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Post by pacinoyes on Jan 28, 2023 19:03:07 GMT
She Wanted To Be Burnt (2007) - Prano Bailey Bond - director of the very good Nasty (short, 2015) and my beloved Censor (2021) picks her favorite short films ever............. With links to each of the full films on the page link below. Haven't watched all of these yet but this one is deeply unsettling with clever sound design and sly visual trickery (love the shot in the woods that make her seem like a small animal)....I really like this one a lot ......... www.theguardian.com/film/2023/jan/20/censor-director-prano-bailey-bond-on-her-favourite-short-films
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Post by pacinoyes on Jan 30, 2023 23:14:51 GMT
She Wanted To Be Burnt (2007) - Prano Bailey Bond - director of the very good Nasty (short, 2015) and my beloved Censor (2021) picks her favorite short films ever............. With links to each of the full films on the page link below. Haven't watched all of these yet but this one is deeply unsettling with clever sound design and sly visual trickery (love the shot in the woods that make her seem like a small animal)....I really like this one a lot ......... www.theguardian.com/film/2023/jan/20/censor-director-prano-bailey-bond-on-her-favourite-short-filmsAnother film in this link ^ - Spider (2007) 9 minutes - very dark humored short that is a sort of parody of romance and romance in films.......not deep, not serious but very memorable ........though I guess if you laugh at this you might have a cruel streak - but I did.....ngl......
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Post by pacinoyes on Feb 1, 2023 21:09:53 GMT
Meetin WA (1986) - 26 minutes (rewatch) - recommended to Mattsby , RiverleavesElmius , ireallyamsomething - Woody Allen fans and for a different reaon ......... Film Socialism / Godard fans.......if you've never seen it..... 26 minute interview of Allen by Godard (and it's quite Godard)........in the first 5 minutes Woody laments that American actors are too exotic and not "average" and mentions DePac and Nicholson ("sexy" he labels them )...........
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Post by Film Socialism on Feb 1, 2023 21:18:46 GMT
Meetin WA (1986) - 26 minutes (rewatch) - recommended to Mattsby , RiverleavesElmius , ireallyamsomething - Woody Allen fans and for a different reaon ......... Film Socialism / Godard fans.......if you've never seen it..... 26 minute interview of Allen by Godard (and it's quite Godard)........in the first 5 minutes Woody laments that American actors are too exotic and not "average" and mentions DePac and Nicholson ("sexy" he labels them )........... it's very funny, godard just fucking with woody allen the whole duration, complete with jokes lost in translation and cultural differences. the part where woody says he doesn't fear the press...lmao
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Post by ireallyamsomething on Feb 1, 2023 21:36:55 GMT
Meetin WA (1986) - 26 minutes (rewatch) - recommended to Mattsby , RiverleavesElmius , ireallyamsomething - Woody Allen fans and for a different reaon ......... Film Socialism / Godard fans.......if you've never seen it..... 26 minute interview of Allen by Godard (and it's quite Godard)........in the first 5 minutes Woody laments that American actors are too exotic and not "average" and mentions DePac and Nicholson ("sexy" he labels them )........... Yes, I've seen it...uh, though I'm not sure quite how I felt about it. I don't know if Godard's editing is a form of genius, ADHD, boredom, or him just being a prankster. Maybe all of the above. (but it did get a bit frustrating when certain interesting answers were cut midway; well, what can you do, be it Jimmy Fallon or Jean Luc Godard, can't expect big interviewers to let the other person speak.) It's kind of hilarious and awkward when Godard talks about the significance of naming a catering company in the film Stanislavski and Woody's like, yeah, it's just a name that I thought would be good. Reminded me of the memorable exchange from Stardust Memories: ''What do you think was the significance of the Rolls-Royce?'' ''I think it represented his car.'' I've seen some people say that movies being literary means it's less of a movie, not utilizing the medium as someone like Godard does. I don't really agree with that. One can have literary influences and still create something incredibly cinematic. Eric Rohmer was literary and could make something like My Night At Maud's. Hannah and Her Sisters and Crimes and Misdemeanors are great/kind of literary films too.
