Hot Dogs for Gauguin

Hot Dogs for Gauguin
Directed byMartin Brest
Written byMartin Brest
StarringDanny DeVito
Rhea Perlman
Martin Brest
CinematographyJacques Haitkin
Edited byMartin Brest
Release date
  • 1972 (1972)
Running time
22 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$800.00

Hot Dogs for Gauguin (1972) is a short student film written and directed by Martin Brest, then an undergraduate at New York University, featuring Danny DeVito and Rhea Perlman in her acting debut.[1]

Plot

DeVito plays a starving photographer determined to capture fame and fortune. Inspired by the Hindenburg zeppelin disaster of 1937, he conceives a plot to blow up the Statue of Liberty and capture the photograph.

Reception and legacy

In 2009, it was one of 25 films selected for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress to "be preserved as cultural, artistic and/or historical treasures."[2][3][4] In 2024 it entered the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art.

References

  1. ^ Grimes, William (17 January 1993). "FILM; So, You Wanna Be a Director?". The New York Times – via NYTimes.com.
  2. ^ "Michael Jackson, the Muppets and Early Cinema Tapped for Preservation in 2009 Library of Congress National Film Registry", Library of Congress (December 30, 2009)
  3. ^ "Thriller and 24 Other Films Named to National Film Registry", Associated Press via Yahoo News (December 30, 2009)
  4. ^ "Complete National Film Registry Listing". Library of Congress. Retrieved 2020-10-30.