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Precious Brother (2004)

February 11, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Original title: Arvon Veli
Year: 2004
Runtime: 47 mn
Country: Finland
Language: Finnish
Subtitles: English | Swedish (.srt)
Genre: Drama | Short

Director: Mika Lehtinen

Cast:
Timo Tuominen … Arvo (Precious)
Hannu-Pekka Björkman … Veli (Brother)
Minna Suuronen … Marja
Tommi Korpela … Otto
Jaana Pesonen … Suvi
Aarni Kivinen … Doctor
Eeva Soivio … Busdriver
Heikki Rantala … Busdriver
Rezgar Fatahi … Busdriver
Antti-Jussi Annila … Busdriver
Marouf Farid … Busdriver
Juha Sivula … Busdriver
Esa Erkko … Busdrivers superior
Ari Kuusisto … Priest
Mona Elomaa … Otto´s & Suvi´s child

Plot/Synopsis:
Arvo Tuominen, a bus driver from Helsinki, is about to start his summer vacation. As always, he plans to spend his vacation helping out at his home farm, where his brother Veli lives with his wife Marja. The farm work is waiting, but so is something else – Veli and Marja have a surprising request for Arvo.
Precious Brother is a film with dense mood, with subtle quality and a lot of warm-hearted, life-embrasing humour. It tells the story of three people in a strange situation and deliberates upon the depths of brotherhood. ~Finnish Film Foundation

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Water (2007)

February 11, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Original title: Apa
Year: 2007
Runtime: 36mn
Country: Romania
Language: Romanian
Subtitles: English (.hardsubbed)
Genre: Drama | Short | War

Director: Constantin Popescu Jr.

Cast:
Dragos Bucur
Andi Vasluianu
Mihai Constantin
Ion Bechet

Plot/Synopsis:
In July 1944 on a lone battle field in northern Romania there is a fountain between two trenches. On one side were the Russians, and the other Romans. The soldiers were dying of thirst. For some minutes cease fire and from each trench , each one soldier get out to drink water.

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Janna & Liv (2009)

February 5, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Original title: Janna och Liv
Year: 2009
Runtime: 30 mn
Country: Sweden
Language: Swedish
Subtitles: English | Swedish (.sub,.idx)
Genre: Short | Drama

Director: Therese Ahlbeck

Cast:
Eva Fritjofson
Beatrice Järås
Lo Kauppi … Liv
Sofia Ledarp … Janna
Anki Lidén … Monica

Plot/Synopsis:
With her husband overseas, Janna refuses to accept that she has gone into labor even though the pain is killing her. Liv has booked a cesarean section, is looking for a new house and will not let anything delay her regular check-up. When their paths cross in a packed emergency room, the two pregnant ladies embark on an unforgettable journey of friendship. ~ FreshWave 2010 International Short Film Festival.

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Ghosts Before Breakfast (1928)

February 1, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Original title: Vormittagsspuk
Year: 1928
Runtime: 6 minutes
Country: Germany
Language: None
Subtitles: None
Genre: Short

Director: Hans Richter

Cast:
Werner Graeff
Walter Gronostay
Paul Hindemith
Darius Milhaud
Madeleine Milhaud
Jean Oser
Willi Pferdekamp
Hans Richter

Plot/Synopsis:
One of several short films made by German Dadaist filmmaker Hans Richter in the 1920s, Ghosts Before Breakfast uses stop-motion animation to create an odd dream world featuring flying bowler hats. Clocking in at six minutes, the film’s original German title was Vormittagsspuk.
Ghost Before Breakfast was produced for the International Music Festival at Baden-Baden with a score by Paul Hindemith. The film came out in 1927-1928, so it was conducted from a rolling score. But the Nazi regime saw this film as a form of degenerative art, so it destroyed the sound version.
Hats flying, guys with suits climbing ladders, etc. It’s a very rhythmical story of the rebellion of everyday objects against daily routine.
Ghost Before Breakfast is different from previous films by Richter. For the first time, he makes a narrative film characterized by a subtly absurd humour, instead of attempting to make music through images. However, there is a great rhythm to this film: cut outs and the repetition of actions give to this film order and chaos.
This short is also considered a lesson in stop-motion cinema for its many interesting special effects and inventive visual tricks, although the animation of the hats did not succeed.

