SATURDAY SHORT: HOUND (2015)
“Hound” is simply about wild dogs, giant dogs, and telekinetic dogs being dogs. This wouldn’t place among our weirder shorts, but it’s certainly good for a few laughs.
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CAPSULE: LOOK WHO’S BACK (2015)
Er ist Wieder da DIRECTED BY: David Wnendt FEATURING: Oliver Masucci, Fabian Busch, Franziska Wulf PLOT: After a seven-decade hiatus, Adolf Hitler returns to Berlin, emerging alive from his cremation...
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240. EISENSTEIN IN GUANAJUATO (2015)
“And a curious use of side-stepping metaphor and associative poetry is involved and embraced – all of which I came later to understand as characteristics of montage, the cinema of comparison – film by...
View ArticleSATURDAY SHORT: YOU ARE AWAKE (2015)
An incurable illness puts its victims into a death-like sleep for days at a time. Those afflicted are subject to a life of solitude, or scientific experimentation.
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CAPSULE: KNIGHT OF CUPS (2015)
DIRECTED BY: Terrence Malick FEATURING: Christian Bale, Cate Blanchett, Natalie Portman, Brian Dennehy, Wes Bentley PLOT: A successful, hedonistic screenwriter lost in the indulgences and vacuity of...
View ArticleSATURDAY SHORT: THE HAMSTER (2015)
A girl convinces her father to buy her a pet hamster. The joy of owning the pet shortly turns existential and bitter.
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CAPSULE: ARABIAN NIGHTS (2015)
Volume 1 – the Restless One As Mil e Uma Noites: Volume 1, O Inquieto DIRECTED BY: Miguel Gomes FEATURING: Crista Alfaiate, Miguel Gomes PLOT: Vignettes of the lives and circumstances of various...
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LIST CANDIDATE: HIGH-RISE (2015)
DIRECTED BY: Ben Wheatley FEATURING: Tom Hiddleston, Jeremy Irons, Sienna Miller, Luke Evans, Elisabeth Moss, James Purefoy, Sienna Guillory PLOT: Dr. Robert Laing (Hiddleston) moves into an upscale...
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CAPSULE: GERMAN ANGST (2015)
DIRECTED BY: Jörg Buttgereit, Michal Kosakowski, Andreas Marschall FEATURING: Lola Gave, Axel Holst, Michael Zenner PLOT: In Berlin, a young girl who lives alone with her guinea pig commits a vile act...
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366 UNDERGROUND: DESTINATION PLANET NEGRO (2013)
Destination: Planet Negro! DIRECTED BY: Kevin Willmott FEATURING: Kevin Willmott, Tosin Morohunfola, Danielle Cooper, Trai Byers PLOT: In order to flee early-20th century racism and find a new home for...
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SYMPATHY, SAID THE SHARK (2015, DEVIN LAWRENCE)
Sympathy, Said the Shark (2015) is the second feature film by fellow Portalandian Devin Lawrence, which has attracted some attention due to its innovative multiple points of view. Of course, the use of...
View ArticleSATURDAY SHORT: VESSEL (2015)
Jane wakes her six-year-old son, Sidney to go with her on a top secret mission. Their late night drive to the supermarket loses its innocence as Jane’s sanity comes into question.
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CAPSULE: OBSERVANCE (2015)
DIRECTED BY: Joseph Sims-Dennett FEATURING: Lindsay Farris, Stephanie King PLOT: A man takes a job spying on a beautiful woman, for reasons unstated by his anonymous employer, from an abandoned...
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245. THE LOBSTER (2015)
“How do you even act in something like this? It was so bizarre. There’s no human reference that I know of to go, ‘Oh, I remember when something like that happened to me before.’ It’s so out...
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LIST CANDIDATE: DER BUNKER (2015)
DIRECTED BY: Nikias Chryssos FEATURING: Pit Bukowski, Daniel Fripan, Oona von Maydell, David Scheller PLOT: A Student takes a room with a family who lives in a remote bunker and is convinced to become...
View ArticleSATURDAY SHORT: SICK (2015)
Ellie’s baby is stuck in the hospital due to a curious illness. With nothing else to do, Ellie watches others grieve over the loss of their loved ones, and daydreams about coming to terms with a loss...
View ArticleSATURDAY SHORT: JIM BAKKER’S BUCKETS (2015)
Vic Berger has made a name for himself by taking television segments, and editing them to obscurity. In this short Jim Bakker offers his viewers twenty-eight buckets of food to survive the impending...
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CAPSULE: BASKIN (2015)
DIRECTED BY: Can Evrenol FEATURING: Gorken Kasal, Ergun Kuyucu, Mehmet Cerrahoglu, and Muharrem Bayrak PLOT: A team of five police officers is called to provide backup at an abandoned building in...
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CAPSULE: THE LADY IN THE CAR WITH GLASSES AND A GUN (2015)
DIRECTED BY: Joann Sfar FEATURING: Freya Mavor, Benjamin Biolay, Elio Germano, Stacy Martin PLOT: When he’s away on business, a Parisian secretary who has never seen the ocean takes her boss’s...
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CAPSULE: CEMETERY OF SPLENDOR (2015)
DIRECTED BY: Apichatpong Weerasethakul FEATURING: Jenjira Pongpas, Banlop Lomnoi, Jarinpattra Rueangram PLOT: Soldiers struck with an inexplicable sleeping sickness are housed at an old school, and a...
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