Tag Archive for 'Shorts'
Sunday. Mother’s Day.
The Mother’s Day weekend was dedicated to the Maryland Film Festival for as long as I can remember. I think only once it took place a week earlier or later. I have been lucky because my mother lives in Germany and six hours ahead of our time-zone. But not everybody is so (more)
This year it was especially difficult to create our movie schedule for the film festival weekend. The line-up includes so many great movies, documentaries and foreign entries…it is impossible to watch everything on a single weekend. But we managed to put together a selection of 14 screenings I’m going to write about again like every (more)
In anticipation of the upcoming Ulrich Schnauss show in Baltimore I was surfing YouTube and ran across this amazing NFBC short film that turned out to fit perfectly to Ulrich Schnauss’ music:
Back in May I wrote about our time at the Maryland Film Festival. We had to leave the Narrative Shorts program early and missed the ending of Paul Harrill’s Quick Feet, Soft Hands. In my blog I mentioned that I was very interested in the rest of the story, and shortly after posting it I (more)
Oh dear. What has driven us into this short film program?! Where should I begin? I think it must have been the only program that could fill a slot in our schedule and not collide with films we really wanted to see. With our all-access passes we didn’t have to buy tickets for this, and (more)
Far Out
In 1972, a flamboyant producer’s Hollywood party takes a strange turn when an uninvited guest comes for more than sex and drugs. Consider your mind blown! (from the filmfest-guide)
It was quite a shock to switch from the serious, moving, quiet and gentle narrative shorts program to something like Far Out. Bold, bright, sexy, stoned, (more)
The Lonely Bliss of the Cannonball Luke
Luke returns home to a small town in Pennsylvania to launch himself back into the lives of his ex-flame Hannah and her daughter Elise. A subtle and bittersweet ode to a man who’s only grounded when he’s in the sky, featuring stunt work by world-record-holding human cannonball David Smith, (more)
The Bread Squeezer
Directed by Kasia Kowalczyk
With Sarah Falkenburg, Nathan Mobley, Corin Rogers II, Tal Harris, Mary Lynn Owen, Kristen Garner, Rebecca Dutton
After Andrew’s parents die in a tragic Christmas tree accident, he leads an unremarkable life full of chronic disappointments — until one day, when everything goes horribly wrong and horribly right in the bread (more)
