Category: film
The Bleacher
The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1926)
From IMDb: "A handsome prince rides a flying horse to faraway lands and embarks on magical adventures, which include befriending a witch, meeting Aladdin, battling demons and falling in love with a princess." Available: YouTube, h/t Animation Obsessive
366 Weird Movies
366 Weird Movies, “Celebrating the cinematically surreal, bizarre, cult, oddball, fantastique, strange, psychedelic, and the just plain WEIRD!” h/t, feuilleton
Baggage by Tim Hendrix
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXrjCdPyn8A via Short of the Week.
Gakjil (Persona)
Don’t Knock Yourself Out
A documentary on the television series, The Prisoner. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9JW48wZtBEA
The Winterkeeper
Because That’s What I Fucking Want
Kunio Kato: The Diary Of Tortov Roddle & The House of Small Cubes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uya8aDfuav4 Animation Obsessive has a great write-up on The Diary of Tortov Roddle. Great source for finding interesting animation. Also, Kunio Kato did the short, The House of Small Cubes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5hFnqqXB60
The Bath, Soyuzmultfilm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9r_RcxEkaN4 "The Bath is a story about an inventor, Strangefellow, and the time machine he’s trying to build. It really does work — yet he finds his project caught in the endless red tape, dead ends and labyrinths of Soviet bureaucracy. Ultimately, a time traveler, the nameless Phosphorescent Woman, arrives from 2030 to carry the worthy into the … Continue reading The Bath, Soyuzmultfilm
Edited By
"A survey of two hundred and six editors who invented, developed, fine-tuned, and revolutionized the art of film editing."http://womenfilmeditors.princeton.edu/ "A momentous event in online film culture went mostly unnoticed earlier this year [2019]: the unveiling of Edited By, Su Friedrich’s large and invaluable web resource devoted to women film editors. Friedrich, a renowned experimental filmmaker with a … Continue reading Edited By
All These Vicious Dogs by Will Oldham
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQCc9gFZ_Nc From the soundtrack of All the Real Girls, which I recommend.
Movie Review: West Side Story
I've always thought the original West Side Story (1961) was close to perfect. I was not excited to see a remake of it. Remakes should focus on flawed films and make them better. Much to my surprise, the new West Side Story (2021) shows the flaws in the original I simply didn't see before. It's … Continue reading Movie Review: West Side Story
