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Greg C. Bellavia

Blue Beetle's a scientist.

About Me

The current Top 16 is based on Upstate New Yorkers and how long I've known you. Tadaa.

My Interests

Movies and boxing may be my favorites but honestly there are very few subjects that don't interest me.

I'd like to meet:

Brian DePalma and John Ruiz

Music:

The "Flash Gordon" soundtrack

Movies:

Blade Runner, Kiss Me Deadly, Taxi Driver, Brazil, Blue Velvet, Dead Alive, Apocalypse Now, The Wild Bunch, Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia, Straw Dogs, Annie Hall, Manhattan, Hannah and Her Sisters, Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead, Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn, Criss Cross, Out of the Past, Rififi, Diabolique, Airplane, Audition, 8 1/2, Akira, The Seventh Victim, I Walked with a Zombie, The Ipcress File, Goldfinger, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Once Upon a Time in the West, Pandora's Box, The Long Goodbye, Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill 1 + 2, Rashomon, Yojimbo, High and Low, Throne of Blood, Mean Streets, Goodfellas, The Last Temptation of Christ, The Thing, They Live, Big Trouble in Little China, Point Blank, Get Carter, Memento, Mulholland Drive, Touching the Void, Breakin 2 Elektric Boogalo

Television:

Twin Peaks, Homicide: Life on the Street, Oz, The Sopranos, Seinfeld, The Simpsons, Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Prisoner, Ultraviolet, Red Dwarf, MST3K

Books:

The Grifters, Wild Town, After Dark My Sweet, The Killer Inside Me, The Getaway (or anything else by Jim Thompson), Invisible Man, Light in August, Red Harvest, The Dain Curse, The Maltese Falcoln, The Glass Key, Anything by Alan Moore or Frank Miller, The Grapes of Wrath, King Lear, Gods Bits of Wood, The Great Gatsby, Tender is the Night, Salems Lot, Nine Stories, Do Androida Dream of Electric Sheep?, Factotum, Ham on Rye, Love is a dog from hell, Monster, The Long Goodbye, Easy Riders Raging Bulls, The Woman Chaser, The Decameron,

Heroes:

Carl Dell, R.I.P. Ted Kord

My Blog

My new favorite trailer

While I am still editing and working on tweaking audio levels I figured I might let everyone take a look at how the film has been coming along. Keep in mind this is the TEASER and I still have miles t...
Posted by Greg C. Bellavia on Sat, 31 May 2008 02:21:00 PST

Update, Indy, New Debate

I was horrified to see that my last blog was all the way back in March, with Gimmie Gimmie Octapus no less!Logging and editing footage from the film has been a solid test of my nerves, every new seque...
Posted by Greg C. Bellavia on Thu, 29 May 2008 01:57:00 PST

Ladies and Gentlemen, Gimmie Gimmie Octapus

This is the week I’ve been having. ...
Posted by Greg C. Bellavia on Thu, 13 Mar 2008 02:30:00 PST

A week for the record book and the week after

So just in case you didn't see the bulletin or hear me shouting from the rooftops we finished principal photography on "Devil On My Shoulder". Since we shot this final section of the film at an actual...
Posted by Greg C. Bellavia on Thu, 06 Mar 2008 10:34:00 PST

A retraction and then the first debate of 08

All right, time to admit I was wrong. Previously I went on at length at how bad Tideland was and how it truly was the worst film of 2007. While I stand by my hatred of Tideland, I have been humbled an...
Posted by Greg C. Bellavia on Tue, 08 Jan 2008 12:13:00 PST

2007 Superlatives

Best Film That Is 98% Shot To Be Finished In 2008: DEVIL ON MY SHOULDERSure I'm biased but everything we shot so far looks great, my cast was amazing, my crew was as hardcore as they come and 2008 is ...
Posted by Greg C. Bellavia on Fri, 28 Dec 2007 12:54:00 PST

Why Chris and I arent in advertising

Chris and I saw Crispin Glover's first movie "What is it?" several months back, tonight is the LA premiere of his new film "It is fine. Everything is fine" and to say Glover makes strange films is an ...
Posted by Greg C. Bellavia on Fri, 07 Dec 2007 12:47:00 PST

5 PSA’s Scarier than most horror movies

As a big Bret Hart and Arturo Gatti fan I have always found myself rather partial to our good friends up north, the Canadians. However, having stumbled across the following public service campaign I h...
Posted by Greg C. Bellavia on Thu, 29 Nov 2007 01:03:00 PST

6 "Great" Scenes from 5 Horror Films

5. "Deadly Friend" was the 2nd film to scare the living crap out of me growing up. The first clip is for sheer WTF value This second one is responsible for a barrel full of nightmares ...
Posted by Greg C. Bellavia on Mon, 29 Oct 2007 03:21:00 PST

Top Ten Horror Flicks (sort of)

Ironically for a kid deathly afraid of his own shadow I always loved horror movies. I would track them down only to watch them in absolute terror, haunted for days by visions of "Invaders From Mars" o...
Posted by Greg C. Bellavia on Tue, 23 Oct 2007 03:27:00 PST