Getting closer to the world's first $0 movie.
There's a history of movies whose low budgets and origin stories are more famous than the films themselves. From his 1992 $7,000 debut "El Mariachi" onward, Robert Rodriguez has practically built a career out of this kind of thing. A decade later, Shane Carruth would make a much better movie -- "Primer" -- for the same number (unadjusted for inflation!), but people didn't talk about his budget as much. That's because all there was (and is, honestly) to Rodriguez is undisciplined fanboy enthusiasm and extreme production ingenuity; Carruth's movie would have been a knock-out no matter its cost. People are always fascinated by these kinds of stories, which is a good thing for filmmakers; in certain circumstances, not being able to afford a budget can be, ironically, your greatest marketing asset. So it is with Marc Price's "Colin," a movie I'm very late in finding out about (it played at...
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