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February 21: Explore invention, dance, poetry, art - making, and short films at the Mary Baker Eddy Library's Untold American Stories / Black History Month (Boston)

Educational, yet fun and easy to absorb, the short clip is the eleventh chapter of the hugely popular «Inside Chanel» series, consisting of 12 original films that recount Coco Chanel's life and the history of the house she founded.

The Blu - ray includes a booklet containing Blixen's original story and a short but informative essay by frequent Criterion film commentator Mark Le Fanu, discussing the film's choice of language and locale, and contextualizing it among Scandinavian films of the era, and via Axel's personal history.

elements in this film are kind of fascinating, in that they exactly mirror the mentality of a great many of Tarantula's fans in this country: stupid, ill - educated, no real grasp of the short history of the USA, brains afloat with a vapid toxic sociopathic mix of shit exploitation films and snatches of slavery history and rap and John Woo and gory gunshots and wiggerism and general complete and utter fucking horseshit.

The future director studied history at the University of Montreal, and it was there that he would produce his first short film, Seul ou Avec d'Autres, in 1962.

In Skype's short history, it has never been used effectively in film.

The moderately successful artistic pursuits of this sculptor and retired Bard College professor, coupled with the short story structure of the film, lay the foundation for its exploration of the way in which history and perception become intertwined with identity and how people often cling to an idea of themselves, be it objective fact or socially constructed fiction.

But perhaps it was the six award - winning films in MIFF's 50th Shorts Awards that most fittingly captured the hybrid nature of MIFF 2011, a selection of old and new forms of filmmaking, from a myriad of countries on a range of issues: A Fine Young Man (Kevan Funk, 2010) from Canada, winner of Best Short Film; Best Australian Short, The Palace (Anthony Maras, 2011); Andrew Kavanagh, winner of the Emerging Australian Filmmaker Award for At the Formal (2010); Green Crayons, (Kazik Radwanski, 2010) from Canada, winner of Best Fiction Short Film; Nullabor (Alister Lockhart, Patrick Sarell, 2011) from Australia, the Best Animation Short Film; Leonids Story (Rainer Ludwigs, 2011) from Russia, the Best Documentary Short; and A History of Mutual Respect (Gabriel Abrantes, Daniel Schmidt, 2010) from Portugal, winner of Best Experimental Short Film.

History buffs will appreciate the story of the 47 ronin getting the Hollywood treatment, but instead of wasting time on this movie, do yourself a favor and check out Rinsch's commercial and short film work instead.

Special Features New 2K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack New interview with Richard Neupert, author of A History of the French New Wave Cinema Jacques Rivette's 1956 short film Le coup du berger, featuring cameos by fellow French New Wave directors Claude Chabrol, Jean - Luc Godard, and Francois Truffaut New English subtitle translation Plus: An essay by critic Luc Sante

Limited Edition 2 Disc DVD set & Blu - Ray Extras: 36 minute Black Metal short film of deleted scenes, Alternate ending, Outtakes, The Cutting Room with musicians not in the film including: Enslaved, Ted «Nocturno Cutlo» Skjellum from Darkthrone, and Jørn «Necrobutcher» from Mayhem, plus more with Ulver, Immortal, Jan Axel «Hellhammer» Blomberg, Gylve» Fenriz» Nagell and Kjetil «Frost» Haraldstad, 46 more minutes of Varg Vikernes and a 45 minute class on the history of black metal with Fenriz

I've watched hundreds of films throughout my short 29 - year history and I've seen some difficult cinema.

It's to the credit of Lincoln's filmmakers that in the relatively short running time of a feature film, we genuinely get a similar sense of the ways in which history is actually written.

1951 - 1999: A short history of short films presented by the Festival de Cannes.

Beginnings: Black Female Cinema (1977 - 81): This rare screening of four 16 mm short films is a crucial part of American film history.

This makes him the obvious but worst choice for a film about the single most mythologized figure in our short history.

I immediately identified with the film's protagonist, solid A student Leigh Ann Watson (Katie Holmes), who, in an early scene, presents a much - worked - on project in her history class, only to have her presentation abruptly cut short by vicious barbs hurled by the class's instructor, Mrs. Eve Tingle (Helen Mirren).

This short documentary, taken from the Eurotika series on Channel 4, is a lovingly crafted — albeit brief — history of the Italian horror film.

Exclusive to the Blu - ray is a thorough and detailed commentary track by director / writer Richard Kelly, the featurette «The Box: Grounded in Reality» (about the real - life history of his parents that inspired the characters), three brief yet quite efficient snapshots of the film's digital effects, a trio of bonus mood piece shorts (more ominous suggestions of otherworldly surveillance) and a bonus digital copy of the film for portable media players.

