Archive for March, 2010
Apricot
Apricot is a beautiful, engaging short by Ben Briand, reminiscing on first loves and lost memories.
BEV2010: Mall Girls – Katarzyna Roslaniec
Mall girls is the heartbreaking story of a group of young girls lost within their lack of morals in post communist Poland. A beautiful yet devastating first feature from Polish director Katarzyna Roslaniec.
DN SXSW2010: The People vs. George Lucas – Alexandre O. Philippe
No other filmmaker in history has been able to garner the equal levels of adoration and hate as George Lucas has through the Star Wars series of films. Premiering at SXSW, Alexandre O. Philippe’s democratic documentary, The People vs. George Lucas takes a look at the issues of filmmaking and fanaticism. I spoke to Alexandre [...]
DN SXSW2010: World’s Largest – Amy C. Elliott & Elizabeth Donius
Co-directed by Amy C. Elliott and Elizabeth Donius, World’s Largest takes a tour of small town America and the over-sized, roadside attractions hoping to draw in the tourist dollar as a replacement for dwindling local industries. I caught up with Amy and Elizabeth at SXSW to discuss these monolithic signifiers of a dying part of [...]
VideoLAN Movie Creator
There are few things you can count on in this world; death, taxes, and the fact that if VLC media player can’t play a video file, it probably can’t be played. I’m hoping that the rock solid trust I have in their playback software will extend to the imminent VideoLAN Movie Creator editing software release. [...]
Sonar
Renaud Hallée’s rhythmic, abstract animation Sonar is the most mesmerizing thing I’ve seen on the internet in a long, long time. It’s like an orchestral game of Pong. Sonar from Renaud Hallée on Vimeo.
DN SXSW2010 – A Serbian Film
It’s in the nature of festivals that certain films build up an unstoppable wave of buzz; be it for stand out performances, record sales deals or a brake out talent that appears to have sprung from nowhere. Less often does that chatter focus on your level of endurance as a film watcher, as it has [...]
Logorama
Following on from the Oscar nominated Live Action short The Door that I posted on here a couple of days ago, comes an Oscar winner, Logorama, winner of Best Animated Short Film
Birth
Jonathan Glazer’s Birth, a film with its “plot is in rigor mortis” or Modern day masterpiece, Justin Erik Halldór Smith argues for the latter.
DN SXSW2010: Lovers of Hate – Bryan Poyser
For his second feature Lovers of Hate, director Bryan Poyser took inspiration from a Park City house to explore his uncomfortable tale of two brothers locked in a love triangle over the same women. We sat down after his SXSW screening to discuss how the Austin film community rallies around its own. The myth of [...]
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