Wilhelm Sasnal has emerged in the last decade as one of Europe's most celebrated figurative painters as well as a prolific maker
of short films shot on 8 mm or 16 mm camera.
They've all appeared in the «Speechless Without Writers» series
of short films shot by George Hickenlooper, Oscar winner Paul Haggis and Rod Lurie.
Not exact matches
Beautifully
shot and intelligently crafted these
short films are fragments
of Christian teaching for the iPod generation.
Among the content to look forward to, Malibu and Ne - Yo completed a commercial
shoot in Spain that will provide a variety
of brand assets — from videos and
short films to behind - the - scenes images.
I've found it difficult to produce a
short video with less than a half - day
of shooting — usually that's a mix
of interview, and
filming in the lab or field.
But it's good to know that I'm not alone in my horror: Director Luke Gilford has skewered the extreme ends
of «wellness» in his new
short film Connected, starring Pam Anderson as Jackie, a lonely spinning instructor who wants to feel more, well, connected — so she joins a wellness cult and gets wifi
shot into her brain so that Jane Fonda (no, really, she does a voiceover cameo) can tell her how «limitless» she is all the time.
«Room» is an offshoot
of «Seances,» an interactive online menu
of short films imagined from the titles
of various lost silent - era features,
shot with separate (but sometimes overlapping) casts in Montreal and Paris.
He was adamant that the story premise
of Free Fire could not be done as a feature
film and was, at best, the sort
of material for a 20 - minute
shoot - em - up
short.
There's a certain kind
of film I see at many festivals: oblique,
short on narrative and incident (or filled with repetitive incident),
shot in a style that favors long (distance and time)
shots of people doing nothing, or doing mundane things like crossing the street in real time.
While several
of the Angulo brothers have camera credits on The Wolfpack, this collaboration doesn't for the most part inform the filmmaking in any noticeable way, and only in these final moments, when under the credits we see a
short film that Mukunda, now an aspiring filmmaker,
shot with the help
of his family, can they be seen to assert a style
of their own onto the
film.
A Bad Moms Christmas,
shooting one day
shorter than Bad Moms» 35 days and taking advantage
of Atlanta, GA
film tax credits, only cost a net $ 8M more than Bad Moms.
I think that the mix
of the really
short shoot (miraculously, Prince Avalanche was
filmed in 16 days), with what an action - packed
shoot it was, in terms
of the amount
of scenes we did every day, and the comedic dynamic
of the character was something that I never explored before.
The
film opens with a stunning, high - angle
shot of an amateur football match that, had it been screened as a stand - alone
short film, would have been a highlight
of the fest.
A brief yet action packed little story that looks at what happens to the Chitauri weapons following the events
of AVENGERS, it's a fun little bonus, though unlike the previous Marvel One -
Shots from the THOR & CAPTAIN AMERICA Blu - ray releases, it does suffer due to the lack
of Clark Gregg as agent Phil Coulson, who previously helped bridge the gap between the feature
films and the
shorts.
Based on Edgar Allan Poe's
short story «The System
of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether,» the
film relocates the action from Poe's France to a remote corner
of England, though the movie was actually
shot in Bulgaria, which might look more like England if England looked a little more like Bulgaria.
As for «
Short Circuit, «the
film quickly disappoints after a cute opening sequence in which we see the army present a new breed
of mechanical soldier able to dish out laser
shots and withstand any firepower.
Director Paul W.S. Anderson (Resident Evil, Alien Vs. Predator, and a lot
of films like those two)
shoots for the sensory overload
of a Michael Bay movie and falls
short.
A win by either
of those
films over Spotlight or PGA winner The Big
Short would be a shocking upset and an undeniable
shot fired over the bow at the Oscars.
