardt is the subject of American Movie, and he may also be the most determined man you'll ever meet.
		Borchardt is resourceful, if a little unhinged, and his fast-talking enthusiasm sweeps many of his friends and family up in pursuit of his dream.
		There are a lot of funny, sometimes uncomfortable glimpses of Borchardt's filmmaking (at one point, he pounds a friend's head, take after take, into a kitchen cabinet until the cabinet breaks), but the documentary also deals with Borchardt's poor, uneducated background, the collection agencies after him, and the trouble he has supporting his three kids.
	www.amazon.com /American-Movie-Chris-Smith-II/dp/0767846869 (1925 words)

	AMERICAN MOVIE - SPECIAL EDITION DVD
		Chris and Alex Borchardt agree that their brother is a talented negotiator; they also generally believe that Mark's passion is frivolous.
		When Mark's friends reminisce, it's usually about substance abuse; the obviously drug-ravaged Mike recounts the night he dropped toxic LSD that landed him in a hospital and how he tried to take the remaining hits regardless.
		A sequence in which Mark is forced to ram a co-star's head into a cupboard multiple times (due to improperly cut breakaway wood) will probably send casual viewers into a laughing fit.
	www.filmfreakcentral.net /dvdreviews/americanmovie.htm (1026 words)

	Brimstone Media Productions, LLC \| Interview with Mark Borchardt
		Mark Borchardt, who is probably one of the most visible low budget filmmakers out there right now, due to the documentary AMERICAN MOVIE, is one of the many filmmakers who shares his experience of moviemaking in the new book, THE INDEPENDENT FILM EXPERIENCE.
		MARK: Yes, you get stereotyped by the press as the guy in AMERICAN MOVIE, which is again only one slice of my personality, one slice of my existence.
		MARK: I'm in the middle of the 5th draft.
	www.lindenmuth.com /interview_borchardt.shtml (1292 words)

	Reel.com: Mark Borchardt/Mike Schank
		American Movie centers on Mark Borchardt, a Wisconsin-based would-be director whose manic energy and incredible drive to succeed are more obvious than any actual filmmaking talent.
		Mark Borchardt: Well, we went to Sundance and that was like the first really big film thing that I was in where I was an insider and all of that.
		But that was at the exact same time that Agnieszka Holland, that director, made the comment that one of the better films she had seen was Coven.
	www.reel.com /reel.asp?node=features/interviews/markmike (1079 words)

	DVD Times - American Movie
		In one interview segment, when Mark is babbling about how he perceives one of his film's scenes to look, Mike has a smile that is fixed on his face, almost as if he has forgotten to stop smiling from a previous incident.
		When Mark finishes his artistic rant, he asks Mike if he understands, in which the answer is of course no. In another sequence, Mike has to smash through junkyard car windscreens in order to record a crashing sound effect.
		Mark is even forced to put members of his family into the film, and the film's most hilarious sequence involves Mark forcing his poor uncle Bill to repeat the same line of dialogue thirty times, because either Bill's teeth are clacking together or he forgets the words.
	www.dvdtimes.co.uk /content.php?contentid=4157 (1560 words)

	OnMilwaukee.com Milwaukee Buzz: American Moviemaker: Mark Borchardt
		If you haven't already heard the hype or seen the critically acclaimed film, Borchardt is the centerpiece of the documentary, "American Movie." Having won the Sundance Film Festival's Grand Jury Award and now showing around the country, the movie is a couple years in the life of Milwaukee's least likely new celebrity.
		Borchardt says all this new publicity has put a small dent in his efforts to work on his new film and future masterpiece, Northwestern, which is the subject of the first half of "American Movie."
		As always, Borchardt is most appreciative of the filmmakers of American movie, Chris Smith and Sarah Price.
	www.onmilwaukee.com /buzz/articles/borchardt.html (774 words)

	Movie Habit: Interview with Mark Borchardt and Mike Schank
		Mark Borchardt and Mike Schank were the protagonists of the 1999 film American Movie, a documentary that won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance and the People’s Choice Awards at the Denver International Film Festival (among other awards).
		Mark: They film is about this actual, real-life dude who won the Britney Spears look-alike contest, who was a dude.
		Mark: Of course you’re being exploited but we go by the original definition of exploitation which is not a negative definition.
	www.moviehabit.com /essays/borchardt_schank02.shtml (633 words)

