SATURDAY SHORT: FROM BEHIND (2005)
“From Behind” is the first episode in what is supposed to be a series of animated shorts titled WORKU. So far there has only been a trailer made for the second segment. The creators insist, though,...
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LIST CANDIDATE: LUNACY [SILENI] (2005)
DIRECTED BY: Jan Svankmajer FEATURING: Pavel Liska, Jan Tríska, Anna Geislerová PLOT: A mentally unbalanced man meets a modern day Marquis de Sade who convinces him to check himself into a bizarre...
View ArticleSATURDAY SHORT: THE VISITOR (2005)
A solitary old woman senses that invisible presences surround her in this modern silent film with a strong, original piano score.
View ArticleSATURDAY SHORT: BLACK DAY TO FREEDOM (2005)
Rob Chiu recently uploaded an older fictional short film about innocent people displaced by war. Is it weird? Sufficiently. Is it great? Undoubtedly.
View ArticleSATURDAY SHORT: LATE BLOOMER (2005)
The sanity of a 7th grade class is greatly compromised when they begin Sex Ed.
View ArticleSATURDAY SHORT: THE HEART COLLECTOR (2005)
A man collects others’ hearts, until one day he loses his own. A final project for Vancouver Film School’s Classical Animation program.
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171. SIN CITY (2005)
“It’s pretty damn weird to eat people.”–Marv, Sin City DIRECTED BY: Robert Rodriguez, Frank Miller, Quentin Tarantino (“special guest director”) FEATURING: Bruce Willis, Mickey Rourke, Clive Owen,...
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LIST CANDIDATE: THE PIANO TUNER OF EARTHQUAKES (2005)
DIRECTED BY: Stephen Quay, Timothy Quay FEATURING: César Sarachu, Gottfried John, Amira Casar, Assumpta Serna PLOT: A doctor brings a piano tuner to his remote asylum to prepare automata for an opera...
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CAPSULE: CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY (2005)
DIRECTED BY: Tim Burton FEATURING: Johnny Depp, Freddie Highmore, David Kelly, Annasophia Robb, Julia Winter, Jordan Fry, Philip Wiegratz, Helena Bonham Carter, Christopher Lee PLOT: Poor,...
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CAPSULE: ID (2005)
DIRECTED BY: Kei Fujiwara FEATURING: Kimihiko Hasegawa, Kei Fujiwara PLOT: A man awakens in a woods and wanders into an urban pig farm where he observes examples of human cruelty and perversion. WHY...
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CAPSULE: RAMPO NOIR (2005)
DIRECTED BY: Suguru Takeuchi, Akio Jissôji, Hisayasu Satô, Atsushi Kaneko FEATURING: Tadanobu Asano PLOT: Four experimental stories of sex and madness adapted from the works of Edogawa Rampo: a man...
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WOODY ALLEN’S CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS (1989) AND MATCH POINT (2005)
In 1935, Peter Lorre (in one of his few great roles) seared the screen as Raskolnikov in Crime and Punishment (Josef von Sternberg directed, unevenly). Woody Allen is too original to give us a direct...
View ArticleSATURDAY SHORT: LIFE IN TRANSITION (2005)
A symbolic story of life, death, and rebirth by the creator of the cartoon series Courage the Cowardly Dog.
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CAPSULE: THE CURSE [NOROI] (2005)
DIRECTED BY: Kōji Shiraishi FEATURING: Jin Muraki, Rio Canno, Tomono Kuga, Marika Matsumoto PLOT: A paranormal investigator discovers a connection between a succession of mysterious phenomena. WHY IT...
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274. NUIT NOIRE [BLACK NIGHT] (2005)
“Often when we go to the cinema we feel like we’re being taken for fools because things we have instantly understood are laboriously explained. Here it’s a little the other way round.”–Olivier Smolders...
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CAPSULE: ME AND YOU AND EVERYONE WE KNOW (2005)
DIRECTED BY: Miranda July FEATURING: John Hawkes, Miranda July, Miles Thompson, Brandon Ratcliff PLOT: A cross-section of humanity, led by a shoe salesman and an aspiring performance artist, struggles...
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CAPSULE: THE CHUMSCRUBBER (2005)
DIRECTED BY: Arie Posin FEATURING: Jamie Bell, Camilla Belle, Justin Chatwin, Ralph Fiennes, Glenn Close, Allison Janney, William Fitchner PLOT: In a wealthy California suburb, disaffected teen Dean...
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CAPSULE: HARD CANDY (2005)
DIRECTED BY: David Slade FEATURING: Ellen Page, Patrick Wilson PLOT: A teenage girl turns the tables on a sexual predator, subjecting him to torture in retribution for his misdeeds. WHY IT WON’T MAKE...
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355. LUNACY (2005)
Sílení “I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”–Edgar Allen Poe, 1848 letter to George W. Eveleth DIRECTED BY: Jan Svankmajer FEATURING: Pavel Liska, Jan Tríska, Anna Geislerová...
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CAPSULE: BATTLE IN HEAVEN (2005)
DIRECTED BY: Carlos Reygadas FEATURING: Marcos Hernández, Anapola Mushkadiz, Bertha Ruiz PLOT: A chauffeur falls in love with his boss’ daughter, who is secretly a prostitute, and confesses a terrible...
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