Archive for 'Films' Category
Two films reviewed
I have been a member of theauteurs film social networking site for a little while now, here are two film reviews that I have posted on there. wolke9 or cloud 9 Untapped condition This is a consoling and laughable comedy in which a married sexagenarian falls in love with a septuagenarian customer. The Squeamish sex [...]
A surprise film
Depression in films could not be more accurately shown than in the French film Un homme qui dort. From the very beginning the narrator utters Your alarm clock goes off, you do not stir, you remain in your bed,you close your eyes again. It is not a premeditated action, or rather it’s not an action [...]
compelled to write something …
Its been a long time since I have written here, its been due to a large lack of enthusiasm. Last night I got around to watching a film that was created for free. The films quaint blend of dark humour and the leading role of a teenager’s compassion for the elderly results into a almost [...]
Vapnet – En Berättelse Om Tidens Gång
Today I received through the post a DVD of a short animation within a spaceship environment. The animation is very good for a debut by a small team that set out to do this purely for fun. Taken from the back of the DVD… “Lydia, Lorenzo and Augustine work at Minerva, a space station in [...]
Big Buck Bunny
A cartoon about a big bunny and rodents fighting each other with conkers and other objects in just under 10 minutes. Watch it past the credits too see extra material with those with a childish sense of humour will laugh at. What is very extraordinary about this cartoon is that there was no big budgets [...]
A selection of independent films
The following films are unique in their artistic values, I think its very admirable that with traditional films having huge budgets that they are dedicated film hobbiest making some interesting works. To begin with , I recently saw a group of short films by Reining Nails They are collages of film sequences that show like [...]