	Amazon.ca: Britney Baby One More Time - D: DVD: Ludi Boeken,Robert Stephens,Shannon Williams,Karl Makinen,Mike ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Wisconsin filmmaker Mark Borchardt proves here that he's no actor, even when playing a thinly disguised version of himself; as a result, the seriocomic antics captured in American Movie must have been real.
		Borchardt's friend and American Movie cohort Mike Schank is the best thing here, if only because he's the only one who isn't acting.
		After seeing Mark Borchardt and Mike Schank in the true life documentary American Movie: The Making of Northwestern (1999), I was excited to see they were involved in another project, Britney Baby One More Time (2002).
	www.amazon.ca /Britney-Baby-One-More-Time/dp/B000127ZBE (952 words)

	American Movie : Bios : Mark Borchardt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		After this, Mark went on to shoot five more shorts while erratically drinking and getting high: The Mad Doctor’s Monster, Rocketship 101, The More The Scarier II, I Blow Up, and a more advanced effort, Let There Be Light.
		By the end of 1993, Mark realized he wasn’t getting anywhere cinematically, so he started writing Coven in his 1982 Mercury Zephyr with a thermos of coffee at the small plane airport down the street from home.
		Having self-resolved his alcohol troubles, Mark kept scraping, borrowing, replacing the cast, and reshooting scenes until the film was finally completed.
	www.americanmovie.com /bios/mb.html (246 words)

	American Movie (1999): Mark Borchardt, Uncle Bill, Mike Shank, Monica Borchardt - PopMatters Film Review
		And while it's difficult to tell how confident these people are in Borchardt's project, they dutifully trudge through snow, endure numerous retakes and all night editing sessions, pushed on by the intensity and conviction of Mark's visions and aspirations.
		Borchardt is chasing, as he says, "the American Dream." As he puts it, "I really feel like I've betrayed myself big time.
		Borchardt's filmic vision is grounded in the late '70s and early '80s hack-and-slash horror films, like George Romero's Night of the Living Dead series or Tobe Hooper's Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
	www.popmatters.com /film/american-movie.html (902 words)

	MARK BORCHARDT - THE 2ND INTERVIEW - tastes like chicken
		Mark Borchardt: We are here because you were kind enough to give me the premiere issue of tastes like chicken, and when I read your opening statement, that these interviews would be verbatim, I immediately realized the interview would have to be redone.
		WC: Well, Mark, the last question I have for you is, when everything is said and done and you leave this life, what do you want to be known for?
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	www.tlchicken.com /view_story.php?ARTid=2828 (3283 words)

	The American dream dissected
		Borchardt’s chief financier is his crotchety Uncle Bill, his sidekick, a stoned musician named Mike Schank, also moonlights as a camera operator, extra, editor, etc.
		The film chronicles Borchardt’s drinking problem, his failure to support his children, and his manipulation of friends and family to achieve his ends.
		Perhaps the most poignant moment in the film is the image of Borchardt huddled with his mother on the couch, watching the 1996 Academy Awards, the so-called year of the independent film.
	www.ucalgary.ca /~gauntlet/eg/buzz/stories/20000217/buzz6.html (494 words)

	American Movie
		That's Wisconsin filmmaker Mark Borchardt describing his years-in-the-making epic Northwestern, but his words could just as easily apply to the extraordinary new documentary American Movie, which details Borchardt's failed attempts to launch production of Northwestern and subsequent determination to complete the 35-minute horror film Coven.
		Borchardt is a true blue believer in the American Dream, and he clings to it with feverish tenacity.
		Smith has marked out this fertile territory as his own, and it will be fascinating to watch him continue to explore it in future projects.
	www.culturevulture.net /Movies/AmericanMovie.htm (839 words)

	Mark Borchardt \| The A.V. Club
		But those made uneasy by the film's portrait miss its natural humor and humanity: Both Smith and Borchardt know that the latter is an unusual character.
		Borchardt himself doesn't seem to care what people think, and he's driven to finish his movie regardless.
		Mark Borchardt: Because of American Movie, the eyes of the media saw me, and because you are known and because you're in a motion picture, you become a commodity.
	www.avclub.com /content/node/22637/print (3919 words)

	American Movie
		Borchardt is the subject of American Movie, an engaging and often hilarious documentary that follows his desperate attempts to make his own hit movie.
		In fact, at times I could scarcely believe that AM wasn't fiction; Mark and some of the others seem so unusual in so many ways that it was hard to believe people like that actually existed.
		Mark seems to truly love his children, but we also learn he's behind on child support, and it's questionable how well he can care for them when he's deeply in debt due to his obsession.
	www.dvdmg.com /americanmovie.shtml (1670 words)

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