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Slow At Heart (2000)

February 1, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Original title: Kuningas Hidas
Year: 2000
Runtime: 57 minutes
Country: Finland
Language: Finnish
Subtitles: English (.srt)
Genre: Short | Comedy | Drama

Director: Saara Saarela

Cast:
Kai Lehtinen … Taisto
Tanjalotta Räikkä … Anne
Lina Schiffer … Jaana
Osmo Jokinen … Sami
Ilkka Heiskanen … Kari
Jenna-Juulia Johansson … Paula
Otto Vähätiitto … Tuomas
Outi Mäenpää … Tuomas’ mother
Mikko Pörhölä … Ville, young painter
Esa-Matti Pölhö … Priest
Olga Palo … Sami’s girlfriend
Tuomas Uusitalo … Salesman in paint shop
Kirsi Nurminen … Waitress

Plot/Synopsis:
Black comedy. Taisto is a middle-aged painter, who begins to believe that the turpentine he has been using in his job for many years has seeped into his skin, killing his emotions. ~amazon.

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Emily Cries (2006)

January 28, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Original title: Emilka placze
Year: 2006
Runtime: 35 minutes
Country: Poland
Language: Polish
Subtitles: English (hard-subbed)
Genre: Short | Drama

Director: Rafal Kapelinski

Cast:
Marta Chodorowska … Emilka
Andrzej Szewczak … Stefek
Czeslaw Madry … Dancing Teacher
Rafal Mohr … Dancing Teacher Assistant
Maciej Wojdyla … Kafar
Adam Brylski … Ropuch
Witold Ozimek … Emilka’s Father
Elzbieta Okupska … Puff Mama
Alina Chechelska … Basia
Bogumila Murzynska … Stefek’s Mother
Wieslaw Slawik … Stefek’s Father
Piotr Ledwig … Priest
Marcin Maj … ZOMO Officer
Lukasz Proch … ZOMO Officer

Plot/Synopsis:
It’s winter 1981. Polish government had just introduced martial law. Tanks had driven into city streets. Everyone’s life is supervised by army. It is a sad and grey winter full of fear. But for Stefek it is the best time of his life. He does not care about great political changes, because he just fell in love with Emily. He decides to ask her for dance classes…

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I Miss Sonia Henie (1971)

January 13, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Original title: Nedostaje mi Sonja Henie
Year: 1971
Runtime: 14 minutes
Country: Yugoslavia
Language: Serbian | English | French
Subtitles: English (.sub/.idx)
Genre: Short | Experimental

Director: Karpo Acimovic-Godina, Tinto Brass, Mladomir ‘Purisa’ Djordjevic, Milos Forman, Buck Henry, Dusan Makavejev, Paul Morrissey, Frederick Wiseman

Cast:
Brooke Hayward
Sonja Henie … Herself (archive footage)
Branko Milicevic
Catherine Rouvel
Dobrila Stojnic
Srdjan Zelenovic

Plot/Synopsis:
A film on which Karpo Acimovic-Godina, Milos Forman, Tinto Brass, Dusan Makavejev, Bogdan Tirnanic, Mladomir ‘Purisa’ Djordjevic, Paul Morrissey, Frederick Wiseman, and Buck Henry all collaborated? Sounds like a cinephile’s dream — too good to be true — but it’s for real. Karpo Acimovic-Godina asked some of the directors that were present at the Belgrade Film Festival in (I think) ’72 to shoot a short film following a very strict set of rules: no pans, no zooms, no travellings, only one lens (the same for everybody — i.e. a fixed gaze), one roll of raw stock for each director, and at some point the actors had to say “I miss Sonja Henie” (Snoopy is actually credited as the film’s screenwriter). Now, each of these directors shot his segment (some lameass, some weird; some pop up only briefly; some were used, it seems, in their entirety), and out of these individual segments — plus a few additional scenes (stock footage of Sonja Henie, etc) — Godina edited the final film — which did not please the censors. – Author unknown

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An Artistic Couple (1970)

