A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
Russ Engels
Russel Engels
Russell Engles
Russell W. Engels
Rusty Engels
Rusty Engles
Rusty W. Engels
Best Boy Grip:
1980 The Mating Season
Chief Lighting Technician:
1980 The Mating Season
1993 For Love or Money
1996 Marvin's Room
1999 8MM
2002 Maid in Manhattan
2008 Ghost Town
2010 The Other Guys
Chief Technician / Stop-Motion Expert:
1980 The Mating Season
1993 For Love or Money
1996 Marvin's Room
1997 The Devil's Advocate
1999 8MM
2002 Maid in Manhattan
2008 Ghost Town
2010 The Other Guys
Gaffer:
1979 Starting Over
1980 Gloria
1980 The Mating Season
1981 The Funhouse
1982 First Blood
1987 Raising Arizona
1990 Miller's Crossing
1991 The Silence of the Lambs
1993 For Love or Money
1996 Marvin's Room
1997 Men in Black
1997 The Devil's Advocate
1999 8MM
1999 Bringing Out the Dead
2000 Men of Honor
2002 Maid in Manhattan
2004 The Punisher
2006 The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning
2008 Ghost Town
2009 Old Dogs
2010 The Other Guys
2011 Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son
2011 The Adjustment Bureau
2012 The Amazing Spider-Man
2013 Paranoia
Most data and links to images for the Movies section come from TheMovieDB (TMDB).
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.