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Post by pacinoyes on Feb 7, 2023 20:17:53 GMT
The Life and Death of 9413 a Hollywood Extra (1928)Astonishing short that is so precise and on target it appears to be a revisionist take from 20 years later but rather is revisionist in its era which you almost never see ........some spectacular scene compositions and use of the full frame.......shot in part by Gregg Toland and some of these shots are visionary. Best 1st watch of the year for me so far - and a thanks to SZilla who mentioned this in a post Highly recommended.......
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Post by Martin Stett on Feb 7, 2023 20:22:58 GMT
Mickey Reece's Belle Île (2020) - 27 minutes, directed by "Harry Spaghetti" (Available on Alamo Drafthouse on Demand for free) "I guess I'm just trying to do something that no one has ever seen before, and I feel like if you're not, is it even creating, like, art? Are you creating, are you inventing, or are you just doing what feels comfortable or you think an audience will be able to digest? So even if I'm making a horror movie or a comedy I'm still trying to incorporate something that I've never seen in a movie, because otherwise what's the point?" An interview with Oklahoma director Mickey Reece played out entirely over clips of his movies, as he explains his processes and his rise from making movies that only screened in his own home to films that now screen in national film festivals and public distribution. We get to hear Reece's passion for creating art, even his lousiest shit being something he enthusiastically speaks of as learning points and stepping stones to better understand audiences and how to communicate with them. I don't find the movie particularly enlightening, but it is interesting to see a conversation with a true outsider artist that is just doing his own thing. I'll flag the film as being guilty of mythologizing him somewhat (especially considering that he directs this movie under a pseudonym) but eh, I'm okay with that here. He really is enough of an outsider weirdo artist that I think he justifies it to some degree. And if nothing else: A lot of the clips here are really funny. "My name is Sal Howard, I just recently moved in the neighborhood. Uh, I'm a registered sex offender." "Sex offender? Oh, well we have another one of those in the neighborhood. You two should get together, do whatever you do."
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Post by pacinoyes on Feb 10, 2023 6:50:30 GMT
Teaching Jake About The Camcorder, Jan '97 (2021) - 9 minutesBrian David Gilbert not in his funny mode here - with a short that plays on horror and grieving and symbolism - and is constantly being rewound (the dialog is slightly altered across takes) and on memory captured........ or distorted Fascinating little film - must be watched closely and this has a big following apparently (3.9 on Letterboxd, a ton of Youtube views).......this is one of those things that is ambiguous but not exactly "unclear" at the same time - in fact it's kind of haunting by being ambiguous specifically......I've watched this several times even though the film "tells" you specifically and directly NOT to keep watching it.....
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Post by Film Socialism on Feb 10, 2023 13:44:08 GMT
C4i by ryoji ikeda, very cool stuff. really hope his films become more available in the future as everything i've seen has been some stellar avant-garde
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Post by pacinoyes on Feb 11, 2023 21:25:54 GMT
Slut - Directed by Chloe Okuno (2014) - ~21 minutes
Okuno made a notable debut in 2022 with Watcher - which captured a great performance by Maika Monroe. That movie was formulaic but had a great point - that men constantly miss or misrepresent what should be obvious when women try to communicate with them - about threats (but in general too).
Not through anything toxic about men or some such nonsense in Watcher, but if the threat isn't "real" on some level it's easier to be "the protector"..........this short is Watcher in reverse.......the lead goes out of her way to be watched..........invites trouble............gets trouble.........Slut doesn't have a "great" performance but has a real artistic vision like Watcher in its setting and characters (evoking Pearl actually in the closeness of Death surrounding a young girl) - and while how it gets to where it's going is predictable - the confluence of plot and point is fully realized:
The last shot in the movie - with family, death, absurdity of events, sexuality, all literally floating around the room is a great shot..........there's also a multifaceted angle to that shot:
A girl, an old woman, a man dressed as a woman is a weird, refractory vision of the things happening within our lead character who has to be herself, play "the male role" of a head of household and a passive sexual victim - who "wants" to be victimized - again on some level at least - and feels more things going on within her physically, emotionally than she can quite process though limited life experience.
Death, dying (not the same thing), death of innocence, spiritual death ..........all in one shot.........neat trick.......understands cinematic storytelling in a way many don't.........
