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Year: 2006
Plot: Irish performance artists and theater directors Joe Lawlor and Christine Molloy have created seven interconnected short films, ranging in length from five to seventeen minutes. Each was filmed in a single day, using a cast of non-professionals, in one continuous take. Each displays, in tableaux form, the everyday routines of ordinary people—both hopeful social activists and stubborn loners. In the astonishing black-comedic WHO KILLED BROWN OWL (TFF 2005), for example, a Wellesian tracking shot swoops, dives and twists to give a panoramic view of a lovely London park, where citizens enjoy the splendor of a late summer afternoon…until the camera uncovers victims of accidental violence, or perhaps foul play. Lawlor and Molloy work under the name Desperate Optimists. That’s a splendid description of the tone and theme of this startlingly original overview of the state of the British soul today. –LG (Ireland, 2006, 72m) Preceded by RABBIT (d. Run Wrake, Scotland, 2005, 9m).
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]]>Fri, 13 Jul 2007 20:00:27 GMTCivic Life2006Irish performance artists and theater directors Joe Lawlor and Christine Molloy have created seven interconnected short films, ranging in length from five to seventeen minutes. Each was filmed in a single day, using a cast of non-professionals, in one continuous take. Each displays, in tableaux form, the everyday routines of ordinary people—both hopeful social activists and stubborn loners. In the astonishing black-comedic WHO KILLED BROWN OWL (TFF 2005), for example, a Wellesian tracking shot swoops, dives and twists to give a panoramic view of a lovely London park, where citizens enjoy the splendor of a late summer afternoon…until the camera uncovers victims of accidental violence, or perhaps foul play. Lawlor and Molloy work under the name Desperate Optimists. That’s a splendid description of the tone and theme of this startlingly original overview of the state of the British soul today. –LG (Ireland, 2006, 72m) Preceded by RABBIT (d. Run Wrake, Scotland, 2005, 9m).2Slightly Tagged (1-5)1214http://www.spout.com/ProductImages/s291656.jpghttp://www.spout.com/films/Civic_Life/291656/default.aspxFilm http://www.spout.com/blogs/paul/archive/2007/7/13/13863.aspx Post By: paul
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Body: Six months after Telluride, these are the films still stuck in my mind: The amazing dance hall scene of Grémillion's Maldonne. The patient humor of Dodsworth. The final shot of Julia Loktev's Day Night Day Night. And teenagers sitting in a circle at a community center trying and failing to articulate feelings in Civic Life. Originally posted on:Schwinnfender
]]>Fri, 13 Jul 2007 20:00:27 GMTpaulpaul on spout.com7/13/2007 4:00:27 PMSix months after Telluride, these are the films still stuck in my mind: The amazing dance hall scene of Grémillion's Maldonne. The patient humor of Dodsworth. The final shot of Julia Loktev's Day Night Day Night. And teenagers sitting in a circle at a community center trying and failing to articulate feelings in Civic Life. Originally posted on:Schwinnfender http://www.spout.com/blogs/paul/archive/2007/3/5/6036.aspx Post By: paul
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Body: Six months after Telluride, these are the films still stuck in my mind: The amazing dance hall scene of Grémillion's Maldonne . The patient humor of Dodsworth . The final shot of Julia Loktev's Day Night Day Night . And teenagers sitting in a circle at a community center trying and failing to articulate feelings in Civic Life . Syndicated Feed From:Schwinnfender
]]>Mon, 05 Mar 2007 10:55:00 GMTpaulpaul on spout.com3/5/2007 5:55:00 AM Six months after Telluride, these are the films still stuck in my mind: The amazing dance hall scene of Grémillion's Maldonne . The patient humor of Dodsworth . The final shot of Julia Loktev's Day Night Day Night . And teenagers sitting in a circle at a community center trying and failing to articulate feelings in Civic Life . Syndicated Feed From:Schwinnfender http://www.spout.com/groups/Telluride_Film_Festival_2008/Re_Films_I_saw_at_Telluride/144/3029/1/ShowPost.aspx Post By: paul
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Post Date: 9/22/2006 9:27:36 AM
Body: Hi Aaron. I think I'll weigh in on what I saw as well.Little ChildrenMaldonneLonesomeRemorquesPlaytimeCivic LifeInfamousDay Night Day NightDodsworthI also attended a tribute to Walter Murch and a tribute to Alexander Corda. There were two Romanian short films in the Great Expectations program. The Tube with a Hat by Radu Jude and Marilena de la P7 by Cristian Nemescu. Both were exhilerating because they were distinct, fresh voices from a rather unheard of place in the world of cinema.I really wanted to see Ghosts of Cité Soleil the way everyone I talked to who'd seen it seemed awestruck by it. But my schedule just didn't work out.
]]>Fri, 22 Sep 2006 13:27:36 GMTpaulTelluride Film Festival 20089/22/2006 9:27:36 AMHi Aaron. I think I'll weigh in on what I saw as well.Little ChildrenMaldonneLonesomeRemorquesPlaytimeCivic LifeInfamousDay Night Day NightDodsworthI also attended a tribute to Walter Murch and a tribute to Alexander Corda. There were two Romanian short films in the Great Expectations program. The Tube with a Hat by Radu Jude and Marilena de la P7 by Cristian Nemescu. Both were exhilerating because they were distinct, fresh voices from a rather unheard of place in the world of cinema.I really wanted to see Ghosts of Cité Soleil the way everyone I talked to who'd seen it seemed awestruck by it. But my schedule just didn't work out. http://www.spout.com/members/0/tags/telluridefilmfest/MemberTagFilms.aspxtelluridefilmfest
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