Irvin Kershner

Overview

Known for
Acting
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Birthday
Apr 29, 1923 (102 years old)
Death date
Nov 27, 2010

Irvin Kershner

Known For

Corporate Wars: The Making of 'RoboCop 2'
0h 32m
Movie 2017

Corporate Wars: The Making of 'RoboCop 2'

This retrospective features both archival and 2017 interviews with cast and crew members. It includes interviews with CG supervisor Paul M. Sammon, executive producer Patrick Crowley, associate producer Phil Tippett, cinematographer Mark Irwin as well as actors Nancy Allen, Tom Noonan, and Galyn Görg. Sammon's 1989/90 interviews with producer Jon Davidson and director Irvin Kershner are excerpted. There is also vintage rehearsal and BTS footage.

Being and Becoming
1h 39m
Movie 2014

Being and Becoming

Being and Becoming explore the choice not to school ones children, to trust them and to let them learn freely what they are passionate about. Through four countries, the US, Germany (where it's illegal not to go to school), France and the UK, the film is a truth quest about the natural desire to learn.

Corman's World
1h 31m
Movie 2011

Corman's World

A chronicle of the long career of American filmmaker Roger Corman, the most tenacious and ingenious low-budget producer and director in the US film industry, a pioneer of independent filmmaking and discoverer of new talent.

Berkeley
1h 28m
Movie 2005

Berkeley

Just as sex, drugs, rock & roll, hippies, and Vietnam enter our consciousness, so it does for Ben Sweet, the shy, 18-year-old son of conservative businessman, Sy. Ben enters UC Berkeley in 1966 to avoid the draft, but finds himself smack in the middle of a home-grown revolution.

When Star Wars Ruled the World
1h 0m
Movie 2004

When Star Wars Ruled the World

A VH1 television special wherein the cast discuss the making of the films and what made the franchise a phenomenon.

Mythos Hollywood - Das Geheimnis des Erfolgs
1h 31m
Movie 1998

Mythos Hollywood - Das Geheimnis des Erfolgs

Ekchart Schmidt examines the machinery behind the dream factory; the Hollywood myth is unmasked. How does the studio industry work? What role does marketing and the hype surrounding the stars play?

Star Wars: The Magic & the Mystery
1h 0m
Movie 1997

Star Wars: The Magic & the Mystery

Host Howie Long takes viewers on a tour of the "Star Wars" universe, as Fox TV celebrates the re-release of the original three legendary films in this one hour special.

On Deadly Ground
1h 41m
Movie 1994

On Deadly Ground

Forrest Taft is an environmental agent who works for the Aegis Oil Company in Alaska. Aegis Oil's corrupt CEO is the kind of person who doesn't care whether or not oil spills into the ocean or onto the land—just as long as it's making money for him.

The Last Temptation of Christ
2h 43m
Movie 1988

The Last Temptation of Christ

Jesus, a humble Judean carpenter beginning to see that he is the son of God, is drawn into revolutionary action against the Roman occupiers by Judas -- despite his protestations that love, not violence, is the path to salvation. The burden of being the savior of mankind torments Jesus throughout his life, leading him to doubt.

Biography

Irvin Kershner (April 29, 1923 – November 27, 2010) was an American film director and occasional actor, best known for directing quirky, independent films early in his career, and then Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back. Description above from the Wikipedia article Irvin Kershner , licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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