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Bret Wood

...maybe I'll die... trying.

About Me

Bret Wood is the writer/director of the award-winning feature film Psychopathia Sexualis (2006). His first feature was the documentary Hell's Highway: The True Story of Highway Safety Films (2003), which was acclaimed as "unnerving and much fun" (The New York Times) and "endlessly fascinating" (Los Angeles Times). Filmmaker Magazine called it "A Lynchian view of the nightmarish underbelly of middle America." His previous documentaries include Kingdom of Shadows (1998, narrated by Rod Steiger). He has written several books on film, including Forbidden Fruit: The Golden Age of the Exploitation Film (co-written with his wife, art/film critic Felicia Feaster). Wood's film-related essays have appeared in Sight and Sound, Film Comment, Positif and other publications. He also works as an editor, graphic artist and producer of classic films on DVD.

www.psychopathia.com
www.bretwood.blogspot.com

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Harry Crews, David Cronenberg, Ned Beatty

My Blog

FAUST Rises Again

Apologies for my bloglessness, but I've been making up for lost time on several Kino projects.Just to show that I and my blog are still alive, I'm posting links to reviews of the new edition of F.W. M...
Posted by on Tue, 17 Mar 2009 13:16:00 GMT

IN MEMORIAM

R.I.P. Kelly Groucutt
Posted by on Sun, 22 Feb 2009 16:52:00 GMT

Bret Gets Kinky

As briefly alluded to in a recent Facebook status report, my short film The Other Half will have its world premiere on Wednesday, February 25 in New York. The screening is at 9:00 pm at the Anthology...
Posted by on Fri, 06 Feb 2009 13:08:00 GMT

Worth the SACRIFICE

When people ask me what I do for a living, I explain that I am a DVD producer. "What does that mean?" they ask. I go into a brief explanation of how films are prepared for DVD, from mastering the fi...
Posted by on Sun, 18 Jan 2009 19:58:00 GMT

And I do mean X-Mas

I recently read a lame article in Moviemaker Magazine of someone's "10 Best Anti-Christmas Movies," and was shocked at how shallow and lame they were.... Scrooged, National Lampoon's Christmas Vacatio...
Posted by on Sun, 28 Dec 2008 19:31:00 GMT

Fourth Aint Bad

Pretty cool end-of-the-year news... the DVD I produced of F.W. Murnau's The Last Laugh was given the 4 spot on Entertainment Weekly's Ten Best DVDs of 2008. This just after Sight and Sound included H...
Posted by on Tue, 23 Dec 2008 13:10:00 GMT

Pet Projects

After a challenging couple of weeks, I'm starting to get motivated again. Part of the doldrums set in when I tried to objectively consider what it would take to make The Seventh Daughter on a small b...
Posted by on Thu, 04 Dec 2008 23:45:00 GMT

Sunday Morning

I'm not sure what to expect, but I just heard that critic David Edelstein is going to discuss some of Kino's silent DVDs on CBS Sunday Morning, Nov. 30.All I know is that the segment lasts three minut...
Posted by on Thu, 27 Nov 2008 18:05:00 GMT

D.W.G. in the N.Y.T.

The D.W. Griffith DVD boxed set I produced just got a great review in The New York Times.DVD REVIEW by Dave KehrBut what I love even more is at the end of the review, where they basically say, "Oh... ...
Posted by on Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:35:00 GMT

Kino Cat

Kino International has just released its 2009 DVD catalogue, and I'll gladly steer as much traffic to it as possible. The magazine-style interface (with film clips embadded) is really cool to browse,...
Posted by on Tue, 11 Nov 2008 14:51:00 GMT