For the supplemental materials, there's an excerpt from the documentary Michelangelo Antonioni: The Eye That Changed Cinema; Blow - Up
of «Blow - Up», a new documentary about the
film; two interviews with David Hemmings, one on the set
of Only When I Larf from 1968, and the other on the TV show City Lights from 1977; 50 Years
of Blow - Up: Vanessa Redgrave / Philippe Garner, a 2016 SHOWstudio interview; an interview with actress Jane Birkin from 1989; Antonioni's Hypnotic Vision, featuring two separate pieces about the
film: Modernism and Photography; both the teaser and theatrical trailers for the
film; and a 68 - page insert booklet containing an essay on the
film by David Forgacs, an updated 1966 account
of the
film's
shooting by Stig Björkman, a set
of questionnaires that the director distributed to photographers and painters while developing the
film, the 1959 Julio Cortázar
short story on which the
film is loosely based, and restoration details.
That
of course brings to mind a
short film, akin to the «Marvel One -
Shot: Item 47» shown last year.
The
film stars John Hawkes as a private detective and is divided into five
short stories, each consisting
of one, uninterrupted
shot.
Extras: New interviews with Coppola, Lachman, actors Kirsten Dunst and Josh Hartnett, author Jeffrey Eugenides, and writer Tavi Gevinson; «Making
of The Virgin Suicides,» a 1998 documentary directed by Eleanor Coppola and featuring Sofia Coppola, Eleanor and Francis Ford Coppola, actors Dunst, Hartnett, Scott Glenn, Kathleen Turner, and James Woods, Eugenides, and more; «Lick the Star,» a 1998
short film by Coppola; official music video for Air's soundtrack song «Playground Love,» directed and
shot by Coppola and her brother Roman Coppola; trailer; an essay by novelist Megan Abbott.
From the Steven Soderbergh drama, «Unsane,» starring Claire Foy, to the Oscar - winning documentary «Searching for Sugar Man,» here is a list
of feature
films and
shorts shot either partially or entirely with iPhones.
Thor: Ragnarok co-writer Eric Pearson wrote several
of Marvel's «One -
Shot»
short films including the original Agent Carter, and has now said that there's talk
of new
shorts being done - a surprise given the last one was 2014's «All Hail The King» with the Iron Man 3 Blu - Ray release.
When I
shot one
of my first 16 mm
short films as a student, the light meter that I checked out from school was broken.
The Native Filmmakers Lab, now in its second year
of providing dedicated support for
short film projects, allows Fellows to identify and break down challenging scenes from their scripts, rehearse with actors,
shoot test scenes, edit footage and present for constructive critiques.
With a modest budget and a
short shooting schedule, there wasn't time for the 30 - year - old Evans to hit any local bars or restaurants or do much
of anything other than the
film.
With her character becoming an instant favorite after the
film's release, it was no surprise Marvel asked her to appear in one
of their One
Shot short films, Agent Carter, which was included on the Iron Man 3 Blu - ray.
Marvel Studios hasn't released one
of their «One -
Shots» in a while, but these
short films about unsung Marvel heroes were a highlight
of DVD extra menus.
That would be enough to tide over fans anticipating the upcoming definitive release, but there are also
shorter featurettes on costume design, theatrical lighting, and
film editing; a selection
of auditions and screen tests (though, it must be noted, not including Jennifer Hudson's — I guess some things had to be saved for later); an extensive still gallery; and, most intriguingly, pre-visualization sequences for the musical numbers
shot with dancer stand - ins.
«The Making
of Moonrise Kingdom» consists
of an 18 - minute featurette
shot on the set
of the
film plus four storyboard animatics and narrator tests, five minutes
of screen tests
of the child actors, and a
short piece on the miniatures used in the flood sequence.
The Blu - ray's all - HD extras begin with Last Chance Lloyd (10:19), an original
short film seemingly composed largely from footage
shot for the
film (most
of it deleted and some
of it used).
Beautifully
shot on Red, Loughner has delivered an incredible
short film that creates an atmosphere
of dread on this quiet subway train that moves underneath the city.
