Hot Club of France Live (1938, 12MB, 3 min.)
A beautiful old film of Django Reinhardt and Stephane Grappelli
playing their signature Hot Club jazz.
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Amerikuh!
Amerikuh (2006, 6.88MB, 1:32 min)
Neat satirical mash-up by Brian Liloia,
made for ( &, I gather, a semi-finalist at) the
stockstock film festival, so doubly impressive
when you consider he was allocated
the footage.
Nice work – hats off!
Silas & Mange
Silas & Mange (1927, 14MB, 4 min.)
I have always had a thing for silent films.
Rob Sosin and Kevin Maher star in these twisted vignettes,
the restored (1999) films of long dead silent picture stars Silas and Mange.
from Thrillomedy.com
Man Mixes Sound on 2 GameBoys
Kid Quaalude -‘Upside Downer’ (2006, 37MB, 4:01 min)
“Well!”, as my dear mother used to say,
“What will they think of next?”
Neat film by Dave Whiting, shot in a rather
atmospheric former Tram depot in Weimar
& featuring Kid Quaalude doing what it
says on the tin.
Helen Park – slow burn poetry
What Godard Said (2005, 29MB, 5:19 min.)
Two pieces, extraordinary in both ambition & affect,
from filmmaker Helen Park.
It takes a little while, ‘it did for me’ then not only
does the quiet ecstacy of the thing kick in, but your
mouth drops open at how boldly and confidently this
world grows & blossoms from very simple & at first
apparently unpromising material.
Helen Park also maintains a rather good vlog.
Boy In Static – Where It Ends
Where It Ends (2007, 48.3MB, 4:09 min)
To my shame, never heard of Boy in Static before someone
called Alex sends us a nice e mail about this vid, directed by
Yoshi Sodeoka of c505, but video, music, both, turn out to
be rather lovely…
Lynch’s Inland Empire
Inland Empire UK trailer (2006, 13.6MB, 1:53 min)
OK, so there’re the famous rabbits.
It’s only just come out over here so I haven’t
seen it yet but it sounds great.
The New York Times certainly thought so.
UK site
US site
‘Lenin’ – with Meir Pichhadze by Doron Golan
Lenin (2006, 21.3MB, 3:50 min.)
‘Once while walking, Leo Tolstoy spotted in the distance the figure of a
man squatting and gesturing strangely; a madman, he thought, but on
drawing nearer he was satisfied that the man was attending to necessary
work, sharpening a knife on a stone. Lenin was fond of citing this example.’
Ygael Gluckstein (Tony Cliff ) – Lenin Vol 1
with Meir Pichhadze. music by Yehuda Poliker. movie by Doron Golan.
“Je suis Marxiste, tendence Groucho”
from ‘A Night at the Opera’ (1935, 1.6MB, 50 sec.)
from ‘A Night at the Opera’ (1935, 1.7MB, 1:19 min.)
From the excellent & mind-bogglingly comprehensive
‘Night at the Opera’ treasury, two clips from the Marx Brothers classic,
the first of which includes the best punchline ever, no argument, the best.
Dancing in the Sun
Dancing in the Sun (2006, 16.7MB, 1:09 min)
Does what it says on the tin, & nicely too.
Made by Gareth Jordan.