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[filmlover-l] Movie this week: Short Film Collection from Itunes

Tuesday, December 27, 2011 1:15:57 AM

From:	tbco@mtu.edu
To:	filmlover-l@mtu.edu

Hello everyone,

Hope you are enjoying the holidays. Sorry for the late announcement...I was a little slow moving today. For this week, we are showing a set of short films that I had downloaded from itunes. (More details below.)

Please feel free to pass the message around and invite your friends. The more the merrier. Hope you can join us.

Regards,

Tom Co

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Date and Time: December 28, Wednesday, 6:30-8:30pm
Place: 308 Cooper Ave, Hancock

Media: itune downloads

Short Films:

1. Title: God of Love
   Director: Luke Matheny
   Time: 19 mins
   Type: Live action
   Summary: (via www.imdbd.com)
   "A lovestruck, lounge-singing darts
   champion finds his prayers are answered
   -- literally -- when he mysteriously
   receives a box of love-inducing darts"

2. Title: Granny O'Grimm's Sleeping Beauty
   Director: Nicky Phelan
   Time: 6 mins
   Type: Animation
   Summary: (via www.imdb.com)
   "Granny O'Grimm, a seemingly sweet old lady,
   loses the plot as she tells her version of Sleeping
   Beauty to her terrified Granddaughter"

3. Title: My Love
   Director: Aleksandr Petrov
   Time: 26 mins
   Type: Animation
   Summary: (via www.imdb.com)
   "In nineteenth-century Russia, a teenage boy
   in search of love is drawn to two very
   different women."

4. Title: Madagascar, Carnet de Voyage
   Director: Bastien Dubois
   Time: 11 mins
   Type: Animation
   Summary: (by theindependentcritic.com via www.imbd.com)
   "..this film shares Dubois' experiences in Madagascar
   by capturing the sounds of the nation with extraordinarily
   beautiful visuals..."

5. Title: The Lost Thing
   Directors: Andrew Ruhemann and Shaun Tan
   Time: 15 mins
   Type: Animation
   Summary: (via www.imdb.com)
   "A boy finds a strange creature on a beach,
   and decides to find a home for it in a world
   where everyone believes there are far more
   important things to pay attention to."

6. Title: Instead of Abracadabra
   Director: Patrik Eklund
   Time: 23 mins
   Type: Live Action
   Summary:
   "A man who still lives with his parents tries
   to realize his dream of becoming a magician. "

(not necessarily in the order given above.)

My Comments:

   Some are poignant, some are just plain silly/funny,
   and some are just lovely to look at. Just a sample
   collection of films I downloaded from itunes.
   ( I had downloaded "My Love" by Petrov a few years ago
   but it is no longer available through itunes.
   It is quite rare.)