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Anyone seen this? I think it was the most inspiring collection of short films I've seen for a while.

A masterclass for filmmakers that are beginning in the craft. Excelent storytelling in the majority of the shorts, and all very entertaining. Inspired filmmaking from some of the best directors of today.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0401711/

I'm finishing a 30 minutes short, and seeing some of these shorts (some not longer than 5 minutes) makes me think I still have a long way to go... :)
 
Its already on DVD over here. If you check the IMDB site, they say this was the first 6k movie transfer... The DVD does look incredible, but I imagine how the High Def version will look...

The film is definetly worth the import, if you can find it. Some of the best shorts I've seen in years...
 
oh i loved this movie! i saw it on dvd a while ago but it was all in french with no subtitles so my french teacher and i had to watch it and translate it, but then i saw it in this small theatre in america. it was so good!
 
I got to see this in a theater. I was extremely tired since I didn't get any sleep the night before, but this film was still able to not only hold my attention, but to captivate me. I especially loved the Coen Bros. segment, as well as Alexander Payne's segment. Wes Craven turned in a surprising short as well. I also loved the segment about the blind guy and the actress. And of course Alfonso Cuaron did an impressive one-shot-one-take short. Gus Van Sant's short was clever and funny, and Vincenzo Natali's was a visual treat. There were several other great segments, but I can't remember the names (or rather locations) of, or who directed them. THe one with the man and the medic woman was great.
 
I saw this movie last night.

It was fascinating. It was so much fun to see all these different directors working on 5 minute shorts.

It was like a DVXFest masterclass. :)
 
the theatrical poster can be seen on the wall in my LoveFest short (although, completely out of focus in the b.g.).
 
I was just looking at the bus shelter version - it would fit nicely into our retro advertising living room.

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How did the directors all contribute to this movie? I thought the Director's Guild forbids multiple directors on 1 project. Or is it because this is a series of shorts that it is allowed?
 
Well, theoretically these are different stories melted in one long presentation, so it shouldn't be considered as 1 project...
 
You all are convincing me to go out and buy the DVD. I keep seeing it at the local mall, but was worried it was too artsy.
 
No, go buy it PK! There are maybe two that I would consider too artsy/esoteric for my taste (the one about selling hair products to Asians was completely over my head). The majority are really top notch.

Of the 18, I really loved the following:

Quais de Seine (young muslim woman)
Tuileries (dir. Coen bros w/ Steve Buscemi)
Loin du 16e (woman singing to baby)
Bastille (man planning to leave his wife)
Parc Monceau (dir. Alfonso Cuaron w/ Nick Nolte)
Père-Lachaise (dir. Wes Craven w/ Rufus Sewell)
Faubourg Saint-Denis (w/ Natalie Portman)
 
You don't have to buy it if you're a Netflix subscriber.

I watched as one of their on-demand films. It even remembered where I left off the day before. That's awesome. On Netflix, the on-demand is part of your service package - nice!

Not sure how they're delivering, but it looked very good (no banding or so on) at 1280 x 720 on the laptop where I watched it.

I can't put them in any order... these are all excellent. The Buscemi piece was terrific and I loved the Portman segment as well.

Bastille
Parc Monceau (I wouldn't have left my kid with Nolte. Was he actually drunk?!)
Place des Victoires (wept like a little girl on this one about a mother's grief)
Tour Eiffel (loved this one... about mimes of all things - brilliantly realized!)
Place des Fêtes (heartbreakingly good.)
14e arrondissement (real American first-person narrative in Paris)

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sweet I just netflixed this, but maybe I'll just watch it on demand tonight - I keep forgetting I can do that! FWIW I played with it some when it first came out and the picture quality was pretty good, and the speed was great.
 
i'm gonna buy the dvd when i find the 2 disc version somewhere. no one has it except amazon, and i just want to go out and buy and watch it the same day.
 
mjjason said:
How did the directors all contribute to this movie? I thought the Director's Guild forbids multiple directors on 1 project. Or is it because this is a series of shorts that it is allowed?
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You've heard of New York Stories and Four Rooms, right? Neither was very good, but they did have multiple directors.

Also...look at the Wachowski brothers or the Farrelly brothers. They co-direct alot.
 
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