A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
Randy Balsmeyer
Cinematography:
1992 The Room
Director:
1992 The Room
2008 New York, I Love You
Main Title Designer:
1992 The Room
2008 New York, I Love You
2023 Best. Christmas. Ever!
Matte Painter:
1988 Me and Him
1992 The Room
2008 New York, I Love You
2023 Best. Christmas. Ever!
Second Unit Director:
1988 Me and Him
1992 The Room
2008 New York, I Love You
2019 The Dead Don't Die
2023 Best. Christmas. Ever!
Title Designer:
1976 Richard Hugo: Kicking the Loose Gravel Home
1987 House of Games
1988 Me and Him
1988 Patty Hearst
1991 Night on Earth
1992 The Room
1994 Amateur
1995 Smoke
1997 Year of the Horse
1998 The Big Lebowski
1999 Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
2000 Bamboozled
2001 The Center of the World
2002 Orange County
2004 Secret Window
2004 The Manchurian Candidate
2004 The Stepford Wives
2005 Broken Flowers
2005 The White Countess
2006 Inside Man
2008 Ghost Town
2008 New York, I Love You
2009 A Serious Man
2009 The Limits of Control
2010 Shutter Island
2010 True Grit
2011 Rampart
2013 Only Lovers Left Alive
2013 The Butler
2014 Effie Gray
2014 Let's Be Cops
2015 American Ultra
2016 Paterson
2016 Silence
2016 The Promise
2016 The Whole Truth
2017 I, Tonya
2018 Feminists: What Were They Thinking?
2019 Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese
2019 The Dead Don't Die
2020 Let Him Go
2023 Best. Christmas. Ever!
2023 Magic Mike's Last Dance
VFX Supervisor:
1976 Richard Hugo: Kicking the Loose Gravel Home
1987 House of Games
1988 Me and Him
1988 Patty Hearst
1991 Night on Earth
1992 The Room
1994 Amateur
1995 Smoke
1997 Year of the Horse
1998 The Big Lebowski
1999 Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
2000 Bamboozled
2001 The Center of the World
2002 Orange County
2004 Secret Window
2004 The Manchurian Candidate
2004 The Stepford Wives
2005 Broken Flowers
2005 The White Countess
2006 Inside Man
2008 Ghost Town
2008 New York, I Love You
2009 A Serious Man
2009 The Limits of Control
2009 Whatever Works
2010 Shutter Island
2010 True Grit
2011 Rampart
2013 Only Lovers Left Alive
2013 The Butler
2014 Effie Gray
2014 Let's Be Cops
2015 American Ultra
2016 Paterson
2016 Silence
2016 The Promise
2016 The Whole Truth
2017 I, Tonya
2018 Feminists: What Were They Thinking?
2019 Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese
2019 The Dead Don't Die
2020 Let Him Go
2023 Best. Christmas. Ever!
2023 Magic Mike's Last Dance
Visual Effects:
