The Red Balloon is storytelling at its simplest and most beautiful. This thirty minute short film follows a little boy through the streets of Paris as a red balloon captures his attention on his morning walk to school. The balloon…
Director David Phu and producer Chris Bruntlett (@cbruntlett) have created a fantastic, four-part series of mini films of real urban bicyclists in their respective elements in Vancouver. The series is called Vancouver Cycle Chic. The short films range from two…
Homosexual acts were illegal in England and Wales until the Sexual Offenses Act in 1967. Despite the law, police in 1960s England tended to be somewhat lax about actually enforcing an antiquated law that even then seemed an affront to…
Roman Polanski's singular classic film adaptation of Ira Levin's novel Rosemary's Baby remains one of the greatest supernatural/horror films ever made. At it's core, it is also a bit of a women's liberation tale wearing a thriller costume, following the…
Based on the true story of the Baker Street robbery of Lloyds Bank in London in 1971, The Bank Job stars Jason Statham as the head of a band of petty thieves who get in over their heads when an…
It's a hot revenge story. Lee Marvin plays Walker, a thief who gets double-crossed and left for dead in a heist on Alcatraz. His single-minded mission is to hack away the chain of command of the "organization" that screwed him…
This is easily one of my favorite movies of all time. A heist... gangsters... fedoras... guns... a lounge... a girl... a vintage Citroën... Moody, quiet, not a lot of dialog. Directed by Jean-Pierre Melville, auteur behind several other smart and…
From the filmmaker's apt description on Vimeo: "At The Barbershop in Drexel, NC, the atmosphere is laid back, the conversation free, and the music a cut above the rest." Director Matt Morris created this terrific documentary short about the barbershop…
