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Wednesday, 30 September 2009

Mermaid (1964)

Posted on 06:21 by uthpa
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Japan
Animated Short Film
Original Title: 人 魚
Writer/Director: Tezuka Osamu

Tezuka’s animated short film is an allegorical gem in which a boy, in a country where the freedom to daydream is prohibited, is sectioned when he tells his parents of his sightings/imaginings of the titular (fictional?) character. Iain.Stott
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David Cronenberg

Posted on 06:21 by uthpa

  • Transfer (1966)
  • From the Drain (1967)
  • Stereo (1969)
  • Crimes of the Future (1970)
  • Letter from Michelangelo (1971)
  • Tourettes (1971)
  • Jim Ritchie Sculptor (1971)
  • Scarborough Bluffs (1972)
  • The Lie Chair (1975)
  • Shivers (1975)
  • The Italian Machine (1976)
  • Rabid (1977)
  • Fast Company (1979)
  • The Brood (1979)
  • Scanners (1981)
  • Videodrome (1983)
  • The Dead Zone (1983)
  • The Fly (1986)
  • Dead Ringers (1988)
  • Naked Lunch (1991)
  • M. Butterfly (1993)
  • Crash (1996)
  • eXistenZ (1999)
  • Camera (2000)
  • Spider (2002)
  • A History of Violence (2005)
  • At the Suicide of the Last Jew in the World in the Last Cinema in the World (2007)
  • Eastern Promises (2007)
  • A Dangerous Method (2011)
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Mikhail Kalatozov

Posted on 06:11 by uthpa

  • Salt for Svanetia (1930)
  • Nail in the Boot (1931)
  • Courage (1939)
  • Wings of Victory (1941)
  • Moscow Music Hall (1943)
  • Hostile Whirlwinds (1953)
  • True Friends (1954)
  • The First Echelon (1955)
  • The Cranes Are Flying (1957)
  • The Unmailed Letter (1959)
  • I Am Cuba (1964)
  • The Red Tent (1969)
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Charles Burnett

Posted on 05:58 by uthpa

  • Several Friends (1969)
  • The Horse (1973)
  • Killer of Sheep (1977)
  • My Brother's Wedding (1983)
  • To Sleep with Anger (1990)
  • The Glass Shield (1994)
  • When It Rains (1995)
  • Nightjohn (1996)
  • The Wedding (1998)
  • Selma, Lord, Selma (1999)
  • The Annihilation of Fish (1999)
  • Olivia's Story (2000)
  • Finding Buck McHenry (2000)
  • Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property (2003)
  • Warming by the Devil's Fire (2003)
  • Namibia: The Struggle for Liberation (2007)
  • Quiet as Kept (2007)
  • Relative Stranger (2009)
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Guy Maddin

Posted on 05:47 by uthpa

  • The Dead Father (1986)
  • Tales from the Gimli Hospital (1988)
  • Archangel (1990)
  • Careful (1992)
  • The Hands of Ida (1995)
  • Sissy Boy Slap Party (1995)
  • Odilon Redon or The Eye Like a Strange Balloon Mounts Toward Infinity (1995)
  • Twilight of the Ice Nymphs (1997)
  • The Cock Crew (1998)
  • Maldoror: Tygers (1998)
  • Hospital Fragment (1999)
  • The Heart of the World (2000)
  • Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary (2002)
  • Fancy, Fancy Being Rich (2002)
  • Cowards Bend the Knee (2003)
  • The Saddest Music in the World (2003)
  • A Trip to the Orphanage (2004)
  • Sombra Dolorosa (2004)
  • My Dad Is 100 Years Old (2005)
  • Brand Upon the Brain! (2006)
  • Nude Caboose (2006)
  • Odin's Shield Maiden (2007)
  • My Winnipeg (2007)
  • Footsteps (2008)
  • Spanky: To the Pier and Back (2008)
  • Night Mayor (2009)
  • The Little White Cloud That Cried (2009)
  • Send Me to the 'lectric Chair (2009)
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Memory (1964)

Posted on 05:35 by uthpa
Recommended
Japan
Animated Short Film
Original Title: のまれれ
Writer/Director: Tezuka Osamu

Atomic clouds mutate into glasses of beer, and aliens with drawers for mouths tell tales about how the (now extinct) human race used to worship toilet bowls, in this silly, irreverent, and (unsurprisingly) rather lightweight yet very entertaining look at the role that memory plays in our everyday lives, from Japanese animator Tezuka. Iain.Stott
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Richard Linklater

Posted on 05:34 by uthpa

  • Woodshock (1985)
  • It's Impossible to Learn to Plow by Reading Books (1988)
  • Heads I Win/Tails You Lose (1991)
  • Slacker (1991)
  • Dazed and Confused (1993)
  • Before Sunrise (1995)
  • SubUrbia (1996)
  • The Newton Boys (1998)
  • Waking Life (2001)
  • Tape (2001)
  • Live from Shiva's Dance Floor (2003)
  • The School of Rock (2003)
  • $5.15/Hr. (2004)
  • Before Sunset (2004)
  • Bad News Bears (2005)
  • Fast Food Nation (2006)
  • A Scanner Darkly (2006)
  • Inning by Inning: A Portrait of a Coach (2008)
  • Me and Orson Welles (2008)
  • Bernie (2011)
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