October 6, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Original title: Un couple d’artistes
Year: 1970
Runtime: 13 minutes
Country: France
Language: French
Subtitles: English (.srt)
Genre: Short | Horror

Director: Bruno Gantillon

Cast: Martine Deriche/Martine de Riche (Catherine Berne) | Thalie Frugès (Mrs. Faroy) | Paul Bonifas (Henri Faroy)

Plot/Synopsis:

20-year-old Catherine is hired as caretaker by a kindly old couple. The girl is gassed and murdered during her first night of stay.
The film debut of Bruno Gantillon is well-acted and executed.
The twist ending is surprising and very memorable.
The film has some clever cinematic touches like the nightmarish hallucination sequence wherein the grotesque masks of her hosts leer over Catherine as the drug first takes effect. This particular moment of insanity reminded me some well-known horror movies made by Roman Polanski. … Worth checking out. ~ HumanoidOfFlesh, IMDb

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Paris by Night of the Living Dead (2009)

September 25, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Original title: Paris by Night of the Living Dead
Year: 2009
Runtime: 12 minutes
Country: France
Language: French
Subtitles: English (.srt – fansubs)
Genre: Short | Horror

Director: Grégory Morin

Cast: Karina Testa (bride) | David Saracino (groom) | Dominique Bettenfeld (priest)

Plot/Synopsis:

Paris by Night of the Living Dead is a twelve minute spec piece that seems to be designed to drum up interest in funding. On it’s own, the short film has little to no story and plays out like a promo trailer for a fun video game where you kill zombies for no real reason or purpose….
Morin fills his 12 minute piece with tons of kills, explosions and even the odd zombie reference moment, such as one hilarious moment where a French soccer player zombie is wandering around giving headbutts to the air. Anyone remember the Zidane incident from the 2006 World Cup? Classic stuff.
… Despite its flaws, the short film is startlingly effective, warts and all. It has a nice pace to it, features loads of exploding heads, destroyed French landmarks, and even some good old bazooka action. If you’re forgiving of short film budgets, then you might want to check it out, even if the creator’s purposes are somewhat impure.
Final Synopsis: Mindless zombie fun for mindless zombies. ~ The Vocabulariast, moviecynics.com

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Chess Fever (1925)

August 25, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Original title: Shakhmatnaya goryachka
Year: 1925
Runtime: 27 minutes
Country: Soviet Union
Language: Silent (background music)
Subtitles: English & Russian inter-titles
Genre: Comedy | Short

Director: Vsevolod Pudovkin, Nikolai Shpikovsky

Cast:
Boris Barnet … Thief
José Raúl Capablanca … The World Champion
Zakhar Darevsky
Konstantin Eggert
Vladimir Fogel … The Hero
Natalya Glan
Ernst Grunfeld … Himself
F. Ivanov
Sergei Komarov … Grandfather
Ivan Koval-Samborsky … Policeman
Anatoli Ktorov … Tram Passenger
Frank Marshall … Himself
Yakov Protazanov … Chemist
Yuli Raizman … Chemist’s Assistant
Richard Reti … Himself
Rudolph Spielmann … Himself
Carlos Torre … Himself
F.D. Yates … Himself
Anna Zemtsova … The Heroine
Mikhail Zharov … House Painter

Plot/Synopsis:

With an international chess tournament in progress, a young man becomes completely obsessed with the game. His fiancée has no interest in it, and becomes frustrated and depressed by his neglect of her, but wherever she goes she finds that she cannot escape chess. On the brink of giving up, she meets the world champion, Capablanca himself, with interesting results.

Though not his first film, Russian director/cinema theorist V. I. Pudovkin’s Chess Fever (Shakhmatanya goryachka) was the first to be released. Essentially a comedy, this 2-reel exercise in montage manages to make the game of chess seem thoroughly cinematic. Illustrating his theory that “The foundation of film art is editing”, Pudovkin uses apparently unrelated images to fashion a smooth, well-integrated unified whole. He goes so far as to rabbet in shots of legendary chess master Capablanca so that his film will have a “star”. Chess Fever was but a prologue for the Pudovkin masterpieces to come: Mother (1926), The End of St. Petersburg (1927) and Storm Over Asia (1928 ). — Allmovie.com

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