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You’ve met the love of your life this summer, but you’re not quite sure how to make the first move? Forget the flowers and violins and follow the example of Joel, hero of Ross Butter’s creepy comedy I Love You So Hard.
I Love You So Hard captured audiences’ attention when it was screened at this year’s Clermont-Ferrand short film festival. Director Ross Butter animated a story by Joel (…) Continue Reading »
Although light and fluffy in tone, this week’s short, Je sens le beat qui monte en moi, at the heart of this film is the character’s inability to adapt to the world around them. Yann LeQuellec’s short, a tribute to Eels’ Beautiful Freaks, came out in 2012 following numerous screenings in festivals around the world.
Rosalba is encumbered by music, which literally, puts in a trance. To (…) Continue Reading »
Sous sa légèreté apparente, Je sens le beat qui monte en moi est un film sur la contrainte et sur l’incapacité à s’adapter au monde tel qu’il est. Hommage aux Beautiful Freaks, le court métrage de Yann LeQuellec s’est fait un nom aussi bien dans les festivals français qu’à l’étranger l’année de sa sortie, en 2012.
Rosalba est encombrée par son rapport à la musique qui, littéralement, la met (…) Lire la suite »
This week’s short is Michael Almereyda’s Skinningrove, winner of the Sundance Festival Jury award in 2013. The film depicts the timeless and solitary atmosphere of a village in the North of England, brings to our attention the work of photographer Chris Killip. The film is available online (see link below).
Skinningrove is a small village in Yorkshire. Isolated, independent, hostile to (…) Continue Reading »
Cette semaine, Mydylarama attire votre attention sur Skinningrove de Michael Almereyda, lauréat d’un prix du Jury à Sundance en 2013. Remarquable court sur la vie solitaire et hors du temps d’un village du nord de l’Angleterre, il révèle les travaux du photographe Chris Killip. Le film est disponible en ligne (lien plus bas).
Skinningrove est un petit village anglais, au nord du Yorkshire. (…) Lire la suite »
17 July 2014
Top 5 Fish in Film
by Judy HarrisIn anticipation of catching the aquarium scene from The Lady From Shanghai at the BFI later this month MyDylarama’s favourite crustacean celebrates these aquatic wonders.
5. Noodlefish- Jinman Kim (2012) It looks like sand, yet sounds like (…) Continue Reading »
And... we kick off this new section to mydy by revisiting some old favourites and lazily copying and pasting bits of old reviews
1. Nicholas Winding Refn’s Bronson
The colourful and surreal portrait of notoriously violent British prisoner Charles Bronson.
Lest we forget, Bronson the film features one of the best “macabre party scene”, which involves half a dozen patients gyrating to It’s (…) Continue Reading »
It’s impossible not to fall in love with a film which includes the line ‘but heteroman, your arguments fall light as leaves cause your g spot is in your ass’. This mix of queer criticism and autumnal imagery is actually a line from a song, delivered in melodic unison by four queer superheroes in a ramshackle community centre which reminded me of the set of a Swedish Byker Grove. There’s a lot (…) Continue Reading »
Orbit Ever After est un court métrage incontournable cette année. Sélectionné par les plus grands festivals, en Angleterre et en Europe, il a remporté entre autres le Brief Grand Prix au festival Encounters 2013 ( le plus grand festival de courts métrage anglais qui se tient à Bristol en octobre) et nominé aux BAFTA 2014. Interview avec son réalisateur Jamie Stone.
Perdue dans l’espace, (…) Lire la suite »
Orbit Ever After London is one of this year’s unmissable shorts. It was selected at major festivals in UK and in Europe, and won among other things the Brief Grand Prix at Encounters 2013 (UK’s leading competitive short film festival in Bristol), and nominated at the BAFTA 2014 in the British Short Film category. Q and A with it’s director Jamie Stone.
A stranded spaceship is the unlikely (…) Continue Reading »