Archive for February, 2011
Audience Calibration Procedure
If all the newfangled slickery of the current batch of iDevice games has you harking back for a simpler, 8-bit time, Superbrothers may just have something you’ll like with their arriving at the appointed time game Sword & Sworcery EP. As you well know, video games aren’t our number 1 focus here at DN, so [...]
The Hunter
What I know about Iranian cinema could pretty much be written on the back of a postage stamp. If I wrote the word nothing the size of a postage stamp that is. Up until recently, I can’t recall ever watching a film from Iran, unless one has slipped from my memory (in which case it [...]
The Silence Beneath the Bark
I somehow missed this short when Jason over at Short of the Week featured it on the site and I can’t understand how! The Silence Beneath the Bark is so uniquely stunning, I don’t know how we didn’t notice it sooner. the silence beneath the bark / le silence sous l’écorce from joanna lurie on Vimeo.
Involuntary DVD
A man injured at his own party prefers to soldier on through the festivities rather than ruin the night for everyone else; a group of teenage girls pout, preen and flirt, pushing one another further in social and sexual games; a schoolteacher carries out a psychological experiment on her class to illustrate the power of [...]
The Legendary: A Film About The Roots
Cam Be is perhaps overselling matters a tad by titling this The Legendary: A Film About The Roots; comprising as it does mostly concert footage of the hip hop band during the Hennessy Artistry Tour, peppered here and there with surface commentary and interview snippets, (including some words from the drumming master ?uestlove himself) it [...]
The Big Legowski
I think you can tell how much of a cult film The Big Lebowski has become by the number of spoof/tribute videos there are on the internet, my personal favourite though is definitely The Big Legowski.
Goodbye Cow, Pirate and Cyclist
One of my favourite films so far this year, was definitely the fun-filled, action packed, stop motion epic A Town Called Panic, by Belgian duo Stephane Aubier and Vincent Patar. You may have seen their work in the outstanding series of adverts they’ve created for Cravendale over the last 4 years, well unfortunately, all good things must [...]
The Give
Eliot Rausch teamed up with talented newcomer Tommy Petroni to create The Give, a short film cradled by a live performance by Chloe Katerndahl. Recently we had the pleasure to meet Tommy Petroni, an amazing 16 year old kid with a passion for life. In passing he humbly mentioned his interest in photography. Upon research [...]
DN197: Involuntary – Ruben Östlund
[Audio clip: view full post to listen] Described as either a tragic comedy or comic tragedy, Ruben Östlund’s second dramatic feature Involuntary reveals how the individual often bows to the will of the group. Ruben joins us to discuss the merits of the long take and why the digital era is the most exciting period [...]
Film 1
Film 1 by Martin de Thurah is a beautiful and poetic short featuring some outstanding cinematography from DoP Kasper Tuxen and some incredible dialogue. “I have thin legs and medium breasts” “I get jealous when you dance” “I dreamt I died and it was alright” FILM 1 from martin de thurah on Vimeo.
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