Xixax Film Forum

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

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

Quote from: trashculturemutantjunkie on September 13, 2013, 02:47:51 PM
Ulirch Seidl -- i cowrote this jewel

Which part? "Hakuna" or "matata"?

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

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.

classics, right

mine:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k20L6t8GpLo

holy shit you're wong kar wai??

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

Fuck all that. 

THE GOAT:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnyYGFTg8YI

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

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.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpxXx5Qf4HA

Andrea Arnold's Wasp (2003) (http://vimeo.com/27862959)

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

Rainer Werner Fassbinder
"Das Kleine Choas"

https://vimeo.com/28462861 (https://vimeo.com/28462861)


Christopher Nolan
"DOODLEBUG"

Sofia Coppola - Lick the Star

Gaspar Noe - Intoxication (2002)

Not something you would expect from him.

Fabrice du Welz's Quand on est amoureux, c'est merveilleux (1999), no subs. Shot by Benoît Debie.

NSFW


Mlle Lara has trouble with men so for her birthday she plans something special in pursuit of a wonderful love.

Quote from: IMDB user Bunuel1976Surprisingly enough, this completely unheralded horror short from the director of THE ORDEAL (2004; included on the Tartan DVD) proved more rewarding for me. Maybe it is because the plot in itself is so preposterous as to be effortlessly (and darkly) amusing. Here we have an unattractive, socially-deficient woman who, as a birthday present for herself, hires a strapping male stripper to perform at a non-existent party held in her dingy apartment.

The guy is foolish enough to sit down and much on some cake but, thanks to a fork in the throat, inadvertently finds himself as the girl's bedside companion. Even as her 'boyfriend' rots away under the sheets, she posts adverts in the newspaper calling for an adventurous couple to join them in a foursome! But, after some initial titillation, the unlikely correspondents – a short man sporting a moustache and a long-legged blonde – are soon disgusted by what they find there and split the scene.

But, wait – it gets stranger: the hideously deformed and cerebrally-impaired butcher boy gets very distracted every time the lead character comes into the shop (which is quite often) and, after the latest admonishment from his unsympathetic boss, he summons up enough courage to call at the woman's apartment and declare himself to her...

I've hyperlinked an srt/caption file (https://drive.google.com/file/d/13BZHjkOT8t0gwryzqDHHc3yZWEQ16Sa_/view?usp=sharing) to this post ~

Oh hell yeah, thank you

Jim Henson's Time Piece (1965)

(https://i.imgur.com/3vf9CdC.jpg) (https://mubi.com/films/time-piece)

Everyman is frustrated by the typical tasks of a typical day, leading to a stream-of-consciousness journey from his bedroom, to the jungle, and to a nightclub.

Currently on Mubi (https://mubi.com/films/time-piece). There are free versions online, but it's such night and day restored it'd be a shame to link them - see the preview.

Mubi has a 4 months for $4 deal going on right now that ends Monday.