Chloe Okuno might make a great movie one day - but so far she's a better director than a writer ............interesting career off of a short and a feature......
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Post by pacinoyes on Feb 21, 2023 0:23:33 GMT
Stalked (2021) - ~ 21 minutesReally enjoyed this - a very basic premise - that kind of suckers you in - has you follow multiple strands simultaneously and with a very cool ending.......this actually looks like a feature and could be one with a fleshed out script - in how it is shot and framed and .......in a way how it is acted. Pretty impressive - if you're looking to get a horror fix - in 20 minutes .....you could do a lot worse..... Lauren LaVera who you've seen in many horrors is the draw.......and she's .........a scream.......
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Post by pacinoyes on Feb 23, 2023 20:26:08 GMT
Ménilmontant (silent, 1926) ~ 38 minutes - rewatch
Pauline Kael's favorite movie (or one of them) is the definition of a movie that depending how you "read" it can either be seen as a series of interlocking episodes or a series of random ones.....fascinating shots..... "horror" presented as a corollary to the mundane.....or vice versa
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Post by Martin Stett on Feb 28, 2023 21:51:59 GMT
Black Rider (1993) - 13 minutes, directed by Pepe Danquart
A black man sits next to a racist old bitty on a public tram and she says nasty things about "Turks, Poles and Niggers" for the whole ride while he and the rest of the tram silently bear it... Of course it won a damn Oscar.
It's just a basic "racism is bad" movie and doesn't really have anything to say. But this movie has two secret weapons: punchy direction from Danquart, and a twist ending that made me laugh out loud. The punchline is clever and unexpected, and even if it doesn't really add anything of substance, a good belly laugh isn't such a bad thing, is it?
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Post by pacinoyes on Apr 14, 2023 8:45:12 GMT
The Neighbors' Window (2019) ~ 21 minutes
Oscar winning twist on Rear Window that feels skillful but contrived and too neat / predesigned - a National song defines a whole middle passage - that's a hint.....still fairly moving in how it's done I guess but when I reflect back on it I liked it less.......even if there's not much room for you to do anything but observe it anyway........I still felt ........manipulated
Has hints of syrupy stuff like the TV show Thirtysomething in its stop and smell the roses contrivances
Meh
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Post by pacinoyes on Jun 1, 2023 23:15:55 GMT
Transformations (1972) - 1st Time watch - 9 minutes Kind of fascinating if you are into witch movies - this short is wordless with a great folky music score......essentially it shows a bunch of women (in black and white) rising in the morning and going about their "rituals" in a communal house.....at first it's just hippie stuff .....but then you start to notice it in a different way: The one man you see is left out of the other scenes.......the "witches" sing, dance, work, put on make-up....that eventually becomes sinister in imagery......when they wash the make up off - it "reveals" a sort of beautiful, ravaged face, the music gets more brooding and sinister.......this is essentially just what I described and that's it........but if you look at it a certain way it's like a Rosetta Stone / origin story of every witch movie and irrational fear man has of witches .... arguably they are not even witches at all but pagans ........and harmless......I mean nothing bad happens......but that imagery.......kind of creepy ......
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Post by pacinoyes on Jun 15, 2023 20:46:56 GMT
The Chair (2023)......24 minutes
Quite good in a very horror-y niche way in that you aren't sure what is happening from moment to moment and yet it seems to know exactly wtf it's talking about anyway.......the "unexplainable" is a great thing in some horror and this kind of gets that.........probably will get expanded where it will probably lose what I like about it anyway.
Kind of a big deal on Youtube it seems....
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Post by pacinoyes on Jun 26, 2023 20:26:17 GMT
Fauve (2018) - ~ 16 minutes
Excellent, minimalist and haunting French-Canadian film that won awards and was actually nominated for an Oscar......
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Post by Pasquale on Jun 27, 2023 18:14:31 GMT
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Post by pacinoyes on Jun 29, 2023 21:45:04 GMT
Cólera (2013) - ~ 7 minutes
Technically dazzling origin story horror - that is slight but cool and clever.......not scary but ominous in that "uh oh now you've done it" way ...........the great Luis Tosar stars.....
