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Smithee is a pseudonym that filmmakers use when they don’t want their names to appear in the credits.
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Own: 6 (Plus have a VHS recording of the "Smithee" extended TV version of Dune with the narrated illustration opening and whatnot.
Home Theater Forum Bill McA 2010
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A few years ago there appeared a facetious book of academic essays about Alan Smithee – the catch-all DGA pseudonym under which movies are released if their real directors have removed their names in shame or horror – as if the alias were a directorial signature as recognisable as Hitchcock's or John Ford's.
Cowboys & Aliens: the Versus movie without Versus in its name 2011
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#29 POSTED BY Alan Smithee, Mar 27th, 2008 11: 20 pm
Eric’s Top 10 Movies That Prove the Future Will Suck » Scene-Stealers 2008
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In order to be approved for a Smithee, the director in question must prove to a panel of the DGA that he or she, depending could not exercise full creative control over the work.
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The Basic Instinct screenwriter was equally famous for drugs, womanizing and his multi-million dollar paychecks for scripts that either languished unproduced or became films like Showgirls, Jade and An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn.
Joe Eszterhas Returns to Tell Story of the Virgin of Guadalupe | /Film 2009
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I re-watched the Lynch version recently (actually, the “Alan Smithee” version).
Show #11: Pre-show Discussion : The Kick-Ass Mystic Ninjas 2006
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I know there is an Alan Smithee versionof the Lynch film out there – now is that the extended edition that was recently released on DVD with the hand drawn pictures which add to the story?
Show #11: Pre-show Discussion : The Kick-Ass Mystic Ninjas 2006
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Alan Smithee (him again!), reviewing Let's Get Frank for Flickhead: "In this simple four-minute clip, Barney Frank reveals himself to be the opposite of everything most people profess to hate about politicians."
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I haven't seen the Smithee version, but I have seen the Lynch one ages ago.
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