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Becoming the Green Door, or How Working in Porn Shaped Me as a Filmmaker

By Scott Cummings | September 17, 2025

By Scott Cummings | September 17, 2025

Becoming the Green Door, or How Working in Porn Shaped Me as a Filmmaker

Scott Cummings, whose film Realm of Satan is out now, looks back on his unlikely roots in adult entertainment.

Scott Cummings (Buffalo Juggalos) Talks Ulrich Seidl’s In the Basement

By Scott Cummings | November 4, 2015

By Scott Cummings | November 4, 2015

Scott Cummings (Buffalo Juggalos) Talks Ulrich Seidl’s In the Basement

The director of the most rigorous, uncompromising and disturbing films you have never seen goes underground for his latest work.

Scott Cummings (Buffalo Juggalos) Talks Whitney Horn and Lev Kalman’s L for Leisure

By Scott Cummings | May 18, 2015

By Scott Cummings | May 18, 2015

Scott Cummings (Buffalo Juggalos) Talks Whitney Horn and Lev Kalman’s L for Leisure

A group of graduate students getting high on distressed jeans is just one of the surprising, giddy pleasures this excitingly original movie offers.

Scott Cummings (Buffalo Juggalos) Talks Aleksei German’s Hard to Be a God

By Scott Cummings | February 5, 2015

By Scott Cummings | February 5, 2015

Scott Cummings (Buffalo Juggalos) Talks Aleksei German’s Hard to Be a God

Almost three hours in length and close to 15 years in the making, a Russian medieval sci-fi epic finally hits the big screen.