2008's "
Glory at Sea"
[.mov] [vimeo] [youtube] is an extaordinary 25-minute short film in which
a group of mourners and a man spat from the depths of Hades build a boat from the debris of New Orleans to rescue their lost loved ones trapped beneath the sea.
[more inside]
posted by churl
on Feb 17, 2010 -
13 comments
This video (set to The Album Leaf's "Outer Banks") is an absolutely gorgeous bit of time lapse photography, all shot around a cityscape I couldn't recognize. Watching it made me think
of this movie, which is another bit of ethereal time lapse urbanscape beauty, this time shot in a city I
did recognize (downtown Los Angeles & LAX initially, San Francisco later).
Direct download 480p version of second film here. Of course, watching the second film reminded me of this
previously posted third film (
Rivers of Light, by the Grass Collective) involving cityscapes(downtown L.A. again -
flash based preview here), this time in slow motion, and without audio. All links are quicktime, and HUGE, but highly recommended and very, very pretty.
posted by jonson
on Oct 14, 2006 -
19 comments
The Room: The Movie. Triple-threat (actor/writer/director)
Tommy Wiseau made his cinematic debut in 2003 with the
The Room (see
trailer and
various scenes),
"a blend between a
softcore porn flick and a Tennessee Williams stageplay." Wiseau ("who's not just one of the most unusual
looking and
sounding-with
an unidentifiable Eastern European accent-leading men ever to
grace the screen, but a narcissist nonpareil whose movie makes
Vincent Gallo's "The Brown Bunny" seem
the apotheosis of cinematic self-restraint...may be something of a first: A movie that
prompts most of its viewers to ask for their money back-before even
30 minutes have passed." -
Variety),
allegedly raised $6 million outside Hollywood to cover production and marketing costs of the self-described "black comedy about love, passion, betrayal and lies" (see
various rough dress rehersals).
Audience members, including comedian
David Cross, have been
"marveling at the bizarre editing, bad bluescreen, uncomfortably explicit
sex scenes and, of course, the enigma of Wiseau himself" as the film
played monthly for years in Los Angeles. Available on
DVD, diehard "roomies"
swear by the
theatrical experience,
shout out their own commentary,
hurl spoons at the screen and singalong to the
soundtrack. Some call it
"The Rocky Horror of the New Millenium" and stage
"Room"
parties. If you look at the
marketing campaign or
survived a screening you might see The Room as
"a seminar on how
NOT to make a movie." [Inspired by
Boing Boing]
posted by boost ventilator
on Jun 1, 2006 -
28 comments
3 Years 3 Minutes. Every photograph this MeFi member has taken for the past three years, artfully set to music — over 11,000 images, each one there and gone in a flicker-flash.
May provoke seizures in the susceptible. [via
mefi projects]
posted by killdevil
on Mar 24, 2006 -
47 comments
Photobooth (quicktime, direct link) is a short absurdist comedy sketch about a couple who meet, fall in love & celebrate 101 blissful years together in a mall photobooth.
via
posted by jonson
on Dec 9, 2005 -
19 comments
QuickTime panoramas from the annual
Sziget pop festival. I love getting these things and spinning them around at full speed but it can be a bit disconcerting with the The Boom Family Snuff Puppets surrounding you. And hey! spot the guy caught lighting up a doobie at the Yann Tiersen concert.
posted by tellurian
on Sep 18, 2005 -
2 comments
In the Rough ..."Man has evolved throughout the ages ... Relationships, unfortunately, have not. After being kicked out of his cave, Brog discovers that living a bachelor's life is not all tha it's cracked up to be"
quicktime. smaller version here.
posted by crunchland
on Aug 7, 2005 -
17 comments
Le Building (quicktime) is a minute-and-a-half film that was used as an opening for the 2005 Annecy International Animated Film Festival. Made by
students. Kids today. What can't they do? Making-of movie
here.
via cartoonbrew
posted by maryh
on Jun 24, 2005 -
13 comments
Quicktime
virtual reality panoramas of thousands of picturesque places in the Western United States and Canada. Feast your eyes on
The Grand Canyon,
Death Valley,
Yosemite,
Mossbrae Falls,
Monument Valley, a
Ghost Town, the
Cascades,
Palm Canyon,
Joshua Tree,
Las Vegas,
Redwood Forests,
poppy fields,
palm groves, and
Bumpass Hell.
(via Highways West) (previous Mefi appearance)
posted by euphorb
on Jan 31, 2005 -
8 comments
Bring it trombONe! After watching this I am now wondering how fine a line there is between confidence and just being crazy.
quicktime movie, some laughter may be required
posted by Hands of Manos
on Jan 25, 2005 -
41 comments
