Mike Schank (left) relaxes with best friend since childhood Mark Borchardt in a scene from the acclaimed 1999 documentary "American Movie." Schank, who passed away Thursday at 53, amassed a cult ...

Writer-filmmaker-actor-creator Mark Borchardt has never been idle. But it's been nearly 20 years since a movie he directed got wider circulation. "The Dundee Project," Borchardt's 2017 documentary ...

T he titular mother in The Mother, the Menacer, and Me is Nancy (The Sopranos' Lorraine Bracco). The ball-busting, ...

Schank was the memorable sidekick in the Sundance Film Festival-winning documentary. By The Associated Press Musician Mike Schank, best known for his good guy role in the award-winning documentary ...

It’s been three years since Appleton, Wisconsin punk trio Tenement released its sprawling, grandiose double album Predatory Headlights—and we would know, as we named it one of our best albums of 2015 ...

There's a scene in the feature documentary American Movie in which the film's subject, Mark Borchardt, drives around a Milwaukee cemetery making sure no visitors are locked in after hours. Borchardt ...

Mark Borchardt, the lovable lunk who stars in the documentary American Movie, is one of the more memorable embodiments of the midwestern work ethic to penetrate the media in recent years. In the 1999 ...

This month’s picks cover Wisconsin moviemaking, New York music-making and Florida moneymaking. By Ben Kenigsberg The proliferation of documentaries on streaming services makes it difficult to choose ...

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Mark Borchardt (born August 20, 1966) is an American independent filmmaker. He is best known as the subject of the 1999 film American Movie: The Making of ...