Paul Rachman
Paul Rachman( born in New York, New York, on September 13, 1962) is an American film director who directed the highly praised 2006 documentary on punk music" American Hardcore", which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and was released by Sony Pictures Classics.
He is also one of the founders of the Slamdance Film Festival.
He started his career as a music video director with low- budget videos for hardcore punk bands Gang Green and the Bad Brains.
He was later signed to Los Angeles – based Propaganda Films, where he directed music videos for bands Sepultura, Alice in Chains, Temple of the Dog, The Replacements, Kiss, Pantera, Joan Jett, and Roger Waters, among many others.
He made his feature film debut with the low- budget film noir" Four Dogs Playing Poker", starring Forest Whitaker, Tim Curry and Balthazar Getty, released by Warner Home Video.
He lives in New York City.
Cassius Marcellus Coolidge
Cassius Marcellus Coolidge( September 18, 1844 – January 13, 1934) was an American artist, mainly known for his series of paintings" Dogs Playing Poker".
Known as" Cash" or" Kash" in his family, he often signed his work in the 19th century with the latter spelling, sometimes spelling his name, for comic effect, as Kash Koolidge.
Four Dogs Playing Poker
Four Dogs Playing Poker is a 2000 crime thriller directed by Paul Rachman starring Stacy Edwards, Balthazar Getty, Olivia Williams, Daniel London and Tim Curry.
Mr. Right (2009 film)
Mr. Right is a 2009 British film directed by David Morris and Jacqui Morris.
The jointly- made gay- themed film is the debut for both directors.
Dogs Playing Poker
Dogs Playing Poker, by Cassius Marcellus Coolidge, refers collectively to an 1894 painting, a 1903 series of sixteen oil paintings commissioned by Brown& Bigelow to advertise cigars, and a 1910 painting.
All eighteen paintings in the overall series feature anthropomorphized dogs, but the eleven in which dogs are seated around a card table have become well known in the United States as examples of kitsch art in home decoration.
Critic Annette Ferrara has described" Dogs Playing Poker" as" indelibly burned into ... the American collective- schlock subconscious ... through incessant reproduction on all manner of pop ephemera".
The first painting, Coolidge's 1894 Poker Game, realized$ 658,000 at a Sotheby's New York sale on 18 November 2015.
Waltz of the Stork
Waltz of the Stork is a semi-autobiographical play written and originally performed by Melvin Van Peebles.
It also featured his son Mario Van Peebles.
The play originally ran for four months in 1982.
It ran from January 5, 1982 to May 23, 1982.
The song" The Apple Stretching", featured in this play, was later covered by Grace Jones, and released as a single.
In 2008, a film based on the play," Confessionsofa Ex- Doofus- ItchyFooted Mutha", was released, directed by Van Peebles.
Confessionsofa Ex-Doofus-ItchyFooted Mutha
Confessionsofa Ex-Doofus-ItchyFooted Mutha is a 2008 film by Melvin Van Peebles.
It is based on Van Peebles' 1982 Broadway musical "Waltz of the Stork" and his graphic novel of the same name.
The film was screened at the Tribeca Film Festival in April 2008 and was the Closing Night feature in the Maryland Film Festival in May 2008.
Van Peebles plays the film's main character from boyhood to age 47.
Melvin Van Peebles
Melvin" Block" Van Peebles( born August 21, 1932) is an American actor, filmmaker, playwright, novelist and composer.
He is most famous for creating( and starring in) the acclaimed film" Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song", which heralded a new era of black- focused films.
He is the father of actor and director Mario Van Peebles.
Cassius Marcellus Coolidge
Cassius Marcellus Coolidge( September 18, 1844 – January 13, 1934) was an American artist, mainly known for his series of paintings" Dogs Playing Poker".
Known as" Cash" or" Kash" in his family, he often signed his work in the 19th century with the latter spelling, sometimes spelling his name, for comic effect, as Kash Koolidge.
Mr. Right (2009 film)
Mr. Right is a 2009 British film directed by David Morris and Jacqui Morris.
The jointly- made gay- themed film is the debut for both directors.

Question: Are both directors of films Confessionsofa Ex-Doofus-Itchyfooted Mutha and Four Dogs Playing Poker from the same country?
Answer: yes