Release Date: Since her excellent 2010 debut I Will Follow, DuVernay has become an impressive force to be reckoned with, challenging herself across a dizzying number of projects and platforms (including the short film The Door, which went to Venice 2013, television projects such as a compelling portrait of Venus Williams with Venus Vs. for ESPN's «Nine for IX» series, and «Scandal,» plus she unveiled a surprise documentary project this year with The 13th, an excellent portrait of the troubling history of racial injustice within the criminal justice system — and also the first documentary to open the New York Film Festival).

There's one film in the After Dark shorts program called «Plus Ultra,» an experimental Spanish work, that's a really fascinating investigation of secret histories and Spanish colonial myths.

In short, the movie starts with Thor chained up in the lair of a fire demon named Surtur and ends on Asgard with Thor, his adoptive brother Loki (Tom Hiddleston), who is more often his enemy than his friend, an Asgardian warrior known as a Valkyrie (Tessa Thompson), and the Hulk (Mark Ruffalo) battling Thor and Loki's recently freed sister Hela (Cate Blanchett, camping it up deliciously), the Goddess of Death, whose role in Asgard's conquering of the nine other realms has been largely obliterated from the official history (this is the film's one major socio - cultural theme, and it gets a beautifully realized visualization when Hela causes a seemingly innocuous painted dome to crack open, revealing a portrait of a much darker and more violent history underneath).

The comeback was short - lived, however, After Last Tango in Paris — for my money the most emotionally lacerating performance in film history — sent just about everyone involved off the deep end.

It was the weirdest thing because I never went to film school, I never studied cinema, I didn't know cinematic history or anything, and suddenly, in a very short period of time, I'm on this aircraft carrier with these robots and Bruce Dern trying to figure it out and having all these guys around me to help.

Precious Images, made for the Directors Guild of America, won an Academy Award for Best Live Action Short and has become the most widely shown short in film hisShort and has become the most widely shown short in film hisshort in film history.

«THE S FROM HELL is a short documentary - cum - horror film about the scariest corporate symbol in history — The 1964 Screen Gems logo, aka «The S From Hell.»

So far in the promotional history for Laika Studios» new film The Boxtrolls, we've had a short teaser and a longer, behind - the - scenes - meets - footage - snippets trailer.

Featuring three separate audio commentaries with director Ron Howard, co-writer Akiva Goldsman, and co-writer Cliff Hollingsworth, the single - disc release also includes a nice selection of deleted scenes, a casting featurette («The Fight Card»), and a short profile on legendary trainer and film consultant Angelo Dundee («The Record: The History of Boxing»).

Now we know we're giving some comic book films, like Road to Perdition, American Splendor, Ghost World and a A History of Violence the short shrift here, but we wanted to focus in on the type of film we cover the most.

There's a new interview between Leigh and musical director Gary Yershon, Leigh's short film A Sense of History (1992), deleted scenes, and trailers.

In looking at the short history of direct - to - video Disney sequels, as well as comparing and contrasting the 1950 gem Cinderella with the 2002 clunker Cinderella II: Dreams Come True, it will be clear that for more than a decade, the heads of production at Disney were sacrificing quality and bastardizing classic films merely for quick financial gain.

, a feature - length documentary on the entire series (from the memorable Second Sight Films release of the film); In Search of the Hotel Broslin, a 2001 featurette with Henenlotter and rapper R.A. «The Rugged Man» Thornburn; a six - minute outtakes reel in HD from a 2K scan of a 16 mm print; The Frisson of Fission: Basket Case, Conjoined Twins, and «Freaks» in Cinema, a new video essay by Travis Crawford discussing the history of films featuring «freaks of nature»; a set of image galleries (promotional stills, behind the scenes, ephemera, advertisements, home video releases); a promo gallery featuring 3 theatrical trailers (all in HD from 4K sources), a TV spot (also in HD from a 4K source), and 2 radio spots; The Slash of the Knife, a rarely seen short film made by Henenlotter prior to Basket Case; an audio commentary on The Slash of the Knife by Henenlotter and Mike Bencivenga; outtakes and an image gallery from The Slash of the Knife; Belial's Dream, an animated short story by filmmaker Robert Morgan; and last but not least, a 28 - page insert booklet featuring the essay «Case History» by Michael Gingold, «Cham - pain in the Park!history of films featuring «freaks of nature»; a set of image galleries (promotional stills, behind the scenes, ephemera, advertisements, home video releases); a promo gallery featuring 3 theatrical trailers (all in HD from 4K sources), a TV spot (also in HD from a 4K source), and 2 radio spots; The Slash of the Knife, a rarely seen short film made by Henenlotter prior to Basket Case; an audio commentary on The Slash of the Knife by Henenlotter and Mike Bencivenga; outtakes and an image gallery from The Slash of the Knife; Belial's Dream, an animated short story by filmmaker Robert Morgan; and last but not least, a 28 - page insert booklet featuring the essay «Case History» by Michael Gingold, «Cham - pain in the Park!History» by Michael Gingold, «Cham - pain in the Park!»

