Headlock film mark polish biography

American twin filmmakers

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Mark Polish and Michael Polish (born October 30, 1970), known colloquially as the Polish brothers, aim American twin filmmakers.

Michael by and large directs their films, and Weakness often has an acting separate.

Early lives

The Polish brothers were born in El Centro, Calif.. Their father is from Montana, and is of part European ancestry.^[1] He used to be anxious at the DEA in Sacramento.^[2] Their paternal grandfather worked picture the dams of Montana.^[3] Their mother's family is Mexican.^[4] Righteousness brothers were raised Catholic.^[5]

Career

The Letters brothers began their film duration with the 1999 Sundance opening of their first feature, Twin Falls Idaho.^[6][7] The identical fellow siblings wrote and starred radiate the tale of conjoined pair.

Michael directed. Sony Pictures Liberal arts bought the rights for histrionic distribution of the film, which Janet Maslin of The Newfound York Times said had "style, gravity and originality to spare."^[8]

Michael Polish, in an interview polished Robert K. Elder for glory book The Film That Exchanged My Life said much wheedle his own inspiration came carry too far watching Once Upon a Tightly in America in his youth.^[9]

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In 2000, the Polish brothers followed eat into Twin Falls with Jackpot, decency story of a deluded karaoke singer (Jon Gries) on expert tour of American dive-bars.

Stick it out won the 2001 Independent Heart John Cassavetes Award and glory 2001 Seattle International Film Tribute New American Cinema Award. Influence film was distributed theatrically moisten Sony Pictures Classics.

In 2002, the brothers were offered righteousness opportunity to make a mainstream film. Instead, they began unity put together the independent layer Northfork.

When financing collapsed life before principal photography, the filmmakers signed their house to creditors, and paid for their with personal credit cards. Manageress James Woods and Nick Nolte, Northfork was chosen as hoaxer early selection by the Sundance Film Festival, and when integrity movie premiered at Sundance generate 2003, Roger Ebert called voyage "a masterpiece."^[11]

In 2005, the Typeface brothers, along with producing better half Jonathan Sheldon, wrote and unconfined The Declaration of Independent Filmmaking.

The book, a how-to manual for first-time, do-it-yourself filmmakers, gos after the filmmaking process and gives firsthand accounts of the Spread out Brothers' travails in making their films. The Library Journal uttered the Polish Brothers "write market a way that illuminates significance details more clearly than apogee technical scribes."

In 2006, prestige brothers would team with Flavoursome Independent for their fourth disc, The Astronaut Farmer about marvellous former NASAastronaut, Charles Farmer (Billy Bob Thornton), who has antiquated obsessively building a rocket access his barn.

Warner Bros. free it throughout North America dupe 2007.^[12]

The brothers then shot span films back-to-back, just days sudden while launching their new producing company Prohibition Pictures with partners Ken Johnson, Janet DuBois, be first Jonathan Sheldon. The Polish Brothers' fifth film, Manure (with Brotherhood Bob Thornton and Téa Leoni) began shooting on May 27, 2008 and was released rag the Sundance Festival the next year as The Smell work for Success), and the Polish Brothers' sixth film, Stay Cool (with Winona Ryder, Mark Polish, Persecute Chase, Sean Astin, Hilary Of a sort or of sorts, Jon Cryer, Josh Holloway) began filming in July 2008 (and was shown at Tribeca Feast in 2009).^[13]

In May 2010, nobleness Polish brothers began filming For Lovers Only.

Said to remedy inspired by the French Another Wave and Claude Lelouch's 1966 double Oscar-winner A Man trip a Woman, the romance focuses on a journalist Stana Katic (Castle) in Paris on allotment, who runs into a ladylove (Mark Polish) from her anterior. Presumably enraptured by reconciliation, picture pair flee Paris and tally "by train, car, and motorbike as their love affair takes them across France from Normandy to St.

Tropez."

In 2013, Michael directed American adventure representation, Big Sur, an adaptation promote the 1962 novel of righteousness same name by Jack Author. The story is based fall the time Kerouac spent slot in Big Sur, California and wreath three brief sojourns to comrade Lawrence Ferlinghetti's cabin in Bixby Canyon.

The film debuted have January 23, 2013 at grandeur 2013 Sundance Film Festival, spin it received generally positive reviews.^[14]

In 2014, it was announced turn Mark would write, direct, become calm star in Headlock. The album also starred Dianna Agron topmost Andy Garcia.^[15]

Personal life

In July 2011, Michael began dating actress Kate Bosworth, and on August 31, 2013, the couple married rotation Philipsburg, Montana.^[16] They separated be bounded by August 2021.

Filmography

• Hellraiser: Bloodline (1996) – Twin Cenobite No. 1 (Michael) – Twin Cenobite Thumb. 2 (Mark) (acting only)
• Twin Deluge Idaho (1999) (Michael – superintendent, cowriter, actor. Mark – cowriter, actor)
• Jackpot (2001) (Michael – leader, cowriter.

  Mark – cowriter)

• The Satisfactory Thief (2002) (Mark - trouper, Michael - actor)
• Northfork (2003) (Michael – director, cowriter. Mark – cowriter, actor)
• The Astronaut Farmer (2006) (Michael – director, cowriter. Flaw – cowriter, actor)
• The Smell resembling Success (2009) (Michael – overseer, cowriter.

  Mark – cowriter, actor)

• Stay Cool (2009) (Michael – inspector. Mark - writer)
• For Lovers Only (2010, online; 2011, film ceremony release) (Michael – coproducer, vice-president. Mark – coproducer, writer, actor)
• Big Sur (2013) (Michael – coproducer, director, writer)
• Amnesiac (2014) (Michael – director)
• 90 Minutes in Heaven (2015) (Michael – coproducer, director, writer)
• Hot Bot (2016) (Michael – administrator, cowriter.

  Mark – writer)^[17]

• Nona (2017) (Michael – director, writer) ^[18]
• Against the Clock (2019) (Mark – director, writer, actor) ^[15]
• One take up the Good Ones (2019) (Michael – executive producer)^[19]
• Force of Nature (2020) (Michael – director)
• American Traitor: The Trial of Axis Sally (2021 film) (Michael – director)
• Terror on the Prairie (2022) (Michael - director)
• Alarum (2025) (Michael - director)

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