excellent short films by well known directors

Started by Just Withnail, September 13, 2013, 04:14:48 AM

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Just Withnail

To start off:

The Future Reloaded-series commissioned by the Venice Film Festival.

A couple of these are uninteresting and/or bad, but most were worth watching and I figured if it would be strange to just omit two-three of them. But ideally we only post excellent shorts here.

70 movie directors from all over the world have been invited to make a short film lasting between 60 and 90 seconds, in total creative freedom. The invitation has been accepted by great maestros, well-known directors, and young filmmakers of recognized talent. All have participated at the Venice Film Festival at least once over the past twenty years.

Future Reloaded is both a collective movie tribute to the Festival (the world's first film festival to celebrate its 70th edition) and a reflection on the future of cinema, as filtered through the personal artistic insight of each of the participating directors.


Paul Schrader

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQbhmtfbfBA&feature=player_embedded


Yorgos Lanthimos

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TL-kc3DhLOA&feature=player_embedded


Atom Egoyan

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2WcFnq5BTI&feature=player_embedded


James Franco

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJNhYEzSLJM&feature=player_embedded


Catherine Breillat

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPUh89AR7-k&feature=player_embedded


Walter Salles

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Z10gqcbM0U&feature=player_embedded


Athina Rachael Tsangari

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-9v7Gfmcik&feature=player_embedded


Bernardo Bertolucci

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdolxRGNXfA&feature=player_embedded


Ulirch Seidl

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cs1gJQQXKrA&feature=player_embedded


Tobias Lindholm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L42R-VlE3hY&feature=player_embedded

jenkins

Yorgos Lanthimos and Athina Rachael Tsangari -- tbh, jealous

Ulirch Seidl -- i cowrote this jewel

Catherine Breillat and Paul Schrader -- :( i don't hate you, haven't forgotten you

Atom Egoyan -- i like how he's not worried

Just Withnail -- thanks, please visit xixax every day

polkablues

My house, my rules, my coffee

jenkins

contractual obligation from seidl is if i tell you he'll scissorkick my soul

samsong

my favorites: my dad is 100 years old and the heart of the world - guy maddin.  perfect in every way.






INT. trailer. night - jim jarmusch.  jarmusch distilled.  a really lovely, succinct expression of a singular style and perspective.




dans l'obscurite - the dardenne brothers.  their most direct tribute to bresson in the form of a terribly moving 2 and a half minutes.  and i'm pretty sure that's rosetta.




the grandmother - david lynch.  typically unsettling lynch.  this one's really fucked up.




a sense of history - mike leigh.  not particularly noteworthy as a cinematic achievement, but it's really fucking funny and i love it.



jenkins


Pubrick

under the paving stones.

jenkins

no, that's the favorite i'm offering, like samsong offered his. this is my favorite short. but it's true that i call wkw my father, and it's true that it's same ol' wacky pubrick. i really wish you'd been serious about just skipping my posts

Frederico Fellini

We fought against the day and we won... WE WON.

Cinema is something you do for a billion years... or not at all.

Just Withnail

Quote from: trashculturemutantjunkie on September 13, 2013, 02:47:51 PM
Just Withnail -- thanks, please visit xixax every day

i'm here every day, reading! posting comes in bursts

and this thread is on the right track! now we just need some discussion

Lottery

Quote from: samsong on September 13, 2013, 04:18:03 PM
the grandmother - david lynch.  typically unsettling lynch.  this one's really fucked up.


Have you guys seen The Alphabet by David Lynch? I made the mistake of watching it by myself really late at night, alone with headphones on. I swear David Lynch makes some of the most frightening work on the planet. I tell my friends to have the same experience I had with this short film. Most have felt strongly about the experience.


wilder

Andrea Arnold's Wasp (2003)

and, cross-post from the Fassbinder thread, Douglas Sirk's Bourbon Street Blues (1979) starring Rainer Werner Fassbinder


Kellen

Rainer Werner Fassbinder
"Das Kleine Choas"

https://vimeo.com/28462861


Christopher Nolan
"DOODLEBUG"


wilder


Mel

Gaspar Noe - Intoxication (2002)

Not something you would expect from him.

Simple mind - simple pleasures...