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Misfire: The Rise and Fall of the Shooting Gallery

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Misfire: The Rise and Fall of the Shooting Gallery
Film poster
Directed byWhitney Ransick
Produced byGil Gilbert
Bob Gosse
Whitney Ransick
StarringRobin Tunney
Ray Angelic
Miguel Arteta
Edited byGil Gilbert
Music bySam Bisbee
Dave Thomas Junior
Distributed byTSG Documentary, Inc.
Release date
  • October 11, 2013 (2013-10-11)
Running time
78 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Misfire: The Rise and Fall of the Shooting Gallery is a 2013 documentary about the American independent film distributor The Shooting Gallery, directed by Whitney Ransick. The film had its world premiere on October 11, 2013 at the Hamptons International Film Festival.[1][2]

Synopsis

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The documentary looks at the independent film distribution company The Shooting Gallery, which experienced a rise in popularity due to their distribution of films like You Can Count on Me and Laws of Gravity. Ransick looks at the company starting with their start in the early nineties to their crash in later years.

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Reception

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Indiewire gave a favorable review of Misfire: The Rise and Fall of the Shooting Gallery, writing that "What makes “Misfire” so powerful is that it isn’t just the story of the Shooting Gallery — which is tragic but one that doesn’t resonate all that well today because their output was often iffy and unmemorable — but the story of independent cinema of that period."[3] The Hollywood Reporter and Grolsch Film Works were more mixed in their reviews and The Hollywood Reporter commented that "Gosse comes across sympathetically, and the film captures the shock of the company's 2001 collapse. But the "rise and fall" chronology is thinner than it should be, leaving us to marvel at the train wreck without exposing anything new about its causes."[4][5]

References

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  1. ^ Hinkle, Annette. "Indie Film Misfire: The Demise of The Shooting Gallery". The Sag Harbor Express. Archived from the original on 1 December 2014. Retrieved 1 December 2014.
  2. ^ "TRAILER: 90S INDIE SCENE EXPLORED IN DOC 'MISFIRE: THE RISE AND FALL OF THE SHOOTING GALLERY'". Grolsch Film Works. Retrieved 1 December 2014.
  3. ^ Taylor, Drew. "DOC NYC Review: 'Misfire: The Rise And Fall Of The Shooting Gallery' Lovingly Chronicles Early '90s Independent Cinema". IndieWire. Archived from the original on 26 April 2015. Retrieved 1 December 2014.
  4. ^ WOLOSCHUK, CURTIS. "MISFIRE: THE RISE AND FALL OF THE SHOOTING GALLERY". Grolsch Film Works. Retrieved 1 December 2014.
  5. ^ DeFore, John. "Misfire: The Rise and Fall of The Shooting Gallery: Hamptons Review". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 1 December 2014.
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