A good week for shorts with this and especially the top notch Fauve ........reviewed above ........
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Post by pacinoyes on Jun 30, 2023 18:08:26 GMT
Skin & Bone (2022 / 2023) - ~ 17 minutes
Amanda Seyfried co-stars with her real life husband in an American folk-horror story.....
Sort of like what you would see on a horror TV anthology show - it's a little scary, a little well-acted (in Seyfried's case very well acted - and she sings well too), a lot of baffling "what is happening again?" stuff, a little like Mr. Ed (dead serious) and an ending that's either unintentionally funny - or not meant to be funny at all.
Not bad, not great ......watchable.......Seyfried has a great face to use in horror btw - open, wide-eyed, lovely in the most curious way.......
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Post by pacinoyes on Jul 18, 2023 18:11:41 GMT
Man vs. Sand Prano Bailey Bond (2012) - 9 minutesOne of 4 films - this, The Trip (quite good short), Nasty (great-ish short), Censor (great feature debut) that she made with Anthony Fletcher - her writer or co-writer and all 4 have a similar template: The imposition of horror technique and POV on non-horror stories - mystery (Nasty, Censor) or Art film (Man vs. Sand), or social consciousness (The Trip) This piece - essentially without dialog but wth sound - introduces her trick of frazzled TV screens (instead of video this time) and lurid sexuality and surreal consumption on a seemingly restrained talk show........meanwhile a family works themselves to Death in an absurdist spin on working ............and dying.........for a living. Good stuff..... You can see it here: www.natalieoconnor.com/man-v-sand.html
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Post by pacinoyes on Jul 19, 2023 21:28:14 GMT
Hands of Purple Distances (1962) - The first 5 minutes a 7+ / 10.........but the last 5 minutes +...... a 10 / 10 Sava TrifkovićMattsby , Tommen_Saperstein , cheesecake #horrorlovers Has anyone seen this? Many of the shorts I've put up here in the last 2 weeks have been some kind of tangent of horror - and they're almost all excellent in that way ( The Black Tower, the work of Takashi Ito, Outer Space etc)........but this movie (~11 minutes) which I had never seen is the most overtly "horrific" one. In something that could only be called David Lynch-like - this film starts weird and mesmerizing in showing shots of a broken nature, disrupted and alive but decaying....... and then gets quite terrifying quite fast. Initially obscure it then comes into something like a shifting focus - at certain points (once the horse drawn carriage appears) this seems to suggest it's "about" approaching Death.....at others it appears to be a description of a breakdown, or a vision or even a sexual assault. The image at 9:00 of the woman's hand holding on to a tree is a fantastic horror film shot. The ending of this movie returns to an image at the start suggesting it's maybe a premonition but as for "understanding" it beyond that..........well what kind of surrealism is understood anyway..... Essential viewing for horror fans......aspiring filmmakers.....Lynch fanatics..... Gets better every time I revisit it........Begging to be rediscovered in some pretentious college film course ......
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Post by Mattsby on Jul 23, 2023 0:07:58 GMT
Portrait of God (2022) - Been online for a year, somehow only seeing it now.... very effective DIY horror short... good hook, deep theme should you dig, some scares, and a strong ending. It's gone a bit viral (?) and I wouldn't be surprised if the writer-director (who's also the dp, editor, vfx, etc) got a Blumhouse offer or something soon. I figured there'd be more deals coming for YouTube talents in the genre... especially after the kid doing the Backrooms vids got an A24 deal a few months ago.
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Post by pacinoyes on Jul 27, 2023 18:37:58 GMT
The Pit and the Pendulum (1964) - rewatch ...........37 minutes
Pretty striking and faithful (!) version perfect for PoeBros..........with Maurice Ronet who is you know walking around like more than a mere human in 1964 having just finished The Fire Within (1963) and already having Purple Noon (1960) under his belt .....
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Post by Javi on Jul 30, 2023 0:20:13 GMT
Sommartåg (1961) - Forget the nature v. machine cliché... Jan Troell employs machinery (a moving train, a movie camera) to celebrate people and nature. Dovzhenko would've been happy. The Troellian imagery is as resonant in B&W as it would be in color. As always, he's his own cinematographer and editor. 13 minutes.
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