1976 Richard Hugo: Kicking the Loose Gravel Home
1987 House of Games
1988 Me and Him
1988 Patty Hearst
1991 Night on Earth
1992 The Room
1994 Amateur
1995 Smoke
1997 Year of the Horse
1998 The Big Lebowski
1999 Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
2000 Bamboozled
2001 The Center of the World
2002 Full Frontal
2002 Orange County
2004 Secret Window
2004 The Manchurian Candidate
2004 The Stepford Wives
2005 Broken Flowers
2005 The White Countess
2006 Inside Man
2008 Ghost Town
2008 New York, I Love You
2009 A Serious Man
2009 The Limits of Control
2009 Whatever Works
2010 Shutter Island
2010 True Grit
2011 Rampart
2013 Only Lovers Left Alive
2013 The Butler
2014 Effie Gray
2014 Let's Be Cops
2015 American Ultra
2016 Paterson
2016 Silence
2016 The Promise
2016 The Whole Truth
2017 I, Tonya
2018 Feminists: What Were They Thinking?
2019 Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese
2019 The Dead Don't Die
2020 Let Him Go
2023 Best. Christmas. Ever!
2023 Magic Mike's Last Dance
Visual Effects Designer:
1976 Richard Hugo: Kicking the Loose Gravel Home
1987 House of Games
1988 Me and Him
1988 Patty Hearst
1991 Night on Earth
1992 The Room
1994 Amateur
1995 Smoke
1997 Year of the Horse
1998 The Big Lebowski
1999 Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
2000 Bamboozled
2001 The Center of the World
2002 Full Frontal
2002 Orange County
2004 Secret Window
2004 The Manchurian Candidate
2004 The Stepford Wives
2005 Broken Flowers
2005 The White Countess
2006 Inside Man
2008 Ghost Town
2008 New York, I Love You
2008 Vicky Cristina Barcelona
2009 A Serious Man
2009 The Limits of Control
2009 Whatever Works
2010 Shutter Island
2010 True Grit
2011 Rampart
2013 Only Lovers Left Alive
2013 The Butler
2014 Effie Gray
2014 Let's Be Cops
2015 American Ultra
2016 Paterson
2016 Silence
2016 The Promise
2016 The Whole Truth
2017 I, Tonya
2018 Feminists: What Were They Thinking?
2019 Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese
2019 The Dead Don't Die
2020 Let Him Go
2023 Best. Christmas. Ever!
2023 Magic Mike's Last Dance
Visual Effects Producer:
1976 Richard Hugo: Kicking the Loose Gravel Home
1987 House of Games
1988 Me and Him
1988 Patty Hearst
1991 Night on Earth
1992 The Room
1994 Amateur
1995 Smoke
1997 Year of the Horse
1998 The Big Lebowski
1999 Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
2000 Bamboozled
2001 The Center of the World
2002 Full Frontal
2002 Orange County
2004 Secret Window
2004 The Manchurian Candidate
2004 The Stepford Wives
2005 Broken Flowers
2005 The White Countess
2006 Inside Man
2008 Ghost Town
2008 New York, I Love You
2008 Vicky Cristina Barcelona
2009 A Serious Man
2009 The Limits of Control
2009 Whatever Works
2010 Shutter Island
2010 True Grit
2011 Rampart
2013 Only Lovers Left Alive
2013 The Butler
2014 Effie Gray
2014 Let's Be Cops
2015 American Ultra
2016 Paterson
2016 Silence
2016 The Promise
2016 The Whole Truth
2017 I, Tonya
2018 Feminists: What Were They Thinking?
2019 Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese
2019 The Dead Don't Die
2020 Da 5 Bloods
2020 Let Him Go
2023 Best. Christmas. Ever!
2023 Magic Mike's Last Dance
Visual Effects Supervisor:
1976 Richard Hugo: Kicking the Loose Gravel Home
1987 House of Games
1988 Me and Him
1988 Patty Hearst
1990 Alice
1991 Night on Earth
1992 Malcolm X
1992 The Room
1994 Amateur
1995 Dead Man
1995 Sense and Sensibility
1995 Smoke
1996 Everyone Says I Love You
1996 Joe's Apartment
1997 Year of the Horse
1998 The Big Lebowski
1999 Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
1999 Three to Tango
2000 Bamboozled
2000 Blue Moon
2000 Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2
2001 The Center of the World
2001 The Royal Tenenbaums
2002 25th Hour
2002 Chicago
2002 Full Frontal
2002 Orange County
2003 Mona Lisa Smile
2004 A Dirty Shame
2004 Secret Window
2004 She Hate Me
2004 The Manchurian Candidate
2004 The Stepford Wives
2005 Broken Flowers
2005 The White Countess
2006 Inside Man
2006 Just My Luck
2007 Michael Clayton
2008 Burn After Reading
2008 Ghost Town
2008 New York, I Love You
2008 Revolutionary Road
2008 Vicky Cristina Barcelona
2009 A Serious Man
2009 The Limits of Control
2009 Whatever Works
2010 Shutter Island
2010 True Grit
2011 Margaret
2011 Rampart
2011 The Adjustment Bureau
2011 Tower Heist
2013 Only Lovers Left Alive
2013 The Butler
2014 Effie Gray
2014 Let's Be Cops
2015 American Ultra
2015 Chi-Raq
2016 Paterson
2016 Silence
2016 The Promise
2016 The Whole Truth
2017 I, Tonya
2018 Feminists: What Were They Thinking?
2019 Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese
2019 The Dead Don't Die
2020 Da 5 Bloods
2020 Let Him Go
2023 Best. Christmas. Ever!
2023 Magic Mike's Last Dance
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Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).
At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.
Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)
While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.