La pasion de la decision: Episode 5
This video is the fifth in a series of spoofs of telenovelas, presented on the Voto Latino website. Rosario Dawson describes it as their answer to Sarah Silverman’s The Great Schlep.
Starring and directed by Wilmer Valderrama, Rosario Dawson, Perez Hilton, Jane Fonda, Tony Plana, Mayte Garcia, Nick Zano, with a cameo by Vida Guerra, Malverde, Chana, Alysha del Valle and Upground.
Music produced by Marthin Chan. Lyrics by Rosario Dawson.
Watch it. (Flash Video)
via GreenCine and Wilshire & Washington
The Pumpkin of Nyefar
A story about a prince who could marry any beauty in his kingdom, but instead chooses to wait for true love. As fate would have it, the prince finds true love in the form of a pumpkin.
The second installment in Cartoon Brew TV is this short animated movie directed by Tod Polson and Mark Oftedal. The story was co-written by Maurice Noble (1911-2001).
Watch it. (Flash Video, MPEG-4)
CBTV #4 should be out today. Tune in!
PSST… I’m Desperate for Love
The third release of the PSST “exquisite corpse” project is a music video for the band Over the Rhine. As usual, “each team had 3 weeks to produce their part and then passed it off to the next director, following the PSST! process.”
Watch it here (temporary link) or here.
Post-it Love
Sticky notes document an office romance in this short film from directors Si&Ad.
Watch it. (Quicktime)
Bitch
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A snobby record store clerk (Keira Leverton) falls in love with a guy (Juan Garcia) she catches stealing records.
Directed by Lilah Vandenburgh.
Watch it. (Quicktime)
via Promonews
Tolya
On International Women’s Day, when all his fellow alien workers call their distant wives to greet them, Tolya remains speechless as he calls Natasha, his wife. He can’t pronounce anything but a whistling mumble with his toothless mouth.
Tolya is ready to give up on words, but not on his romantic message.
Directed by Rodeon Brodsky.
Watch it. (Flash Video)
thanks to The Black Adder
Oktapodi
A story of love, will and, uhm, not enough tentacles…
The work of Gobelins students Julien Bocabeille, FX Chanioux, Olivier Delabarre, Thierry Marchand, Quentin Marmier and Emud Mokhberi.
Winnder of Best Animation at Imagina Awards 2008. Best of show at Siggraph 2008.
Watch it. (Flash Video)
Making of. (Quicktime)
ELA in “Love at First Byte”
E.L.A. is a young girl in love back in home planet Earth. But the power of her love is too big to be limited to solely one being. An extremely bizarre love triangle unravels an invasion of epic proportions, and E.L.A. is set on an adventure to save planet Earth from the evil claws of Havra the Merciless!
Directed by Fernando Sarmiento, J.F. Mackeprang and Federico Quiros at Peppermelon.
By the power of Greyskull, watch it! (Flash Video)
In Search of a Midnight Kiss
Starts off pretty sappy but it grew on me. I am intrigued.
Steven Spielberg - Amblin’ (1968)
Spielberg’s first 35mm film. From Binary Bonsai:
Spielberg himself doesn’t think much of the film, calling it “a great Pepsi commercial” with as much soul and content as a piece of driftwood.”, which would explain why it hasn’t seen commercial release.
Like many first films by filmmakers, it is largely silent. And shallow but in a very cute way. How can you not love these people.
If this was made by anyone else, I probably would not have made it to the end but…
Screen Kiss
Does everybody kiss the same on film?
Me and Billy Bob, a recent DVD and web project, takes as its subject a ‘crush’ I have on actor and musician Billy Bob Thornton.
Unfortunately, Billy Bob has not responded, and I am ready to make him jealous. Screen Kiss features several popular actors including Daniel Day Lewis,Vincent Gallo, Johnny Depp, and one actress, Billy Bob’s former wife Angelina Jolie. In each case I inserted myself into existing film scenes as stand-in for the actresses or actor being kissed by or engaged in other gestures of romance with these stars. I make eye contact with the camera, which functions as voyeur and Billy Bob’s, presumably jealous, eye.
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
One of the best trailers of the year. I am confident the film will live up to the hype. Fascinating story, based on the short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald. By the way, the cinematography looks incredible. One sad catch, it will be released around Christmas.
The Dot and the Line (Oscar 1965)
Mellart posted this clever animation by Chuck Jones and the MGM Animation/Visual Arts studio.
A straight line is in love with a dot; however, the dot finds the line too plain, unimaginative, and rigid. She would rather spend her time with an undisciplined squiggle who is much more fun. The dejected line later realizes that he doesn’t have to be unbending. When the line demonstrates his abilities to the dot, she realizes that true beauty comes from discipline and that the squiggle is not for her.
Yes all that from a line and a dot as the main characters. Another demonstration of how little you need to tell a story.
Take Me Back (web series)
Ambitious series. Kinda Wes Anderson, kinda Charlie Kaufman. Feels like it is being pulled in many directions. Nevertheless, the story and cinematography are wonderfully engaging.
Take Me back Website (where you can watch all 10 episodes) - via Andy.
Anthropology
If you missed it, here’s Victor Solomon’s series of five short movies based on Dan Rhodes‘ Anthropology. Non love stories…
Watch as: Quicktime - MPEG-4 - Flash Video