DAVID CRONENBERG»S EARLY WORKS: BLU - RAY DISC 3 AND DVD DISC 4 [LIMITED EDITION EXCLUSIVE]: • High Definition Blu - ray (1080p) and Standard Definition DVD presentation
of four Cronenberg
films • Transfer (1966) & From the Drain (1967), Cronenberg's previously unavailable
short films newly restored by the Toronto International Film Festival [7 & 12 mins] • Stereo (1969) & Crimes
of the Future (1970): Cronenberg's early amateur feature
films,
shot in and around his university campus, prefigure his later work's concerns with strange institutions (much like Videodrome's Spectacular Optical) as well as male / female separation (Dead Ringers) and ESP (Scanners).
The
film also takes
shots at celebrity / fame culture, but pushing aside the earlier predatory male character in favor
of a «women eat each other alive, but literally» story makes it fall
short for me.
Featuring iconic
shots from dramas like the «Star Wars»
films and comedies like «Bruce Almighty,» as well as
short deliveries from the likes
of Edward Norton, Scarlett Johansson,
Featuring iconic
shots from dramas like the «Star Wars»
films and comedies like «Bruce Almighty,» as well as
short deliveries from the likes
of Edward Norton, Scarlett Johansson, Dustin Hoffman, Sam Rockwell, Leonardo DiCaprio, Uma Thurman, Will Smith, Clint Eastwood, and others, this video proves as entertaining as it does nostalgic.
Other extras include «Judy,» a
short film by fansite webmaster Jeff Hayes that follows up on Karen Fields» bully and largely proves that it's a blessing that «80s schlock at least had the entry barrier
of professional
shooting and editing equipment.
Best known previously for Paddy Considine «s
short «Dog Altogether» (the basis for «Tyrannosaur «-RRB- and Samantha Morton «s «The Unloved,» he
shoots the
film with the perfect mix
of urban grit and sci - fi sheen, with some
of the most striking lighting
of the year.
Extras include an illustrated paper foldout on the
film including informative text and an essay by novelist Megan Abbott, New interviews with Coppola, DP Ed Lachman, actors Kirsten Dunst and Josh Hartnett, author Jeffrey Eugenides, and writer Tavi Gevinson, The Making
of «The Virgin Suicides» (1998 documentary directed by Eleanor Coppola) featuring Sofia Coppola; Eleanor and Francis Ford Coppola; actors Dunst, Hartnett, Scott Glenn, Kathleen Turner, and James Woods; Eugenides; and more, Lick the Star, a 1998
short film by Coppola, the official (and odd) music video for Air's soundtrack song «Playground Love,» directed and
shot by Coppola and her brother Roman Coppola and an Original Theatrical Trailer.
However, for the most part, many
of the
short films are nice, and very beautifully
shot, but don't always strike as distinctly Parisian in nature.
Meanwhile, the presence
of a calm, emotive ship computer voice as well as the
filming of outer space scenery and efforts all hark back to 2001: A Space Odyssey, only with
shorter shots and more attention to plot.
The DVD and Blu - ray are both released on single disc and two - disc sets, that latter with the usual making
of featurette and deleted scenes, plus a
short featurette on the
film's set design and locations and a brief «
Shooting Diary,» all in Cantonese with English subtitles.
In Lebanon, where the
film is set, I started to plan the
shoot alone, with a miniscule budget, minimal crew, and a handful
of actors — just as I had made my
short films.
They started collaborating on
shorts in
film school, and Ihre has
shot all
of Trier's features to date.
At the Lab, these fellows worked with a cast and crew to practice
shooting scenes from their
short films under the expert creative mentorship
of Program alumni, Creative Advisors and Program staff.
During the Lab, Fellows work with a cast, crew, and supervising producer to
shoot workshop versions
of scenes from their
short films under the expert creative mentorship
of Program alumni and other established industry professionals and Program staff.
At the Lab, these fellows worked with a cast, crew to practice
shooting scenes from their
short films under the expert creative mentorship
of Program alumni, Creative Advisors and Program staff.
Because
of our experiences with the iPhone — Sean did Tangerine, and then we
shot a
short film together, also on an iPhone — it was just a natural [fit].
«It can make money by creating anticipation,» Anthony Russo continues, «elaborate versions
of trailers for instance, that are
shot specifically for online that will never appear in the movie but that may appear as a kind
of short film for a movie in the same way that a trailer does.»