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- RED NIGHTMARE. This is
the 29 minute short version of the
60 minute The Commies Are Coming;
The Commies Are Coming! so I’m
not sure if it counts as a short.
Directed by George Waggoner and produced
(un-credited) by Jack Webb this is
the classic anti-Red paranoid fantasy.
Webb narrates, Jack Warner supervised
and it was co-produced by Warner Brothers
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- RENAISSANCE. In Walerian Borowczyk's
ten-minute film, items in a Polish home
demolished by a bomb begin to reassemble
themselves and simply evoke the senselessness
of it all. Very much a 60s subject, brilliantly
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1963
- SCORPIO RISING. Not even my
favorite Kenneth Anger but in film history
both unavoidable and influential far out
of proportion to its running time.
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1963
- LA JETEE, (SHORT #2). Chris
Marker. The greatest short film ever made?
The film that launched several dozen features:
Terminator, 12th Monkey. LA JETEE, (SHORT
#2) the landmark film by Chris Marker,
France, 1962, an influential experimental
work that would later influence Terry
Gilliam's 12 Monkeys. Included is an alternate
audio commentary track with Gilliam and
others discussing their adaptation of
Marker's ideas.
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- UNSERE AFRIKAREISE. Peter Kubelka
The tourists’ excursion as a psychotic
journey into darkness. If tourist films
slept, this would be their nightmare. |
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- AN OCCURRENCE AT OWL CREEK BRIDGE,
(Treasures of The Twilight Zone#1), written & directed by Robert Enrico, France.
Winner of the Cannes Film Festival Best
Short Film in 1962; purchased by the producers
of The Twilight Zone TV series for $10,000
in 1963. The film was shortened by a few
minutes and aired only twice in 1964. It
was not included in subsequent syndication
packages. In 1965, An Occurrence at Owl
Creek Bridge won the Academy Award for best
short.
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- ENTER HAMLET, Fred Mogubgub’s
has a different drawing for each word of
Hamlet’s “To Be Or Not To Be”
speech. Images are in no way connected to
the speech or its meaning. Much of what
Christian Metz wrote can be summed up more
simply by showing Enter Hamlet and Duck
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| 1966
- SECRET CINEMA, Paul Bartel directed
the perfect paranoid fantasy decades before
The Truman Show, EDTV and reality TV in
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| 1966
- Hold Me While I’m Naked.
George Kuchar’s short is hysterical,
over the top, inept, celebratory and inspiring…..well,
at least inspiring on a certain level. |
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- GOD IS DOG SPELLED BACKWARDS.
Dan McLaughlin joined shots of over 2000
paintings, each shot two frames in length.
Three thousand years of art in 3.5 minutes.
A great manipulation of persistence of vision,
where your memory of art is jostled and
some images come to peculiar life. I find
it more intriguing than Enter Hamlet, which
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1967
- THX1138.4EB. 1967. Early George
Lucas and though some claim it is so bad
the feature is better that just makes
the perfect argument against stretching
a short film too far. The feature may
be better but it isn’t much.
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| 1968
- THE ESSENTIAL COLLECTION OF THE ANTHOLOGY
FILM ARCHIVES: Note on Essential
Cinema Repertory Collection CLICK
HERE for more information. NOTE:
THIS WILL MOVE TO A SPOT MUCH EARLIER WHEN
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