Blumenfeld - Jones, who is taken by a film on homeless youths, Street Rat, writes, «I am obliged to report that I have, up to this point in the relatively short history of the genre, not been privy to a completely unblemished work of arts - based research, one sufficiently powerful, by itself, to redirect the educational conversation....»

In this lesson, students will analyze a reading from Lesson 6 of Facing History and Ourselves» My Part of the Story and watch a short clip from the film American Creed in order to explore the relationship between individual identity and the national identity of the United States.

Following Facing History's unique methodology, Holocaust and Human Behavior uses readings, primary source material, and short documentary films to examine the challenging history of the Holocaust and prompt reflection on our worldHistory's unique methodology, Holocaust and Human Behavior uses readings, primary source material, and short documentary films to examine the challenging history of the Holocaust and prompt reflection on our worldhistory of the Holocaust and prompt reflection on our world today.

Designed to inspire, the notes are easy to follow and deliver a short sequence of lessons based around the 60 second histories films.

Rolls - Royce Motor Cars has released the first in a series of short films detailing the history of the legendary luxury marque.

The image you published with your article is a copyrighted still from a lovely independent film called «A Short History of Decay.»

Literature, Installation Art, and Films on Partition A Visual History of the India - Pakistan Partition by Aanchal Malhorti Short stories by Saadat Hasan Manto Earth, film by Deepa Mehta Cracking India, a novel by Bapsi Sidhwa (the film Earth was based on this) Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie «The Seer of Pakistan,» essay on Manto in The New Yorker by Ali Sethi 1947 Archive, A global movement to collect and preserve witness accounts of Partition Indian Summer by Alex von Tunzelmann Indian Summers, a British TV drama series, various writers Train to Pakistan by Khushwant Singh Tamas, a movie by Govind Nihalani.

Savor a 3 - course lunch and visit the historical citadel in the city of Victoria to watch «Gozo 360,» a short film about the island's history.

The centre is spread over four hectares and includes covered observation decks, a projection room (screening a film on the history of the canal), a restaurant, a coffee shop, a gift shop, a kids» playground and a short nature trail.

This intimate, immersive film hub space will feature three chambers; beginning with an extensive library, engaging in film history and theory, curated attentively by participating artists from their personal book collections and intended for browsing and perusing; leading further on to a single screen darkroom, a pulsating digital heart, showcasing a sequence of 115 imaginative short films programmed to play on a continuous loop; and on to the final imaginary space, the Virtual Reality port which will evolve over time in collaboration with various artists.

Luiz Roque's short films address gender, the art - historical canon and Brazilian history.

Previously shown as part of the artist's survey at the Brooklyn Museum, this short film is now making history as the first artwork ever to be screened on HBO, which is broadcasting it at 9 p.m. ET on Monday, February 24.

His short films «Router» and «We'll Do the Rest,» look at the socio - psychological spaces between histories, where complexity and contradiction challenge the way we understand the past, present and the future.

Surveying through the lens of current Feminist art history and theory, this exhibition presented painting, sculpture, photography, illustration, design, and film (with a short documentary on the city's Henry Street Visiting Nurse Service by Anne Marvin Goodrich).

This intimate, immersive film hub space will feature three chambers; beginning with an extensive library, engaging in film history and theory, curated attentively by participating artists from their personal book collections and intended for browsing and perusing; leading further on to a single screen darkroom, a pulsating digital heart, showcasing a sequence of 115 imaginative short films programmed to play on the continuous loop; and on to the final imaginary space, the Virtual Reality port which will evolve over time in collaboration with various artists.

In her short film Night Cries: A Rural Tragedy (1989), which was selected for official competition at the 1990 Cannes Film Festival, she engages with both national and personal history through the complex relationship between an aboriginal woman and her dying white foster mother.

The multimedia artist's highly researched and produced and beautifully soundscaped short films play with sound and texture, science and history, mortality and immortality.

Combining narrative films like «Body Double» and «A Short Film About Love» with experimental films, documentaries, and video art, the series demonstrates how the ideas of voyeurism, surveillance, and identity have been central throughout the history of cinema.